The British hare made secure the ground they gained on Thursday, despite desperate counter-attacks that evening and oil Friday. It is cleaar that the only points at which there was comparative failure was in Polygon Wood, on[?] troops having to fall back there. On this sector our troops overran their ...
Article : 397 wordsMany of the Italian newspapers contain hostile comments, on the Pope's Peace Note. The Milan newspaper "Popola d'Italia" calls it a ...
Article : 151 wordsThe British Admiralty has received a wireless message stating that the Russian Red Cross Society has successfully negotiated with Austria to mitigate the ...
Article : 81 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:- Our aeroplanes played an active part in the operations in Belgium ...
Article : 188 wordsA sensational German plot to organise an army of mountaineers has been discovered in the State of Virginia. Several men have been charged with ...
Article : 75 wordsAt Cite du Moulin, west of Lens, the British captured three enemy trench systems, and it is estimated that three German divisions were put out of ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. W. P. Sheppard, the Moscow correspondent of the United Press Association of New York, telegraphs that the forthcoming conference at Moscow on ...
Article : 205 wordsPresident Wilson's Cabinet at its meeting this afternoon, discussed the Pope's Peace Note, but no action in regard to it will be taken pending an ...
Article : 43 wordsThe United States Department of Justice is sending many secret service men westward for the purpose of stamping out I.W.W. activities, and to guard ...
Article : 104 wordsA German official wireless message says:—The second day of the Flanders battle has ended in our favour. The Anglo-French attacked yesterday ...
Article : 333 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Liberte" estimates that 5,000 Germans were killed and wounded during their unsuccessful counter-attacks yesterday to the ...
Article : 33 wordsAll the leading newspapers in Argentina oppose the Pope's peace proposals, on the ground that they are favourable to the Teutonic Powers. ...
Article : 33 wordsM. Mar[?]l Hutin, the French correspondent, says:—Aeroplanes and artillery are playing the premier role in the British methodical advance. The ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo, the Secretary of the United States Treasury, will shortly submit to Congress a proposal for a new bond issue for the amount of ...
Article : 73 wordsThe persistent failure of the Entente Powers to seek peace greatly puzzles the pan-German newspapers, which are commenting on the Pope's Note. From ...
Article : 188 wordsDutch gunners have shot down a German aeroplane flying over Holland. Another recently landed there on fire. The occupants of both machines were ...
Article : 41 wordsM. Kerensky, the Russian Premier, replying to the war anniversary message sent to him by Mr. Lloyd 'George, reiterated his hope that Russia would ...
Article : 45 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon says:- After an intense bombardment, the enemy vigorously attacked last night ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Amsterdam "Telegraaf" states that Allied airmen on Friday morning made a great attack on Z[?]brugge, and dropped a large number of bombs. ...
Article : 34 wordsThis afternoon's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:- The artillery of both sides is showing activity to the eastward of Ypres. ...
Article : 106 wordsIt is announced in Washington that the publication of an official American casualty list will begin on the 28th inst. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Polish Congress at Warsaw has telegraphed to M. Ribot, the Prime Minister of France, asseverating the unshakeable determination of the Poles to ...
Article : 63 wordsUnknown aeroplanes have dropped bombs on Schowwen Island, off the Dutch coast. There were no casualties. Later two aeroplanes—probably German ...
Article : 57 wordsRepresentatives of organised Labour in the United States will confer at Mi[?]polis next month for the purpose of perfecting plans to fight the war to a ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to criticisms, [?]aid any attempt to discredit ...
Article : 124 wordsA conference of seamen, representing the Allies and most neutral countries, opened in London to-day. Mr. Havelock Wilson, the general secretary of ...
Article : 453 wordsAn official stat[?]nt issued by the British Admiralty to-day says:- Our naval aeroplanes carried out a series of raids yesterday. They ...
Article : 127 wordsA French communique issued this afternoon says:- The enemy made an attack last night on our new positions on both ...
Article : 63 wordsThe British Admiralty issued the following statement to-day:—Our light naval forced, when scouting in tlie German Bight on Thursday, sighted an ...
Article : 159 wordsThe following despatch from Mr. Phillip Gibbs was received last night:- The battle of Langemarck on Thursday, and all the struggle as far as the ...
Article : 903 wordsThis afternoon's French communique says:- After a short bombardment the Germans made a violent attack last ...
Article : 122 wordsInterpellations were made to-day in the Greek Chamber of Deputies respecting German propaganda in Greece, M. Venizelos, the Premier, referred to ...
Article : 89 wordsA report received from Sir Douglas Haig this afternoon says:- Last night the enemy made two counter-attacks against our new ...
Article : 281 wordsIt is officially stated that the French military and naval air services are to be amalgamated, under the direction of M. Albert Metin, formerly Minister of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Australian artillery was again involved in to-day's very heavy fighting. The Germans counter-attacked several times during the recent lighting, and ...
Article : 629 wordsThe Norwegian sailing vessels Solgran (1,784 tons), Majorka (1,684 tons), Ursus Minor (623 tons), and Songvig(2,162 tons) have been torpedoed and ...
Article : 71 wordsAustrian aeroplanes at dawn on Tuesday dropped 11 bombs on Venice. One damaged the valuable ceiling of the salon of St. Mark's, while another ...
Article : 83 wordsA Russian official wireless message says:- We have occupied a number of villages in the region of Kharput, in ...
Article : 62 wordsThe French Foreign Minister is formally protesting to Germany against French youths in the occupied territory being incorporated in German ...
Article : 53 wordsLord Robert Cecil, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, interviewed to-day regarding tho Pope's Peace Note, said the conviction was ...
Article : 303 wordsLast night's report from Sir Douglas Haig says:- Our aeroplanes proved superior in to-day's air fighting, although the ...
Article : 194 wordsA Russian official wireless message says:- The Germains attacked yesterday in the region of Slanik (in the Slanic ...
Article : 57 wordsTwenty-seven thousand five hundred officers, newly-commissioned from civilian training camps, will report for duty on the 29th inst., and it is understood ...
Article : 225 wordsThe London newspapers foreshadow the flotation of a colonial loan next week—possibly for New South Wales. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Ruma[?]s have restored the situation in the region of the Oitoz Pass, and have pushed back the enemy, whose losses have been stupendous. The ...
Article : 94 wordsLancashire cotton firms, propose to levy £50,000 upon those at work weekly to relieve the prospective distress among unemployed operatives in ...
Article : 48 wordsThe United Press Association's, correspondent on the British front says:- Heavy fighting developed last night on the outskirts of Lens, where the ...
Article : 157 wordsA despatch received in New York from Tokio states that Japan is floating a can of 50,000,000 dollars for the purpose of aiding Russia financially. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 20 Aug 1917, Page 5
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