The French newspapers point out that the German Crown Prince and the Berlin Government have been engaged for three months in organizing for an attack on ...
Article : 762 wordsThe centre of interest has now been shifted from Erzeroum to Verdun. where a fight of the greatest magnitude has been raging since Sunday. Verdun is the ...
Article : 374 wordsThe Sunday midday communique states: —"Our troops during the noght continued to strengthen their positions north of Verdun. No change has occurred east of ...
Article : 152 wordsA violent explosion was heard at Dover at 11 a.m. It attracted crowds of people to the seaport. These saw the Maloja two miles distant in difficulties. In ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Pall Mall Gazette, discussing the report of the assault and capture of Fort Douaumont, remarks that the French at Verdyn are sustaining an assault which ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Paris communique issued at noon says:—"There is a certain slackness observable in the enemy's efforts north of Verdun, except between the Douaumont ...
Article : 162 wordsAccording to a prominent French military critic, the French have evacuated on their left wing a height extending from south of Champ Neuville to Beaumont, ...
Article : 274 wordsA wounded Frenchman says the slaughter near Malancourt has been pitiful. The enemy infantry came across in such massed fashion as could not have been ...
Article : 106 wordsWatchers from the shore had another thrilling experience half an hour later, when the Empress of Fort William, a Newcastle-on-Tyne steamer, of 2,181 tons, ...
Article : 463 wordsA Berlin communique on Sunday evening said:—"The Germans have repulsed an English attack south-east of Ypres. In the Verdun area five attempts to ...
Article : 95 wordsGermany has massed on the west front two-thirds of her armies, with a vast proportion of her accumulated shells. Could she force France and Great Britain to a ...
Article : 144 wordsThe P. & O. liner Maloja, which sailed from Adelaide on December 30 for England, and had just left London for India with passengers and mails and a valuable ...
Article : 351 wordsA subject of a neutral Power who has just arrived at the French capital from Germany declares that he has learned from the best source that the Germans are ...
Article : 202 wordsThe German claim of a great victory in the capture of the Douaumont fort came as a shock on Saturday evening, but the French announcement this ...
Article : 200 wordsThere was a pitiful sight at the Victoria Station when the special train brought the survivors to London. Women in tears tenderly clasped their children in ...
Article : 281 wordsThe German newspapers admit that their forces have Buffered appalling losses northward of Verdun. The Frankfort Zeitung describes the ...
Article : 32 wordsNorthward of Verdun the bombardment continues without relaxation, both on the east and west banks of the Meuse (says the official communique issued early this ...
Article : 145 wordsIn the region of Verdun, Adjutant Navarre, from his French monoplane, brought down with a machine gun two German aeroplanes within the French ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Times military correspondent (Col. Repington) says:—"The battle of Verdun is the real thing at last, and the decision of the enemy to 'put his fate to the touch' ...
Article : 173 wordsThe captain of the Maloja has reported hat the mine struck the ship when between Dover and Folkestone. The afterpart of the steamer was blown up, and ...
Article : 447 wordsThe consensus of opinion in the London Sunday newspapers is that the colossal onslaught by the foe northward of Verdun indicates that Germany seeks for ...
Article : 167 words"Serious, but not disquieting." was the phrase most used in official and Parliamentary circles at the French capital after the announcement of ...
Article : 362 wordsThe Paris correspondent of The Daily Mail reports that the army of the German Crown Prince is now at a standstill on its second line positions on the front ...
Article : 186 wordsSo far as can be ascertained, there were no Australians on board the Maloja. Up to the present 44 bodies have been recovered. ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 4 Mar 1916, Page 37
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