The Russians still continue their steady advance against the Turks, and are now within fifty miles of Mosul, on the Tigris, They are threatening to cut off the enemy's communications with Mesopotamia. At the same time the British on the Tigris are pushing the Turks northwards. A force of Russian cavalry, after an adventurous ride, joined up with the British. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Russians captured Rivanduza, and are now in rich fertile country, and within 50 miles of ancient Nineveh, the ruins of which are on the east bank of the Tigris, opposite Mosul. ...
Article : 235 wordsTwo raiding parties of the Seaforth High landers, entered the enemy's trenches north of Roclincourt, and bombed, three dug-outs full of Germans. One was-blown, out. ...
Article : 45 wordsTwo enemy aeroplanes dropped 16 bombs on Port Said on May 20. The airmen used searchlights before discharging their bombs, which were mostly ...
Article : 66 wordsOwing to the fine weather, twenty-seven combats in the air took place on May 16. Three German aeroplanes were driven down, and two British scout aeroplanes are missing. ...
Article : 123 wordsGeneral Sir Percy Lake, commanding in Mesopotamia, reports that on the 19th instant the enemy vacated Bethaiessa, and the advanced positions of the right bank of the ...
Article : 80 wordsSeveral German attempts to capture a redoubt at Avocourt Wood were defeated, with very serious losses. The French surprised an enemy trench north ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Germans continued their attacks on Mort Homme, and occupied the first line of trenches on the western slopes. All attempts on the eastern slopes failed. ...
Article : 63 wordsAbout 50,000 men engaged in the repeated assaults on Mort Homme along a two-mile front, on the east and steeper side. The Crown Princess, troops concentrated at ...
Article : 145 wordsIt is officially announced that a mounted Column of Australians and New Zealanders occupied the Turkish depots at Bayoud and Mageibra on the 16th instant. ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, in an article in the Daily Chronicle," gives a vivid account of the storming of the craters at Vimy Ridge (six miles to the north of Arras), in which, he states:-- ...
Article : 457 wordsOn the morning of the 18th warships, aeroplanes, and seaplanes combined in a bombardment of El Arish, an important post of Turkish communications, near the coast in the ...
Article : 132 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports:-- Several successful air encounters took, place on May 20. An Aviatlic fell afire near. Adinfer Wood in the enemy's lines. Another fell in ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Wed 24 May 1916, Page 12
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