It is said that in the dark dawn soldiers met in the ruined village of Combles, and above challenge by the Frenchman was answered by "We are English," spoken by ...
Article : 2,019 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) moved the second reading of the Unlawful Associations Bill. He said the measure was ...
Article : 1,815 wordsThe Entertainments Tax Bill was further considered in committee in the House of Representatives to-day. The Treasurer (Mr . Poynton) said he would later ...
Article : 588 wordsThe plaint of the federated Gas Employes' Industrial Union against the South Australian Gas Company and others was before Mr. Justice Higgins in the ...
Article : 494 wordsThe ,German during several days, past have made energetic attempts to assume the offensive in the Vladimir Volynski region of the Russian province of Volhynia, ...
Article : 315 wordsThe positions taken by the French north-east of Verdun are highly important from a strategic standpoint, in has much as they dominate the whole of the Woevre Plain and a number of ravines essential to the allied progress. Admissions by prisoners taken in Roumania show that the Germans have ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of The New York Times reports that the Kaiser and the German Crown Prince have started a tour of inspection of the German lines at ...
Article : 42 wordsAfter describing the glorious deeds of the Irish division on the western front Mr. Philip Gibbs writes:-"They hive a general of their own blood; who is proud of the ...
Article : 211 wordsThe French newspaper Petit Parisien says the Germans .considered their verdun positions impregnable. They imagined that the masses of wire entanglements, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Frankfort Zeitung, in a series of articles on the Berlin peace proposals, apparently represents the view subscribed to in Government circles. It ...
Article : 223 wordsMilitary experts, especially in view of the history of the Mesopotamia campaign, do not look for great immediate results from the present advance. They, consider ...
Article : 197 wordsUnder the above heading, Lloyd's Weekly News describes the French curtain of fire which has been so effective in many battles recently, and which played the principal part in Friday great ...
Article : 346 wordsThe new French Commander -in-Chief (Gen. Nivelle), in bidding farewell to the officers of the local headquarters staff after the success north-east of Verdun, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe experience north-east of Verdun has demonstrated that the Germans have reverted to their earlier practice of holding their foremost trenches.in strength because ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle says he has been given to understand that the German peace terms demand the division of ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Frankfort Tages Post has gone into a calculation on the coat of the war to Germany, and in a striking article shows that in the event of the war ending in ...
Article : 123 wordsWriting from the French headquarters of the victory near Verdun, Mr. Warner Allen says:—"It was a triumph of the new French tactics of assault. With four ...
Article : 458 wordsThe Leader of the Nationalist Party (Mr. Redmond) stated in an interview that the Government's decision to take over the Irish railways had given much satisfaction ...
Article : 55 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that the Cologne Gazette and other German papers admit that the German loss at Verdun is a bad blow to the Berlin peace proposals, ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Entertainments Tax Bill was received in the Senate to-day from the House of Representatives. The Assistant Minister (Mr. Russell) moved that the ...
Article : 793 wordsA French communique states than an enemy attempt at a minor reconnaissance in the. Champagne area met with failure. The participants were scattered. Patrol ...
Article : 76 wordsA French paper publishes a statement which shows that the German people are bitterly disappointed at the failure of the peace proposals. It is asserted that the ...
Article : 111 wordsGen. Sir Douglas Haig reports that the British forces successfully raided trenches near Rensart, inflicting casualties and bombing the dugouts". They entered ...
Article : 54 wordsItalian medical rejects belonging to the classes between 1876 and 1881 (35 to 40 years, inclusive) are being reexamined with a view to possible service. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe River Meuse runs up the centre of the map from the south to north, and the positions taken in the latest French advance are indicated in the upper right hand quarter of the map. They include Poivre (Pepper) Hill, villages of Vacherauville, and Loucemont farms near Chambrettes, and defence works at Haudromont and Rezonvaux. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 19 Dec 1916, Page 5
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