The P. and O. liner Maloja, 12,431 tons, which had just completed a voyage from Australia, and was bound for India with passengers and mails, was ...
Article : 1,726 wordsThe Germans in their reports are claiming victories before Verdun, and as yet have achieved very little. They have fought their way at enormous cost up the valley of the Meuse to a point not far from tho French defensive positions. Given sufficient forces and guns, and indifference to losses, that advance was inevitable. They are now late to face with formidable difficulties. They have to take a number of fortified heights, armed with guns as ...
Article : 332 wordsThe official communique issued in Petrograd to-day confirms the report of the capture by the Russians of the important Persian town of Kermanshah, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe British steamer Westburn, 3,300 tons, which was brought by a German prize crew from the raider Moewo to Toneriffe, and taken out to sea and ...
Article : 259 wordsIt is announced in Amsterdam from Vienna that the Austrians have occupied Durazzo. An Austrian communique issued ...
Article : 58 wordsAllied airmen have destroyed the Eleyberg station, on the Belgo-German frontier, and damaged the tunnel. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Dutch steamer Mecklenburg, 2,885 tons, which was bound from English ports to Flushing, in Holland, yesterday struck a mine on the voyage, ...
Article : 113 wordsA special correspondent of an English newspaper who is now at Cairo states that the three Southern Dominions— Australia, New Zealand, and South ...
Article : 382 wordsThe acting-Prime Minister (Senator Pearce), referring to the announcement made by the Prime Minister and Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes), and ...
Article : 94 wordsCaptain Cargill, of the Liverpool steamer Belle of France, 3,876 tons, has arrived home with a tragic story of German callousness. His vessel wastoi ...
Article : 136 wordsTo-day's communique states:— Our troops during the night continued to strengthen our positions north of Verdun. There is no change ...
Article : 338 wordsColonel Repington, the well-known military expert, says:— Verdun is the real thing at last. The enemy's decision to put their fortunes to the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe following extracts from a letter dated Y.M.C.A. Tent, Heliopolis, Christmas Day, addressed to Mr. E. A. Brooke, Hobart, from Trooper Geiss ...
Article : 325 wordsGeneral Pimenta Castra, the Premier of Portugal, urges the denunciation of the German-Portuguese treaty, and in doing so adds: "We are ready for all ...
Article : 107 wordsThought the German claim to a great victory came as a shock on Saturday evening, the French announcement this morning brought equality great relief, ...
Article : 241 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig today reports as follows:— Yesterday we repulsed a small infantry attack north of the ...
Article : 75 wordsGeneral Kouropatkin, who has been General of Infantry of the Russian army since 1901, and commanded the Russian forces in the first part of the ...
Article : 52 wordsA wounded Flench soldier, describing the lighting near Maucourt, northcast of Fort Douaumont, says the slaughter of the Germans was pitiful. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe proposal to form a Returned Soldiers' Association is being pushed on, and the organisers, Sergeant H. Neilson and Trooper H. W. Matthews, have ...
Article : 308 wordsThe condition of the inhabitants of the Suwalki, Kovno, and Grodno Governments of Russia now in the hands of the Germans is lamentable, and the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe French have withdrawn to a line of field works on the high altitudes just outside the permanent forts. German outposts are within seven miles of ...
Article : 145 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent says the Crown Prince's army has been brought to a standstill on the second line positions from Champneuville ...
Article : 151 wordsThe official communique issued in Petrograd to-day states:— Yesterday our scouts daringly raided the German posts at Friedrichstadt, ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is officially stated that a column of South African troops, British yeomanry and Territorial artillery, under General H. T. Lukin, formerly ...
Article : 101 wordsThe consensus of opinion expressed in the Sunday newspapers in London is that the colossal onslaught of the Germans to the northward of Verdun ...
Article : 353 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —"Five French attacks made in the attempt to recapture Fort Douaumont were repulsed, with sanguinary enemy ...
Article : 96 wordsThe above map shows with sufficient clearness the site of the great German advance on Verdun. The enemy advanced between the range of hills called Les Cotes de Meuse and the river. The battle began to the north of Samogneux, the French advanced posts being out four or five miles beyond the forts. The French have fallen back to a line running between Champneuville and the Cotes de Meuse to the east of Fort Douaumont. The forts of Verdun are on heights that overlook the valley of the Meuse, up which the Germans are advancing. Beyond the Cotes de Meuse is the plain of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 29 Feb 1916, Page 5
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