The official communique issued in Petrograd to-day states:— In the region of the Upper Strypa, to the east of Kosloff, we repulsed an ...
Article : 46 wordsThe battle of Verdun, which began three weeks ago, still rages, with no sign of coming to an end. All last week the Germans battered themselves to death against the fortified height, around the city, and at the same time made vigorous attacks on the east and west wings of the position. Hiving failed at Fort Douaumont, they are now dovoting then greatest efforts to the capture of Fort Vaux, the most easterly of the defences. For four ...
Article : 511 wordsLord Montagu, of Beaulieu, who is a leading authority on aviation, raised a debate in the House of Lords today. He said he believed Germany ...
Article : 132 wordsTravellers report that serious riots have taken place at Cologne, and.these are supposed to have arisen owing to the losses at Verdun. ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Germans have establishd a bat tery of naval guns near Schlock (on the shore of the Gulf of Riga, 25 miles west of Riga) The fact that this position ...
Article : 125 wordsThe captain of the Norwegian steamer Lergen, 486 tons, which arrived at Capenhangen yesterday, reports that on Thursday he met 50 German ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Germans residents are leaving Ispahan, in Persia The Russian occupation of Kermanshah has made a deep impression on the tribes of the ...
Article : 72 wordsA German wireless message in the course of review of the battles in the air, which took place in February, says:—"Six of our machines are ...
Article : 160 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows: We exploded three mines yesterday, with, satisfoctory results, to the castward of Vermelles. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe American Embassy at Constantinople.reports that the Russian occupation of Trobizond is imminent. The German Consul has already left ...
Article : 152 wordsWith a view to supplying the needs of her own army the Roumanian Government has seized one-half of the 100,000 woggon-loads of cereals recently ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Observer" says:—If Lord Fisher does not return to his old post of First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, he ought, to be given absolute control of ...
Article : 106 wordsLast night's communique says:— Our aircraft had numerous ancounters. mostly over the enemy's lines, on Wednesday, and out of fifteen ...
Article : 57 wordsThis afternoons communique thus refers to operations in Champagne:— The Germans debouthed to-day from their positions at Villle-au-Bois ...
Article : 128 wordsIt is officially announced by General Smuts, the Commonder-in-Chief of the British troops operating against the Germans in East Africa that after the ...
Article : 92 wordsAcoording to reports from Cologne one Zeppelin has not returned from the last German air raid on England. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Admiralty states that the torpedo-boat destroyer Coquette (335 tons, 30 knots) and the torpedo-boat No. 11 (225 tons, 26 knots), both of ...
Article : 65 wordsA German wireless message issued to-day says:—During the clearing of Corbeau Wood and the enemy trenches at Bethincourt we made prisoner six ...
Article : 284 wordsFarious fighting has continued in the Verdun region during the last two days, both to the west of the Mouse, where the Germans have made fierce ...
Article : 568 wordsThe French liner Louisiane, 5,100 tons, and the French ship Ville du Havre, 3,100 tons, have been torpedoed and sunk by-German submarines. ...
Article : 120 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— "Our seaplanes have dropped bombs on a Russian squadron in the Black Sea, to the eastward of Varna. Some hits ...
Article : 43 wordsThis afternoons communique says:— Our artillery fire has wrecked the German trenches on Hill 425, to the eastward of Thann (in Alsace). ...
Article : 31 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports as follows:— Yesterday 31 aeroplanes made a successful attack upon the hostile ...
Article : 92 wordsIt is officially announced in Lisbon, that Germany has declared war against Portugal. AMSTERDAM, March 10. ...
Article : 421 wordsBelated advices from Constantinople slate that the offices of the Bagdad railway at Adana, in the south-east of Asia Minor, have been burned. It is ...
Article : 50 wordsA French officer who has fought at Verdun says:—"For over 17 days the Germas hurled masses of troops against the unshakeable wall of our ...
Article : 107 wordsLast night's communique says:— We hombarded the enemy's batteries while they were in motion yesterday to the eastward of Czernowitz ...
Article : 48 wordsGeneral Lake report that General Aylmer on Wednesday last, when operating seven or eight miles from the right (western) bank of the Tigris, was ...
Article : 116 wordsMr Jean Herbette, writing in the "Echo de Paris," points out that a month ago Germany declared, in a brutal and irrevocable fashion,that her ...
Article : 111 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" states'that the German gain of a space five furlongs long by 300 yards wide in the Corbean Wood cost the enemy 25,000 men. ...
Article : 40 wordsA French semi-official report says:— The enomy's attacks north wards of Verdun continue to be made with incredible ferocity. Despite an one mous ...
Article : 262 wordsThere is a great movement of German troops towards the Rhine. An almost uninterruted series of trains is passing near Bale, and all are ...
Article : 100 wordsLord Northcliffe, in a message to the "Weekly Despatch," contrasts the fine physique and bearing of the German prisoners taken in the battle of ...
Article : 297 wordsThe general situation at Verdun, from the point of view of the French, is excellent. Experts consider that the Germans are now up against the ...
Article : 262 wordsThe Germans before Verdun made their efforts throughout last week mainly on three points. They bombarded all along the northern forts from the river to Fort Vaux and delivered strong infantry attacks to the west of Fort Douaumont, which were not successful. Their chief infantry attacks were made at the village of Vaux (about half a mile north of the fort), and at the village of Damloup (about half a mile south of the fort and also against the slopes of the height on which the fort stands. Their line of attack in this area would not be much more than a mile To the west ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 154 wordsAll the Germans at Beira, in Portuguese East Africa, have been intenwd, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 13 Mar 1916, Page 5
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