The further accounts to hand of the great battle west of the Meuse on Sunday only confirm the fact that along the whole front from the Meuse to Avocourt the Gormans were repulsed with great slaughter. General Petain repeated at Bethincourt the tacties he had played with such success at Forges a week or two ago. Having prepared a new battle front in the rear he, on Saturday night, withdrew the troops from the advanced post at Bethincourt. ...
Article : 516 wordsAt Buckingham Palace to-day the King welcomed the 30 members of the French Parliament who are now visiting England as the guests of the British ...
Article : 194 wordsLieutenant. Cudmore, of the Royal Field Artillery, who belonged to South Australia, has been killed in action. He was mentioned in despatches recently, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 356 wordsMr. Justice Pring to-day resumed his inquiry under the Royal Commission into the allegations made concerning certain negotiations in connection with the ...
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Article : 120 wordsThe Russian official communique issued to-day describes the progress of operations in Asia Minor:— Our troops in the Caucasus have ...
Article : 209 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, presided at a dinner given last night to the visitors. There was a brilliant and representative gathering. ...
Article : 596 wordsThe Burnie Y.M.C.A. Field Service Committee, at a meeting today, reported having forwarded £85 to the central committee since January. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 603 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Sir E. A. Goulding, the Unionist member for Worcester asked whether, in view of the date of Mr. Hughes's ...
Article : 495 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of "The Times" says he understands that the Chief of the General Staff and the military members of the Army Council ...
Article : 52 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— The operations on Sunday wore marked by the first great German attempt at a general offensive along a ...
Article : 176 wordsA telegram from Constantinople says that the Turks express confidence in the situation in Mesopotamia. They have concentrated over 100,000 troops at ...
Article : 78 wordsTo-day's official communique says:— We have captured a trench in the Lower Strypa district of Galacia. The enemy made fruitless counter-attacks, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Danish newspaper "Aftenrposten" states that for the first time since the beginning of the war, German steamers have arrived at Norwegian West Coast ...
Article : 57 wordsA wireless message sent out from Berlin to-day says:—We isolated two fortified French points of support called Alsace and Lorraine, situated ...
Article : 104 wordsGeneral Sir Percy Lake, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force marching to the relief of General Townshend at Kut-el-Amara, ...
Article : 247 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" says:— The Germans hurled at least a division into the fray between Quavacourt and the Avocourt cross-roads, south of ...
Article : 74 wordsLloyd's states that the Germans have torpedoed and sunk the British steamers Zafra (3,578 tons), Glenalmond (2,888 tons), Silksworth Hall (4,777 ...
Article : 163 wordsThe moment the Germans leapt from their tronches, and rushed against the Avocourt-Bethincourt sector on Sunday, the French artillery opened a furious ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Australian and New Zealand troops in London will attend a memorial service in Westminster Abbey on Anzac Day (April 25). Sir Thomas Mackvmzic, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the Central News Agency says that the remnant of a German battalion that recently fought at Douaumout, was ...
Article : 70 wordsThe struggle for the possession of the eraters in the St. Eloi salient, south of Ypres, still continues, according to the latest report by General Sir Douglas ...
Article : 144 wordsThe bulk of the apples forwarded by the P. and O. liner Medina sold to-day at about 1s. to 2s, per case below last week's rates, when the fruit ...
Article : 226 wordsMembers of the House of Commons this afternoon severely criticised the now taxes on railway tickets, matches, and amusements. Mr. McKenna, the ...
Article : 78 wordsMessages received in copenhagen from Berlin indicate that 'there is a serious disagreement between Germany and Turkey, owing to the recall of ...
Article : 64 wordsThe shocking treatment meted out to British prisoners at the Wittenburg camp, in Germany, as diselosed by the evidence collected by the Select ...
Article : 169 wordsCol. Repington, "The Time" military expert, says: "The Germans had not the wit to make the most of their successes, and secure a ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Victorian gold yield for March was 26,099oz. gros, or 24,501oz fine, a decrease of 9,352oz. fine compared with the vield for March, 1915. The return ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Edmund Candler, the war correspondent, who is at the British headquarters in Mesopotamia, describes the storming of the Turkish positions at ...
Article : 315 wordsThe French communique issued last night states:— The bombardment west of the Meuse is growing in intensity. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 12 Apr 1916, Page 5
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