The British success at Vimy between Lens and Arras, is more important than appears in the official news. but Mr. Philip Gibbs refers to it. In the great offensive in September the programme was for the British to pierce the German lines between La Bassce and Lens, and for the French to reach Vimy. The British broke through to Loos and Hulluch. The French, after the most desperate fighting, got to the Vimy heights and were ...
Article : 423 wordsThe "Giornale d'Italia" says:— After five days' fighting the Austrian offensive has, at the cost of heavy losses, gained critain of our advanced positions ...
Article : 232 wordsEdgar Mobbs, the well-known "Rugby International player, applied for a commission in the army at the opening of the war and was rejected on the ground ...
Article : 60 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— We shot down five French aoroplanes yesterday at Vaiily and in the Verdun area. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe British section of the Bureau Descours at Berne is supplying 19,000 British prisoners in Germany daily with consignments of 5,000 2lb. leaves, Over ...
Article : 42 wordsGermany admits that the Dutch liner Tubnntia, 13,911 tons, sunk off the coast of Holland, was the victim of a German torpedo on March 16, but the ...
Article : 55 wordsA proof of the Austrian financial straits forthcoming is contained in intercepted messages between Vienna and New York, winch show that Austria ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is officially stated that three German scapianes raided the cast coast of Kent at 2 o'clock this morning. One dropped a dozen bombs on the Isle of ...
Article : 243 wordsAfter a week's court-martial three conscientious objectors have been sentenced to from six to nine months' imprisonment in Cardiff barracks for ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "Morning Post protests against the proposed arrangement to supply the United States with 15,000 tons of dye stuffs from Germany, conditionally ...
Article : 134 wordsMrs. Ryan, the wife of tho Premier of Queensland, yesterday 'entertained a largo party of,Queensland convalescent soldiers at the Anzac Buffet. She ...
Article : 55 wordsLast night's communique says:— We have repulsed the Austrian attacks between the Eastern bank of the Adige and the Terragnolo Valley. ...
Article : 64 wordsGeneral Sir Bryan Mahon, the Commander-in-Chief of the British troops at Salonika, is to command the forces on the Western frontier of Egypt, and ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions, states that the controlled establishments in ' Great Britain, now number 3,577. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe following official statement was issued to-day:— On tho morning of Thursday our warships, aeroplanes, nnd seaplanes ...
Article : 153 wordsThe authorities of the Grand Duchy of Baden are issuing egg tickets. Everyone in the Duchy is entitled to three eggs a week. ...
Article : 76 wordsYesterday the members of the Irish Literary Club at Hanover-square entertained invalid soldiers from crack Irish regiments. ...
Article : 99 wordsMessrs. Brunner. Mond, and Co ano Messrs. Castner, Kellner, and Co., the largest manufacturers of alkali in the world, have decided to amalgamate, ...
Article : 39 wordsReports from Russia state that a mysterious large Gorman battleplane has appeared near Riga. It, is entirely black and of remarkable ...
Article : 56 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports as follows: On Friday night tho Germant, rained shells on our lines to the south-west of Loos, and followed'up with an ...
Article : 129 wordsThis afternoon's communique, says:— The Germans tried to cross the Yser Canal between Steenstrate and Hetsas yesterday, but'failed. ...
Article : 29 wordsThis afternoon's communique says: — The Germans this morning attempted to penetrate,a small salient of our line near Saint Hubert, in ...
Article : 324 wordsRepresentatives of the Government had a conference to-day to consider the export of wool. All sections of the trade were represented, and gave the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Australian nurses at the front in France have not received any letters since they left Egypt in March. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe crews of the German steamers Kollga and Bianca, which were destroyed in the Baltic by Allied submarines, told the men who resaued ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Commission appointed to inquire into the causes of the rebellion in Ireland resumed its sittings to-day under the presidency of Lord Hardinge. ...
Article : 925 wordsGeneral Joffre has hogged the Bishop of Wakefield and the Bishop of Birmingham, who are visiting the front, to tell England that it is impossible to have ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Kaiser has arrived at Potsdam to settle the Ministerial crisis. He then goes to the Russian front. ...
Article : 26 wordsSpeaking in the Rejchstag yesterday, Herr Richter, Under Secretary for the Interior, announced that after the war a large sum would be available for ...
Article : 221 wordsMr. A Henderson, the President of the Board of Education in Mr. Asquith's Government, in a letter to his agent at Barnard Castle, in Durham, ...
Article : 131 wordsLast night's coiinminique says:— Our forces in Nrith-Western Persia have oceunied the town of Sakiz (128 miles south of Tabriz and 60 miles ...
Article : 49 wordsIn a speech at Detroit to-day, urging the United States to prepare in case war broke out, Mr. Roosevelt advocated universal military service, declaring ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs has furnished to the "Daily Clronicle" a vivid account of the storming ot the mine craters on —e Vimy ridge by the Luncashire ...
Article : 455 wordsTho following Belgian communique about the operations against German East Africa was issued last night:— Our operations in the Ruanda ...
Article : 80 wordsThe following official statement was issued to-day: — After three days of furious bombardment by the enemy we have ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London (Sir Charles Wakefield) gave a banquet at the Mansion House last night to the members of the Russian Duma, now ...
Article : 282 wordsAn Austrian submarine has torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean a Greek collier. The crew of the collier, who numbered 27, were picked up, and ...
Article : 41 wordsLast week Mr. R. Lansing, the American Secretary of State, asked Mr. J. W. Gerard the Ambassador, in Berlin, to ascertain informally the nature ...
Article : 127 wordsIt is expected that the vote of credit to he moved in the House of Commons on Tuesday by Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, will amount to £300,000,000. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent at Paris says:— On Thursday 15,000 Germans advanced on a front of 1½ miles on both ...
Article : 143 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Lieutenant Navarre brought down a German aeroplane near Chattancourt on Thursday, and another one ...
Article : 118 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:— Our attacks on the Southern Tyrol frontier are continually gaining ground. Our frsces advancing between the ...
Article : 180 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— In Champagne the Germans discharged a large gas cloud towards our positions near the road from Souain ...
Article : 97 wordsThe above map is a reproduction from "The Times" that arrived by this week's mail. To the west of the Meuse the Germans are still attacking violently along the line from Avocourt to the neighhourhood of Cumieres, On Friday morning the main attack was at the castern end of this line, against the French positions in the Bois d' Avocort and the western slopes of Hill 304. The only success gained was the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 253 wordsThoe new Bleqriot monoplane for French army use is described as graceful, but frail looking It is named the "Soad." Bleriot says that it can, mount ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 22 May 1916, Page 5
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