It is stated that the German factory at Schwartzkopf has during the last eight months, turned out 18 submarines. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Germans on Sunday began another great offensive on the Verdun front. They attacked from Mort Homme (Dea' Man) Hill to Cumieres,and failed completely, except at one point, between these places. First, they attacked Mort Homme at the western end, and at Cumieres, near the Meuse, at the eastern end of the section. The Mort Homme affair appears to have been readily disposed of, but at a point in Caurettes Wood, along the road from ...
Article : 308 wordsAmong the long list of brave deeds for which honours have been conferred nothing is more notable than the conduct of Second-Lieutenant Campbell, ...
Article : 206 wordsColonel Northey reports as follows on the advance into German East Africa from Rhodesia, along the frontier from Lake Tanganyika to Lake Nyassa:— ...
Article : 100 wordsSir Edward Garson has conveyed to Mr. Bonnar Law,the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the War Commitee's resolutions in favour of a revision of ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Senetor Pearce), when asked his opinion of Mr. Catts's proposal regarding the calling up of the citizen forces, which was ...
Article : 204 wordsMessages received in Rotterdam from Berlin state that Herr Batocke, the newly-appointed Director of Food Supplies in Germany, is carrying out his ...
Article : 302 wordsVery heavy fighting continues on the plateau of the Sette Comuni (in the region of Asiago), where the Austrian pressure is strongest. The Italians have ...
Article : 173 wordsIt is semi-officially announced in Rome that on Sunday night last an Italian warship attacked and sank a large Austrian transport at Trieste. ...
Article : 35 wordsTo-day, at Paddington railway station, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, the High Commissioner of New Zealand, bade farewell to a party of unfit soldiers ...
Article : 53 wordsOur Parattah correspondent writes:— "A welcome home social was tendered last, week by the residents to Private Roy Figg. The arrangements were made by ...
Article : 199 wordsMr. A. Henderson, the President of the Board of Education, in extending a welcome to-day to a number of French professors who intend making a tour ...
Article : 99 wordsBritish and Russian submarines operating in the Baltic had a brisk engagement yesterday with German armed trawlers between Stor Kage and ...
Article : 61 wordsConcentrations of Bulgarian troops threaten Seres, Drama, and Kavalla The Allies view the invasion with equanimity. The policy of throwing ...
Article : 93 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Yesterday evening the Germans, after a bombardment of redoubled violence, made a very strong attack ...
Article : 146 wordsLord Midleton called the attention of the House of Lords this afernoon to the statement made last week by Mr. Winiston Churchill that 200,000 officers' ...
Article : 90 wordsSwiss spectators declare that a monster Zeppelin has been seen flying over Lake Constance. It was, they state, nearly 250 yards long, "and had four ...
Article : 47 wordsA dinner was given in the House of Commons yosterday by the Labour members to Mr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier of Queensland. Mr. A. Henderson, he ...
Article : 75 wordsAt a meeting of ladies held at the Hobart Town-hall yesterday, and presided over by the Mayoress (Mrs. Macleod), final ariangements were made for a dinner, to ...
Article : 341 wordsLord Cromer, in a letter in to-day's "Times," says:—Dr. Wilson, the American President, cannot too clearly understand that, desirous as the people, of ...
Article : 360 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— Our aviators yesterday attacked some enemy destroyers off Ostend. ...
Article : 23 wordsFrance, both the France in the trenches and the France behind the lines, fully' appreciates the assistance given by the British Army during the ...
Article : 1,227 wordsThe Copenhagen newspaper "Dagens Nyheder," states, that the Allies will permit the population in country now in Austrian and German occupation to ...
Article : 103 wordsAdvices received in Copenhagen from Germany state that an aviation shed at Neustadt, 21 miles from Dresden, has been destroyed, with 24 ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Petit Parisien" states that General Sarrail, when asked a question as to the enemy's artillery activity, shrugged ...
Article : 95 wordsHerr Ballin, head of the Hamburg-Amerika and other German chipping lines,addresing a meeting of shareholders of the Woermann line yesterday, ...
Article : 115 wordsIt is reported that since the beginning of the war Germany has lost 47 Zoppelin airships. ...
Article : 28 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— We have captured the whole of the French positions between the southern ridge of Mort Homme and Cumires, ...
Article : 37 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent at Salonika telegraphs as follows:— The Greeks continue to hold the ...
Article : 76 wordsGreat Britain and France have agreed to a miximum price for freights on coal, thus reducing prices by 35 per cent. In addition to a reductin of 45 ...
Article : 63 wordsYesterday's German attack on our positions between Mort Homme and Cumieres was the most powerful yet attempted. They used fresh divisions, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe first contingent of 500 wounded British prisoners from Germany to be exchanged through Switzerland have arrived at Chateau Doex, and are ...
Article : 98 wordsThe following, the 173rd, casualty list was released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are thone of privates. The addiesses ...
Article : 43 wordsThe inhabitants of Seres are sending in petitions for Government protection owing to the Bulgarian invasion. They point out that powerful bands of ...
Article : 59 wordsOwing to the illness ot Mr. Walter Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade, it is feared that he will be unable to attend the Paris Economic ...
Article : 67 wordsThe "Petit Parision" says:— The new German offensive between Mort Homme and Cumieres began on Sunday evening. An unusual movement ...
Article : 184 wordsA considerable force of Turks, operating on a 10-mile front, yesterday attacked a Russian column which was advancing on Nineveh. The Turks ...
Article : 332 wordsA message from Berlin states that the Bulgarians are operating in Macedonia in accordance with an agreement with the Greek Government. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, the Liberal member for Hanley, called attention to a statement made by M. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, writing in the who de Paris," says:— Some idea of the expenditure of projeetiles which is likely to procede the ...
Article : 77 wordsImportant Bulgarian forces are being concentrated at Novrokop. The Greeks still hold the town of Demir Hissar, but the inhabitants have left. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Germans are directing on the French line from Avocourt Wood to Cumieres, a distance (including windings) of about 7½ miles, the fire of 100 heavy batteries and an unknown number of light guns. They have also made fieres infantry attacks at Mort Homme (close to Bethincourt) and Cumieres, and the line between these points. to Their repeated efforts failed, except at one place in the Bois des Caurettes, along the road from Bethincourt to Cumieres. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 1 Jun 1916, Page 5
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