The first instalment of the retrospect of the war has been compiled from official French sources. It is frankly admitted that the northern campaign in France in ...
Article : 161 wordsFrench aviators have made an effective reply to the Zeppelin raid on Paris. The airmen made, a flight over, an extensive area of country occupied by the Germans, ...
Article : 144 wordsA furious attack was made by 20 Austrian battalions along the Liuzna-Ropica-Russka front on Friday. Under cover of a hurricane of fire from 12-inch howitzers, the ...
Article : 197 wordsTwo British steamers from the Argentine, bound for London, have been damaged. The Hyndford, 4286 tone, from Bahia ...
Article : 133 wordsIn referring to the awful carnage in the engagements last week at Neuve Chapelle and Saint Eloi, Colonel E. D. Swinton ("Eye-Witness" at British head quarters ...
Article : 424 wordsThe second instalment of the French war review attributes the precipitate retreat of the enemy from the Marne to the Germans bringing several army corps northward to ...
Article : 118 wordsA Russian force has captured the fortified Prussian port of Memel, on the Baltic, near the Russian frontier. The town was captured after severe street, fighting, in ...
Article : 317 wordsThe United States Government has ordered the despatch of destroyers and cruisers to prevent attempts by interned German steamers to escape from San Juan, ...
Article : 172 wordsAn exciting battle in mid-air, near the Swiss frontier, is reported from Geneva. Three French aeroplanes at Altkirch were proceeding to blow up a Rhine bridge. ...
Article : 351 wordsThe fourth instalment of the French official review of the war insists on the decisive character of the defeat of German plans. At Ypres it was necessary for ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Marquis of Bristol, in his presidential address before the Institute of Naval Architects, said that in order to obtain a reasonable protection from German ...
Article : 63 wordsThe German submarine which recently captured the Dutch steamer Batavia, was the U36, one of the latest type. The displacement of the submarine is about 1000 ...
Article : 36 wordsSir John French, in his report from British head quarters in France, states that the general situation is unchanged. Isolated attacks on Saint Eloi by 200 of ...
Article : 238 wordsThe German version of the sinking of the cruiser Dresden by British war ships off Juan Fernandez Island is contained in an official message from Berlin. ...
Article : 140 wordsA German Squadron of seven battleships and 28 torpedo boats, a Petrograd communique states, was cruising near Polangen, a Russian port north of Memel, in the ...
Article : 134 words"The enemy," a Paris communique, states, "fired twenty-seven shells into Soissons, seriously damaging the cathedral. We lost Great and Little Reichackers ...
Article : 44 wordsAllied airmen have dropped bombs in the aviation ground at Gits, near Roulers. Some soldier were wounded and the sheds were damaged. An airman's bomb killed ...
Article : 65 wordsColonel E. D. Swinton ("Eye-Witness," at British headquarters in France) writes:—"The German losses in the counter attacks from the Bois Dubiez, during the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe action of a German airman in a Taube aeroplane in flying over the North Sea and dropping three or four bombs, which missed the steamer Ellland, laden ...
Article : 78 wordsThe New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Remuera, 11,276 tons, reports that when off the South American coast she sighted a tramp steamer, and heard ...
Article : 73 wordsA semi-official statement from Bucharest (Roumania) records another great Russian victory at Starostyna, Hungary, between the Lupkow and Uszock passes, in the ...
Article : 90 wordsAfter the battle of Neuve Chapelle the Crown Prince Rupert of Bavaria issued an army order, insisting on the necessity of fortifying themselves against further ...
Article : 44 wordsA Taube aeroplane dropped four bombs on the steamer Teal, in the North Sea, fired 20 rounds from a machine gun, and showered steel darts at the vessel. The ...
Article : 60 wordsLieutenant Berrill, of Sydney, and Captain Selby Smith, formerly aide de camp to a Western Australian Governor, have been killed in action in France. ...
Article : 99 wordsIn a review of the French army it is stated that the national force has been rejuvenated by the promotion on a large scale of young commanders. The average ...
Article : 189 wordsIt is announced that the British Admiralty has good reason to believe that the German submarine U29 has sunk with all hands. ...
Article : 36 wordsFurther fighting has taken place between the Russians and Turks in Armenia. The Turks, after two days' fighting at Zeidekian, in the Alaskhert Valley, were ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Amsterdam "Handelsblad" denies the Sydney report that the Ay[?]sha, with the German escapers from the the Emden on board, raided Padang, a Dutch ...
Article : 54 wordsMargnecite Schmitt, a native of Thioncourt was shot there as a German spy in the presence of the troops. She confessed that she had been paid 200 francs to ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 27 Mar 1915, Page 37
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