The Germans on Tuesday continued their desperate attempts to take Fort Vaux, and claim to have captured the position on that day. On the other hand, the French say, at 3.30 on Wednesday morning, they still held it, but it was then cut off by bombardment from other points. The Germans may be in possession, and yet they may be only anticipating, as they have so often done. If they have taken the fort, they have got a footing on the heights ...
Article : 402 wordsMr. Hughes has returned to London after his visit to France. Whilst there he attended a reception given by M. Raymond Poincare, the President, ...
Article : 917 wordsAn eye-witness of the sinking of the Hampshire, with Lord Kitchener, states that it was a wet and stormy night, but that it was light enough to ...
Article : 113 wordsA survivor of the destroyer Fortune says:— The German battleships let rip at us with 11-inchers. All our boats were ...
Article : 181 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" has forecasted that Mr. Lloyd George will succeed Lord Kitchener as Secretary for War. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Balfour) last night at the luncheon of the Imperial Council of Commerce delivered a striking speech upon the naval ...
Article : 875 wordsA total of 1,792 officers and men were lost with the Invincible and the Defence. JAPANESE OFFICER DROWNED. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Scotsman" publishes a special narrative of the New Zealand's share [?]n o[?]e of the greatest sea fights in history. It says: She flew Rear-Admiral ...
Article : 627 wordsSir Douglas Haig has sent the following message to the King:— The memory of Lord Kitchener will remain with the army as an ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Germans admit the loss of the Dreadnought battle-cruiser Lutzow (28,000 tons, eight 12-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns, twelve 24-pounders, five ...
Article : 58 wordsSir Douglas Haig last night reported as follows:— Yesterday (Tuesday) the Germans succeeded in capturing our front line ...
Article : 194 wordsTo-day's Constantinople communique claims that the Turks have driven the Russians from positions on the Asia Minor front extending for 14 kilometres ...
Article : 91 wordsA message from Berlin states that no telegram of the year has created a sensation equal to the news about Kitchener. Special editions published late ...
Article : 101 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that German small cruisers and torpedoboats rescued an ensign and one man from the Queen Mary, two men from ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Candler, the British press representative in Mesopotamia, describing the fight at Deitaisha on April 15, says:— ...
Article : 152 wordsThe news of Lord Kitchener's death has caused stupefaction. The newspapers reprint in leaded type Kitchener's happy saying:— ...
Article : 68 wordsSir Edward Grey, replying to M. Sazonoff's congratulations on the naval battle, says:— "Knowing that the enemy ...
Article : 83 wordsIn the fighting from the Pripet to the Roumanian frontier the Russians have now, it is officially stated, made prisoner 41,000 Austrians, including 900 ...
Article : 106 wordsThere is to be a memorial service at St. Paul's at noon on Tuesday (June 14). The King and Queen are to attend. ...
Article : 36 wordsThousands of people took part in a thanksgiving service on the steps of the Reichstag Chamber in Berlin on Sunday afternoon. Rector Runge spoke of ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Balfour, the First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at the luncheon of the British Imperial Council of Commerce last night, said:—The navy is ...
Article : 310 wordsThe following statement about the campaign against German East Africa was issued yesterday:— Colonel Northey reports that ...
Article : 129 wordsThe official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:— Our machine-gun fire smashed a powerful German attack on Vaux ...
Article : 192 wordsLast night's Vienna communique says:—In face of superior Russian forces operating in Volhynia, on the Upper Puilooka, we withdrew yesterday ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Hughes yesterday visited the Australian forces at the front in France. Though clearly ill through the tremendous strain of the tour through the ...
Article : 516 wordsLast night's communique says:— Our artillery yesterday stopped a large Turkish offensive movement in the direction of Erzindjan. ...
Article : 36 wordsCaptain Bean reports:—The Anzac Book which was published in England last week has attained great popularity amongst the men here. The ...
Article : 182 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Sir R. Munro Ferguson), in addressing the members of the Naval Brigade at the Naval Depot, Williamstown, at ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Germans last week opened a very heavy bombardment just before dark against a portion of our line. The ...
Article : 265 wordsLast night's communique says:— We have occupied a strongly fortified Turkish position in the region of Hannkin (86 miles north-west of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe above map shows Bois Grenier, the wood near which the Australians have raided a German trench, and killed or made prisoner the occupants, and got safely back. This wood is about two miles south of Armentieres. Last week the Australians, doubtless in this same locality, drove back the Germans when they had entered a trench captured after bombardment. This part of France is very flat. The British have been heavily engaged to the east of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 9 Jun 1916, Page 5
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