Details that have come to hand show that the battle on the Ancre was largely blind, as a fog obscured the movements and aerial observation was impossible. ...
Article : 418 wordsA message from Copenhagen states that Major-General Groner's new War department has inaugurated the civil mobilisation of Germany and the organisation of a ...
Article : 68 words"There was lively artillery fire at Pressoire (between Ablaincourt and Chaulnes south of the Somme). "An enemy attack west of Aulberive, in ...
Article : 93 words"The following incident reveals the spirit of the attackers:—A R.A.M.C. man bustled up during the hot fighting and asked an officer, Have you taken ...
Article : 158 wordsA private attached to the First Australian Division, who was slightly wounded in the wrist, states that his battalion reached the front line at 7 o'clock on the evening ...
Article : 147 wordsThe German man power scheme is an elaborate and bureaueratic organisation stretching over the remotest parts like a human telegraph system. General ...
Article : 124 wordsTuesday night's German communique admits the British capture of Beaumont Hamel and St. Pierre Divion, with their lateral connecting lines, and adds, "Our stubborn ...
Article : 45 wordsImportant journals quote Lord Kitchener who said:—"The war begins for England in 1916." Newspapers point out that Germany laughed when it heard the remark ...
Article : 208 wordsWriting in the "Echo de Paris," M. Marcel Hutin says that the Germans are vigorously counter-attacking north of the Ancre, where General von Ludendroff's favorite ...
Article : 70 wordsReuter's correspondent at Corunna (Spain) says that Captain Curtis, of the torpedoed American steamer Columbian (8380 tons), also the captains of two torpsdoed ...
Article : 167 wordsReuter's correspondent at the British headquarters in France states:—"The capture of St. Pierre Divion, south of the Ancre, in the course of yesterday's attack, ...
Article : 198 wordsColonel a'Court Repington, "The Times" military correspondent, writes that Great Britain must reply to Germany's phenomenal mass levy by granting ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Germans have sunk the fishing smacks, Our Boy and Superb. Seven Norwegian vessels were sunk at the week-end, which cost underwriters £300,000 ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports:— "We have captured Beaucourt-sur-Ancre. Our prisoners now number considerably over 5000, and more are arriving. ...
Article : 55 words"The Times' correspondent at the British headquarters states:—" Success is again ours. It is impossible to state how great it is because all is yet confusion, ...
Article : 358 words"Essen, in Rhenish Prussia presents a tremendous spectacle," writes Mr. Thomas Curtin, the American correspondent who spent 10 months in Germany and arrived ...
Article : 253 words"The Times" correspondent in Paris says:—"French military men praise Sir Douglas Haig's masterly generalship. A French staff officer who witnessed the ...
Article : 128 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, assured Mr. J. C. Wedgwood that the Colonial office influence was directed ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is officially learned in Washington that Germany is building another submarine of the Bremen type. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. W. Beach Thomas writes :—"Some of the enemy caves were as big as Buckingham Palace, and the dugouts spacious, with 30 streets of steps leading down. The wretched, ...
Article : 111 wordsA beer strike occurred at the Echuca wharf to-day. While the steamer, Canally was preparing to sail for Balranald, a member of the crew came aboard with ...
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Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Thu 16 Nov 1916, Page 23
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