In giving details of the casualties caused by the Zeppelin raid, in which two of the German airships were brought down in flames off the coast, an official statement ...
Article : 145 wordsThe wool growers have agreed to sell the wool clip to the Imperial Government. The price is much under the 1915-16 values. ...
Article : 105 wordsAbsence of news, except that contained in the communique, renders the Rumanian situation most obscure. French critics, however, believe that the ...
Article : 95 wordsA correspondent at a north-cast coast town, describing the attack on the first Zeppelin, said :—"Suddenly a spot of light appeared on the envelope, spread rapidly ...
Article : 90 wordsA German communique received this afternoon says:— "We have captured Kurtea de Arjesh, south-east of Kimpolung, the ancient ...
Article : 83 words"The Times" aeronautic correspondent states anti-aircraft defence is getting into form. Gun practice generally has improved. Raids will probably continue until the risks ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. H. Hamilton Fyfe, "The Daily Mail's" Petrograd correspondent, who is visiting Bucharest, telegraphs:— "Rumanian's plight is chiefly due to the ...
Article : 97 wordsOf the Zeppelins that visited the north-east coast, one was hit by the guns five minutes after being picked up by the searchlights. Thousands of spectators cheered ...
Article : 116 wordsAn official statement, issued by the Press Bureau says:— "A hostile aeroplane, at a great height above a haze, dropped six bombs on London ...
Article : 240 wordsKurtea de Arjesh, the ancient capital of Wallachia, which has been captured by the Germans, is 90 miles from Bucharest, and is the railhead of a line running ...
Article : 78 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports:—"There is considerable artillery fire on our front on both sides of the Anere. Our retaliation was prompt and effective. The enemy's ...
Article : 124 wordsIt was an intensely cold, bright, starlight night, and the raiding Zeppelins were easily. visible. One day stationary, glittering like silver above the North Sea, while others ...
Article : 106 wordsBig Rumanian events are expected hourly in view, of the enemy's proximity to Bucharest, which is itself a first-rank fortress, with 36 armored forts, averaging a ...
Article : 69 wordsDescribing the destruction of one of the Zeppelins, a "Times" correspondent on the north-east coast says:— "A tremendous gun fusillade at 11 p.m. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe fact that no battle has yet been fought between the Rumanians and the invaders is regarded as showing the forces are methodically retiring to positions nearer ...
Article : 133 words"We have advanced hundreds of yards in the course of widespread local actions," says a Serbian communique. ...
Article : 22 words"The Times," in a leading article, says that the seaplane raid was an act of bravado and an exhibition of German frightfulness. It was, perhaps, a reply to the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe great news of the bringing down of two Zeppelins was received with intense joy. It will be a heavy blow to German ...
Article : 102 wordsA British official message from Salonika says:— "We bombarded and successfully, raided enemy trenches north-east of Matshikovo, ...
Article : 33 wordsA telegram from Petrograd states the Germans are steadily advancing on the capital from the north, the west, the north-west, and the south-west. ...
Article : 29 wordsGeneral Pctiti Diroreto, commanding the Italians on Macedonia, was wounded by a shell at Monastir. ...
Article : 21 wordsNews of a great battle in defence of Bucharest is hourly awaited. French experts point out that though Ministers and staffs, legations and banks, were ...
Article : 56 wordsOne monster made a frantic effort to escape, but was promptly attacked by antiaircraft guns and naval airmen. The raider was travelling at a tremendous speed at a ...
Article : 133 wordsLieutenant-Colonel a'Court Repington, the military correspondent of "The Times," says:— "The German mass levy is due to severe ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Admiralty states the commodore at Dunkirk has been informed by the French authorities that they brought down an aeroplane at 2.15 on 28th November, with ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. J. D. Bourchler, "The Times" correspondent at Bucharest, says:— "The Rumanians have defenced the Wallachian frontier admirably, but the ...
Article : 40 wordsReuter learns that the Rumanians possess unabated confidence, despite the German advance. They are convinced that the effects of ...
Article : 58 wordsLater the airman flew in from the sea and descended on the coast. He was accorded a tremendous ovation by the townspeople, who carried him shoulder high ...
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Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Thu 30 Nov 1916, Page 23
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