It is officially stated that the great German offensive drive eastward of Sventziany is considered a complete failure. The enemy is everywhere thrown back ...
Article : 75 wordsA Russian official communique says:— 'The enemy south-east of Osmiana, south-east of Vilna, drove back the Russians somewhat. ...
Article : 519 wordsReuter's correspondent at the Dardanelles, in a despatch dated 10th September, says that there has been a decided fall in the temperature in Gallipoli. ...
Article : 208 wordsA communique declares that fogs are retarding operations, although they have enabled the infantry to raid and have the enemy's outlaying defences. ...
Article : 101 wordsA communique states:— "As the result of a bayonet action, we captured the cemetery at the southern end of Lake Narotch, whereby the enemy was ...
Article : 160 wordsA Rome communique states:— "The enemy has wasted an enormous quantity of ammunition on the Isonzo front. The Australians' firing is so bad that ...
Article : 42 wordsThe British forces which have been operating in Mesopotamia, at the head of the Persian Gulf, under very trying conditions, have won an important success over the ...
Article : 495 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. R. L. Outhwaite (Liberal) asked whether the statement made in Petrograd by Sir George Buchanan, British ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the London "Observer," a Sunday journal, states that any fears which might have recently been entertained for the safety of the ...
Article : 88 wordsIn the course of his speech at the launching of the cruiser Brisbane to-day, the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Jensen) emphasised the magnitude of the transport ...
Article : 125 wordsFive Hungarian regiments were entrenched in hills near the monastry at Potchaeff, Volhynia. The Russians cleverly outflanked the Hungarians, who made ...
Article : 61 wordsThe newspaper "Corriere Della Sera's" correspondent at Petrograd says Russia has a new army of 1,500,000 men ready in the Petrograd district. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe newspapers are giving prominence to Captain in Bean's account of the fighting in Gallipoli on 7th August, in which the Australian Light Horse suffered so heavily. ...
Article : 81 wordsRussian newspapers report that the Austro-German prisoners confined in Russia on 17th September numbered 1,000,000. ...
Article : 19 wordsA new field hospital is being provided as a gift from the British nation to Russia The staff includes Captain Mark Gardner, 10 other doctors, 25 nurses, and 50 ...
Article : 46 wordsThe 25th German infantry regiment attacked the Russian positions in the Eckaw district, south of Riga, and despite murderous machine-gun fire advanced ...
Article : 53 wordsSir Edwin Pears, the well known English barrister, who prior to the present war had been long resident in Constantinople, has stated that Tarkey's resistance ...
Article : 67 wordsAllies' airmen on Friday dropped bombs on a German troop train at Douai (20 miles south of Lille), wrecking three carriages When the German survivors ...
Article : 84 wordsA small force of guerillas, consisting of peasantry, whose homes had been burnt, surrounded a German column in the Pinsk marshes, cabled on the 29th. The Germans ...
Article : 43 wordsOn Wednesday night a distinguished gathering in Paris assembled to hear addresses on Great Britain's part in the war, delivered by two Labor members of the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that Lord Kitchener, in an address to the recent Labor Conference, said that the preferred the voluntary system, but the present ...
Article : 117 wordsGenerally as a result of a series of successful engagements, the positions of our armies along our front are favorable. The demoralisation amongst the Germans is ...
Article : 52 wordsRotterdam advices are that 21 of the Allies aeroplanes have dropped bombs on Aix-in-Chapelle (40 miles west of the cathedral city of Cologne). ...
Article : 43 wordsColonel Morath, the military expert of the "Berliner Tageblatt," points out the serious situation of Field-Marshal von Mackensen's army. He says that the ...
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Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Thu 7 Oct 1915, Page 19
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