Last night's Berlin communique says:—The Bavarian Rifles and the East Prussian infantry to-day stormed strong earthworks to the west of Fort ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Russian victory on the front between the Pripet River and the Roumanian frontier grows in extent and importance. The breach in the Austrian line made at Luck (or Lutak) widened rapidly, and it is reported that on a ninety miles front the Russians have advanced west for forty miles. In fact, from Rovno to net far from the Dniester River, the Austrians are in retreat, because they are threatened in rear from both Luck and at a point near ...
Article : 516 wordsThe Austrian commander in the Trentine has received orders to send all available divisions to Volhynia. Four divisions, which form the reserve, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Union Defence Department reports as follows:— General Smuts has cleared the Paree Mountains of the enemy, and ...
Article : 138 wordsLast night's Vienna communique says:—In the Asingo region we have capture Monte Sisemol, to the north of Monte Emeletta and Monte Castel, ...
Article : 39 wordsA To Deum for the naval victory will be sung in St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday afternoon, and also generally at all the churches throughout the country. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe news of the Russian victories has electrified the public. It is believed that they will paralyse the Austrian offensive in the Trentine. ...
Article : 84 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— M. Poincare has sent the following message to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army:— ...
Article : 53 wordsThe notebook of a captured German staff officer contains an estimate of the German losses at Verdun up to the end of May as 425,000. This is based ...
Article : 57 wordsComplete accounts of the battle[?] cruiser New Zealand's action show that she battered and helped to sink a big German ship. She herself was only ...
Article : 267 wordsSir Douglas Haig last night reported as follows:— To-day a party of the Gloucesters entered the German trenches south ...
Article : 183 wordsTo-day's communique says:— We have dislodged the Turks from their positions to the south of Ha[?]tokop, in the region of Trebizond. We ...
Article : 59 wordsA Chassour who was wounded in the fighting at Fort Vaux says:— The violence of the German, bombardment was inconceivable. At least 48 ...
Article : 167 wordsOfficers of the Navy who are on furlough say they are amazed that the Germans should claim victory in the naval battle. ...
Article : 303 wordsKing Constantine has, according to a message from Athens, signed an order for the demobilisation of 12 classes of the Greek army, including a total of ...
Article : 217 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Fighting of extreme violence continues on the Sette Communi Plateau The battle for our positions cast of ...
Article : 198 wordsIn the great naval battle the Cunard liner Carmania, 12,884 tons, acted as the seaplone depot ship, and when the armoured cruiser Warrior was hard ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Russians continue to develop their great offessive against the Austrians between the Pripet and the Dniester, and all accounts are agreed ...
Article : 953 wordsThe bombardment which preceded the Russian advance was so intense that it was heard as a continuous roar from 20 to 30 miles behind the firing ...
Article : 254 wordsThe newspaper "De Telegraaf" states that the German losses at Hooge were heavy. The Red Cross activity recalls the days of October, 1914, and of ...
Article : 63 wordsHis Majesty the King, replying to the telegram of congratulation forwarded by M. Raymond Poincare, the French President, warmly thanked the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe details of the fighting at Zillebeke, near Ypres, in which the Canadians were engaged, on June 2, show that it was the greatest event in the ...
Article : 315 wordsAdmiral Sir David Beauty, addressing the officers and men of his battle-cruisers, said:—I offer you my sincere thanks for what will ever remain a ...
Article : 147 wordsThe crew of the British torpedo-boat destroyer Sparrowhawk give vivid details of the destroyers night pursuit of the German warships after the main ...
Article : 263 wordsFrench troops have occupied the Greek island of Thasos (which lies off the mainland of Macedomn, almost opposite the point where the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Prime Minister of Italy (Signor Salandra), referring to the military situation, said to-day:— Favourable conditions enabled the ...
Article : 126 wordsGeneral Joffre, who reached London to-day, had a conference with the War Council. General Joffre drove through ...
Article : 56 wordsTo-day's communique says:— The Germans have violently bombarded out lines in the region north-east of Krovo and south of Smorgon. ...
Article : 55 wordsTravellers from Berlin state that they heard there that the German battlecruiser Derflinger (28,000 tons, and main armament of eight 12-inch guns, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe latest telegrams from Petrograd, Vienna, and Rome emphasise the far-reaching effect of the Russian victories. ...
Article : 155 wordsA gunner of the light cruiser Dublin (5,100 tons), asserts positively that she sank three German cruisers. The most thrilling incident occurred at midnight, ...
Article : 153 wordsLast night's Vienna communique says.‑To-day the fighting on our front in Volhynia and Galicia was less severe. The Russians made attacks ...
Article : 160 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— We have repulsed violent attacks made to-day by the Germans to the west of Thiaumont Farm, and ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Austrians have evacuated Dubno, and the Russian vanguard is now within 20 miles of Lemberg. It is reported, that since the outset of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe latest grotesque German explanation of the events leading up to the naval battle is contained in an American United Press wireless ...
Article : 119 wordsLemberg is full of wounded and the residents have been notified that every household must prepare to shelter the seriously wounded, who cannot [?]e ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Russians are attacking all along the line from the Dniester River, near Nizhniow (in the south), to Kolki (in the north), and still further to the north, but their heaviest blows on the Austrian front have been given on the Styr in the region of Luck, and in the region just north of the Dniester (south-west of Tarnopol). In the north the Russian forces advancing from Rovno have captured Luck (or Lutzk, as it is sometimes spelled), and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 229 wordsIt is officially stated that Belgian armoured cafs have rendered most useful assistance to the Russian troops in Galicia. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 12 Jun 1916, Page 5
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