Yet again the Germans have made a desperate effort to improve their position at Verdun. No less than 100,000 men were engaged on a three mile front on Thursday in prolonged assaults upon Hill 321 (West of Thiaumont), along the line to the cast to Fort Vaux, and south of the last mentioned position. Their losses must have been heavy, but they persisted until they had taken a first trench at Hill 321 and a defensive work at Thiaumont. Elsewhere they ...
Article : 427 wordsSir Douglas Haig last night reported as follows:— There were 22 air combats, mostly indecisive, to-day. Two British ...
Article : 58 wordsCorrespondents at the front are agreed that the artillery was the decisive factor in the Russian victory. It was successfully followed up by ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Allies have released the Greek merchantmen which they had held up. These include a number of vessels laden with wheat. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn Austrian submarine recently ineffectually chased the Norwegian steamer Rauma, 3,047 tons, for hours in the Mediterranean. Then a German ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Greek general elections have been fixed for the end of July. ...
Article : 20 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— French airmen have dropped bombs on Karlsruhe, Mulheim, and Treves. There were a number of civilian victims, but ...
Article : 91 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblat" anticipates that the elections in Greece will give M. Venizelos a majority. The newspaper adds:—"If M. Venizelos's ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Russian steamer Mercury, 4,046 tons, with 800 passengers on boards, struck a mine yesterday near Odessa, in the Black Sea, and sank in five ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Russian advance has caused an unusual activity amongst the Germans. They have rushed troops into the breach made in the Austrian lines in ...
Article : 213 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at Salonika states that the Bulgarians are reported to be advancing from two points towards the ...
Article : 69 wordsLast night's communique says:— Our offensive in Bukowina continues. We have occupied the towns of Gura Humora (55 miles south of ...
Article : 100 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Fighting is in progress along the Oginski Canal (which joins the Shara, a tributary of the Niemen to ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. Louis Harcourt, the First Commissioner of Works, replying to a trade union deputation to-day regarding State control of food prices and State ...
Article : 209 wordsGiving evidence to-day before the Commission appointed by the Imperial Government to inquire into the British Air Service, Mr. Pemberton Billing, the ...
Article : 210 wordsThe main feature of the developments on the Western front has been a renewed of the great German offensive in the Verdun region. There has been a ...
Article : 494 wordsThe Germans have renewed their big offensive on the Verdun front, and are bombarding without interruption all the French positions on both banks of the ...
Article : 87 wordsTo-day's communique says:— In the Monte Pasubio sector of the front (in the Lessino Alps at the head of the Posino Valley) we have ...
Article : 132 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says: — The Russians are advancing up the Czeremosz Valley towards Kuty. ...
Article : 26 wordsBy his occupation of Gura Humora General Lotchitsky has jammed a portion, of General Von Pilanzer's right wing up against the Roumanian ...
Article : 77 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Local fighting on the old ground is going on along General Brussiloff's front, and now ground is being ...
Article : 114 wordsThe German General Staff is still indulging in a great gamble on the operations at Verdun. Yesterday's attack was followed to-day by a council of ...
Article : 98 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung," commenting on the Paris Economic Conference, says:—When the new regulation of the world's economy is to be ...
Article : 95 wordsGerman warships to-day, at the entrance to The Sound, which runs from the Cattegat into the Baltic Sea, captured the Danish steamers Hebe (957 ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Bukharest correspondent of the "Idea Nacionalo' states that Russia has offered Czernowitz to Roumania if she will enter the war on the side of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Lokal Anzeiger states that Lieutenant Immelmann, the noted German airman, was killed during an encounter between three Anglo-French ...
Article : 42 wordsThe trial of Herr Liebnecht, the So-, cialiat leader, who is charged with attempted treason in time of war, has been fixed for Wednesday. The charge, ...
Article : 2,445 wordsThe detailed accounts of the capture of the village of Svidniki show that the Russians opened their bombardment on the line of the River Stokhod ...
Article : 342 wordsTo-day's Vienna communique says:— The Italian attacks in the Dolomite Alps failed. We repulsed the enemy to the south-cast of Orzli. ...
Article : 59 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —General Von Linsingen's attacks to the west and south-west of Lutzk are making progress, in spite of repeated ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Kaiser, with a large suite, has visited Liege, where he carefully inspected the Pontisse Fort, which General Leman's defence at the beginning ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Germanophile newspapers in Athens vehemently declare that the "enforced elections" are intended to secure a majority for M. Venizelos, and ...
Article : 68 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— In Champagne there have been three German attacks to-day between Maison do Champagne and ...
Article : 43 wordsLast week the German steamer Emms (699 tons, belonging to Stettin) was, torpedoed to the northward of Falkenberg (on the south-west coast of ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Russian front towards Kovel has lengthened the Austro-German line by 50 miles. For the moment the enemy are trying to hold their lines with ...
Article : 39 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Our artillery has wrecked the German military organisations in the dunes on the Belgian coast, near ...
Article : 32 wordsSir Douglas Haig last night reported as follows:— For twenty minutes the Germans on Thursday night made a gas ...
Article : 1,082 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— We repulsed to-day three assaults on the positions recently captured by us to the westward of Fort Vaux, and ...
Article : 100 wordsIn this map the thin broken black line shows the French line when the German offensive began in February, and the thick black line closer in is their line about six weeks ago. Since that the Germans have taken Fort de Vaux and several other positions in that district, and they are now attacking in great force between Hill 321 and Damloup. The Germans have taken a part of the village of Fleury, and some French trenches at other points on this front, parts of which, however, French counter attacks have recovered The German efforts to take the Damloup Battery have failed. It might be noticed from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 26 Jun 1916, Page 5
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