For the first time for months the cablegrams contain really encouraging news from the Italian front. The counter-offensive of the Italians, mado in great force, is meeting with success along the whole line in the Trentino. They have recaptured a number of the positions lost in the recent Austrian offensive, and are still pushing forward. We may soon hear of their resuming activity on the Isonzo line. ...
Article : 428 wordsAfter fierce fighting, the Russians captured Kimpolung (65 miles south of Czernowitz, and near the Roumanian border) on Friday, and made over ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsLast night's communique says:— Our troops in Bukowina have occupied new positions between Kimpolung and Jacoben. We evacuated the heights ...
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Article : 142 wordsTens of thousands of fugitives from Bukowina are streaming over the Carpathians into Hungary. Despatches from Vienna endeavour ...
Article : 73 wordsAn American correspondent who has interviewed Lord Revelstoke, one of the leading financiers in the City of London, says that the latter stated ...
Article : 190 wordsIt is reported that the Bulgarians are concentrating fresh troops at Florina (17 miles south of Monastir). The Bulgarian newspapers, from fear ...
Article : 150 wordsSir Douglas Haig last night reported as follows:— Our artillery to-day continued very active on the whole front. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 310 wordsA message from Paris says that the capture of Thianmont was Germany's supreme effort is evident. The Crown Prince is desperate, and has ...
Article : 420 wordsTo-day's communique says:— The artillery activity of the Austrians along the front between the Adige and the Brenta increased ...
Article : 97 wordsStanley Washburn, writing in "The Times," says:— There are few portions of any front that I have ever seen where one could ...
Article : 1,094 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— The British and French have developed an unbroken and lively activity in the region extending from the south of the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe cottage door is open to the night. The soft air of a beautiful evening following on a glorious day brushes past one into the room. As I stand here the ...
Article : 1,782 wordsYesterday the Allied Fleets bombarded Dedeagatch and other towns [?]n the coast of Bulgaria. ...
Article : 25 wordsAmong the causes of the revolt of the people of Arabia against Turkish rule are the severity of Enver Pasha, the Turkish Minister Of War, in ...
Article : 149 wordsThe newspapers give prominence, to the statements in Sir Douglas Haig's report, and also in the German communiques, that there has been a heavy ...
Article : 40 wordsGeneral Cadonia, in an order of the say, praises his staff for the way in which it carried out the concentration of the great forces which not merely ...
Article : 60 wordsYesterday a number of Belgian wowen and children went in procession along the streets of Ghent carrying a flag inscribd "Bread or death." ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is officially stated that the Austrians are retreating along the Trentino frontier, with the Italians in close pursuit. The Italians have recaptured ...
Article : 76 wordsThe following, the 180th, casualty list was released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The addresses ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsLast night's communique says:— We yesterday carried by a coupde-main a redonbt three yersts (two miles) to the south of Zminy, on the ...
Article : 110 wordsA representative of the Paris "Journal" who has interviewed Mr. Lloyd George says that the British statesman rendered glowing homage to France, ...
Article : 417 wordsThis afternoon's communique says:— Our fire to-day stopped an attack on our trenches on the slopes southward of Mort Homme. ...
Article : 74 wordsIn connection with the capture by the Germans of the Great Eastern Railway Company's mail steamer Brussels nine previous attempts had been made ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 392 wordsArrangements are being made by the Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) for the issue of a proclamation to enable the Commonwealth ...
Article : 80 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— Yesterday the French fire on the left (western) bank of the Meuse attained great activity towards evening, ...
Article : 108 wordsTo-day's Berlin communique says:— The Russians have made strong counter-attacks, which proved quite unsuccessful, against General Von ...
Article : 90 wordsAn application, the first under the Enemy Property Act, to take possession of property of an enemy subject was made by Mr. Eager (instructed by ...
Article : 200 wordsThere is much talk in England as to the expediency of the formation of a league of peace among the nations to enforce ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 27 Jun 1916, Page 5
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