When the German shock troops were taken out of the lines along what may be called the coastal front, it was stated that the object of their removal was to give them further training. The real object was to carry out an offensive on a thirty-mile line on the Aisne front along the high plateau ...
Article : 577 wordsThe newspapers publish an official photograph showing a huge Red Cross protecting the Thionville aerodrome. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Austrians have stripped of bells all the churches in the region invaded by them. They are even digging up cemeteries in order to obtain the metal ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Kieff correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" writes:—It is wrong to imagine that Russian can for ever be separated from Northern Russia. At ...
Article : 120 wordsA German official report admits that many British air raids took place on Zeebrugge between May 20 and 22, also on Bruges dockyard, where a ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, has granted increased wages to railwaymen amounting to 300,000,000 dollars annually. He has also ...
Article : 109 wordsAdvices received in New York from England state that the captain of the American transport which rammed a German submarine on its voyage from ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Admiralty issued the following report to-day:— Between May 23 and 26 operations by naval airmen were hindered by the ...
Article : 139 wordsGermany has withdrawn the permission previously given to the DowagerEmpress to leave Russia. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Red Cross week throughout the United States netted 112,000,000 dollars. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Navy Department has issued a thrilling narrative of the rescue from the sea and flames, of the survivors of the steamer Florence, which was ...
Article : 150 wordsAn Exchange Telegraph Co.'s correspondent states that General VonMackeuseu retains command on the Eastern front, where matters are not going ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Japanese here have collected at least 29,000 dollars in the Red Cross campaign. All the large firms representing the Orient contributed 15,000 to ...
Article : 236 wordsThe correspondent of the "New York Times" on the American front says the first American aeroplanes equipped with Liberty motors have arrived on the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Dublin correspondent of the "Daily News" says:—In Government circles it is believed that the Government statement, which will be made at ...
Article : 624 wordsDespatches from France describe American participation in the world's greatest aerial attack, which proved the Allies' superiority over the Germans in ...
Article : 159 wordsNavy Department advices say that the German submarines are operating much further from their bases than heretofore, but are still in European ...
Article : 45 wordsGeneral Maurice, writing in the "Daily Chronicle," points out one of the lessons of the numerous attacks on entrenched positions, namely, that if the ...
Article : 263 wordsField Marshal Haig reports:— Strong hostile attacks preceded by bombardment of great intensity developed thus (Monday) ...
Article : 225 wordsA wireless German message intercepted by the Admiralty claims the capture of the whole of the Chemin-des-Damcs ridge. ...
Article : 31 wordsAustralians and New Zealanders have fresh reason for steeling their hearts against a barbarous enemy owing to the bombing of a Red Cross base ...
Article : 1,245 wordsStrong enemy attacks this morning on the Locre-Voormezeele front (south of Ypr[?]s) were repulsed by the French after fierce fighting, in which ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily News" writes:—Two marked tendencies in Russia are that the masses are more anti-German, and that ...
Article : 154 wordsThe following official report was issued this morning:— Ten enemy aeroplanes were reported to be proceeding to Paris at 10.30 ...
Article : 60 wordsThe German long-range gun has resumed firing shell, amd has dropped a shell regularly in Paris every quarter of an hour since 6.30 this morning. Three ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Phillip Gibbs says:— The increased German artillery fire on several sectors of the front down to the Somme became intensified this ...
Article : 342 wordsSir Douglas Haig mentions in despatches the following:— Australians:—382 officers, 132 noncommissioned officers and men, and 11 ...
Article : 49 wordsPresident Wilson, in addressing Congress to-day, said both Houses must lay politics aside, and remain in session until they had enacted new War Tax laws ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Express" says German circles are canvassing the restoration of the monarchy in Russia, and suggest the ...
Article : 160 wordsTo-day's Belgian official communique states:— German long-range guns fired on our back areas yesterday. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe following Italian official report was issued to-day:— We consec[?]ted the dawn of our fourth year in the war with a victory. ...
Article : 114 wordsA despatch from France states:— American infantry patrols are active in many sectors, including Montdidier, and defending Amiens. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe French communique issued this afternoon says:— During the latter half of the night the Germans very violently bombarded ...
Article : 285 wordsThe German line of battle in their latest offensive is about thirty miles long, and runs from Vauxaillon (in the black line north of Soissons) direct east, along the Aisne Plateau, over which the road named the Chemin-des-Dames runs, to Craonne, and then the line turns south-east to Fort Brimont (north of Rheims). The Aisne Plateau has the River Aisne to the south, and the River Aillette to the north, both parallel. British divisions held the dangerous angle formed by the line Craonne to Berry-au-bac to Brimont. The Germans struck here in greatest force to get down into the valley of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 178 wordsIn his aviation report to-night, Sir Douglas Haig states:— Owing to low clouds and mist yesterday little flying was possible until ...
Article : 113 wordsThe long-delayed German offensive seems at hand. They attacked the British this morning along the Aisne front westward of Rheims, and the French ...
Article : 580 wordsIt is stated that the reason why the Lord Mayor of Du[?]n is not visiting Washington is that he has received an intimation that he will not be ...
Article : 74 wordsFarmers throughout the country expect an excellent, and perhaps a record crop. Mr. R. E. Prothero, President of the ...
Article : 275 wordsAir-raid seares continue in Western Germany, notably at Aix la Chapelle and Cologne. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 29 May 1918, Page 5
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