Mr. G. Ward Price, the war correspondent, writes:—The Italian Alpini (Alpine troops) opened the fourth year of the war with a neat victory in the ...
Article : 250 wordsTo-night's French official communique states:— The artillery duel continues with great activity to the east of the River ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Germans continue their successful drive from the Aisne heights, and have now forced the Allies back across the Aisne and across the Vesle, between Rheims and Soissons. Not only that, but they have thrust south in the centre from Fismes, on the Vestc, and threaten to fore the the Allies out ...
Article : 343 wordsTo-night's report by Sir Douglas Haig states: — French and British troops, by counter-attacks early this morning, ...
Article : 180 wordsTo-night's German official communique states:—The enemy during a local advance to the westward of Montdidier penetrated the village of Cantiguy. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe "Petit Journal" says:— On both wings the French and British victoriously resisted terrifle assaults, and barred the enemy's passage to Soissons ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Shipping Board announces the launching of 18 ships, aggregating 109,700 tons, of which 15 are steel and three wooden. The launchings for the ...
Article : 225 wordsThe French communique issued tonight says: To the west of Montdidier to-day American troops, supported by our ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, recalls that the British 8th and 25th Divisions, both of which are engaged in the Aisne battle, have borne the brunt of many recent ...
Article : 46 wordsGeneral Pershing reports: — We repulsed German raiders in the Luneville sector yesterday. Five of the enemy were killed. ...
Article : 36 wordsA French communique issued to night says:— There is great artillery activity along the whole front between Lake ...
Article : 47 wordsDuring the severe fighting of the last two mouths American troops have appeared at many places behind the front almost unnoticed with the general ...
Article : 282 wordsThe German official wireless communiquo intercepted by the Admiralty to-night says:—The Crown Prince's attack to the southward of Laon was ...
Article : 485 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs writes:—"It is now fairly clear that the German attack in Flanders was not a serious effort to advance, but a minor action aiming at ...
Article : 62 wordsField-Marshal Haig, in his aviation report issued to-night, states:— It was fine, but cloudy, yesterday, and the visibility was not good for a ...
Article : 179 wordsTo-night's French cummunique says: Yesterday and to-day the enemy, again profiting by numerical superiority, made fresh efforts to ...
Article : 429 wordsA German wireless communique intercepted by the Admiralty to-night says: —On Monday morning we penetrated the French, lines between Voormez[?]le ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Admiralty reports that on Saturday last the British transport Leasowe Castle was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe American Red Cross Society has accepted the British Red Cross Society's offer of a fully-equipped hospital of 500 beds, which will be erected in ...
Article : 43 wordsTo-day's Belgian communique states: Enemy artillery activity is especially lively in our back areas. There have been many civilian casualties in ...
Article : 37 wordsIn view of the payment on Saturday, next of over £50,000,000 interest on the British war loans, Mr. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has ...
Article : 177 wordsOfficial information received at Washington states that the American destroyer which sank the German submarine after it had torpedoed the Dublin ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-night's German official communique, intercepted by the British Admiralty, states:—Increased fighting activity continues from the River. Yser to ...
Article : 33 wordsLast night, again, German action on the front held by the Australians consisted of shelling heavily with gas the woods and slopes of the Ancre behind ...
Article : 349 wordsBritish military despatches state that Allied airmen on the Western front brought down or destroyed 252 aeroplanes between May 16 and 23. ...
Article : 35 wordsA Russian wireless message received in London state's that the Central Committee of Finnish Workmen has protested against the White Guards' ...
Article : 150 wordsAn official communique from the headquarters of the American Army in France to-day states: — On the Somme front yesterday we ...
Article : 76 wordsGerman prisoners state that British bombs early in May killed 400 Germans and wounded 300. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe following official report was issued to-day: — Enemy aeroplanes were espied at midnight on Monday to the westward ...
Article : 60 wordsA Danish shipping mission has arrived at Washington, and it has been learned from its members that Germany virtually has sent an ultimatum to ...
Article : 69 wordsIn his report this morning Sir Douglas Haig says:— We successfully raided the enemy's lines to the southward of Arras last ...
Article : 65 wordsMadam Botchkareva, the leader of the Russian Women's Death Battalion, has appealed to Mr. Newton Baker, the Secretary of War, and Mr. Robert ...
Article : 59 wordsThe German papers are enthusiastic over the success of the Crown Prince's attack on the Chemin-des-Dames, and contend that it not only demonstrates ...
Article : 124 wordsA Turkish communique intercepted by wireless to-day states:— We occupied Kirkuk in Mesopotamia yesterday. The British withdrew ...
Article : 38 wordsReports received in Tientsin from Tokio state that the Chinese and Japanese Governments are not publishing the terms of the recent agreement signed ...
Article : 51 wordsGeneral Pershing reports that the American troops have participated in their first big smash, which was a complete success. They advanced on a front ...
Article : 98 wordsInformation received at Washington states that a committee has been formed at Moscow to ask the Allies to intervene in Russia. ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Henry Morganthan, the former United States Ambassador to Turkey, writes in the June issue of the American "World's Work," saying that Baron ...
Article : 179 wordsThe black line shows appresimately the Allied line before the Battle of the Aisne, except to the north of Soiss sons, where in a French offensive a few months ago, it was carried to the north of Broye and Laffaux. The Ger mans, having on Monday evening forced a passage of the Aisneo east of Vailly, and having broken the line between. Berry au-Bac and Juvincourt, the Allies between those points were forced to fall back, and they did so, fighting. On Tuesday they fell back across the Aisne towards the Veste, the Gernuans preming them closely. After desperate fighting the Germans crossed the Vesle at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 199 wordsMr. Perris, the "Daily Chronieles" correspondent on the French front, writes:— Marshal Von Hindenburg has scored another spectacular success ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the German newspaper "Deutsche Volks Zeitung" publishes the text of the recently ...
Article : 362 wordsFrench reserves halted the Gorman advance on the Aisne, where the Teutens had massed 5OO,OOO men outnumbering the Allies by ten to one in the ...
Article : 70 wordsOfficial reports received in Washington state that the Pan-Germans have proposed new peace terms, which include the retention of Belgium, Poland, ...
Article : 70 wordsBritish and French militory circles take a calm view of the new battle, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 31 May 1918, Page 5
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