General March, Chief of Staff, announced to-day that two additional American Army Corps have been organised in France. He also stated that the ...
Article : 121 wordsWhen General Foch ten days ago delivered his great counter- stroke against the Aisne-Marne salient the Gormans realised the jeopardy of their position, and at once fell back across the Marne. It seemed then that they were about to fall back to the Aisne as hastily as they retreated on the same ...
Article : 490 wordsCount Burian, the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking in the Reichsrath yesterday, said Austria intended to refuse to ratify the ...
Article : 95 wordsA German official wireless communique intercepted by the British Admiralty to-day states:—We ejected the enemy from their front lines to the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe British Air Ministry issued the following report to-day:— Our night flying machines successfully attacked the station and a ...
Article : 87 wordsIn his report issued this morning Sir Douglas Haig says:— The enemy last evening attacked our new positions in the Hebuterne ...
Article : 225 wordsIt is reported that a German submarine has attacked a British steamer off the American coast. ...
Article : 29 wordsGerman military critics are preparing the public for a withdrawal from the Soissons—Rheims front. The "Lokal Anzeiger" states that a ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Chan man of the United States Shipping Board and the Chinese representative to-day signed the first contract ever entered into between the ...
Article : 748 wordsThe Admiralty announces that on Tuesday last the British armed mercantile cruiser Marmora, 10,509 tons, was torpedoed and sunk by a German ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the Czechs have made considerable progress from Aladnostock, and are trying to join hands with the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe following Italian official communique was issued to-day:— The enemy, reinforced, repeatedly attacked near Muei bridge, on the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York World" says the American proposal for a Russian settlement contemplates sending 60,000 American, ...
Article : 101 wordsGeneral March, Chief of the American General Staff, announces that a contingent of trained American troops has been despatched to Italy. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Allies are slowly closing in upon Fere-en-Tardenois, and are barely three miles away from the town. Meanwhile the Allied artillery and airmen are ...
Article : 147 wordsThe German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" bitterly attacks the Emperor Charles of Austria for communicating with the King of Rumania on the ...
Article : 230 wordsIn his aviation report to-night, Sir Douglas Haig says:— Our aviators yesterday attacked three large ammunition dumps, and ...
Article : 152 wordsA French official communique issued this afternoon states:— We carried Ville Montaire (north of the Ourcq) last evening, after a ...
Article : 327 wordsA new Government formed at Omsk, has proclaimed the independence of Siberia, dismissed the Soviets, cancelled the Bolshevik decrees, and summoned a ...
Article : 37 wordsYesterday a German submarine off the east coast of England attacked British and Belgian trawlers, took the crews on her dock, and suddenly ...
Article : 130 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says it learns officially that Japan has accepted the proposal of America to assist the Czeeho-Slovaks in Siberia, and that the ...
Article : 215 wordsTo-night's French official communique regarding the operations cast of Rheims savs:— Local attacks undertaken in ...
Article : 167 wordsIt is officially announced in Constantinople that six hostile aeroplanes dropped bombs on the city on Tuesday last, wounding five people. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe United States Navy Department announces that a merchant vessel recently mistook an American submarine for a German off the American coast, ...
Article : 49 wordsMajor-General Brancker, the Equipment Controller of the British Air Department, announced at a lunchcon in New York to-day that the British had ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Vienna "Nieue Freie Presse" states that of a procession of 2,000 youths and children, mostly ranging from 13 to 16 years, who were ordered ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Mersey River ferry steamers Daffodil and Iris, which participated in the naval raid on Zeebrugge, have been repaired, and resumed their ferry ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Americans have discovered, north of Tournelle Wood (south-west of Fere) an emplacement for one of the long-range guns which have bombarded ...
Article : 55 wordsAccording to Moscow newspapers, the ex-Tsar's family is safe in a monastery in Siberia. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe sugar ration in the United States has been reduced to 2lb. monthly for each person. The new regulation will bocome offective on August 1, and has ...
Article : 80 wordsLord Weir, the Chairman of the British air Board in a speech to-day appealed to the United States to send even air motor to Europe she can ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Admiralty announces that on Wednesday last a British torpedo-boat destroyer ran ashore and sank, and that 13 of her crew are missing. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Gouraud's army in Champagne has in many places taken up the original line occupied by the French before the German offensive. Main de ...
Article : 51 wordsThe State Department at Washington has received advices that there is an insufficient food supply in Russia for the needs of Russian people, and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe total captures by General Foch in the present counter-offensive include 30,000 Germans. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Joseph Cook, the Minister of the Commonwealth Navy, further interviewed to-day on the launch of the new Austialian warship Adelaide, referred ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, writes:—This morning a futile attack on Meteren was carried out by six companies belonging to a German ...
Article : 270 wordsThe successful attack by the French north of Montdidier gives us control of all the roads to Amiens across the plateau between the Avre and Noye ...
Article : 48 wordsSenor Naon, the Argentine Ambassador to the United States, in a speech at Washington yesterday, caused a sensation by stating:—The ship workers ...
Article : 101 wordsA wireless message received in London from Petrograd states that the employees on the Ukrainian railways have struck work, owing to the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe British Admiralty issued the following report to-day:— During the period July l8 to 24 Air Force units co-operating with the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following American official communique was issued this morning:— We captured Le Charmet (between the Rivers Ourcq and Marne) on ...
Article : 70 wordsAs a result of the pressure of General Foch's pincers, applied chiefly by the British in the Vrigny region (south-west of Rheims) and the French east of Oulchy-le-Chateau, the Germans have been compelled to wholly withdraw from the northern bank of the River Marne, to which they previously clung in a tenacious manner, from Charteve (about five miles north-east of Chateau Thierry) to apoint south of Chatillon-sur-Marne, in the hope of savinf the situation. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 146 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the French have made a little progress round Soissons, where the German resistance is strong. The ...
Article : 284 wordsMr. G. H. Schwab, the United States Shipbuilding Director, speaking at a visit made by American diplomats to a Government shipyard, predicted an ...
Article : 227 wordsThe members of the French mission who are visiting Australia were entertained at luncheon to-day by Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister of the ...
Article : 578 wordsThe position of the Germans in the Marne salient is such that it is believed that a stroke by General Foch in a vital part will ensure a considerable ...
Article : 445 wordsIt is reported that a new German army, created from Prince Rupprecht's reserves and other troops, has been placed between the Rivers Oise and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 29 Jul 1918, Page 5
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