To-night's official aviation report by Sir Douglas Haig states:— There was intense air fighting yesterday, in which we destroyed 41 ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister has received the following cablegram from the British Ministry of Iuformation:— It is not beyond the power of the ...
Article : 1,381 wordsYesterday was the second day of the great attack. South of the Rivet Somme the Australians advanced then [?]e, from the furthest point reached ...
Article : 971 wordsHaving received reinforcements, the Germans by Saturday afternoon had recovered some of their Jost morale, and began to fight hard to cover the removal of stores and munitions from places north and south of the Somme. Still our men pressed forward, and hero and there gained ground. Between ...
Article : 382 wordsMr. Gilmour, representative of the Australian Press Association, in a message despatched from the Western front on Friday, says:— ...
Article : 545 wordsGoneral Pershing, the commander of the Ameriean army in France, has cabled to the War Department stating that the French Governmeent has ...
Article : 100 wordsIn his report this morning Sir Douglas Haig states:— We repulsed a local attack this morning on our positions to the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Shipping Board announces that the direct unificatiou of carge loading to the capacity and the reduction of time in ports has resulted in a 50 per ...
Article : 603 wordsThe British Air Ministry issued the following report to-day:— Our air squadrons this morning attacked the railway station at ...
Article : 75 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in his official report issued this morning, states:— In a successful operation last evening, we advanced our line to the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe following official report was issued by the Admiralty this morning;— Our aircraft on Friday heavily bombed enemy mine-sweepers off ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is announced that a C-boat operating off the coast of Massachusetts has sunk nine fishing schooners. The crew of the schooner Kate Palmer report ...
Article : 101 wordsThe fighting yesterday became very heavy opposite the head of the Australian advance. Here, at a point about twolve miles from our old lines before ...
Article : 1,035 wordsThe "Morning Post" correspondent at the British headquarters on the Western front writes:— The region fronting on Roye has ...
Article : 498 wordsMr. Frank H. Simmons, a leading American military export, writes:— The Gorman defeat between the Somme and the Oise has already attained the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe British Admiralty, in a report issued to-day, states:— Our aircraft on Friday observed a German destroyer that had sunk ...
Article : 45 wordsThis afternoon's French official communique states:— Last evening and during the night we again progressed along the whole ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the Germans are contesting every inch of ground on the Vesle River with the Americans, who are ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Osservatore Romano" announces that the Pope is negotiating for the release of the ex-Tsarina ana her four daughters, and undertakes to provide ...
Article : 38 wordsThe latest reports show that the British line remained unchanged between the Somme and the Avre during terrific fighting on Sunday. The neighbourhood of Lihons (west of Chaulnes) was the scene of particularly heavy, but futile, German counter-attacks. Roye, an important centre ot railway and road communication, is being attacked by the British, and stoutly defended by the enemy. Between the Avre and Oise Rivers, the French made further progress on Sunday, and are rapidly advancing on both Roye and Noyon. Their line; at the time the latest communique left late on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 229 wordsThe Czecho-Slovak National Council at Washington has received official reports btating that the Czecho-Slovak troops, which lecently occupied ...
Article : 68 wordsA German official wireless com munique intercepted by the British Admiralty to-day states:—Saturday's attacks were mainly against our front ...
Article : 91 wordsThe British Minister at Stockholm has handed to the Finnish Minister the British Government's reply to the complaints by the Finnish Government, ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the Allies are progressing splendidly along the whole front between the south of Arras and the Oise ...
Article : 303 wordsThe prisoners taken by the Allies total 36,000, and 500 guns have been captured. PARIS. August 11. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 13 Aug 1918, Page 5
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