The Czecho-Slovak National Council at Washington has received a manifesto issued by the newly-formed Czecho-Slovak National Committee in Prague. ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Rome newspaper "Giornale d' Italia" states that the feeling that Germany will be defeated is progreasing alarmingly among the people of the ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. G. Gilmour, special correspondent of the Australian Press Association on the Western front, writes:— "We have the Huns cold," declare ...
Article : 1,080 wordsIn his aviation report to-night Sir Douglas Haig states:— Early yesterday morning our aviatore very successfully attacked ...
Article : 118 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph," discussing a report received from Madrid that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is dying, states that the proclamation of a Bulgarian ...
Article : 173 wordsThough it is not so specifically stated in the cablegrams, a battle on a line of more than a hundred miles is being incessantly fought on the Western front. The Allies everywhere are attacking—that is, they are hammering and harassing the enemy night and day. They are applying the persistent, ...
Article : 405 wordsThe "Frankfurter Gazette" explains the German retreat by saying that the German General Staff proposes to resume the offensive in the autumn. ...
Article : 44 wordsThis afternoon's official report by Sir Douglas Haig states:— We advanced our line to the neighbourhood of the Vieux ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Coal Controller announces that the surface workers at certain Yorkshire collieries have threatened to strike, primarily over disputed hours, ...
Article : 606 wordsTo-day's official communique issued by the Italian naval authorities states:— Two Austrian seaplanes, which bombed Bari (a seaport on the east ...
Article : 46 wordsThe news of the acnievement of shipbuilding in America has reached the front, and, in the words of General Porshing, "it thrills overy American ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that official advices which have been received show that the Chinese ...
Article : 82 wordsThis afternoon's French official communique states:— German aeroplanes dropped bombs on Nancy last evening. Six civilians ...
Article : 33 wordsReports received in Amsterdam state that terrible food riots broke out in Petrograd. After the town had been breadless for two days a procession of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe British Air Ministry issued the following report to-day:— Last night, and early this morning, our aviators attacked enemy ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, war correspondent on the British front, writes:— Covered by temporary belts of wire, the German Sixth Army is still retiring ...
Article : 284 wordsThis afternoon's French official communique states:— Between the rivers Oise and Aisne we occupied, last evening, the ...
Article : 180 wordsAmong the aeroplanes which supported the Australian troops during the British counter-offensive were several Australian squadrons. On certain days ...
Article : 777 wordsThe Duke of Leucstenberg, formerly the ex-Tsar's adjutant, has arrived at Berlin with a letter from the Cossack General Krasnow to the Kaiser asking ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for August show that, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, imports into the United Kingdom ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the course of his official report this afternoon Sir Douglas Haig says:— We repulsed four German attacks on our posts to the north-eastward of ...
Article : 58 wordsThe German and Austrian newsp[?]ers are very uneasy, and doubt whether any real agreement was reached at the recent conference at German ...
Article : 169 wordsScrip in the Commonwealth loan of £4,750,000 at 5½ per cent., which was underwritten, was quoted to-day at 7s. 6d. premium. ...
Article : 150 wordsTo-day's German official communique, intercepted by Admiralty wireless, states:—We repulsed French attacks, after bitter fighting, between ...
Article : 68 wordsThe united Press Association correspondent on the Western front writes: —Whether because the fighting spirit of the men has gone, or because the ...
Article : 124 wordsTo-day's German official communique intercepted by Admiralty wireless states:— We repulsed enemy attacks to the south-westward of Chaulnes and the ...
Article : 51 wordsDespatches received in Washington from Switzerland state that there is deep unrest in Warsaw, where the streets are full of German patrols, who ...
Article : 58 wordsThere has been hard fighting during the last few days on a wide front on the Australian portion of the battlefield. But it has all boen fighting ...
Article : 201 wordsThe American Federation of Labour has protested to the House of Representatives Military Committee against the Man-Power Bill providing that men. ...
Article : 77 wordsAs a rosult of the meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet Canada now possesses full control over her overseas troops except in matters of disciplins ...
Article : 105 wordsA German official communique intercepted by Admiralty wireless to-day states:—We repulsed enemy attacks to the northward of Vieux Berquin ...
Article : 47 wordsGeneral Mangin's French Tenth Army again attacked at seven o'clock this morning, on a front of 15 miles, between the rivers Oise and Aisne, and ...
Article : 208 wordsAn Italian naval communique issued to-day states:—The Italian submarine F7 crossed the mined areas of the Adriatic yesterday, entered the Gulf of ...
Article : 64 wordsJohn Costello, who belange to Malvern in Victoria, and was serving with, the Seventh Battalion of the Australian Imperial Forces, has been ...
Article : 162 wordsA French official communique issued this afternoon states:— The enemy engaged in an abortive raid to the westward of Maison de ...
Article : 35 wordsThe French mission to Australia, of which General Pau has bee[?] appointed head instead of Professor Bergson, has departed from San Francisco for the ...
Article : 40 wordsWaylaid by a German submarine in northern waters, the 8,000[?]ton cargo steamer Delphic, belonging to the White Star Line, has been sunk with ...
Article : 271 wordsMr. H. W. Nevison, war correspondent, referring to General Von Marwitz's order warning the German troops against the Australians and their ...
Article : 76 wordsTo-day's Italian official communique We repulsed strong enemy attacks on our Mount Cornone lines and on the southern slopes of Sasso Rosso ...
Article : 51 wordsThe advance guards of the Czecho-Slovak forces on the Ussuri front (north of Vladivostock) are meeting with desperate resistance from the ...
Article : 161 wordsThe King has approved of the design for the special distinction to be awarded to those who took part in the actual landing on tho Gallipoli Peninsula. The ...
Article : 83 wordsSir Joseph Ward, the Treasurer of New Zealand, visited the Dominion military post-office to-day, and expressed his pleasure at its excellent ...
Article : 83 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— Reciprocal bombardments are in progress in the regions of Lassigny ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Press Bureau to-day issued the text of a telegram forwarded by Sir Douglas Haig to General Rawlinson, Commander of the British Fourth ...
Article : 159 wordsAdvices from Rome indicate that the Austrian army is being reorganised preparatory to a new offensive against Italy. ...
Article : 32 wordsColonel Fctherston, of the Australian Army Medical Corps, who is now returning to the Commonwealth, has visited the leading French hospitals, and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following are the names of the Tasmanians included in the 424t[?] casualty list, which has been released for publication. ...
Article : 603 wordsGermany has consented to make large new financial advances to Turkey. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 22 Aug 1918, Page 5
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