The Official Press Bureau states that Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, in a message to a ma[?] meeting of Allied war workers in Paris, paid a ...
Article : 169 wordsThis afternoon's French official communique states:— Between the Oise and Aisne rivers the enemy have made no attempt at ...
Article : 186 wordsThere are four battles now being fought on the Western front, that is, operations in which the Allies are fighting for positions. In all of them victory has rested with us, and the enemy is being thrust back, though in many places fighting d[?]ggedly. ...
Article : 339 wordsThe British Admiralty issued the following report to-day:— Between August 15 and 18 Air Force contingents attached to the ...
Article : 107 wordsWith a view to economising the consumption of coal in Great Britan further drastic reductions will bo made in the passenger train service after ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that, in addition to General Byng's offensive, the British also began a local operation of some importance ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Japanese War Office publishes messages from a Cze[?]ho-Slovak leader, stating that 30,000 Austrians and Germans, with 70 guns and many ...
Article : 55 wordsAt a joint national conference of tramway, omnibus, and other vehicle workers, and also dockers and general workers, a resolution was passed to-day ...
Article : 240 wordsThe desirability or otherwise of the holding of an immediate general election in Great Britain is being widely discussed. It is suggested in some ...
Article : 378 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that American official circles intimate that the assistance being sent to the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe decorations and medals for the reward of gallantry on the part of members of the Royal Air Force have been arranged, and the scale on which they ...
Article : 235 wordsA capturad German order instructs German battalion commanders to employ the smartest men in the front line, with the greatest mobility, in order to ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day's German official communique intercepted by Admiralty wireless, states:—A French attack yesterday between the rivers Oise and Aisne ...
Article : 69 wordsThe United States War Department announces that a special reserve ration has been adopted for use in the trenches in France. The ration is ...
Article : 326 wordsGeneral March, Chief of Staff, in his weekly conference with press representatives to-day, stated that as a result of the Allied successes in the past ...
Article : 152 wordsA new offensive was announced by Sir Douglas Haig in his official report this morning, as follows:— We attacked at 4.55 o'clock this ...
Article : 233 wordsGeneral Mangin is outflanking Noyon, and the fall of the town is early expected. Later. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Dutch steamer Gasconier, which was laden with grain and flour for the relief of the Belgians, has been subjected to a shocking atrocity committed by ...
Article : 156 wordsTo-day Sir Joseph Ward, the Treasurer of New Zealand, handed to Baron Moncheur, the Belgian Minister to Great Britain, a casket made from New ...
Article : 117 wordsTo-night's French aviation report states:— Nine enemy aeroplanes were brought down, and three balloons set ...
Article : 97 wordsA German official communique, intercepted by Admiralty wireless to-day, states:—Between the rivers An[?]re and Avre, since August 8, our troops, ...
Article : 40 wordsAdvices received in New York state that Spain has decided, while observing neutrality, to utilise German ships now in Spanish ports for hor own commerce. ...
Article : 35 wordsDr. Solf, the German Minister of the Colonies, speaking in Berlin, declared that the Jingoes in Germany, though numerous, did not possess any real ...
Article : 157 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— We repelled several raids in Champag[?]e during the night. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Official Press Bureau states that in July the following constituted the losses of merchant vessels by enemy action, all the figures being in gross tons: ...
Article : 219 wordsThe United Press Association correspondent on the Western front writes: —To-day's British offensive was undertaken by the Third Army, under the ...
Article : 451 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph," in a leading article to-day, on the loyalty of the Maoris and their part in the war, states that both Mr. W. F. Massey, the Prime ...
Article : 64 wordsIn his aviation report to-night Sir Douglas Haig says:— We brought down one enemy aeroplane yesterday. One British machine ...
Article : 32 wordsWherever one goes amongst the Australian infantry who attacked on August 8 and the following days, one finds feelings of warm and generous ...
Article : 539 wordsThe United States Navy Department announces that Lient. Edmund G. Chamberlain, a Marine Corps aviator, in three weeks participated in 15 ...
Article : 97 wordsThe War Office has decided that from August 1 last the Distinguished Service Order, the Military Cross, and the Distinguished Conduct Medal, will be ...
Article : 43 wordsA German official communique inter[?]epted by Admiralty wireless to-day states:—This morning, to the northward of the River An[?]re, strong ...
Article : 49 wordsThe French Government has strongly protested against Germany's irregularities in connection with the recent agreement for the exchange of ...
Article : 72 wordsThis map shows the areas in which both the British and French often sives are in progress. The British attack was launched on a ten-mile front from Beaucourt (on the River An[?]re, about six miles north of Albert) to the region of Moyenneville (about two miles east of Ayette)[?] On the left good progress was mude as far as the westward of Achiet. but on the right the Germans h[?]tly defended the railway communicating with Bapaume[?] It is reported, though not ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 268 wordsThe new Bulgarian Ministry, under M. Malinoff, the loader of the Democrats, has permitted the publication of the Allied communiques relating to ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that General Byng's army attacked on the front from Moyenneville to Beaucourt-sur-Anere, without ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. E. L. James, correspondent of the "New York Times" on the American front, writes:—The German soldiers are told by their officers that when ...
Article : 86 wordsThe American Minister at Stockholm has called the attention of the Swedish Government to articles in the "Aftenbladet," one of the leading newspapers ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. H. W. Nevinson, war correspondent on the British front, writes:—General Von Below's 17th Army, with probably 50 battalions in it, opposed ...
Article : 557 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, in a letter approving of the holding of a demonstration in Hyde Park on Saturday next for the ...
Article : 88 wordsNews has been received by cablegram from London that Engineer Lieutenant Brown, R.N.R., son of Captain H. Brown, of the s.s. Kiltobranks, Hobart, ...
Article : 226 wordsIn his official report this morning Sir Douglas Haig says:— We completely repulsed strong attacks against our new positions to the ...
Article : 161 wordsBaron Buria[?], the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Austro-Hungarian Government, answering an interviewer at the recent conference held at ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 23 Aug 1918, Page 5
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