General Haig's reports deal in almost casual terms with the operations north and south of the Anere, whereas the German communique refers to the "tremendous" battle on the Somme, and says the Allies, if possible, are increasing their efforts. The British have advanced to the north of T[?]epval, and also north of Sars, though the Germane say they have not lost an inch of ground. Our troops also have been active north of the Anere, in ...
Article : 324 wordsM. Venizelos, the interventionist leader in Greece, who is continuing his visits to the Greek Islands, reached Mitylene yesterday. Here the entire ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Roumanian communique to-day states:— The situation on the Transylvanian fronts is unchanged. ...
Article : 82 wordsCaptain Smith, the master of the Stephano, reports as follows:—"We sighted the submarine at 6 o'clock. She fired four shots at the ship from ...
Article : 86 wordsThe friends of Private Kenny Ward have presented him with a wristlet watch and pocket wallet. The function took place at Private Ward's hotel, and was ...
Article : 74 wordsOur Bicheno correspondent writes:— "Much regret was expressed throughout the district when it became known that Mr. and Mrs. W. Harvey, of Bicheno, ...
Article : 295 wordsThe shipping companies are changing the courses of incoming liners. Marine insurance rates have advanced by as much as 500 per cent. for all ...
Article : 47 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique refers to an air raid on Bucharest as follows:— Eight German aeroplanes have ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Italian newspaper "Roma" states that the whole of the Greek fleet has joined the national movement led by M. Venizelos, and Greek shipowners ...
Article : 45 wordsMany writers in New York discuss the possibility of the existance of a secret base for German submarines on the Atlantic coast, and believo that ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Roumanians evacuated Kronstadt, with a view to avoiding the destruction of its houses, churches, and hospitals, on which the enemy were ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Secretary of State for War, addressing a number of volunteers in London to-day, said that from what he had seen during his visits ...
Article : 68 wordsA special correspondent of the "New York World" who is travelling on board the liner upon which Mr. J. W. Ger[?]rd, the American Ambassador to ...
Article : 311 wordsTo-day's Russian communicue says: Our torpedo-boats on Friday raided Samsun and Sinope, the Turkish ports on the Black Sea coast of Asia ...
Article : 138 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: We have fortified our new positions in the Dobrudja. BUCHAREST, October 9. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 416 wordsThe Foreign Office announces that Sweden has released parcels and mails going between the United Kingdom and Russia, which were placed under an ...
Article : 66 wordsIn his report this afternoon, General Sir Douglas Haig says:— South of the River An[?]re we have made progress, and established posts ...
Article : 127 wordsTo-day's German communique states: —German troops and Austro-Hungarian monitors have taken possession of an island on the Danube to the ...
Article : 51 wordsThis afternoon's French communique states:— The enemy last night violently bombarded our positions at ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. W. F. Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Sir Joseph Ward, the Treasurer, received a host of callers at the Hotel Cecil to-day. ...
Article : 491 wordsSurvivors of the steamer Stephano, 3,449 tons, which was destroyed by the German submarine U53, and who have arrived at Newport News, Virginia, ...
Article : 193 wordsTo-day's Roumanian communique states:— Investigations have revealed that numerous cases of T.N.T. (very ...
Article : 66 wordsOn Wednesday last the French transport Gallia, 14,966 tons, was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine. Of 2,000 people on board, 1,362 were ...
Article : 86 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —In the tremendous Somme battle the enemy are, if possible, increasing their efforts. We have inflicted ...
Article : 74 wordsIn a further description of the advance by the British on Saturday, Mr. Philip Gibbs, the "Daily Chronicle war correspondent, writes:—"The ...
Article : 158 wordsTo-day's report issued at the War Office in reference to the Salonika campaign is as follows:— On the Struma front our mounted ...
Article : 72 wordsAfter conferring to-day at Long Branch, in the State of New Jersey, with Dr. Wilson, the American President, Count Von Bernstorff, the ...
Article : 632 wordsIn his report this afternoon, General Haig says:— Last night we raided the German trenches in the neighbourhood of ...
Article : 121 wordsThere was a general decline in values on the New York Stock Exchange to-day, when the news was received of the appearance of the U53 off the American ...
Article : 324 wordsTo-day's Russian communique says: In the direction of Vladimir Volynsky (north of Lemberg) we have forced the enemy's lines, and ...
Article : 96 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig has issued a special message, in which he pays a high compliment to the New Zealand troops for their gallant part in the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe official French communique to-day states:— Eastward of the River Struma some few engagements have occurred ...
Article : 180 wordsYesterday, in The Sound, the strait which leads from the Cattegat to the Baltic Sea, a Norwegian steamer ran down the Danish submarine Dykkeren ...
Article : 80 wordsIn to-day's communique the Germans state:—Yesterday we destroyed considerable enemy trenches by mine explosions in the Argonne. During ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Thomas Curtin, the American journalist who spent 10 months in Germany, and is now contributing a series, of articles in the "Daily Mail," describes ...
Article : 274 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" proposes the establishment of a national guard of 400,000 men over 41 years of age for Home defence, thus relieving 400,000 ...
Article : 77 wordsTo-day's Italian communique says:— In the Trentino yesterday we repulsed violent attacks on the Busa Alta peak, in the region between ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. W. A. Hyslop, managing director of the Tourist Motor Company Ltd., of Hastings (N.Z.), possesses a fund of unique information concerning the ...
Article : 698 wordsDavid P. Monzies, of Plean Castle, Stirlingshire, Scotland, was charged yesterday at Edinburgh with forging documents and perjury. Last year the ...
Article : 123 wordsMuch public interest has been aroused in the prosecution of seven men, of whom four were clerks in the Central London Recruiting Depot, who were ...
Article : 101 wordsTo-day's German communique says: —East of the Monastir-Florina railway the enemy have obtained a foothold on the left bank of the River Cerna. ...
Article : 76 wordsNearly all persons on board the yessels sunk by the U53 have been accounted for, except the crew of the British steamer Kingston, who may possibly ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 11 Oct 1916, Page 5
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