MONDAY EVENING.—The second battle of the Somme is being fonght in the open across naturally dead flat country which has been converted into hills ...
Article : 772 wordsSixty-nine enemy aeroplanes were brought down on Sunday which is a record for one day. The following communique regarding the aerial operations was issued on Monday ...
Article : 369 wordsThe long-range bombardment of Paris was resumed on Monday morning, but was interrupted after the second shot. The explosive effect of the long-range ...
Article : 1,021 wordsMonday Evening.—On Sunday the Germans continued their efforts to advance, seeking to cross the Somme south of Peronne and to break a way through the ...
Article : 884 wordsThe testing hour of the Allies has come, and every message arriving from the front for the next few days will be scanned more anxiously than ever. ...
Article : 1,102 wordsBapanme has fallen, and the Germans have made gains in the direction of Courcellette (6 miles S.W. of Bapanme). The Germans now claim to be in the centre of the old Somme battle-field. On the southern sector the Germans have captured Guiscard and Nelse. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,105 wordsHis Majesty the King has telegraphed to Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig as follows:— "I assure you that the fort[?]do, ...
Article : 388 wordsA message received in Amsterdam from Cologne reports:— "Enemy airmen on Sunday night dropped eight bombs on Cologne, ...
Article : 809 wordsIn reply to a challenge thrown out by Mr. Godfrey Issacs, that he should publicly repeat the statements made in the House of Commons with reference to the law suit ...
Article : 302 wordsThroughout Monday afternoon and evening the public anxiety about the latest news continued. The newspapers were bought up in spite of the high prices ...
Article : 95 wordsMonday Afternoon.—With increasing intensity the battle thunders from the Scarpe to the Oise. Prisoners declare that the heaviest blows are yet to come. The ...
Article : 512 wordsSir Douglas Haig's insistence in his message to the King on the fact that the present effort is the enemy's last hope of success encourages the nation to view the ...
Article : 359 wordsThe American Consul at Melbourne (Mr. W. C. Magelssen) has made available the following news items, which were distri[?]ted from the United States naval radio ...
Article : 364 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that it learns that the fall of M. Lenin (Bolshevik Prime Minister) is imminent. The accession to power of the Socialists, who ...
Article : 129 wordsThe following message appe[?]red in the later editions of "The Arugs" of Tuesday:— DUNKIRK NAVAL FIGHT. An eye witness's narrative of the ...
Article : 352 wordsIt is expected in Swiss military circles that the German offensive on the West front will shortly be followed by an offensive on the Italian front. ...
Article : 209 wordsThe London Stock, Exchange opened on Monday weak in tone, and prices generally were marked down slightly. Values soon recovered, as there was no development of ...
Article : 67 wordsFour more Australian soldiers have obtained scholarships tenable for one year at the Universities of Birmingham and Manchester, and are taking up technical studies. ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Aamerican Navy Department announces that the vessel seized in the Pacific was a sixty-foot motor-boat named the Agassiz, which sailed from a West ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 27 Mar 1918, Page 9
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