After a series of desperate assaults on the village of Malancourt, at Verdun, the Germans gained their objective. The place is a mere ruin, and it is commanded by the French guns on an adjacent rise known as Hill 304. Strong attacks were also made between Fort Douaumont and the village of Vaux, but ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Governor (Sir Henry Galway) is to return to-day from a cruise in the gulf on the steamer Governor Musgrave, but if he had been in the ...
Article : 789 wordsThe Russian communique issued "at midnight on Friday, saye:—"The Czar's troops repulsed an enemy attack in the forest near Mokritza. The Russians annihilated an ...
Article : 153 wordsThe death occurred on Sunday, at the Kareema Rest Home, Dulwich, of Mr. Adolph Heinrich Leschen, formerly one of South Australia's best-known identities. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 669 wordsA sensational shooting incident, which i fortunately was not attended by serious conseqnences, occurred in the vicinity of North terrace, Adelaide, at about 6 o'clock ...
Article : 659 wordsThe Secretary to the Prices Regulation Commission (Mr. D. R. Davidson) stated on Saturday:—"The commission met this morning further to consider the matter of ...
Article : 451 wordsWhen at the end of the last football season the South Australian League decided to abandon the senior contests for the coming season little was said about the ...
Article : 919 wordsA Petrograd communique reports that after four hours fighting in the region of the Turkish fortress at Karamlachkan, in the direction of Bagdad, the Russians ...
Article : 45 wordsGen. Smuts's force is engaged in strenuous but gallant fighting against the German East Africans. It is reported that a small sprinkling of Australians have figured ...
Article : 213 wordsDesperate attacks have been directed upon the ruins of the village of Malancourt. They are thought to be due to the exasperation of the Germans at the French ...
Article : 428 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Johnson) regards the prices fixed by the Commonwealth authorities for flour and bread as satisfactory, but is dissatisfied with the ...
Article : 58 wordsAn assembly of 10,000 Clyde engineers on the Glasgow Green to-day adopted a resolution resenting the apparent indifference of the Government in replying to ...
Article : 182 wordsNewspaper correspondents point out a novelty in the German plan of battle at Verdun in the use of 12 in. guns to produce an impenetrable curtain of fire. Some ...
Article : 289 wordsA case which presented remarkable features was heard at the Loxton Police Court on Thursday, before a Bench consisting of Messrs. P. J. Fuller O. Polkinghorne, and ...
Article : 331 wordsThe City Watchhouse authorities reported on Sunday that on the previous night a soldier, named J. S. Rollison (aged 21 years), had been found dead at 215 ...
Article : 95 wordsHis Majesty King George has sent the following message to Gen. Townshend (in command of the British forces under siege at Kubel-Amara:—"I, together ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—There has been much aeria1 activity on both sides. The British have carried out successful work, although three machines ...
Article : 57 wordsWith regard to the alleged friction in the administration of the Northern Territory, it is difficult to obtain information, owing to the absence from Darwin of the ...
Article : 234 wordsFollowing art the names of the men who enlisted at Adelaide and went Into camp on Saturday:—B. C. Flannagan, C. Gilbert, W. Ross, C. H. Perring, W. R. Wheeler, W. Steele, F. C. ...
Article : 134 wordsTwo hundred and fifty engineers, members of the Amalgamated and Australasian Societies of Engineers, have gone on strike at the Eveleigh Railways workshops. The ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Petit Journal, in telling the story of the attack on Malancourt, states that the Germans at 8 o'clock in the evening determined to seize the village at ...
Article : 305 wordsA telegram from Lewis, Delaware, states that Ernest Schiller, or Schuler, who stowed away on the British steamer Matophe, has confessed that he is a spy in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsOn Saturday 285 men offered themselves for active service, and 152 were accepted. The total enlistments for the week were 627 out of 1,243 who voluntered. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr." Tudor) returned from Tasmania on Saturday, and stated that while in that State he had visited several ham factories and hopefields ...
Article : 143 wordsA German named Horst von der Goltz has been brought from Great Britain to give evidence in the American antineutrality prosecutions. He has confessed ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Mon 3 Apr 1916, Page 5
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