"Observer" says the worst way to help Russia would be to rush into extensive frortal assaults on the western front. "Observer" adds:— ...
Article : 69 wordsTelegrams from Innsbruck state the capture of Kovno cost the Germans several army corps. They lost 30,000 on the Dubissa in three weeks, and 120,000 at ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is announced from Berlin that Kovno fortress, on the. Niemen River, has been captured by the Germans. A Petrograd advice states that the ...
Article : 281 wordsIt is estimated that not less than 40 per cent, of the German forces are operating against Russia, aggregating, with Austrians, 70 per cent, of the whole of the ...
Article : 45 wordsPrince Rupprecht of Bavaria, sacrificed 2000 men to recapture the trenches near the Ablain-Angres road. ...
Article : 25 wordsA Berlin communique declares that the Russians have withdrawn to a line east of Mariampol, 36 miles north-east of Suwalki, Luzdzieje and Studzieniczna, where they ...
Article : 186 words"Our bombardment on Tuesday of the German position in the region of, Linge, in the Vosges, destroyed two heavy batteries, and blew up several ammunition ...
Article : 52 wordsReuter's correspondent at the British headquarters lays stress on the wonderful co-operation of the British infantry and artillery at Hooge. He says the shell ...
Article : 98 wordsThe German Minister for the Interior (Herr Delbrueck) made a statement in regard to the food supplies of Germany to the Budget Committee of the Reichstag ...
Article : 115 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies, M. Millerand (Minister of War) said that all that the Government undertook in regard to the supply of munitions had been carried ...
Article : 51 wordsTelegrams from Innsbruck state the Russians in Courland continue to drive back the Germans, who have evacuated all positions in the Dwina district. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Russian fire at Vilna has brought down a Zeppelin. An officer and engineer and eight soldiers were taken prisoner. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe French Embassy in London has issued a special communique in which it emphasises that the French troops along their various fronts preserve their ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. O'Grady, a member of the House of Commons, has returned to England after a visit to the western front. Sir John French told him that our guns were ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Petrograd "Bourse Gazette" reports that German advance detachments appeared towards Svientziany, on the Vilna Petrograd railway. The Russians vigor ...
Article : 54 wordsNovo Georgievsk, the formidable Russian fortress, lying 20 miles to the north-west of Warsaw, whose resistance was impeding the German advance in that sector, has ...
Article : 122 wordsThe "Algemeen Handelsblad" of Amsterdam, states that the Mittel Rhonische Bank, a German institution belonging to the Disconto Gescllschaft group, has gone ...
Article : 51 wordsA Berlin communique dealing with the situation in the East reports that General von Eichorn's troops are advancing east of Kovno, and adds:—"We have captured ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is reported in a Paris communique that the French have captured several trenches on the Linge and Barrenkopf crests in the Vosges. ...
Article : 107 wordsAccording to a communique issued in Paris, an attack delivered by the French has made them masters of the junction of the Bethune-Arras and the Ablain-Angres ...
Article : 51 wordsA message from Buda Pesth says an Austrian officer from the Polish front describes the Russian retreat in Southern Poland as a piece of terrifying systematic ...
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Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Thu 26 Aug 1915, Page 14
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