The following French Eastern communique was issued this morning:— French and Serbian troops occupied Kniashevatz (nearly 30 miles ...
Article : 98 wordsThe retreat of the Germans in Belgium was so unexpected by themselves that they left material and big guns behind, and it is reported that 15,000, becoming cornered, crossed over into Holland for internment. The Belgians are marching with their left wing resting upon the Dutch frontier, and they ...
Article : 370 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the British have crossed the Sello River along the whole of the line attacked, and advanced an ...
Article : 48 wordsThe American ship Lucia, which, was claimed to be unsinkable, owing to her being equipped with buoyancy boxes, has been torpedoed and sunk in the ...
Article : 39 wordsWhen the evacuation of the Belgian coast was known at Cologne, stop-the[?] war demonstrations were held, mostly by wemen and older soldiers, who ...
Article : 82 wordsTo-day's German official communique intercepted by Admiralty, wireless, states:—On both sides of Vouzier the enemy have established themselves on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 671 wordsIt is significant that articles in several Ministerial newspapers in Great Britain warmly approve of President Wilson's Notes, but claim that Great ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Australian forces are gratified by Sir Douglas Haig's Special Order, acknowledging the services of the two American divisions whihc entered their ...
Article : 179 wordsThe following American official communique was issued to-night. We continue our pressure west of the River Meuse. Heavy artillery ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Robert Lansing, the Secretary of State, to-day made public the following correspondence from the Minister of Sweden to the Secretary of State:— ...
Article : 818 wordsAccording to a message received in Amsterdam from Berlin, the delay in the delivery of the German reply to President Wilson was due to the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe "Daily Tele[?]ph" has obtained the views of a ve[?] large number of Mayors in England, who unanimously condemn any proposals for a peace by ...
Article : 36 wordsDenmark has called the Attention of Germany to the non-fulfilment of a certain clause in the treaty of 1864 regarding the taking of a referendum ...
Article : 167 wordsDealing, in the course of a despatch, with the successful counter-attack at Villere-Bretonneux on the night of April 23 last, in which the 13th and ...
Article : 220 wordsThe full text of Germany's reply to President Wilson is not yet available, but the following unofficial summary has been circulated in Amsterdam:— ...
Article : 232 wordsTo-night's French official communique states:— The enemy on the Oise front were completely thrown to the cast of the ...
Article : 89 wordsSir Douglas Haig issued to-night the following official report on the operations in Belgium:— The Germans have been forced to ...
Article : 123 wordsTo-day's German official communique, intercepted by Admiralty wireless, states:—We have evacuated Bruges, Thielt, and Courtral. ...
Article : 27 wordsTo-night's French official communique states:— Our Tenth Army on the River Serr[?] front to-day attacked the ...
Article : 369 wordsInhabitants of the liberated towns in Belgium tell the same story of German terrorism. In 1916 there were deportations and every variety of ...
Article : 151 wordsAll indications point to the fourth Liberty loan being over-subscribed. The final figures will not be available for some days. The subscriptions had ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. E. L. James, the correspondent of the "New York Times," cabling from the headquarters of the American army in France, says that German ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Germans admit that the French to the north-eastward of Vouzier have established positions on the cast bank of the River Aisne, where General ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Allied line has reached the Dutch frontier eight miles to the eastward of Bruges. The Belgians entered Zeebruggo on Saturday. The Germans ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsIn his official report this morning, Sir Douglas Haig states:— North of the Sens[?] Canal our advance was continued yesterday ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Henry Morganthau, formerly American Ambassador to Turkey, speaking in New York yesterday in support of the Liberty loan, stated that unless ...
Article : 68 wordsThe German retirement began a week ago on n 60-mile front has now spread until it has affected all except 15 miles of the 250-mile front from the coast ...
Article : 100 wordsSeveral German newspapers discuss the question of the abdication of the Kaiser, and some declare that this is the only solution of the pressent crisis ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Allies are within five miles of Valenciennes. Enemy movements are reports to the castward of Valenciennes. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Czecho-Slovak Government has been formally inaugurated in Paris with official recognition of the Allied Powers. Ministers have been appointed. ...
Article : 29 wordsThis map gives a good idea of the extensive nature of the retreat the Allies forced upon the Germans. Right from the Dutch frontier, northeast of Bruges to the Verdun region the enemy are steadily yielding ground. Rouhly, the Allied line now runs from the Dutch border in the region of Eecloo (east of Bruges), a few miles west of G[?]nt, along the eastern side of teh River Lys, east of Courtai, west of the River E[?]ut, passing Tournai two miles west of the city, about five miles west of Valenciennes, east of Le Cateau, to the River Oise at a point near Guise, and along the Oise to about half-way between ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 260 wordsMajor-General Kenly, of the United Stales Military Aeronautic Branch, and Mr. Handley Page, the well-known aeroplane manufacturer, are ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following Belgian official communique was issued to-night:— We continued our pursuit of the enemy to-day, and hustled their ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Pope, through the Austrian Consul at Moscow, recently requested that tho ex-Tsarina of Russia and her daughters be removed to a neutral ...
Article : 86 wordsMrs. C. J. Clark, of Lindisfarne, has just received word that her husband, Private C. J. Clark, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry and ...
Article : 36 wordsIn his official report this morning, Sir Douglas Haig states:— Early this morning we attacked the enemy's positions on the line of ...
Article : 174 wordsMr. and Mrs. T. Tapner, of 46 George-street, North Hobart, have been notified that their son, Driver Frank Tapner, has been admitted to Reading War Hospital, ...
Article : 467 wordsGeneral Peyton March, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, reports that more than 2,000,000 American soldiers are now overseas. ...
Article : 35 wordsPrivate J. F. Bitmead, of the 48th Australian Battalion, who has been repatriated, has arrived in London. He was raude a prisoner on April 13 near ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, "Daily Chronicle" correspondent on the Western front, writes:—There were the same emotional secnes at Brugas as at Lille, but they ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 22 Oct 1918, Page 5
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