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THE GREAT WAR

... describes as the long ebb of the enemy tide from Verdun. Our Allies' magnificent resistant to the onslaught, in which liquid fire is being freely used by the Crown Prince's troops, has already taken the nature of a victorious counter-offensive. Their ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 1916
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 5 | Tags: shute 

BIG RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

... Germans made further attempts from three sides to capture the fort, but though they approached close to it, and employed liquid fire, they were flung back by the garrison. While the Italian wings on the lino of the new Austrian advance over the Trentino ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1916
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE GREAT WAR

... Combles. The enemy delivered a violent counter-attack, and the fighting continues. A heavy German attack, assisted by liquid fire, was made upon the British position the Schwaben Redoubt, but.was repulsed with avy loss to the enemy. British trench raids ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1916
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1286 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GREAT WAR

... ng seriously to oppose the Russian passage of the frontier. After an extremely violent bombardment, the Germans, using liquid fire, have launched repeated attacks against the new positions won by the French at Dead Man, eight miles north-west of Verdun ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 1916
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1637 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE GREAT WAR

... consolidation of the new ground, aod du-ing night we made a little progress in High Wood Yesterday, the enemy, emplying liquid fire, twice assailed our front before Puzieres. He regained some ground, but later we drove him from all but a few yards of it ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1916
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2181 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE GREAT WAR

... This was not until seven attacks had failed and the rAustro-Germans in their eighth effort had reinforced themselves with liquid fired. enemy states that he advanced on a three-mile front, took 3,429 prisoners, and inflicted a severe defeat. Thirty-six ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1916
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2037 | Page: 6 | Tags: none