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At intervals of a week or less Sir Douglas Haig makes a fresh thrust on the Flanders front. His immediate

... intervals of a week or less Sir Douglas Haig makes a fresh thrust on the Flanders front. His immediate objectives are, of course, the Passchendaele ridge which dominates the Flanders plain, and the Houthulst forest, which forms a bastion to the ridge and ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1917
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1106 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TUESDAY

... assume that evacuation is a condition precedent not to an armistice, but to the discussion of armistice, and that the most absolute guarantees must demanded, as Germany has proved herself to be entirely untrustworthy. Good news came from Flanders. Supported ...

WEDNESDAY

... Germany in terras wholeheartedly approved by public opinion in all the Allied countries. The predominating points are these Evacuation and armistice are matters for the Military. No arrangement for them is possible without absolutely satisfactory safeguards ...

SUBMARINE WAR,

... submarines 15 FLANDERS A VERITABLE FORTRESS: TOWNS CLEARED BEYOND 11ESS1NE3. The Times special correspondent Amsterdam writes: . , . , ' The Tehgraaf’s frontier correspondent says that the town of Menin, north east of Messines, has been evacuated by the population ...

ALLIES’ FURTHER PROGRESS

... that at several points along the front Flanders and France the Allies have either made slight progress hare consolidated their positions. 11 worthy of remark that a ferryman’s house on the bank the canal in Flanders which had been “keenly disputed” for ...

THE WAR

... WAR. The air raids on London last week detracted somewhat from the importance of the operations that were taking place in Flanders, and it was only duringthe week-end, when the reports from the various special correspondents, emphasising the staggering ...

Bag and Baggage

... Bag and Baggage. There are no signs to show where the German retreat in Flanders is going to , atop. Possibly the enemy himself does not know, and is trusting to chance, the weather or some other factor in war to decide. The latest German reply to President ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1918
Newspaper: Reading Standard
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 283 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ENTHUSIASM OF THE ALLIES

... Mies' offensive was prosecuted powerfully from Nieuport to the Vosges. The British and Belgians began furious attacks in West Flanders, the German positions having previously been closely reconnoitred by airmen, notwithstanding the frightful weather which ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1914
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRIDAY

... FRIDAY. Splendid news came froth Flanders. D, rag the day*Lille was entered by the British, the Allies occupied pstend, Thourout and Douai, and British airmen landed the coast and reported it to be clear of the enemy, and Vice- Admiral Sir Roger Keyes ...

MONDAY

... shortly afterwards. The ship's company were taken off without any loss life, and only two men were injured. The complete evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula is officially announced. The casualties in the course of the operation amounted to only one man ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1916
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FRESH RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

... troops aucccssfully attacked the Germans near the village of Olai, south west Riga. The enemy was obliged temporarily to evacuate this point. occupied cemetery near the village of Laour, on the loft bank the Dvina, near Uxkull. . . South of Pilvens, in ...