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DESPERATE EFFORTS TO BREAK

... apparently were intended for the station. reached the town of Fumes. The German troops appear to a large extent to have evacuated the left hank. Trenches situated between 600 and 800 yards from our Allies were found to be empty. The communiqw , states ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1914
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERMAN BARBARITIES

... are noted in the men's pay-books. A story of the barbarity displayed towards the people was told by a woman who had been evacuated from Violainea, a village near La Bessie. The place was being bombarded on Dec. 21 by our artillery, whereupon a large number ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GERMAN PLANS IN BELGIUM

... lines of defence in Belgium, when a resolute offensive offered by the Allies both on land and sea obliges them to evacuate West Flanders, says that the first serious defence is ex,- pected to take the line of the canal from Sas van Gent, on the Dutch ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NOTABLE FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... Battenberg whilst being taken from Cape Coast Castle to Madeira. 23. Madagascar annexed by the French. 26. Italian troops evacuated Makaleh. Brankeea Castle burnt down. Fsaarser.-1. United States Senste confirmed the Silver Bill. 4. King Prempeh and other ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1897
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2517 | Page: 6 | Tags: none