19 AUGUST 1916, page 1

News Of The Week.

A LTHOUGH there is no dramatic progress to record from the various fronts such as stirred enthusiasm last week, the military unity of the Allies continues to yield excellent......

General Brusiloff Has Thus Driven The Enemy From The Whole

of their winter lines south of the Pripet marshes as far as the Roumanian border in a campaign of ten weeks, from June 4th to August 12th. The wall of defence which, they......

Another Brilliant Local Success Followed On Wednesday...

reached the Guillemont-Maurepas road at certain points, and took all the German positions east of the Maurepas-Clery road to a depth of five hundred to six hundred yards on a......

The Serious Preparations For The Recent Attempt To Invade...

and the high hopes entertained by the Turks of its success, are described in an article by a neutral correspondent published in last Saturday's Timm. The writer, who was in Asia......

The Belgian Columns, Moving From The Congo, Have...

great pluck and vigour in clearing the enemy first out of the region between Victoria Nyanza and Tanganyika, and then from the whole eastern shore of Tanganyika, where they took......

The Italians Have Pressed On Beyond Gorizia, And Are Doing

well in all they attempt. One can almost see the upward leap of their spirits now that their reward for which they had so patiently worked with little apparent result has come......

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German East Africa Will Soon Cease To Bo German. In

a despatch published on Monday General Smuts described the concentric advance of his columns against the main forces of the enemy in the east-central district, inland from......

In Galicia The Russians Have At Last Compelled The Stubborn

Bothmer to fall back westward. General Letchitaky, on the 10th, occupied Stanislau and pressed forward on both sides of the Dniester towards Halicz, thus threatening Bothmer's......

That Would Have Happened This Time Last Year. Fortunately It

can happen no longer. And the British and French are doing very much better than merely hold the Germans while the brave Russians and the Italians march from success to success.......