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  2. PREPARATIONS IN AUSTRALIA GOVERNMENT OBTAINS POWER TO CALL OUT CITIZEN SOLDIERS

    Intense interest was taken in the war news throughout Australia yesterday, and the various newspaper offices were rushed for copies of their special editions. Military and naval preparations are being pushed on with at fever heat, and a strict censorship of all cablegrams and telegrams has been ...

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  3. TURKEY NEUTRAL

    The British Admiralty has issued an order prohibiting the use of wireless telegraphy within the waters of the United Kingdom by amateurs. ...

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  4. THE SHADOW OF WAR IN AUSTRALIA PATRIOTISM IN STATE PARLIAMENT

    Citizens of Australia are for the first time feeling the effects of a great war in which they are practically participants; but they are facing the trouble ...

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  5. MONETARY HELP

    The New York bankers have arranged with the State Treasury Departments to send three and a half million dollars in gold to relieve the tourists stranded in ...

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  6. THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

    Should the Imperial Government accept the offer of an Australian expeditionary force of 20,000 men it is certain that there will be a ready response ...

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  7. DESPERATE REMEDY

    The Dutch people are reported to be making preparations to open the dykes for the purpose of flooding the country. The idea is to impede the movements ...

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  8. NEWS OF DECLARATION OF WAR

    The Independent Cable Service received news of the declaration of war by Great Britain at 4 o'clock this morning. Owing to the military ...

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  9. MELBOURNE STOCK EXCHANGE

    This morning knots of sharebroke[?]s were discussing war news in the public hall of the Melbourne Stock Exchange. The question was whether the exchange ...

    Article : 137 words
  10. FROM BRITAIN MEN LIABLE FOR SERVICE

    It has been ascertained that there are about 90 British reservists in South Australia. About 70 of these are living in the metropolitan area, and the remainder ...

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  11. WHARF LABORERS AFFECTED

    The secretary of the Wharr Laborers Union states that the war will seriously affect the men attached to his union. Large numbers of men are already out of ...

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  12. THE POPE ORDERS.

    His Holiness the Pope has ordered the Catholics throughout the world to offer up prayers in all the churches for peace. ...

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  13. GERMAN STEAMER

    The German cargo steamer Elsass, which was given instructions yesterday to leave Sydney not later than to-day, managed to secure sufficient labor to ...

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  14. GUARDING THE MELBOURNE HEADS

    Although the navy office is still hard at work the strain that has been evident since Saturday relaxed to-day. Preparations for bringing the naval reserve ...

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  15. ON THE [?] VIVE

    Acting under instructions from Melbourne the South Australian branch of the naval reserve was called out early on Monday morning. By 9.30 the whole ...

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  16. GERMAN COLUMN

    French arms secured a victory in a ploody engagement at Aneti Croix. Uhlans attacked the French, who were [?]ched beyond the town. The ...

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  17. PARTY DIVISIONS SUNK

    In the State Parliament to-day the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Wade) said he wished to intimate on behalf of his party that the Liberals appreciated ...

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  18. ARMING GERMAN LINERS

    In the present crisis in international politics the German Government at least is thoroughly alive to potentialities. According to a cable received ...

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  19. TO STAY AT COLOMBO

    The Orient Company has instructed its agents at Colombo to hold the mailboat Orama till further notice. It has also directed the Omrah, which is due at ...

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  20. NAVAL AND MILITARY PREPARATIONS

    A large number of former members of the permanent or reserve naval forces of Great Britain, as well as of Australia, have communicated with Captain F. ...

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  21. SCIENCE LEADER'S REGRET

    Sir Oliver Lodge (president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science), who arrived by the R.M.S. Orvieto, when interviewed, said:—"The war ...

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  22. RUN ON THE SAVINGS BANK

    There was great excitement among bank [?]positors to-day and withdrawals were heavy. A run took place on the Government Savings Bank, depositors who ...

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  23. ALL CAMPS POSTPONED

    All military camps and schools of instruction have been postponed indefinitely owing to the necessity of concentrating all the resources of the military department ...

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  24. WHEAT AND FLOUR

    Sydney wholesale merchants advocate the issue by the State Government of a proclamation prohibiting the exportation of wheat and flour during the European ...

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  25. THE WHEAT MARKET

    The boom in wheat values is over, and there was a strong pressure to sell in the markets this morning, the majority of holders being afraid of the financial ...

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  26. PEACE PREPARATIONS

    The Minister of External Affairs (Hon. P. McM. Glynn) was present at a meeting of the local branch of the Liberal Union at Mount Barker on Tuesday ...

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  27. INTENSE INTEREST IN DARWIN

    Intense interest is being taken in the war at Darwin. Six members of the local cable guard were summoned late last night. Two declined duty, thinking a ...

    Article : 71 words
  28. TO DEFEND OUR COASTS

    The military authorities have called upon the trainees of the Surry Hills and Redfern Battalion areas to report themselves at Victoria Barracks ...

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  29. FREEZING WORKS CLOSER DOWN

    The effect ofthe war is already being [?] in Mount Gambier. William [?] [?]ghton & Co's freezing works and skin[?] buying store were closed down this ...

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  30. STILL OPEN

    The Sydney Stock Exchange is still open, but no business is reported. The exchange committee this morning considered the advisability of following the ...

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  31. TRANSMISSION OF TELEGRAMS

    Mr. J. Cook, the Prime Minister, issued a notification to-day setting out that the transmission of telegrams and radio-telegrams through the Commonwealth ...

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  32. OUR PART SOUTH AUSTRALIA COOPERATES

    Yesterday morning the Premier (Hon. A. H. Peake) forwarded the following telegram to the Prime Minister at Melbourne:—"My Government wishes to ...

    Article : 66 words
  33. TRAVELLERS IN DISTRESS

    [?] Nothing as being taken on the Con[?] but gold and silver. This has [?] the 160,000 United States citizens [?] without resources. ...

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  34. IMPORTANT BANKING DEVELOPMENTS

    It was stated in financial circles this morning that every precaution has been taken to guard a big gold reserve amounting to £2,000,000 belonging to the various ...

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  35. "NOTHING TO SAY" MR. GLYNN'S DEPARTMENT QUIET

    "I have nothing to communicate," said the Minister of External Affairs (Hon. P. McM. Glynn) when approached yesterday afternoon. Mr. Glynn stated in reply ...

    Article : 108 words
  36. NO PANIC NECESSARY

    President Wilson has made a direct ap[?] a large gathering of press cor[?]dents in the United States He im[?]red them to keep cool at the present ...

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  37. A DAYLIGHT PORT

    An order forbidding shipping to leave or enter Sydney Heads between sunset and sunrise is now operative and a drastic examination of all ...

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  38. PRESS CABLES DELAYED

    The censorship established by the Federal Government at the Sydney cable offices this morning resulted in press cables being subjected to over eight ...

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  39. PORT PIRIE AFFECTED

    Mr. G. O. Middleton, railway stationmaster at Port Pirie, has received advice that from to-day 32 trains running to and from Broken Hill will be cancelled ...

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  40. GERMAN VESSELS

    An order has been issued by the authorities notifying officials of the Customs Department at all Australian ports not to issue clearances to German vessels. There ...

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  41. PRESS CENSOR

    A press censor took charge of the cables and telegrams at the general post office at 1 o'clock this afternoon and will allow only certain messages to be delivered. ...

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  42. PRIVATE WIRELESS PLANTS

    The Postal Department has called upon all owners of private wireless plants to dismantle and disconnect any radio-telegraph aerial gear within 24 hours. ...

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  43. TRUCKLOADS OF COIN

    An emergency currency has been put [?] circulation in consequence of the [?]cial crisis. Fifty truckloads of coin [?] sent from Washington for this ...

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  44. DEARER MEAT

    A special meeting of the Master Butchers' Association was held at the association offices, Waymouth street, last evening to consider the effect of the war on ...

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  45. A NAVAL BATTLE OFFERS FOR SERVICE

    Private messages received in Sydney state that England and Germany are at war, and that a great naval battle has already been fought in the North Sea. Eight ...

    Article : 268 words
  46. DASH FOR A GERMAN PORT

    The German steamer Westfalen left Newcastle yesterday, ostensibly for Bremen via Thursday Island, but it is believed she will make a dash for Java or ...

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  47. SERIOUS POSITION AT THE BARRIER

    The Barrier may feel the war worse than any other town in the Commonwealth, Mr. Gepp (manager of Debavay's treatment plant) has been advised to close ...

    Article : 255 words
  48. WHEAT MERCHANTS CONCERNED

    Much anxiety and a little consternation were created among Adelaide wheat merchants yesterday by the absence of the usual cable advices concerning the state ...

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  49. PATRIOTIC FEELING

    At the Theatre Royal last evening the orchestra, in recognition of the British and French interests in the present European war, played the "Marseillaise," "Rule ...

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  50. THE NAVIES

    The naval authorities in Great Britain may have reason to feel thankful that a sea conflict with Germany is occurring now rather than a couple of years hence. ...

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  51. FRENCH RESERVISTS

    The Consul for France (Mr. J. W. Canaway) stated yesterday that he had, consequent on instructions received from Paris, issued a proclamation calling on ...

    Article : 147 words
  52. ADELAIDE STOCK EXCHANGE

    The committee of the Adelaide Stock Exchange met at 11 o'clock yesterday and decided to open the vestibule every morning until 11.30 to enable members ...

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  53. "KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP"

    "I can only say that I am one of those who would urge that England should go into it," said the Governor (Sir Henry Galway) in dealing with the European ...

    Article : 327 words
  54. MESSAGES CENSORED

    A strict censorship or all telegraphic and cable messages was established in Adelaide at midnight on Monday. Colonel Dyke and Captain Willcox took up their ...

    Article : 88 words
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