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  2. ANZAC DAY CELEBRATIONS

    There were great crowds in Sydney yesterday-the second anniversary of the famous Anzac landing. Memorable scenes marked the occasion. Freely and ...

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  3. LATE WAR NEWS.

    Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in his midday report of Wednesday says:- We captured the hamlet of Bilhem, north-eastward of Treaeault, during the ...

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  4. ADVANCE NORTH OF BAGDAD.

    General Maude (who is in charge of the British forces in Mesopotamia) reports:— The battle on the right bank of the Tigris, between Samara and Istabulat (about 60 ...

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  5. AMERICA ARGUES CONSCRIPTION.

    While recruiting is glow, vigorous opposition to conscription has developed in both Houses. The Speaker, Mr. Champ Clark, ...

    Article : 386 words
  6. THE CZARINA IN POLITICS.

    A MoscoW newspaper has published private telegrams which passed between the Czarina and the Czar in December and March, while the Czar was at the front. ...

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  7. VERY VIOLENT FIGHTING.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his midday report of Tuesday, says:- Severe fighting was continued on Monday evening and night along the whole ...

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  8. HEARQUAED ACTIONS ENDED.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, writing from British headquarters in France on Tuesday night, says:- The Hindenburg line is not a German ...

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  9. THE PROCESSION.

    Long before the advertised time of starting the procession crowds began to assemble in Queen's-square, Macquarie-street, and along the line or route. The troops were timed to ...

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  10. IN PALESTINE.

    An official message from Egypt says:— The Turkish forces in Southern Palestine, which have been reinforced, hold a strongly entrenched position from Gaza towards ...

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  11. GAINS ON THE BAGDAD RAILWAY.

    The report received from General Maude this morning regarding the operations of the British forces in Mesopotamia is exceedingly satisfactory. It shows that the Turks are ...

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  12. NATIONAL SERVICE.

    The London Stock Exchange will close on Saturdays to enable members and clerks to engage in national service. ...

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  13. MR. BONAR LAW'S SON MISSING.

    Mr. Bonar Law's second son, Lieutenant C. J. Law. of the Scottish Borderers, was wounded [?] Palestine, and is reported to be missing. ...

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  14. TO DESTROY ENEMY CROPS.

    Lord Calthorpe proposes that the allied aeroplanes drop firebails in the Rhine Valley and on the Hungarian Plain, and so destroy the crops. These are like tinder when they ...

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  15. IMPORTANCE OF CAPTURES.

    Correspondents at British headquarters in France say that St. George's Day witnessed terrific fighting. Many troops were red and white favours in honour of the ...

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  16. FRENCH MISSION ARRIVES.

    A Washington despatch announces the arrival of Marshal Joffre and the French Minister for Justice, M. Viviani (heads of the French mission which has gone to ...

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  17. WAR NOTES.

    Every fresh report from the British front ou either side of the River Scarpe confirms the earlier statements regarding the determined nature of the enemy's resistance to the latest ...

    Article : 363 words
  18. SUBMARINE MENACE.

    Mr. Kennedy Jones (Director-General of the Food Economy Department) declares that the submarine menace is greater than ever, and unless people further reduce the ...

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  19. RECRUITING.

    The military authorities state that a limited number of officers of the Citizen Forces, who have not had an opportunity of attending a school of instruction for the training of ...

    Article : 82 words
  20. ENEMY AVIATORS BEATEN.

    British airmen had a record day on Monday. Forty Gorman machines were brought down. Fifteen were seen to crash to the earth. Ouly two British machines ...

    Article : 117 words
  21. ENEMY DESTROYERS.

    The British Admiralty reports:—Three British naval aeroplanes attacked five destroyers steaming between Blankenburge and Zeebrugge on Monday afternoon. The ...

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  22. TO-DAY'S MEETINGS.

    Lidcombe, 8 p.m., [?]lm "Why Britain Went to War." Neutral Bay, Southern Cross Picture Theatre, 8 p.m., Lieut, Doull (lantern lecture), ...

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  23. IMPROVED RECRUITING.

    Mr. Mackinnon, Director-General of Recruiting, arrived in Brisbane by the Sydney mail train on Tuesday night. He was met at the station by Captain Dash and others, ...

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  24. UNUSUAL GERMAN REPORT.

    A German wireless message on Tuesday stated: On the Arras battlefield, British troops standing on French territory yesterday delivered the second great thrust ...

    Article : 425 words
  25. GERMANY'S PLANS.

    The Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" declares that the socialist paper "Vorwaerts," in an article, insists that Germany must ...

    Article : 167 words
  26. BETWEEN CAMBRAI AND ST. QUENTIN

    If the enemy is in as serious a position as these correspondents suggest, it is easy to realise his desire to obtain supremacy of the air, and thus, hide from his opponents the ...

    Article : 283 words
  27. WHEAT FOR BRITAIN.

    In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. R. E. Prothero (President of the Board of Agriculture), when moving the second reading of the Corn Production Bill ...

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  28. THE CHANNEL FIGHT

    There were pathetic scenes at Dover at the funeral of the British and German sailors killed in the Channel fight on Friday night. An old market hall was ...

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  29. SPORTSMEN'S UNIT.

    How often has the cry been heard across the playing-fields? "Now, boys, all together." How often lins it been heard across the battlefields of Flanders—and answered? Probably ...

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  30. COMMEMORATION SERVICE.

    Standing with bowed heads around the great ring enclosure of the Show Ground, twentyfive thousand men and Women, yesterday, offered up prayer "in remembrance of ...

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  31. CANADA'S HUGE WAR BILL.

    The Canadian Budget shows that the war expenditure to date is £120,000,000. The Canadian national debt is now £180,000,000, and at the close of the ...

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  32. LOSS OF BRITISH AIRSHIP

    It is stilted in Rotterdam that two German aeroplanes 20 miles north of Zeebrugge brought down the British airship, with eight men in its car. which was ...

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  33. WAR OFFICE AND ENEMY REPORTS.

    We have repeatedly drawn attention in these notes to the various distortions of facts which appear in the German communiques. While it is quite legitimate for the German ...

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  34. WAR CONFERENCE.

    The night sessions of the Imperial Conference have begun. The members hope that they will be able to complete their work within a week or ten days. ...

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  35. "ARMY EXHAUSTED."

    "Alas! our little Australian army, which we are [?] proud of, is becoming weakened and exhausted," Said Major Lynch, speaking in the Repertory Theatre last night. "Probably ...

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  36. SWEDISH QUEEN AND THE GERMANS.

    An Amsterdam mebsage announces that Hie Queen of Sweden (who[?] before her marriage in 1881, was Princess Victoria of Baden) has telegraphed the Burgomaster ...

    Article : 42 words
  37. ARGENTINE WHEAT EMBARG[?]

    A diplomatic settlement has been arranged with Britain in respect to the embargo imposed by Argentine on the export of wheat. ...

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