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  2. THE CALL TO THE FRONT.

    There will be no meeting in Martin-place to-day. 8 p.m., Auburn recruiting rally. Speaker, Mr. T. Brown, M.L.A. 8 p.m., Rydalmere Town Hall. Speaker, Private ...

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  3. LATE WAR NEWS. GERMANY.

    The New York "Tribune," which has shown a close study and unusual insight into the war situation, declares that Germany is already beaten and bleeding to ...

    Article : 102 words
  4. D.S.O.

    Distinguished Service Orders have been conferred on the following Australasians:— Captain Cecil Arthur Callaghan (Second Battery Field Artillery, N.S.W.), for ...

    Article : 504 words
  5. WESTERN FRONT. ARTILLERY ACTIVE.

    A communique states that there are prolonged and intense artillery actions on the Hetsas-Strenstracte front (north-west of Ypres), also at Boisen Hache and in the ...

    Article : 537 words
  6. THE BALKANS.

    Sofia advices state that the Bulgarians captured Pirot (35 miles south-east of Nish) after a long and sanguinary fight. The Bulgarian newspapers admit that ...

    Article : 443 words
  7. THE ITALIANS.

    Although there is heavy snow in the Trentino, Alpini and artillery scaled heights 9000 feet, and destroyed Austrian trenches. They captured the summits of Seikofel, ...

    Article : 179 words
  8. ADVANCE BY BULGARIANS.

    The Bulgarians have captured Pirot (35 miles south-east of Nish), after sanguinary fighting. ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. RECAPTURED.

    Six officers of the interned German commerce raider Kron Prinz Wilhelm, who escaped from Norfolk on the yacht Eclipse, have been captured by a British warship, ...

    Article : 76 words
  10. THE ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.

    The heightened offensive which Italy undertook with the idea of, to some extent, relieving the pressure upon Servia, has resulted in a strenuous three days' battle on the greater ...

    Article : 331 words
  11. RUSSIA.

    The Russian Government is said to be seeking to establish a credit with the United States. It is reported that she is willing to pay 9 per cent., interest for a ...

    Article : 46 words
  12. NATION UNITED.

    Several cabled comments of the Australian and New Zealand newspapers elicited an important message to the Australians from Mr. Bonar Law, Secretary of State ...

    Article : 420 words
  13. BRITISH CASUALTIES.

    At is officially announced that the British casualties of all kinds in all fields total 493,294. ...

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  14. THE COAL-LUMPERS. RESUME WORK.

    The summons to "show cause," served by the Sydney Steam Collier Owners and Coal Stevedores' Association on the Sydney Coallumpers' Union, was yesterday withdrawn in ...

    Article : 226 words
  15. SIGNIFICANCE OF AUSTRIAN LOSSES.

    When the truth comes to be told it will probably prove that the three-days' battle on the Isonzo resulted in the Italians taking, at considerable cost, several formidable ...

    Article : 298 words
  16. DARDANELLES.

    General Sir Ian Hamilton, in a farewell order, thanked all ranks at the Dardanelles for the wonderful way they had seconded his efforts to lead them towards a decisive ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    Mr. B. R. Wise (Agent-General for New South Wales) is endeavouring to secure a battery of captured guns for exhibition in Sydney. ...

    Article : 313 words
  18. EASTERN FRONT.

    A Russian communique states: The enemy north-eastward of Garbunowka (Dvinsk front) occupied some of our trenches. Our counter-attack dislodged ...

    Article : 86 words
  19. NO PEACE TALK.

    Mr. Lloyd George stated emphatically in the House of Commons this evening that no negotiations whatever had been or were being carried on between London and ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. WORK RESUMED.

    In consonance with the decision arrived at on the previous evening, the members of the Sydney Coal-Lumpers' Union resumed work yesterday morning, after nearly a week's ...

    Article : 174 words
  21. "HUGE MISTAKE."

    Lord Brassey, interviewed by the Australian Press Association on his return from his visit in the yacht Sunbeam to the Meditterranean and Dardanelles region, ...

    Article : 470 words
  22. ROUTE MARCH.

    The Gilgandra men left Bathurst this morning on their way to Sydney. The men, who had camped for the night in one of the pavilions on the showground, marched away at ...

    Article : 238 words
  23. FRENCH CABINET.

    M. Viviani (Premier of France) has resigned, and M. Aristide Briand has been asked to form a Cabinet. An earlier message from New York ...

    Article : 195 words
  24. WOUNDED OFFICERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 317 words
  25. MERCHANT SHIPPING.

    Arrivals:—At Antofagasta: Steamers Detmold and Nanerie. Departures:—For Sydney: Steamer Columbia. For Albany: Ship Marosa. For ...

    Article : 21 words
  26. MISS CAVELL'S DEATH.

    Replying in the House of Commons to a question whether Miss Cavell had been guilty of a military offence under the Hague Convention, Sir Edward Grey said ...

    Article : 212 words
  27. WAR NOTES.

    There is still comparatively little news from Servia, but what there is tells, for the most part, of further Servian retirements. They have fallen back a little more in the Morava ...

    Article : 372 words
  28. LIBELLING BOTHA.

    General Botha, giving evidence in the case against Munnik, a State engineer, said he had never been in possession of 134 gold bars, and knew nothing about them. ...

    Article : 75 words
  29. VACCINATION.

    The report of the select committee selected by the State Parliament to inquire into the efficacy of vaccination was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly. The committee ...

    Article : 212 words
  30. WAR COUNCIL.

    The "Daily Telegraph" says it is understood that Mr. Asquith will announce on Tuesday the formation of a War Council not exceeding six or eight members of the ...

    Article : 153 words
  31. FIRES IN QUEENSLAND.

    A disastrous fire occurred at Roadvale, near Ipswich, about noon to-day. Humphries and Pows' store was burned to the ground, and the fire spread rapidly to adjacent buildings, ...

    Article : 74 words
  32. RALLY AT PYRMONT.

    As the result of recruiting speeches at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's works at Pyrmont at midday yesterday ten employees handed in their names as being willing to go ...

    Article : 510 words
  33. VICTORIA CROSS.

    The Victoria Cross has been awarded Lance-sergeant Oliver Brooks, of the 3rd Coldstream Guards, for most conspicuous bravery at Loos on October 8. When a ...

    Article : 82 words
  34. GERMAN SOLDIERS.

    Extracts published from the diary of Private Becker, a professor of Latin at the Bonn Gymnasium, testify to the brutalities of German officers towards ...

    Article : 72 words
  35. SMALLPOX.

    Harris Ryan aged 23, who was a passenger by the steamer Wodonga, which arrived early yesterday evening from Sydney, went to the Melbourne Hospital to-night suffering from ...

    Article : 112 words
  36. ZEPPELINS.

    Mr. Balfour (First Lord of the Admiralty) has announced that it is intended the London Zeppelln defences shall be similar to those in Paris. ...

    Article : 30 words
  37. MENINGITIS.

    One case of meningitis has proved fatal since the beginning of the week, and there are now three patients under treatment. Four others, two of theme carriers, and two ...

    Article : 38 words
  38. RUSSIANS BOMBARD VARNA.

    As to the operations of the Angle-French forces in the south, not a word had come through up till midnight, so we may take it that no startling development has occurred in ...

    Article : 311 words
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