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  2. SUBMARINE SCOURGE

    Lloyds reported yesterday that the following Dutch steamers were torpedoed by the Germans on Thursday night and that their crews were landed:—Zandijk (4,189 ...

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  3. SOUTH AFRICAN REBELS.

    The Johannesburg Rebellion Commission has investigated 6,471 compensation claims for £420,000, and granted £72,374. The report emphasises the gross exaggeration of ...

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  4. BRITISH WAR VIGILANCE.

    The House of Commons was crowded on Friday, and the members on both sides loudly cheered the Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, when he rose to make his ...

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  5. WESTERN FRONT.

    A communique from Field-Marshal Haig on Friday stated:—"We have improved our position northward of Guedecourt, capturing a portion of a trench and 30 ...

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  6. AMERICAN COMMENTS.

    The American newspapers generally express the opinion that Mr. Lloyd George has taken time by the forelock and that although his measures are heroically ...

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  7. THE EMPIRE'S ARMY.

    A white paper just issued shows that there are 5,000,000 troops on home colonial establishments, exclusive of these serving in India. There are also additional navy ...

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  8. COMMONWEALTH.

    Wherever it is known amongst the troops that Australian party quarrels are being dropped, and personal differences and jealousies abandoned, in order to allow ...

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  9. IRELAND.

    Two of the men arrested in Dublin last week were courtmartialled and sentenced to 28 days' imprisonment for having sung seditious songs at a concert. George ...

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  10. ROGER CASEMENT.

    The late Roger Casement, who was executed as a rebel, left property valued at £135. In his will, made during his imprisonment, he left everything to his ...

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  11. POLITICAL SITUATION.

    Interest in the local political situation now centres in to-morrow's proceedings in the Legislative Assembly, and in this connection a study of the notice paper is of ...

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  12. BELGIAN RELIEF SHIPS.

    Mr. Hoover announces that Great Britain and German have agreed that the Belgian Relief Commission's ships from America to Rotterdam shall pass through ...

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  13. GERMANY.

    The Reichstag on Friday voted a war credit of £750,000,000. Eighteen of the Ultra-Socialists opposed the vote, but the main party of Socialists supported it ...

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  14. A SIGNIFICANT MOVE.

    A despatch received here states:—The Germans have ordered populations of several places behind the firing line, particularly in the regions of Comines, La ...

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  15. GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS.

    The Dutch Socialist organ "Het Volk," in reply to the German Socialist appeals, states:—"The German Socialist press tries to expound to us and other neutrals that ...

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  16. CLAIMS OF THE GERMANS.

    A German official wireless statement, intercepted by the Admiralty here, states:— "We repulsed several British reconnoitring attacks on the Artoise front. The ...

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  17. WAGING WAR BY PROXY.

    The Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) is continually receiving from elderly citizens offers of personal services at the front, but he is reluctantly ...

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  18. GERMAN TYRANNY IN BELGIUM.

    The German Governor of Belgium, besides closing the schools, has seized all the coal supplies and has ordered that all shops shall close at 6 p.m. He has ...

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  19. SURVIVORS IN LONDON.

    There was an interesting scene at Paddington railway station yesterday upon the arrival of 200 seamen, of various nationalities, from submarined ships. Most of the ...

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  20. DUTCH INDIGNATION.

    The "Dutch Gazette," commenting upon the submarine situation, states: "The last shadow of doubt as to Germany's intentions has been swept away as war has been ...

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  21. BRITISH NEWS.

    At the London School for Economics on Friday, Mr. E. Hutchoock (of the Raw Material Branch of the War Office) read a paper on the importance of Imperial wool. ...

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  22. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.

    Advices from Paris state that the first American ship from the United States to enter the submarine zone has arrived secretly in French waters. The vessel was ...

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  23. GENERAL ITEMS.

    An Italian official communique issued last night states:—"The enemy seized an outpost at Coldilano, but in a counter attack we drove them out, taking prisoners. ...

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  24. A GERMAN STORY.

    The "Cologne Gazette" alleges:—"The British are attempting to persuade neutral captains to carry poisonous food for the purpose of destroying submarine crews ...

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  25. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    His Excellency the Governor, Major General Sir Harry Barron, was the guest of the Naval and Military Club on Friday night at a farewell gathering. The ...

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  26. THE VENIZELISTS.

    The Government has drawn up a reply to the Entente Powers, and in this it promises to agree to the appointment of a committee of two Entente representatives, ...

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  27. AMERICA'S ATTITUDE.

    There are signs of uneasiness at President Wilson's action in meeting the submarine menace. A hot debate took place yesterday in the Senate, where the ...

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  28. INTERNED GREEK TROOPS.

    The Anglo Hellenig League states that 8,000 Greek troops interned in Germany are in a pitiable plight, Some of them are compelled to beg in the streets, and others ...

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  29. FOODSTUFFS.

    A short supply of potatoes in London yesterday led to the selling of restricted quantities in many districts. Wholesale dealers attribute the shortage to army ...

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  30. GERMAN GANG IN SPAHL

    The police yesterday tracked down a German agent who had lately been operating at Cartagena. They effected a timely capture, as the man was about to motor ...

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  31. A GERMAN EXPLANATION

    The German Legation states, in order to prevent the forming of wrong impressions, that the seven torpedoed Dutch vessels were previously aware that they could ...

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  32. GERMANS INVADE BRAZIL.

    The Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the "Observer" reports that an armed band of Germans, apparently sailors, who were interned in Argentina, recently crossed the ...

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  33. DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

    Mr. Arthur Lee, Director-General of Food Production, when interviewed yesterday, said that agriculture was the most vital and most important of our national ...

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  34. GLOOMY GERMAN OUTLOOK.

    A German officer, in a pessimistic war article in a students' newspaper, states:— "The time for happy nights and jolly beer parties is over, and the Pieroots waltz has ...

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  35. BRITISH VICTIMS.

    The latest British ships sunk by German submarines are:—S.s. Trojan Prince (3,196 tons), s.s. Grenadier (1,004 tons), s.s. Wathfield (3,012 tons), s.s. Belgier 5,588 tons), ...

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  36. A MEATLES DAY

    The Lord Mayor of London has adopted a meatless day. ...

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  37. GERMAN PROPAGANDISTS.

    The German propagandists are flooding the mails with bitter anonymous attacks upon the American Government, and they are also denouncing the Entente, Similar ...

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  38. AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE IMPRISONED.

    It is reported that the Archduke Friedrich has been imprisoned in a palace in Vienna owing to a Secret Military Court having found him responsible for the ...

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  39. THE BEER TRADE.

    A leading English brewer stated to an interviewer on Friday that the proposal to reduce the output of beer from 18,200,000 barrels to 10,000,000 barrels would be a ...

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  40. TRANSPORTS SUNK.

    An official announcement states that the Messageries Maritimes mail steamer Athos, bound from China to France and transporting Senegalese, Tirailleurus, and ...

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  41. GERMAN SPY PLOTS.

    The "Providence Journal" says high officials have intercepted letters showing that spy plots now being investigated embraced a scheme of frightfulness, including plans ...

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  42. MESOPOTAMIA.

    A Mesopotamia official communique received here states:—We secured and consolidated two lines of trenches at the southern end of the Sanna I Yat position. ...

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  43. THE SHORTAGE OF PAPER

    Speaking yesterday at a meeting of the Newspaper Fund, Lord Burnham said he feared that the cutting down of paper supplies would mean less employment for ...

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  44. AMERICA'S ASSISTANCE.

    The editor of the London "Economist" stated to the representative of the "New York Times" yesterday:—"If America, with her great wealth, joins the Allies she will ...

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  45. ONE EGG EACH MONTH.

    A despatch received here states:—The food ration in Berlin, which has been reduced until March 15, includes one egg monthly. ...

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  46. GERMAN LOSSES.

    The "Echo de Paris" states that between the 1st inst. and last Monday the French fought 22 enemy submarines. Several of the latter went down, and failed to ...

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  47. WOUNDED AUSTRALIANS.

    The King and Queen yesterday entertained the following wounded officers at Buckingham Palace:— Australians. — Lieut.-Colonel Flintoff, ...

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  48. MR. GERARD.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" reports:—"The French authorities on Friday arrested on the frontier three men who were accompanying Mr. ...

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  49. GERMANY'S HEAVY LOSSES.

    "Le Journal's" correspondent states:—The German losses are heavy considering the nature of the actions. One battalion at Miraumont lost 40 per cent. of ...

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  50. STRANDED GERMAN SUBMARINE.

    The German submarine B30 became stranded on the Zealand coast on Friday. but it did not suffer any damage. It was towed to Flushing, and its crew of ...

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  52. RUGBY FOOTBALL.

    The New Zealanders from Codford camp beat the New Zealanders from Hornchurch by 17 points to 8 points in a Rugby football match yesterday. Roberts (an ...

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  53. THE RIGA CAMPAIGN.

    Prisoners' statements, together with Russian scouts' information, indicate that the Germans lost an army corps in the Riga operations in January. ...

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  54. A GERMAN TRICK.

    The captain of a Dutch trawler in the North Sea on Thursday noticed what appeared to be a floating German water plane, but which proved to be a sham ...

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  55. NEW YORK FOOD RIOTS.

    Yesterday 1,000 food rioters stormed the Waldori Astoria Hotel. Fifty of them were trampled upon and injured. ...

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