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  2. THE WAR.

    After a desperate resistance, kovno has fallen to the enemy. In the Drinak district the German offensive has been repulsed; and according to a message from Genova the enemy are being driven back in the Courland region and have evacuated all their positions on the Dwina. Servere fighting ...

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  3. AERIAL WARFARE.

    Some Zeppelins visited the eastern counties on Tuesday night. The anti-air-craft guns were brought into action and it is believed that one Zeppelin was hit; but ...

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  4. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    To-day 258 men were accepted for the Expeditionary Forces at the metropolitan recruiting depots, making a total of 1,476 men accepted at Sydney for the first five ...

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  5. SOUTH AFRICAN LOYALTY.

    At an anti-war meeting last night the audience refused to hear the speakers. They rushed the leaders and the followers of General Hertzog who refused to stand ...

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  6. THE METAL EXCHANGE.

    In the House of Representatives to-day, The Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes). replying to Mr. Groom (Q.), said that it was not intended that the metal-producing ...

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  7. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

    The construction of the railway establishing a uniform gauge has been completed between Walfisch Bay and the Union. The laying of the rails on the last section of ...

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  8. W.A. SPORTSMEN AND THE WAR.

    At a well-attended meeting of cricketers on Wednesday night, at which it was decided to form a cricketers; rifle club, Mr. P. R. Le Coutour brought forward a ...

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  9. VICTORIAN MEAT SUPPLIES.

    The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hutchinson) stated to-day that representations had been made to him in order that cattle might be sent to Victoria from ...

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  10. THE ZEPPELIN RAIDERS.

    The Zeppelin crews were entertained at Hamburg yesterday. They recounted with great gusto what they described as their wonderful exploits in England. ...

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  11. CEREBRO MENINGITIS.

    Three deaths occurred yesterday from cerebro spinal meningitis. These included two soldiers who died at the Alfred Hospital and a woman named Sarah Stokes, of ...

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  12. NATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    The National Labour Conference appeals to the international proletariat to demand compulsory arbitration, the suppression of secret diplomacy, and the cessation of ...

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  13. BRITISH NEWS.

    Under the Defence of the Realm Act the police yesterday raided the officers of the "Labour Leader." and examined documents. The premises are also used as the offices ...

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  14. THE WAR LOAN.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) moved the second reading of the State Savings Bank Bill. The object of the measure, he said, ...

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  15. THE LATE MAJOR MILLS.

    Captain W. G. Stevenson; of the 6th Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, First Division, Australian Imperial Force, in writing to Miss Mills, of the Highgate State ...

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  16. FINANCIAL RELATIONS WITH AMERICA.

    The knowledge that the Government is about to adjust the American exchange problem has caused the exchange rate to rally. The amount of gold that it has ...

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  17. THE COAL DISPUTE.

    It is officially reported that the coalowners and miners of South Wales have met in joint conference on several occasions since July 20, when the settlement of ...

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  18. DISTRIBUTION OF MAILS.

    The Australian base post office, which was established here on the 28th of last month when attention was drawn to an accumulation of 60 bags of letters, now ...

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  19. TURKEY.

    The correspondent of "Le Temps" at Dedegatch advises that the Turks are busily defending Smyrna with long-range cannon brought from Constantinople. ...

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  20. THE EASTERN ZONE.

    The following communique was issued last night:—"Towards Drinsk we repulsed German attempts to take the offenaive on the other hand, at Kovno, after desperate ...

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  21. ITALY'S OPERATIONS.

    A communique issued yesterday stated:—"We captured to-day a second line of trenches in Bacher Valley, in the Sexten region, taking 42 prisoners. Our troops ...

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  22. THE BRITISH FORCES.

    Sir John French reports:—"No important incidents have occurred since my communique of the 10th, when we recaptured the positions at Hooge and ...

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  23. THE EIGHT HOURS ACT.

    In accordance with the Coal Organisation Committee's suggestion, the Government is summonning for the beginning of next month a national conferences of ...

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  24. EIGHTEEN VICTORIAN BAKERS.

    In the Bendigo Supreme Court yesterday eighteen bakers, who pleaded guilty to charges of having sold bread at a price higher than fixed by the Price of ...

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  25. SUSPENDED SCHOOL TEACHER.

    John Frances Hills, formerly a teacher at the Woodville High School, who was suspended by the Education Department as the result of his admitting having ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN WOUNDED IN ENGLAND.

    The Australian wounded soldiers in Britain number 123 officers and 2,084 men. The officers resting are 12 at Welwyn, 6 at Manchester, 2 at Birmingham, 33 at ...

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  27. TURKISH COMMUNIQUE.

    The following Turkish communique was issued yesterday:—"On the bank of the Anafarta on Tuesday we repulsed an attack and took some prisoners. Near ...

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  28. FRENCH ASCENDANCY.

    The French Embassy issued a communique yesterday which emphasised that the French along the various fronts preserve their ascendancy over the enemy in ...

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  29. THE REFERENDA AND THE WAR.

    A meeting of citizens, convened by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Richards) in response to a requisition, was held at the Sydney Town Hall last night to consider the ...

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  30. ENEMY COMMUNIQUES.

    The following Berlin communique was issued yesterday:—"Two more forts were stormed in the north-east front of Novo Georgievsts, 20 guns and 600 men were ...

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  31. TURKISH KRUPPS.

    There is great activity in Krupps's works in Constantinople. Two thousand shells are being trained one daily. ...

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  32. AN AUSTRIAN REPORT.

    An Austrian communique issued yesterday stated that bitter fighting is raging around the Tolmino bridge-head, and that four Italian attacks on this position failed. ...

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  33. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

    M. Delease, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a letter to the Army Commission announced that Germany had desisted from her repreisal camp scheme, under which ...

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  34. THE ROLL OF HONOUR.

    The sixty-sixth list of casualties among the members of the Australian Imperial force engaged in the Dardanelles' operations was released by the Censor ...

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  35. DOMINIONS' FINANCES.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. McKenna) has invited the Agents-General to meet him to-day in a consulation with regard to the future financial requirements ...

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  36. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    Yesterday Mr. J. Russell, William-street, received word from the Defence Department that his son Lance-Corponal J. W. Russel, 10th Light Hourse, had been ...

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  37. ABORTIVE AUSTRIAN ATTACK.

    A naval communique issued yesterday morning stated:—"Twenty Austrian units and aeroplanes attacked the Island of Pelagosa. The attack was met with great ...

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  38. AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

    Mr. C. F. McCann, the South Australian Commercial Agent, in behalf of the Commonwealth, is inspecting all the tinned meat rejected by the War-Office, and also ...

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  39. AMERICAN AND GERMANY.

    The "Providence Journal" has furnished the Secretary of the Navy with a series of facts proving the activity of the German spy system in American prior to the ...

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  40. KILLED AT THE DARDANELLES.

    News was confirmed in Adelaide to-day of the death of the Dardanelles of Sergt. J. L. Gordon, well known as a rising Adelaide solicitor. The deceased, who was 31 ...

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  41. FALL OF KOVNO.

    A German official report states that Kovno, with all its forts and an onormous quantity of war material. muliding over 400 guns, has been taken by assault after ...

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  42. HELPING THE ENEMY.

    In the House of Assembly to-day, Mr. Ryan asked the Premier (Mr. C. Vaughan) if his attention had been drawn to the report of the proceedings in the ...

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  43. THE NEXT OF KIN.

    The following are the next of kin of those Western Australian soldiers whose names were included in the sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth official casualty lists:— ...

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  44. IMPUDENT IMPERSONATION.

    A soldier was committed for trial in Manchester yesterday for impersonating Sergeant Dandy, who has been fighting at the Dardanelles. Evidences was given that ...

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  45. CHANGE OF TACTICS.

    The Germans, when first advancing against Kovno followed the rushing method of attack involving heavy losses, successive columns being swept away. ...

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  46. ANNEXATION OF BELGIUM.

    The "World's" Berlin correspondent declares that the Kaiser. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, and Herr von Jagow, Minister for Foreign ...

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  47. CONSCRIPTION.

    In the Senate to-day, Senator Bakhap (T.), continued his address in favour of his own motion supporting the initiation of conscription in the ...

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  48. BAD ADVICE.

    At the Portland Police Court to-day Victor Hawel, aged 5d1, and unnaturlised subject, was charged under the War Precautions Act with having endeavoured to ...

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  49. THE KAISER'S MESSAGE.

    The Kaiser, in a message to General won Kindenburg yesterday, congratulation him upon the taking of Kovno, stated: "Kovno, the bulwark of the inner line of the ...

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  50. SENSATION IN BERLIN.

    The New York revelations concerning German intrigues in America have created a sensation in Berlin. The Foreign Office organs do not deny the charges they ...

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  51. AMERICAN FEELING.

    Many newspapers denounce the German propagandists as guilty of sedition. The Philadelphia "Inquirer" urges President Wilson to act against them and it ...

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  52. GENERAL ITEMS.

    A financial authority states that Germany's plans to restore her resources after the war include the flooding of foreign markets with German products at ...

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  53. AT SEA.

    The Norwegian steamers Mineral and Romulus, the British steamen Conny and Grodno, and the Spanish steamer Isidorm, have been torpedoed and sunk. The crews ...

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  54. THE ATTACK UPON VILNA.

    The Governor of Vilna (east of Kovno), as a precaution against the occupation of the town, has ordered the removal of the banks, factory plants, and everything likely ...

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  55. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The recruiting staff at the Perth Drill Hall experienced a rather quiet day yesterday, only 38 volunters for service with the Australian Imperial forces presenting ...

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  56. AN ENEMY ADMISSION.

    Telegrams from Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol in Austria, state that the Russians in Courland continue to drive back the Germans, and that the latter have ...

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  57. LESSON FOR GERMANY.

    A German trawler which arrived at Esbjerb (Denmark) yesterday reported meeting a British squadron in the North Sea the German skipper prepared to leave ...

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  58. COMFORTS FOR SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

    The Victoria League desires to thank the people who kindly brought the quantity of reading matter and cigarettes for the wounded in transit to No. 5 Queen's Hall ...

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  59. SHIPMENT OF BUTTER.

    The steamer Marama, which arrived to-day from San Francisco, brought 11,152 boxes of butter, of which 6,230 were consigned to the Government of New South ...

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  60. GERMAN BANK FAILURE.

    The "Algemeen Handelsblad" states that the Mittel Rhenische Bank, Belonging to the Disconto-Geselechaft group, has gone into liquidation on account of its great ...

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  61. ACCOMMODATION FOR WOUNDED.

    A great part of the Winter Palace has been transformed into a hospital to accommodate one thousand wounded. ...

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  62. SUGAR SUPPLIES.

    From an announcement made by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) to-night, it appears that, instead of Federal action with regard to the sugar problem ...

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  63. A NORWEGIAN GRIEVANCE.

    A German submarine yesterday stopped the Norwegian mail steamer Heakon, bound for England and seized her mails. The Norwegian Government has protested ...

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  64. FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

    Yesterday's communique stated:—"Our bombardment yesterday of German positions in the region of Linge (Alsace) destroyed two heavy batteries, and blew ...

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  65. ZEPPELIN OVER HOLLAND.

    A Zeppelin appeared above Vieland Island (one of the West Frisian Islands) yesterday. The Dutch troops opened gunfire, and the Zepplien disappeared, after ...

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  66. COTTON AND CONTRABAND.

    Advices from Washington confirm reports that their is unlikely to be any opposition in the United States to the declaration of cotton as contraband. A satisfactory ...

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  67. THE INDIA'S SURVIVORS.

    The Government has interned the India's survivors who were rescued by British armed trawlers and the India's own boats. Survivors rescued by a neuted veass; have ...

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  68. CHINA AND JAPAN.

    A Chino-Japanese agreement upon the Tsing-tao Customs duties has been signed Under this Japan agrees to the conditions previously in force between Germany and ...

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  69. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    The Premier has received from the Prime Minister's department the following communication, dated Melbourne, August 9:—"Instructions have been issued to military ...

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