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Advertising : 37 wordsThe war cablegrams this morning cover the operations in six pratically separate campaigns—that is, the operations are not intimately associated. There is the war in Servia, the war on the Russo-Austrian frontier, the war on the Russo-German frontier, the war in Alsace, the war in Lorrnine, and the war in Belgium. Finally, we have Japan's declaration of war against Germany. Nowhere can it be said that the Germans and Austrians have ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 25 Aug 1914, Page 5
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