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  2. SEIZURE OF SHIPS.

    A French torpedo-boat destoyer cruising; off Marseilles yesterday captured the Dutch cargo steamer Konigen Emma, which was bound from Batavia to ...

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  3. MADE IN GERMANY.

    The so-called "German Truth Association" has circulated in South America the announcement that [?] of [?] lin airships has bombarded London,and ...

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  4. THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS

    The general situation is hopeful, and the Germans have been compelled to retire at several important points. On October 13th ond 14th the ...

    Article : 115 words
  5. A BELGIAN VICTORY

    Chief interest in the war is now centred upon the struggle between the extreme German right and the extreme left of the Allies in the south-west corner of Belgium. The victor there will put the vanquished in danger of being outflanked. The post of honour on the Allies extreme left appears to be held by the Belgians, who apparently aro entrenched on tho Y.sur River, On Sunday the Germans attempted to force the passage of the ...

    Article : 318 words
  6. NOTICE.

    A War Special Edition of "The Mercury" is published Every Day AT 3 P.M., ...

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  7. FRENCH TERRITORIALS.

    Details of an engagement which tool place at St. Mihiel on October 3 show that a battery of mountain guns on mules and a battalion of French ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. LAYING OF MINES.

    The Dutch liner Noordam. bound from New York for Rotterdam, which struck a mine in the North Sea, but was able to proceed under her own ...

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  9. ANOTHER PARIS SENSATION.

    Some time ago a German bought a property adjoining the C'harcnton-lePont ciuarries, three and a half miles from Notic Dame, in Paris, and ii ...

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  10. WORK OF THE RAILWAYMEN

    Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Labour member for Derby, addressing a meeting of railway men at Nottingnam yesterday, said the history of the war. would ...

    Article : 89 words
  11. FRIDAY'S NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.

    An official report published in Berlin confirms the report of the sinking ot the destroyers S116, S 117, S118, and S. 119 on the Dutch coast, hythe ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. AUSTRO-SERVIAN WAR

    It is officially announced at Nish, the provisional capital of Servia, that the Servians and Montenegrins on Wednesday defeated a division of Austrians, ...

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  13. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    The King has ordered that a Distinguished Service Medal shall be established for the naval non-commissioned officers and men. It is to be given for ...

    Article : 55 words
  14. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    The "Voerwarts," the lending German Socialist organ, states that the Prussian Cabinet is submitting to the Diet an emergency relief bill demanding a ...

    Article : 67 words
  15. THE REFUGEES.

    It is reported that 30 Belgian refugees wore killer, and ICO injured, in a railway collision at Boulogne yesterday. ...

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  16. GERMAN SPIES

    Hugo Flake, formerly a captain in the German Army, has been arrested in London and charged with spying. He possessed a camera, revolver, a ...

    Article : 63 words
  17. THE ALLIES' CAMPAIGN

    The position is summed up as follows in the communique issued this afternoon:- "The Belgians have vigorously ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. THE RETREAT.

    Sergeant Giles of the Royal Marines, relates that some barges ignited with burning oil drifted down the River Scheldt, and threatened the pontoon ...

    Article : 130 words
  19. DECORATIONS FOR BRAVERY

    "What is a riband worth to a soldier? Worth? Everything! Glory is priceless! —Claude Melnotte in The Ludy of Lyons." ...

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  20. MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD

    The Labour leader. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. M.P., addressing a meeting at Leicester yesterday, had a hostile reception. with shouts of "traitor." ...

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  21. FIGHTING IN THE VOSGES.

    The communique issued at midnight last night runs us follows:- "The Germans have attempted two violent attacks to the north and east of ...

    Article : 47 words
  22. AUSTRALIA.

    The Minister of Defence (Hon. G. F. Pearce) this morning issued the following extract from a Radio telegram received from the Administrator at ...

    Article : 141 words
  23. ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS.

    Yesterday the military were summoned to suppress anti-German riots at Deptford, on the Surrey side of the Thames. Twenty-one people, including ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. UNITED STATES WAR TAXES.

    The Senate has passed the War Tax Bill to raisse one hundred million dollars annually to be expended in connection with the war. The revenue is to be ...

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  25. DESPERATE FIGHT.

    The French for several days had made an unsuccessful attempt to dislodge 800 Gormans, who were hidden in a cave in the Soissons region. ...

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  26. GERMAN BARBARITIES.

    The Germans who occupied Warneton, a small place in Belgium near Ypres, burnt half a dozen houses on the pretext that civilians had fired on the ...

    Article : 97 words
  27. THE GERMAN RIGHT WING.

    Large reinforcements have been rushed to the German right flank d[?]ing the week. The force recently in the depots at Dresden is now in ...

    Article : 169 words
  28. SEIZURE OF WIRELESS PLANT.

    Professor Arthur Schuster, whose powerful wireless tolegraph plant has been seized by tho polico at his residence at Yeldall, Turylord. Berkshire, is ...

    Article : 78 words
  29. THE KINGS COLONIALS.

    Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner, visited tho King's Colonials at Watford to-day. Their two months in camp has worked wonders. Sir George ...

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  30. FRENCH TRAITORS.

    The Paris correspondent of the London "Express" says that fifteen spies found at Sillery. a wine-making village in the Rheims district, have been shot ...

    Article : 114 words
  31. THE FALL OF ANTWERP

    The "Vossische Zeitung," one of the daily newspapers published at Berlin, admits that the German plans were upset by the retreat of the Allies from ...

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  32. INTERNED GERMAN STEAMERS.

    The Hobart Chamber of Commerce has received from the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce a letter advising that the following cable has been received from ...

    Article : 120 words
  33. GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLIES.

    The "New YorK Herald" states that Germany is shipping from America large quantities of grain and provisions through Swedish, Danish, and ...

    Article : 36 words
  34. WAR IN AFRICA

    At a meeting of Boer commandants which was held at Kinonstadt yesterday, those attending representing the Orango Tree State [?]oith of ...

    Article : 108 words
  35. MORE CONCRETE PLATFORMS

    Ready-made concrete platforms have been discovered forming part of houses in the neighbourhood of Dunkirk. They have been destroyed. ...

    Article : 30 words
  36. TURKEY AND THE WAR.

    The Athens correspondent of "The Times" states that Germany recently sent to Turkey £1.000.000 in gold, and consignments of heavy guns to ...

    Article : 63 words
  37. ARREST OF RELIEF COMMITTEE.

    The Berlin police have arrested the members of the British relief committee who were working from the British Consulate, under the surveillance of the ...

    Article : 51 words
  38. BRITISH NAVAL DIVISION.

    The following cable message has been received from the High Commissioner, under date Loudon, October 17:- "Official.—The First Lord of the ...

    Article : 511 words
  39. GERMAN OFFICERS COURTMARTIALLED.

    Two German officers, who were disguised as civilians, have heen tried by court-martial at Ypres, and ordered to be shot. ...

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  40. BATTLE IN BELGIUM.

    Mr. P. Gibbs, the war correspondent, telegraphs that the Allies have made striking progress since the fall of Antwerp. The Germans have abandoned ...

    Article : 255 words
  41. THE LOST SUBMARINE.

    The "SYdneY Morning Heralds" Rabaul correspondent, writing on September 27, says:— "The tragedy of AEI is the first ...

    Article : 349 words
  42. THE POSITION IN BELGIUM.

    The Allies are repoited to have made good progress at Arres, in France, and also to have driven the Germans out of Estuires and Armentieres, on the frontier to tho weat of Lills. In Belgium the Germans on Sunday began a great movement from Bruges and ostend to the [?]er River, in the south-west corner of the country. This part ot the Allies,line is held by the Belgian Array, who defended all the crossings. Along the Allies Iront in Prance from.[?] south by way [?] Lens, Arras, Albert, and then east by the Aisne River to Verdun, and then touth to St. Mihiel, nome progress has been made here and there. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 120 words
  43. ATTITUDE OF GENERAL HERTZOG.

    General Hertzog has telegraphed to the Dutch Church Presbytery at Capotown, placing the responsibility for the treachery of Colonel Marita upon the ...

    Article : 88 words
  44. GENERAL BOTHA'S FIRMNESS.

    General Hertzog, in offering his services, said he hoped that the Government would terminate the Marita rebellion without bloodshed. General ...

    Article : 86 words
  45. ENEMY SHORT OF SUPPLIES

    The German forces which were recently threatening the northern part of the French coast, besides suffering heavily, are now short of ammunition- and ...

    Article : 109 words
  46. THE ENEMY'S LOSSES.

    Dealing with the latest casualty lists, the German newspapers confirm the Anglo-French claims that German battalions have been wiped out: Such ...

    Article : 53 words
  47. THE BOMBARDMENT OF PAPEETE.

    An eye-witness of the bombardment of Papeete states that the operation left the island a mass of ruins. At 6 o'clock on the morning of September 22, two ...

    Article : 287 words
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