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  2. Advertising

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  4. WAR-TIME FINANCE

    Mr. Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, is to state the details of the arrangement between the Federal Treasury and the banks regarding the ...

    Article : 263 words
  5. AUSTRALIA'S SHARE

    The Melbourne military correspondent of the Sydney "Sun", furnishes his paper with some interesting figures concerning Australia's military strength—actual and ...

    Article : 339 words
  6. THE WHEAT CROP

    The N.S.W. Government Statistician, in giving further particulars respecting the number of holdings and the areas on which the New South Wales wheat crops ...

    Article : 327 words
  7. PATRIOTIC FUNDS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 words
  8. THE WAR FROM DAY TO DAY

    The visit of Kins George to the British army at the front has had a most inspiriting influence upon the troops, and hut been made doubly memorable by a ...

    Article : 222 words
  9. EMDEN'S EXPLOITS

    One of the Emden's officers told a passenger on a transport that the Emden, prior to the fight with the Sydney, had been cut off from all communication with ...

    Article : 181 words
  10. VIGNETTES OF WAR

    A remarkable story is told by the Paris "Figaro" of the successful exploits of a small band of Frenchman that accidentally became de[?]ched from the army ...

    Article : 153 words
  11. DARING SUBMARINE

    A feat of exceptional daring by a British submarine is reported from Berlin. The British vessel, it is stated, attempted to force the passage of the Dardanelles ...

    Article : 184 words
  12. RIDDLED BY SHOT AND SHELL.

    A French biplane that has bad three months' service with the troops on the frontier, has been returned to Paris, where its history is exciting much ...

    Article : 167 words
  13. THE N.S.W. PATRIOTIC' FUND.

    The N.S.W. patriotic fund (called the Lord Mayor's Fund) amounts to £159,000. Of this amount £75,000 has been placed on deposit with the City of Sydney ...

    Article : 276 words
  14. THE SYDNEY'S DASH FOR THE FOE.

    As is now well known, the Sydney was, with other ships of the squadron, engaged in convoying the Australian troops to Egypt, when she received the wireless ...

    Article : 172 words
  15. HARASSING THE TURKS.

    Turkey's fleet of almost obsolete warships has suffered another mishap. The cruiser Hamldies struck a mine in the Black Sea, and had to return to ...

    Article : 89 words
  16. LAND TAX REVENUE.

    Mr. G. A. Mackay, Land Tax Commissioner, questioned concerning the additional land tax proposed in the Commonwealth budget, stated that he ...

    Article : 238 words
  17. BATTLEFIELD HONORS.

    During his visit to the army the King conferred the order of merit upon Sir John trench, und decorated King Albert of Belgium with the Order of the Garter. ...

    Article : 180 words
  18. HELP FOR FARMERS.

    Mr. W. F. Keast of Bogan Gate, writes referring to the severity of the drought and the resultant distress in that dis[?]:—The harvest has been very light ...

    Article : 301 words
  19. FACE TO FACE WITH RUIN.

    The Admiralty has issued mi order that the whole of the foiling fleet must erase operations in the Firth of Forth. The order has been received with ...

    Article : 93 words
  20. PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR TROOPS.

    In a report presented to the Minister for Defence by the Director of Physical Training, Lieut.-Colonel Bjelke-Petersen, it is recommended that at every training ...

    Article : 137 words
  21. CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 words
  22. CHILD PINNED TO A WINDOW.

    Corporal Minas, of the Royal West Surrey regiment [?]"the Queen's Own"), who was wounded at Ypres, states that his section was instructed to capture a ...

    Article : 121 words
  23. Caught by the Emden

    The commander of the British-India, steamer Chindwara (Captain Archdeacon) and one of his officers, Mr. A. B. Barrie, were previously on board the B.I. steamer ...

    Article : 225 words
  24. FIGHT FOR A COTTAGE.

    The ferryman's lodge upon the canal near Poesel, between Dixmude and Ypres, will have a place in history betide that of the farmhouse at La Haye Sainte, on ...

    Article : 160 words
  25. THE SYDNEY FOODSTUFF FUND.

    The London Chamber of Commerce has appointed a special committee to distribute the foodstuffs forwarded by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce. The ...

    Article : 102 words
  26. THE CRUISER BRISBANE.

    To the layman it seems a preposterously foolish thing to build a great vessel in a place from which it cannot be launched into the water, and yet that is exactly ...

    Article : 376 words
  27. N.S.W. LAND TAX.

    Taxpayers in New South Wales are reminded that Wednesday next, the 9th instant, will be the last day for payment of 1914 land tax, without fine, in respect ...

    Article : 56 words
  28. A TRAITOROUS MAYOR.

    When the Germans were driven out of Ypres, and shelled the place while the British occupied it, it was observed that the enemy's gunners carefully avoided ...

    Article : 93 words
  29. Sapping For Victory

    A correspondent of the London "Times," who has recently visited the neighborhood of Verdun, bends the following graphic description of the defence ...

    Article : 137 words
  30. MUDGEE WHEAT GROWERS.

    The Mudgee Wheatgrowers Association is urging local farmers to sow every acre they possibly can next year. Farmers are advised to plough the land as ...

    Article : 125 words
  31. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 words
  32. QUEENSLAND, HELPS BELGIUM.

    In the Queensland Legislative Assembly on Friday the Premier, Mr, Denham, made a statement regarding the assistance that the Government was giving to ...

    Article : 159 words
  33. WINE AND WATER.

    An unexpected fate overtook a company of the enemy in Flanders. Seventy-five Prussian soldiers, who had been cut off from the main body, and were harassed ...

    Article : 90 words
  34. Riotous Prisoners of War

    Enforced idleness has bred discontent among the p[?]soners of war interned at zeyst in H[?]and, where nearly 12,000 Belgians are [?]earcerated. The first ...

    Article : 213 words
  35. BAD SHOOTING.

    "Besides the St. Egbert, there were four other vessels drifting around, and we could see, than none of them were manned. They were sunk one after another ...

    Article : 106 words
  36. FOOD AND GROCERIES.

    The prices of food and groceries have fallen in most Australian centres since the outbreak of the war in August. A return issued on Saturday by the ...

    Article : 212 words
  37. Servia's Gallant Struggle

    While it is admitted that owing to the paucity of her resources, and the trying conditions of the winter, Servia is heavily handicapped in her campaign against ...

    Article : 157 words
  38. AID TO [?]RVING FARMERS.

    A well-attended meeting of primary producers was held at Tichborne (N.S.W.), recently, with the object of pointing [?] to the Government, the access[?] of giving ass[?]ance to agriculturists that ...

    Article : 278 words
  39. FATIGUE PARTIES AT WORK.

    Regiments are at work making new roads and repairing old roads that have been worn out by a constant stream of food and ammunition convoys. In the ...

    Article : 111 words
  40. RA[?]ITSKIN COATS

    No fewer than 1000 sheepskin waist-coats left Sydney on Saturday for the troops at the front, and the supply is to be maintained us steadily as possible ...

    Article : 246 words
  41. SHELLED BY THE EMDEN.

    A graphic description of the bombardment of Madras by the Emden is supplied by one of the officers of the Chindwara, which has just arrived at Sydney. ...

    Article : 167 words
  42. KING EDWARD'S HORSE.

    An English paper of recent date gives an account of the camp in England of King Edward's Light Horse regiment, in which ate a number of Australians and ...

    Article : 157 words
  43. TRENCHES AND BLOCKHOUSES.

    It is the men in the trenches that are giving Verdun her elbow-room, and it is the artillery that renders their existence possible. The men constantly advance a ...

    Article : 86 words
  44. BRITISH IN A DERMAN PRISON.

    The Germans appear to be having some trouble with their prisoners, and a British officer named Lonsdale, who was confined in a camp at Doebritz, has ...

    Article : 194 words
  45. QUEENSLAND TRADE.

    The Premier of Queensland (Mr. Denham) on Monday intimated that he thought the time had arrived when it was no longer necessary for the State ...

    Article : 68 words
  46. ROUMANIA'S DECISION.

    A Swiss newspaper publishes a despatch from Bucharest stating that Roumania has definitely decided to go to war on the side of the Triple Entente. The ...

    Article : 93 words
  47. FRENZIED LASCARS.

    "It was thought that the oil had been set on fire in order to give the Emden enough light to sink the merchant ships. The Lascars and other colored laborers ...

    Article : 148 words
  48. SPADES ARE TRUMPS.

    As at Verdun, so elsewhere, the sappers have become the big men of the war. The whole of the 350-mile front, from the Yser to the Argonne region, is one vast ...

    Article : 121 words
  49. A BRITISH STEAMER CAPTURED.

    The "Fiji Times" publishes a statement to the effect that when the Scharn-horst and the Gneisenau visited Bora Bora for provisions before the ...

    Article : 83 words
  50. YASS UNEMPLOYED.

    At a special meeting of the Yass municipal council, it was decided to give relief to a number of local unemployed up to the end of the year in repairing the ...

    Article : 59 words
  51. CASH FOR THE BELGIANS.

    The Belgian Consul of Sidney has tent another £20,000 to London from the fund for the relief of the sufferers from the war in that devastated little ...

    Article : 63 words
  52. MONTENEGRO'S PLIGHT.

    King Nicholas of Montenegro has telegraphed to the "Bourse Gazette," of Petrograd, slating that a third of the Montenegrin army has fallen on the ...

    Article : 48 words
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