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  4. IN AUSTRALIA.

    The Minister for Defence indignantly denies the allegations which have been made concerning the nature of the equipment of the Expeditionary Forces. ...

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  5. INTERSTATE NEWS.

    A double tragedy occurred in the Prince Alfred Park early this morning, the vice-timbs being May Marshall, 19, of 40 Elizabeth street, Redfern, and Frederick ...

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  6. CARPATHIANS BATTLES

    Writing from the British Headquarters at the front, "Eye-Witness (Colonel Swinton) reports that the British exploded a large mine on 9th ...

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  7. CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA.

    It is reported from Capetown that General Smuts (Minister of Defence and Acting Prime Minister) has taken the field against the Germans. He will ...

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  8. AEROPLANE OVER CANTERBURY.

    Two aircraft were seen over Canterbury, in Kent. One was German, but the other was not identified. The German machine made towards ...

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  9. PEACE PLACARDS POSTED.

    The Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera" states that the streets of Constantinople were on Friday placarded with manifestoes demanding peace, ...

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  10. RED CROSS FUND.

    Mrs Fred Ham hon, treasurer of the Ballarat branch of the Red Cross Society, acknowledges the following donation:- United Friendly Societies of Ballarat. ...

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  11. ZEPPELINS' GUIDE.

    In connection with the recent Zeppelin raid two ladies residing midway between Maldon and Burnham-on-Crouch state that the Zeppelin ...

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  12. OFT SOLD PIPE.

    Rather a novel method of raising money for the Belgian Relief Fund has been inaugurated by the Skipton Masonic Lodge. A tremendous cherrywood pipe (donated ...

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  13. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY.

    Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States, writing to a resident of Washington, characterises the failure of Americans to take their ...

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  14. SAFE RETURN OF AIRSHIPS.

    It is officially announced from Berlin that naval airships successfully bombarded several important towns on the British east coast, and returned ...

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  15. ANARCHY AT SMYRNA.

    The Paris newspaper "Le Temps" states that anarchy prevails at Smyrna. Under the pretext of levying army requisites, the Turks are ...

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  16. GREYHOUND RAFFLED FOR £37 6s.

    The drawing of an art union for a greyhound pup donated by Mr Seymour Larkan, for the Belgian Relief Fund took place on Friday the winning ...

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  17. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    The "Times" expresses the hope that the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr Lewis Harcourt) will ponder over the advice of the Commonwealth Prime ...

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  18. FRENCH AVIATOR'S SUCCESS.

    The French aviator, Garros, brought down a German aeroplane near Messines, near the French border southeast of Yores. ...

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  19. SYRIAN COAST SHELLED.

    An official announcement from Paris reports that a French cruiser on Thursday shelled and destroyed the railway bridge connecting Acre, on the ...

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  20. GEELONG FUND.

    The Geelong total for the Belgian Relief Fund is now close to £6000 raised in seven weeks. ...

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  21. ARMED [?] S[?]BREAKERS.

    Mrs [?] of the Rev. [?] Vincent Dowling, of Ridge street, North Sydney, returned from an [?] yesterday to be confronted [?] by ...

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  22. NEW ZEALAND CONTRIBUTIONS.

    Since the beginning of the war, New Zealand has sent to the Belgian Fund in cash £132,972, and goods and produce to the value of £65,000. Cash sent to the ...

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  23. RUSSIAN DESTROYERS.

    Our destroyers have sunk four steamers and several sailing vessels off the coast of Anatolia in Asia Minor. ...

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  24. DEATH AT SEA.

    The Minister for Defence announced to-day the death of Second-Lieutenant M'Kay, of the Second Reinforcements, 7th Battalion (Victoria), suddenly at ...

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  25. BRITISH OFFICERS IN GERMANY.

    A German telegram states that a number of British officers in the fortress of Magdeburg have been placed in solitary confinement as a reprisal ...

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  26. THE CHRISTIAN "EXTRA."

    The Lydiard Street Methodist Church was crowded, and hundreds were turned away last evening, when the Rev. S. J. Hoban, the former minister, who is on ...

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  27. EL ARISH BOMBARDED.

    An official communique states that battleships, assisted by aeroplanes, effectively bombarded El Arish and a concentration of Turkish troops. ...

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  28. AUSTRIAN AIRSHIP LOST.

    The Exchange Telegraph Company's correspondent at Paris states that one of Austria's Zeppelins, while manoeuvring, fell into the Adriatic, and was ...

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  29. INTERPRETER'S SUICIDE.

    Early this morning George Jarrett, Government interpreter, was found unconscious on the floor in his room at the Central Police Court Buildings. He ...

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  30. DOCTORS FOR THE FRONT.

    The list of doctors for the front is now complete, at 100. To-day nine [?]ames were handed in to the Minister for Defence, among them being that of ...

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  31. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    The London "Echo," an evening journal, stated on Friday that an enemy aeroplane had dropped bombs at Sittingbourne, in Kent, 35 miles from ...

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  32. CONTRACTS ACCEPTED.

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  33. TURKISH DESTROYER.

    It is officially states that a Turkish torpedo boat destroyer le[?] the Gulf of Smyr[?] during a storm, and eluded the warships until she attacked the The transport fruitlessly, when the British fight cruiser Minerva- (5600 tons, 11 6-inch guns), and destroyers chased her. She ran ashore and was ...

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  34. GERMAN ACTIVITY.

    A Zeppelin airship was seen at [?] o'clock on Friday morning off Holland, flying towards Germany. Three airships were sighted over the North Sea ...

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  35. HUGE GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS.

    Germany's timely reinforcements, consisting of ten army corps thus far, have saved saved Uszok Pass from falling into the Russian's hands, but we ...

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  36. DESPERATE BATTLES.

    An official communique issued at Petrograd states that there has been desperate fighting in the Carpathians between the villages of Palphotsch and ...

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  37. CALAIS VISITED.

    Paris reports that Allied airmen chased two German Taubes, which, were attempting to fly over tho French town of Ar[?]entieres. As a result of an ...

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  38. RAILWAY SOLDIERS PAY.

    Dissatisfaction has been caused by the decision of the Chief Railway Commissioner to withhold, until the completion of their military service, the ...

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  39. RECRUITING PROCEEDING.

    Up to this morning 530 new soldiers were sent out to Broadmeadows this week. At the enrolling depot there were 323 applicants, of whom 258 or ...

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  40. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE.

    Nine recipients of Distinguished Service Orders include Major Gault, of Princess Patricia's Canadian veterans turps. ...

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  41. GERMAN PIRACY.

    Further details are to hand regarding the torpedoing of the Ptarmigan by a German submarine. The vessel was bound for Rotterdam ...

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  42. N.Z. ADDITIONAL FORCE.

    The Premier, Mr Massey, has announced, that the Imperial Government has accepted the offer of the New Zealand Government to provide a force additional to ...

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  43. FOOLING THE GERMANS.

    On 1st April a British aviator dropp a football over the aerodrome at Lille. As it fell slowly, the airman saw the Germans scurrying to cover in ...

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  44. POLISH CAMPAIGN.

    The Russians have made a slight forward movement at Sokhaczeu[?], 23 miles west of Warsaw on the Bzura River, and have crossed the river. ...

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  45. BOMBS NEAR HOSPITAL.

    It is now known in connection with the Zeppelin raid that no fewer than 19 bombs fell near the hospital at Southwold, on the Suffolk coast. The ...

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  46. BELGIAN RELIEF.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 words
  47. GERMAN PLANE BROUGHT DOWN

    ENEMY'S AIR STATION BOMBED. A British aeroplane brought down a German aeroplane at Boesinghe, west of Ypres. The pilot was killed ...

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  48. ITALY AND AUSTRIA

    Large movements are taking place on the Austrian frontier. Two hundred persons were recently arrested while carrying across the ...

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  49. ROBBING THE BELGIANS.

    M. Castelein, president of the Antwerp Chamber of Commerce, in his report on the treatment of Antwerp, says that the Germans requisitioned 40,000 ...

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  50. CASUALTIES & FATALITIES

    While working on the steamer Wodonga at the wharf to-day, James Lacey, aged 35, laborer, fell 20 feet down the hold and sustained severe spinal ...

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  51. ZEPPELINS' ATTACK.

    An airship was also seen at Wells, in Norfolk. Three bombs were dropped near Henham Hall, at Southwold, which had been used as a hospital for ...

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  52. GERMANS IN ENGLAND.

    The "Berli[?] Tag[?]" publishes without comm[?], a warm tribute by a returned German to the kindness with which Germans in England are treated. ...

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  53. DUTCH INDIGNATION.

    There is growing indigation in Holland at the sinking of the steamer Katwyk. Germany has opened an enquiry into ...

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  54. A LITLE GIRL'S EFFORT.

    Dolly Hayden, the little daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Hayden, of the Globe Hotel, Cape Clear, has forwarded £1 16-3d which she raised by selling threepenny ...

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  55. DROWNED IN WIMMERA RIVER.

    An inquest was held at Glenorchy to-day on the body of a man found by the police in the Wimmera River, at Glenorchy, on Thursday last. Evidence was ...

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  56. PROGRESS IN ALSACE.

    An official communique issued at Paris at midnight on Saturday states:— Our artillery destroyed several caves ...

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  57. LONDON. Saturday.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Verona telegraphs that there is great military activity on the northeastern frontier. ...

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  58. SALE OF POULTRY.

    Mr T. Lawless, Lydiard street, has generously offered to hold an auction sale of all poultry donated to the fund. The sale will be held on Monday next, at 3 ...

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  59. SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK.

    The Sweedish steamer Folka was mined or torpedoed off Peterhead. The crew were saved after a drif of 14 hours. ...

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  60. GERMAN LIES IN AMERICA.

    It now transpires officially that von Bornsdorff, the German Ambassador at Washington, has been continually circulating rumors that tile British and ...

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  61. COLLISION IN TRENTINO.

    A number of Austrian soldiers penetrated the Trentino through the Pass of Loro. Italian Customs officials exchanged shots with them. ...

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  62. SKEWER STRIKES EYEBALL.

    The friends of Cr J. Hopkins, [?] Sebastopol, will regret to learn of a severe accident that befell him on Friday evening last. He was engaged in his ...

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  63. CHECKING SEA OUTRAGES.

    A leasable proposition for the adoption of reprisals against the German campaign of high sea piracy has been mentioned by M. Mezauban, president ...

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  64. EASTERN CAMPAIGN

    Both sides on the Carpathians, front are inactive, owing to the heavy snow rapidly melting thus rendering the roads useless. ...

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  65. TURKISH CAMPAIGN

    The Press Bureau states that the British and Indian troops attacked 15,000 Turks at Zobier, near Busra, in Mesopotamia, on 14th April. ...

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  66. EXCITING MOMENTS.

    Additional particulars which have been collected regarding the Zeppelin raid on the east coast show that the airship passed within revolver shot of ...

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  67. ENTERPRISING CHILDREN.

    Two little children in Hamilton went round the outskirts of the town gathering bark which had fallen from the gum trees. This they tied in small bundles ...

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  68. MANGLED ON THE RAILWAY.

    The [?] woman was to-night discovered on the Frankston railway line, under the Malvern road bridge. The identity of ...

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  69. AGREEMENT WITH ENGLAND.

    The "Krenz Zietung" alleges that influences are at work to persuade Germany to secure a reconciliation with Britain in a way to guarantee to ...

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  70. SPORTS AND JUMBLE FAIR.

    In aid of the Belgians, residents of Lilydale to-day held a carnival, sports meeting, and jumble fair. There was a procession with decorated motor cars and ...

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  71. MOTOR 'BUS WHEEL BREAKS AWAY.

    When the axle of a motor 'bus snapped in Russell street this afternoon one of the wheels became detached, and chased through the bar door of ...

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  72. SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS.

    Earl Kitchener's Munitions Committee is establishing local committees in the important manufacturing centres, with full power to organise the output ...

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  73. "DISCIPLINARY" CASES.

    Senator Pearce stated to-day that a soldier's moral character need not necessarily, suffer because his name appeared in the list of "disciplinary" cases. ...

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  74. SILENT RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

    The Telepo[?] and Zuella battles ge[?]gan on Wednesday, when the Russians advanced in dead silence and cut the enemy's wire entanglements and ...

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  75. THE POPE AND PEACE.

    The newspaper "Osservatori Romano, in a report of a semi-official audience with the Pope denies that the latter either formally interviewed ...

    Article : 61 words
  76. PANIC AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

    "Le Temps," the Paris newspaper has received a report from Dedea[?]atch, a seaport on the Gulf of Enos, stating that the Turkish Imperial ...

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  77. RACES ON EMPIRE DAY.

    It has been decided by the Australian Jockey Club committee to hold a race meeting on Empire Day, May 24, in aid of the Belgian Fund. ...

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  78. WILLIAMSTOWN FUND BENEFIT SOCIETY.

    Williamstown ladies have collected a total of £363 2s 6d since October of last year for the Belgian Fund. ...

    Article : 71 words
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