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  3. THE WAR FROM DAY TO DAY THE ALLIES'ATTACK.

    Notwithstanding that they have been reinforced by about 60,000 men who have advanced across Belgium the German forces in France have been driven back ...

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  4. "A GLORIOUS STAND."

    Field-Marshal Sir John Trench, Commander-in-chief of the British expeditionary force, sends the following interesting report on the operations of his ...

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  5. BRITAIN'S NEW NAVY.

    The Arethusa, which took such a prominent part in the British naval victory off Heligoland, did its gallant work almost in the dark. ...

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  6. SECRETS OF SUCCESS

    Those persons (if any such there be) that imagined the Allies would present an insurmountable obstacle tu the German advance on Paris have, by this time, ...

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  7. RUSSIAN VICTORS.

    A message from Rome states that the advance guard of the Russian centre, having invaded Silesia, is marching towards Berlin. The capture of Breslau ...

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  8. FERVID ENTHUSIASM

    Well may the "Times" say in a leading article: "Gladly and joyously the Empire is responding to the King's call. In every ...

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  9. MISCHIEF-MAKING.

    The German Ambassador in New York, when not engaged in issuing accounts of imaginary German victories, is busy trying to make mischief between ...

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  10. AUSTRIA'S PLIGHT.

    Messages from both Petrograd and Co[?]enghagen state that the Emperor Francis Joseph is in fairly good health. It is also stated that in the near future ...

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  11. THE EVACUATION OF BINCHE.

    "Reports were received on August 23rd that the enemy were commencing to attack the Mons line, apparently in some strength, and threatening particularly ...

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  12. DOWN TO THE LAST BUTTON.

    On that fateful day in July, 1870, when Napoleon the Third declared war against Prussia, M. Emile Ollivier, the Emperor's right hand man, assured the ...

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  13. [?] MONTENEGRIN JOIN IN.

    A telegram from Scutari, states that General Vukotitch, with three, Montenegrin columns, after a stubborn resist and succeeded in occupying Focha, an ...

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  14. CONTINUOUS RUSSIAN VICTORY.

    The Austrian army, stated to be 600,000 strong is being caught between two Russian armies, and a fight is raging from Lublin, in Russian Poland, to ...

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  15. THE RULES OF THE GAME.

    It is [?]mate for any hostile ship, whether war vessel or merchant vessel in war time to fly the flag of any neutral country it pleases. The only check that ...

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  16. BRITAIN'S NEW ARMADA.

    Within the next twelve months the British navy will be increased by twelve first-class ships. Obviously the battleships that were to have been ready in October, ...

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  17. CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO FIRES.

    The result of the last four day four days' fightling shows that the southern division of the German army of invasion is being caught between two fires. The French ...

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  18. RECORD RECRUITING DAY.

    Recruits in Great Britain average 30,000 a day. Remarkable scenes of cri[?]thusiasm are of hourly occurrence. On Monday, London had a records day 4,833 ...

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  19. [?] TROUBLE FOR AUSTRIA.

    Eugitives from Austria-Hungary state that the Australians are now menaced with a rising in the Duchy of Bukovina, south of Galicia. In that district Hungarian ...

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  20. CONQUE[?]ING EVERYWHERE.

    A message from London says that the Russians have occupied four passes in the Carpathians. They are everywhere victorious, and ...

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  21. UNEXPECTED NEWS.

    "In the meantime, about evening. I received a most unexpected telegram from General Joffre that at least three German army corps were moving on my position ...

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  22. GERMAN TROOPS TRANSFERRED.

    A message from Petrograd confirms the news of the German rush to defend East Prussia. It is estimated that the enemy has ...

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  23. THE OVERSEA DOMINIONS.

    What Australia is dong we all know, what Canada would do we all guessed but the almost prodigal patrio[?] of india is as welcome as it is unexpected ...

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  24. PUZZLING STRATEGY.

    Military critics state that there are several puzzling features of the recent operations, and that it is difficult to account for the turn of the tide in view of the fact ...

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  25. THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE.

    It is to be hoped that no trouble will arise with the United States concerning the vexed question of buying ships. Mr. Cecil Spring-Rice British ...

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  26. GERMAN BLOOD-LUST.

    Refugees from Kalize, on the boundary, of Russian Poland and Germany, state that a German patrol on the outskirts, of the town fired on their own ...

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  27. THE AUSTRIAN COLLAPSE.

    At the outset of the war," says a high military official. "Austria was the most serious enemy Russia had to contend against, because except for four ...

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  28. AN ABLY MANAGED RETREAT.

    "A certain amount of fighting continued along the whole line throughout the night, and at daybreak on the 24th the second division from the ...

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  29. GERMANY'S NAVAL PROSPECTS.

    During the next year it is probable that Germany will have ready the battleships Markgraf and Grosser Kurfurst (if these are not already in the fleet), and the ...

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  30. MASSED ARTILLERY FIRE.

    It is not to be expected, however, that perfection characterises each detail of the military organisation, and every report that has come to hand tells of the ...

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  31. THE SALE OF SHIPS TO NEUTRALS.

    Mr.W.G,McAdoo, Secretary to the Treasury, in speaking before the merchant marine committee in the House of Representative, which was engaged ...

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  32. BATTLE ON THE GNILALPA.

    A cable from Rome states that the Russian left assaulted a strongly-fortified position on the Gnilalpa, a tributary of the Vistula. ...

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  33. THE DEFENCE OF MAUBEUGE.

    "Towards this desirable end. the fortress of Maubeage may be able to contribute materially, Owing to the spirited defence of the fortress against the ...

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  34. CAVALRY MOVEMENTS.

    "At about 7.30 o'clock in the morning Major-General Allenby received from Sir Charles Ferguson, commanding the fifth division, a message that he was very ...

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  35. THANKS FOR LOYAL HELP.

    Advices from Melbourne state that the Secretary for the Colonies in London has forwarded a message from the King to the Governments and peoples of the overseas Dominions. ...

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  36. UNCHALLENGED ON THE SEAS.

    The operations of the war have been so varied and have covered, [?] filed, also the news that has been permitted to filter through is so fragmentary, and disjointed that many persons have only hazy notions respecting the actual position of affairs. A concise ...

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  37. WAS THE EMDEN REALLY SUNK?

    According to Mr. Lewis Harcourt only four German cruisers and one Austrian have been sunk. In view of information previously received from other sources, ...

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  38. A BELLICOSE SCHOLAR.

    Professor Hale, one of the leading educationalists of America, advocates, that the United States should immediately declare war against Germany for the ...

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  39. MOWED DOWN BY MACHINE GUNS.

    Good as the artillery is admitted to be, our men declare that the Germans' use of machine guns is even better, and that neither artillery nor rifle fire has ...

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  40. GEORGE'S SILVER BULLET.

    Mr, D.Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been, telling an English audience of the importance of money in warlike negotiations. ...

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  41. HOLDING THE ENEMY IN CHECK.

    Elsewhere along the whole trout, from the Swiss frontier to Verdun the French are holding the enemy at bay. It is reported that the Germans evacuated ...

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  42. AMERICA'S LITTLE BILL.

    It is announced that the President of the united States intends to ask the joint session of Consress for a war taxation measure to raise £20,000,000 ...

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  43. GERMAN SHIPS STEAMING EAST.

    A cable from Copenhagen reports that a squadron of German battleships, with cruisers and destroyers, has been seen in the Gulf of Bothnia, between Finland and ...

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  44. THE ENEMY'S DESIGNS.

    "The French were still retiring, and I had no supports, except such as were afforded by the fortress of Maubeuge. The enemy's determined attempt to get ...

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  45. DEMORALISING THE FOE.

    Obviously, the slaughter of the foe is the main object desired: less obviously, and only slightly less influential, is the demoralisation that this continuous ...

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  46. BRITISH LINER-CRUISER LOST.

    The Oceanic, a merchant ship converted into a British cruiser, which has been wrecked off the cost of Scotland, was the famous Atlantic greyhound in which ...

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  47. BRITISH HOSPITALITY.

    Thirteen hundred Belgian refugess have arrived at Folkestone, the Kentish port in the south of England. In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith ...

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  48. The Battle of Meaux.

    The correspondent of a London newspaper describes how he came upon the battle at Meaux. Driving along, his car surmounted a hill overlooking the little ...

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  49. GERMANS UNABLE TO PURSUE.

    "At length it was apparent that in order to avoid being completely annihilated a retirement must be attempted. The retirement was commenced at 3.30 ...

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  50. ANOTHER MERCHANTMAN TAKEN.

    The Holland-America [?]ner Norrdam from New York for Rotterdam, with many German reservists and a general cargo also destined for Germany has been ...

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  51. ON THE LOOK-OUT.

    The Admiralty announces that a British naval airship will cruise about London during the next few days and nights, ...

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  52. AN UNSEEN ENEMY.

    Another disturbing factor, especially upon the morale of young troops, is [?] lustrated in a letter from the front:—"One disconcerting thing about the ...

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  53. BRITISH CASUALTIES.

    The third list of British casualties issued by the War Office gives the following totals:-Killed, 42: wounded. 147: missing, 4.607. Between 2,000 and 3,000 ...

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  54. FIGHTING IN THE AIR.

    "The Flying Corps, although fired at constantly by friend and foe, did not hesitate to fly in any kind of weather, By actually, fighting in the air they ...

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  55. "LUCKY' HAIG'S CLEVERNESS.

    Lieutenant-General [?], with the first division, was heavily engaged on the 25th south and east of Maroilles. Partly owing to the assistance of two ...

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  56. SIR JOHN JELLICOE.

    Sir John Jellicoe is generally regarded us one of the most scientific officer in the British navy. He is in the front rank of gunnery experts—a fact of which full ...

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  57. ROUNDING UP THE SPIES.

    Mr. Reginald McKenna, Home Secretary announced in the House of Commons that 9,000 cases of suspected espionage on the part of aliens in England ...

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  58. "A GLORIOUS STAND."

    Sir John French adds: "I cannot close the brief account of the glorious stand of the British troops without recording my deep appreciation of the valuable ...

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  59. AUTOMATIC SOLDIERS.

    Much,too, depends upon the man behind the gun and in the German army he has been trained and disciplined until he is little more than an automaton. ...

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  60. TERRIBLE ARTILLERY FIRE.

    "At daybreak, on August 20th, it was apparent that the enemy were throwing the bulk of their strength against the left of the position occupied by our ...

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  61. GERMAN PATROL SMASHED.

    During the German retreat in the Martie Valley on Tuesday the French and British cavalry smashed a German patrol, while the Horse Artillery, directed by an ...

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  62. A GERMAN SPY SHOT.

    Maximilian Dinz. a German cigarette manufacturer, in London, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, and has been ordered to be deported at the ...

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  63. ZOUAVES' TERRIBLE DEATH.

    A brigade of 8,000 Zouaves went with a terrible dash into the recent battle at Meaux but fewer than 1,000 emerged from it the remainder having been mowed ...

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