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  4. THE GERMAN HUNT

    Speaking at a university students' dinner in Sydney, Sir William Cullen, Chief Justice of New South Wales and Chancellor of the Sydney University ...

    Article : 320 words
  5. AUSTRALIA'S SHARE

    Writing from Melbourne to the "British Weekly," which may be described as the mouthpiece of the nonconformist conscience in England, the Rev. J. D. ...

    Article : 170 words
  6. MINES AND MINERALS

    The N.S.W. Under-secretary for Mines has furnished a return showing the quantity and value of silver, silver-lead, zinc concentrates, copper, tin, and coal ...

    Article : 225 words
  7. THE WORLD'S WHEAT

    The N.S.W. Premier has a despatch from the Lg[?]-General, enclosing a memorandum from the British Board of Agriculture on the probable world's ...

    Article : 325 words
  8. THE WAR FROM DAY TO DAY

    Commander Norman Holbrook, who is in command of the British submarine B11, is maintaining the reputation of British seamen for enterprise and ...

    Article : 180 words
  9. RUSSIA'S GRIM FIGHT

    Stubborn battles are being fought at various points along the great Russo-German frontier from the Baltic to the Carpathian mountains. In the north ...

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  10. SPYING OUT THE LAND

    The ubiquitous German spy masquerades under all manner of disguises, and is to be found in the least suspected places. Some time before the war ...

    Article : 226 words
  11. FURIOUS FIGHTING

    A stirring description of the recent fighting in the district between Ypres and La Bassee is given by a correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," ...

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  12. HONORED BY THE FLEET.

    After the fight with the Emden at Cocos Island, the Sydney picked up the transport Empress of Russia, to which ship a number of prisoners and wounded ...

    Article : 190 words
  13. CRACOW BOMBARDED.

    Cracow is being vigorously bombarded, and the residents are digging coves where they intend to remain until the siege is ended. Some sharp encounters ...

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  14. N.S.W. GOLD YIELD.

    Returns furnished by the N.S.W. Under-Secretary for Mines show that the gold yield for the month of November is 10,408 ounces crude, equal to 7849oz ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. PURSUED BY DESTROYERS.

    The little British craft was "spotted" by the enemy, and a perfect hailstorm of shells from warships and land batteries fell round her. Also two ...

    Article : 176 words
  16. A SHORT-LIVED TRIUMPH.

    "Here, where the natural obstacles wherewith we have to contend are infinitely more formidable than elsewhere." says the correspondent, "we have ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. THE ATTEMPT TO REACH WARSAW

    It is in the centre, in Russian Poland, that the fiercest fighting is taking place and that the most momentuous operations are progressing. The Germans are ...

    Article : 238 words
  18. WOMEN SPIES SHOT.

    For a month past French gunners have been betrayed to the Germans in the centre of the battle line. It was at length discovered that the signals were made ...

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  19. ALIENS AND UNIONISM.

    The members of the Sydney Wharf-laborers' Union are evidently firm in their determination not to work with men hailing from countries with which Britain is ...

    Article : 240 words
  20. WHEAT DUTY ABOLISHED.

    The House of Representatives of Saturday, at, the instance of Mr. Tudor, Minister for Customs, agreed that from that day the import duty on wheat of 1s. 6d. ...

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  21. N.S.W. MINERAL EXPORTS.

    The mineral exports front broken Hill for the month of November totalled £132,774 in value, made up thus:—Silver-lead concentrates, 256,840cwt, value ...

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  22. THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET.

    Work upon the destroyer Derwent at Cockatoo Island is now practically complete, and when the ceremony of her launching is over on Saturday, one moe ...

    Article : 264 words
  23. CONSUL SENTENCED TO DEATH.

    Herr Ahlers, German Consul at Sunderland, who was, indicted on a charge of high-season under a statute of Edward Ill., concerning levying war against ...

    Article : 173 words
  24. GERMAN PRECAUTIONS.

    Commander Max Horton, who has electrified the North Sea fleet by some of his daring exploits with submarine [?] states that on several visits he was ...

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  25. COURTING DESTRUCTION.

    "A bloodier encounter followed to the northward, in the Forrest of Houthe[?] where the British position had been rendered almost impregnable by means of ...

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  26. ZINC SMELTING PROJECT.

    The "Engineering and Mining Journal" states that Germany, which previously took the Australian production of zinc ore, will lose this smelting business ...

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  27. "Terriers" At The Front

    It has long hern the practice with a certain type of military officer to speak with the utmost contempt and derision of the British volunteer force (now ...

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  28. DODGED A SUBMARINE.

    The steamer Colchester, one of the Great Eastern railway company's fleet of channel steamers, had a narrow escape in the North Sea last week. She was ...

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  29. UHLANS DECIMATED.

    "The attacks ended abruptly when the enemy was flung back with sickening losses. A regiment of Uhlans, charging a battalion of our men who were ...

    Article : 87 words
  30. PAID IN THEIR OWN COIN.

    It will be remembered that, a few weeks ago, the Rev. W. H. Cox, chairman of the Methodist Mission in the Bismarck Archipelago, was flogged by a ...

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  31. RIOTOUS ALIENS.

    There was an extraordinary scene at the concentration tamp at Lancaster a few days ago. A frenchman had been interned there for some weeks, but at ...

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  32. SHIPMENTS OF LEAD.

    There is every prospect of the distress thai has been keenly frit throughout Broken Hill since the commencement of the war being alleviated shortly, as work ...

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  33. THE WAR STORY.

    Dr. Fitchett can tell a war story to make it a living actuality to the mind of the man that reads what he writes. Moreover, Dr. Fitchett is a student of the war ...

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  34. TORPEDO BOATS SUNK BY MINES.

    The past week seems to have been an unfortunate one for the enemies' navies, severe losses having been sustained by Germany. Turkey and Austria. Two ...

    Article : 66 words
  35. SHELTERING BEHIND THE DEAD.

    "The enemy also fiercely attacked Dickensbursch, and the French defences at Saints Loi, and although checked by heavy rifle fire, repeatedly reformed and ...

    Article : 126 words
  36. THE WHEAT PURCHASE ACT.

    Pending the bringing of the Wheat Acquisition Act into force, the Riverina farmers that have been fortunate enough to harvest more than sufficient grain for ...

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  37. War As Germans See It

    Partly written letters and carefully compiled diaries have been tound on many German prisoners, and extracts from these furnish most interesting reading. A ...

    Article : 188 words
  38. HONORING THE SYDNEY.

    With her battle honors fresh upon her, H.M.A.S. Sydney steamed into Gibraltar last week and was accorded a right royal reception. Captain Glossop and ...

    Article : 73 words
  39. DISORDERLY DISLOYALISTS.

    Frank Madors, a young man of twenty-two years, was charged at Sydney police court with having used insulting words in Bathurst-street, namely, "Any man who ...

    Article : 228 words
  40. AUSTRALIAN CONCENTRATES.

    The London "Daily Telegraph" states that nine Australian cargoes of zinc concentrates, the bulk of which was originally destined for Germany ...

    Article : 53 words
  41. WELL-EARNED APPRECIATION.

    Many Territorial regiments now form part of the British army in Flanders, and a military correspondent of the London "Times." writes that "the Territorial ...

    Article : 119 words
  42. "VIVE, AUSTRALIE."

    By the French man steamer Pacinque, from Noumea and the New Hebrides, which arrived in Port Jackson on Wednesday, came a number of French ...

    Article : 199 words
  43. THE AYESHA'S MOVEMENTS.

    The schooner Ayesha, which was commandeered at Cocos Island by the shore party from the Emden, and in which they escaped while the Sydney was battering ...

    Article : 76 words
  44. THE STATE AND THE WHEAT

    Regarding fears expressed that, by the N.S.W. Government appointing only one firm to conduct buying operations in the country, a number of start's attached ...

    Article : 72 words
  45. Hidden in a Packing Case

    The Customs officers at Gravesend had an extraordinary haul of contraband a few days ago. A huge box was being loaded on to a steamer bound for ...

    Article : 267 words
  46. THE AUSTRALIAN METAL TRADE.

    In the House of Representatives on Friday, Mr. Fenton (Vic.) asked the Attorney-General if he had seen an announcement from America in the papers ...

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  47. Plight of the Belgians

    Although the authorities in Holland are doing all in their power to succor the Belgian refugees that have crossed over into Dutch territory, the plight of the ...

    Article : 191 words
  48. W.A. FOODSTUFFS BILL.

    The Foodstuffs Bill passed the second reading on the voices in the West Australian Legislative Assembly. The Premier said that the bill was necessary ...

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  49. General Gordon's Warning

    More than a quarter of a century ago General Gordon, familiarly known as "Chinese Gordon," made a prophecy, of which English writers have recently ...

    Article : 146 words
  50. A PICTURE OF HORROR.

    "We suffered terribly from the enemy's artillery," runs an entry in the diary of a Bavarian non-commissioned officer, "Villages are in ruins, and are like ...

    Article : 156 words
  51. ENEMY IN RIFLE CLUBS.

    The Defence Department has decided to extend the operations of the War Precautions Ace to rifle clubs, as freedom in this direction would have a tendency ...

    Article : 110 words
  52. WORKING COAL LANDS.

    An application by Hubert Sands and another for the suspension of labor conditions on their coal mining leases at Lithgow heard before the Bathurst ...

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  53. BRIGADE MAJOR OBJECTED TO.

    The officers of the South Australian squadron of the 9th A.L.H. recently asked to be relieved of their commissions owing to what they described as ...

    Article : 122 words
  54. FARM HANDS MUST CO.

    A message from Grenfell (N.S.W.) says: The price of wheat being fixed at [?] will mean that fully a hundred constant farm employees in the Grenfell ...

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  55. BROKEN HILL MINES.

    Most of the Broken Hill mines will close down next Saturday for the Christmas holidays. North, South, Zinc Corporation, and De Bavays will shut down ...

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  56. GERMANS IN AUSTRALIA.

    The last Commonwealth census disclosed the fact that at that time there were 35.764 Germans in the Commonwealth. ...

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