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  2. MR. TREFLE'S DEATH.

    Mr. Trefle, Minister for Lande, died this morning at 3 o'clock in St. Vincent's Private Hospital, from the effects of appendicitis. The Premier was at his colleague's bedside ...

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  3. LATE WAR NEWS.

    Cardinal Mercier's pastoral was read in several Roman Catholic churches in England to-day. ...

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  4. WAR NOTES.

    When the full story of the fighting in the cast which marked the ending of the old year and the beginning of the new comes to be written it will furnish one of the most ...

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  5. HARD FIGHTING.

    On the western front the Allies captured Perthes-les-Hurlus, where they advanced 500 metres, also Soupir and three lines of trenches. ...

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  6. WESTERN FRONT.

    A communique on Friday stated: French infantry captured a hillock at Lombaertzyde. We made progress at La Boiselle and at Alveny, near Arras, also in the Reims, ...

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  7. UNITED STATES.

    An interim reply to the United States Note regarding interference with neutral shipping has been sent to Washington. It is understood that the general character ...

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  8. CALL TO ARMS.

    A debate was raised in the House of Lords last evening on Lord Midleton questioning the Government concerning the condition of recruiting. ...

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  9. ROUMANIA.

    The "Petit Parisien" says Roumania is preparing to mobilise three classes of reservists, totalling 135,000. These will be ready for service at the ...

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  10. TRANSVAAL REBELS.

    It is officially announced that all the rebels in the Transvaal have been rounded up. ...

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  11. ANSWER INCONCLUSIVE.

    The Stnte Department regards the British reply as inconclusive. Mr. Brynn, Secretary of State, and President Wilson, are discussing the reply with ...

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  12. TURKEY.

    It is officially stated that the Russians in the Ardagnn district captured numerous guns, and took many prisoners belonging to the army quartered in Constantinople. ...

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  13. TURKEY.

    An Italian steamer reports the greatest enthusiasm in Calcutta. Everyone is confident of victory in Egypt. Advices from Beirut state that all French ...

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  14. WOOL EMBARGO.

    The British Government notified the United States that if American merchants persisted in exporting to Germany and Austria wool and woollen products ...

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  15. POSITIONS CAPTURED.

    Saturday's communique stated:—We very brilliantly captured Soupir and three lines of German trenches. We repulsed three violent counter-attacks. ...

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  16. IN THE WEST.

    The news from Paris tells of further severe fighting and further successes for the Allies— brilliant successes in places, as to the north or Soissonel, eastward of Compiegne, which ...

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  17. THE PORTE'S FINANCES.

    A telegram from Constantinople states that the Porte's finances are acute. The Porte is placing the Constantinople board of the Ottoman bank provisionally under a ...

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  18. AGITATION FAILS.

    All Turkish attempts to proclaim a holy war at Ba[?]dad have been unsuccessful. ...

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  19. ARMY CATERING.

    The hearing of summonses charging J. Lyons and Company, Limited, with selling and depositing for preparation unsound meat as food for troops quartered at the ...

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  20. VON HINDENBURG.

    The Berlin municipality has approved of an expenditure of 15,000 marks on a gift for General Von Hindenburg, who is in charge of the campaign against the ...

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  21. AGAINST EGYPT.

    General von. Falkenberg, commanding the army which is marching on Egypt, has arrived at Damascus. The Germans have considerably stiffened the Turkish forces. ...

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  22. RECRUITING.

    If the volunteering at the barracks had been maintained on Saturday according to the average of other days during the week, there would have been a record of four figures. ...

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  23. BACKS TO THE WALL.

    Lord Rosebery, speaking at Dalkeith Scotland, to-night, said that Great Britain and, Germany were lighting with their backs to the wall. Unless sufficient ...

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  24. RUSSIAN PROGRESS.

    A communique states:—The fighting on the Sukha-Moghilev front on the left bank of the Vistula is becoming increasingly fiercer. The Germans, ...

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  25. BISHOP SENTENCED.

    The Roman Catholic Bishop at Caiffa has been sentenced to death "In absentia" for preaching in favour of the Allies. ...

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  26. TRADE AND FINANCE.

    The Bank of England, with the approval of the Imperial Government, will receive applications for £10,000,000 worth of French Treasury Bills, bearing interest at ...

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  27. FRENCH LOSSES.

    A German communique states:— We repulsed several attacks to the north-east of Soissons, with heavy French losses, and repulsed an attack near Perthes, ...

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  28. GREEKS PERSECUTED.

    When the Turks were not satisfied with the expulsion of 120,000 Greeks from Asia Minor in the autumn persecution was renewed. Official messages have been ...

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  29. BIG GERMAN GUNS.

    Captain Sydney M. Noakes, R.F.A., a native of Sydney, and an old Grammar School boy, who is now attached to the 8th Battery 35th Brigade, Seventh Division Expeditionary ...

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  30. EMPEROR AND POPE.

    Under the rule of the German Emperor a Roman Catholic bishop is sentenced to death for preaching in favour, of the Allies, and cardinal and priests are arrested in Belgium ...

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  31. TEA AND COCOA.

    The prohibition against the export of tea has been removed, but the export of cocoa to certain European countries is prohibited. ...

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  32. THE BLACK SEA.

    It is officially announced that a Turkish transport was mined and sunk at the entrance to the Bosphorus. A Russian cruiser and destroyer shelled ...

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  33. FRANTIC WHEAT SPECULATORS.

    The wildest pandemonium prevailed today in the Chicago wheat pit, following the reports of immense cash sales in wheat options. May touched 141¾ cents a bushel, ...

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  34. GERMAN CAPTURES.

    Another, German communique states that the Germans captured 1200 men in the western theatre of war, 2000 Russians, and seven machine guns on the eastern front ...

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  35. RUSSIA'S RESOURCES.

    The levy of recruits for 1915, numbering 585,000, is being called up. ...

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  36. ROUMANIA AND ITALY.

    The reported undertaking by the United States to look after the interests of Roumania in Berlin and Vienna would seem to point to the entrance of one more nation ...

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  37. GERMAN TACTICS.

    The correspondent of the "Dally Chronicle" in Poland, speaking of the fighting from Cracow to the Rawka, says:— "For 36 hours the battle shifted like a ...

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  38. THE PRICE THEY PAY.

    The "Telegraaf" states that every night trains full of German corpses arrive at Capelle, near Antwerp. The corpses, which are bound together in threes, with ...

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  39. BRITISH QUALITIES.

    Mr. J. H. Choate, a former United States Ambassador to Great Britain, in the course of a speech in New York, said Great Britain was determined newer to submit or ...

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  40. MERCHANT SHIPPING.

    The ship Mount Carmel, which left Newcastle on September 30, has arrived at Valparaiso. The steamer Titania, which left Newcastle on December 4, has arrived ...

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  41. SINOPE BOMBARDED.

    An official communique issued at Constantinople states that the Russian fleet bombarded Sinope, damaging two houses and sinking four barges. ...

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  42. FITTING TRANSPORTS.

    A claim for discrimination in favour of members of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners in the employment of men on the fitting up of transports at the State ...

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  43. CARDINAL MERCIER

    The German Emperor has telegraphed to the Pope denying the arrest of Cardinal Mercier, and stating that the Germans merely warned him to discontinue ...

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  44. THE CAMEROONS.

    It is officially announced that a large German force attacked Edea, in the Cameroons, but were repulsed with considerable losses. ...

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  45. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

    The Amalgamated Engineers have voted a levy of sixpence per member for Belgian trades-unionists. Lord Crewe, replying to Lord Curzon in ...

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  46. DURATION OF WAR.

    Mr. Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, believes that the war will last till 1917. The submarine, he says, has proved the ...

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  47. AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL.

    Major Robert Dick, of Newcastle, who is associated with the Australian Voluntary Hospital organised by Lady Dudley, describes, in a letter to his brother, the work already ...

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  48. GERMAN VANDALISM.

    According to the French official report on the German atrocities in France, the participators in the pillage of Chateau Baye did not include the Crown Prince, ...

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  49. PRZEMYSL.

    The Russians captured an aeroplane from Pryemsyl carrying an alarmist report to the effect that 5000 sick troops were in the city, and that 20 degrees of frost were ...

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  50. PEACEFULLY SETTLED.

    Advices from Berlin state that the Mercier incident has been peacefully settled. ...

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  51. CONTRADICTION DENIED.

    The "Tijd" states that the contradiction of Cardinal Mercier's arrest is untrue. The Cardinal was not allowed to leave Malines, and several other priests were imprisoned ...

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  52. FRENCH TOWN FINED.

    The Germans mulcted Valenciennes in the sum of 2,000,000 francs on the pretext that some of its inhabitants were found to be in possession of copies of a song ...

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  53. NATIONAL RESERVE.

    A meeting to form a North Sydney branch of the National Reserve was held at St. Thomas' School Hall on Friday, and addresses were delivered by Captain Cheffins and Captain ...

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  54. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

    Marconi wireless messages are being sent out by Austria requesting information concerning the fate of imprisoned Austrians in enemy countries. If it should ...

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  55. SERVIA.

    The Milan correspondent of the "Temps" states that Italy and Servia have signed an agreement giving Servia a port on the Adriatic. ...

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  56. MOTOR AMRULANCES.

    An appeal has been made by the Minister for Defence for an additional 25 motor ambulances for the effective equipment of the Australian field hospital. Some have been ...

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  57. HORSE FLESH.

    The Premier has received a letter from the Collector of Customs, intimating that his Minister declines to grant the request of Mr. Muggridge, of Pitt, Son, and Badgery, for ...

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  58. POPE APPROVES PASTORAL.

    The Milan correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Pope was personally acquainted with Cardinal Mercier's pastoral prior to its publication. He has ...

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  59. A GERMAN APPRECIATION.

    "Vorwaerts" publishes a German surgeon's statement that all the prisoners in Lodz are extremely well treated, and all are praising the Russians. ...

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  60. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    Reuter's Agency states that none of the Dominion Governments asked for the Imperial conference to be held in 1915. The Imperial Government, at the outset ...

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  61. ALBANIA.

    The "Glornale d'Itala" states that the Insurrectionary movement extends over the whole of Albania. The Mussulmans at San Giovanni ...

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  62. SEA KIT BAGS.

    An appeal for sea kit bags for troops was made by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) on Saturday. Sufficient sea kit bags to fulfil the requirements of the first and ...

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  63. SWEDEN.

    The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Copenhagen states that indignation is growing in Sweden on account of three Swedish steamers having been blown up ...

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  64. KING AND QUEEN.

    The King and Queen visited 1100 wounded Indians at Brighton. There were several touching scenes. Many of the wounded were able to converse freely with ...

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  65. NURSES AND WAR.

    A hospital nurse writes:—"Up to the present only members of the Army Nursing Service have been sent to the war, but several members of the A.T.N.A. are anxious to take their ...

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  66. AUSTRIAN PROTEST.

    "The secalo" states that Austria protested against Italy's occupation of Valona, Italy replied in firm and energetic terms. ...

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  67. EDINBURGH IN DARKNESS.

    Writing to a relation in Buthurst, a resident of Edinburgh states that the cost of living has risen considerably. At night the city is in darkness. The shop windows have ...

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