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  2. LATE WAR NEWS. BRITISH TROOPS.

    The Official Press Bureau states that the British forces successfully reached a new and well protected position, despite continuous fighting, during which the ...

    Article : 79 words
  3. THE GREAT ALLIED ATTACK.

    The French and British are now in their turn attacking the Germans along nearly the whole of the long Franco-Belgian frontier shown above. The British are protecting ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. GREAT BATTLE. ARMIES CLASH.

    A great battle, extending from Mons to the frontier of Luxembourg, is in progress. It is expected to last several days ...

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  5. THE WITHDRAWAL.

    In the House of Commons this afternoon the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, read a report from Field-Marshal Sir John French, in command of the British ...

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  6. FALL OF NAMUR.

    The Official Press Bureau states that Namur has fallen. ...

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  7. GERMANS ATTACK MALINES.

    A force of 30,000 Germans is attacking Malines (Mechlin), midway between Brussels and Antwerp. Skirmishing is now general in ...

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  8. THE GREAT BATTLE.

    It is reported that 300,000 German marched south from Brussels, half towarts Lille and the other half towards Charleroi and Mons. ...

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  9. THE LIEGE FORTS.

    It is officially stated that some of the Liege forts are still holding out. ...

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  10. MONTENEGRIN SUCCESS

    A telegram from Sanciovanni states that 30,000 Montenegrins have met with a series of successes on the Herzogovinian frontier. In a fierce bayonet fight at Grahove ...

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  11. BRITISH WOUNDED.

    The Press Bureau states that Earl Leven has been dangerously wounded. Sergcant-Major D. S. Jillings, airman, and Captain C. S. Akerman were also ...

    Article : 55 words
  12. SEA TRADE.

    The Union Company's steamer Willochra, which arrived from Wellington yesterday, will lay up here indefinitely. The Willochra left Sydney for San ...

    Article : 59 words
  13. NEWS FOR AMERICA.

    War news from Berlin is being received here through the high-power wireless station at Sayville, on Long Island, the German steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm acting in ...

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  14. AUSTRIAN EMPEROR.

    It is reported here that the condition of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary has become worse, and that his death is now only a question of hours. ...

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  15. SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.

    Reuter has confirmed the report that the Germans in South-west Africa raided Union territory, and that they had been making preparations for some time past ...

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  16. MAIN ARMIES CLASH.

    The Official Press Bureau stated to-day that the British forces were engaged all day on Sunday, and held their ground in the neighbourhood of Mons, the capital of the ...

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  17. FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER.

    The Germans have occupied Luneville, 15 miles east-south-east of Nancy. NEW YORK, Aug. 24. It is officially announced from Paris ...

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  18. FOOD SUPPLIES.

    Forty food steamers are running between Denmark and England. Produce importers are anxious to know when the Commonwealth Government is ...

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  19. MONS—AND A BRITISH BATTLE.

    It is not the first time that a British army has fought at Mons. A few miles to the south of it, just over the French border (Mons is in Belgium) is Malplaquet, a village where ...

    Article : 242 words
  20. F.M.S. SYDNEY'S WIRELESS.

    The French mail steamer Sydney received orders to remain at Noumea, New Caledonia, after the outbreak of war. This decision proved very satisfactory to ...

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  21. IN THE BALANCE.

    Until this battle is won or lost it is really impossible to tell which way the war is turning. The French have clearly been driven back from the triangle which they held behind ...

    Article : 156 words
  22. GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.

    The "Evening Standard" reports that refugees who have arrived from Germany state that there are persistent rumours of the death of the Crown Prince of ...

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  23. BERLIN'S SYDNEY CARGO.

    The seized German-Australian liner Berlin, which arrived at Sydney on Friday morning, proceeded yesterday morning to Woolloomooloo Bay, where she commenced discharging ...

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  24. INDEX. NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 words
  25. UNITED STATES' NEUTRALITY.

    Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador, has conferred with Mr. W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, on the subject of United States neutrality. ...

    Article : 131 words
  26. JAPANESE STEAMERS.

    The Nippon Yusen Kaisha announce an alteration in their Australian service. The steamer Kumano Maru has been withdrawn, and the larger steamer Inaba Maru will [?] ...

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  27. ITALY'S ATTITUDE.

    Reuter's Agency reports that Austria [?] mobilising on the Italian frontier, espec[?] ally at Trent and Innsbruck. It is stated that 70,000 men have a[?] ...

    Article : 41 words
  28. FIVE ZEPPELINS DESTROYED.

    Of the twelve German Zeppelin airships, five have already been destroyed by the French. ...

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  29. THE BRITISH PART.

    Mons, where the British troops joined the French, is on the far left of this fight. It is 105 miles as the crow flies from Boulogne, where the British troops finished landing on ...

    Article : 181 words
  30. WAR RISKS.

    The Sydney Marine Underwriters' Association are in receipt of a cablegram stating that the last rates of war risks are unchanged. The last cable read:—"British and ...

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  31. THEIR OLD DEFENCES.

    Mons—like Ostend, Charleroi, and Valenciennes—used to be a fortress of some strength; but in each case, as the old walls and forts became obsolete, they have not ...

    Article : 80 words
  32. THE NORTH SEA.

    Traffic has been resumed from Rotterdam and Amsterdam to England, and cross-Channel traffic to Southampton has been resumed. ...

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  33. ALLIES' PLAN.

    It is officially announced that the Bel gians are now entirely concentrated i[?] Antwerp. The Allies' plan is being carried o[?] ...

    Article : 90 words
  34. AUSTRO-SERVIAN CAMPAIGN.

    The Servians captured Loynitza and Lechnitza on August 20. Aug. 25. In the recent fighting on the Drina, the ...

    Article : 262 words
  35. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 words
  36. GERMAN STEAMER ZIETEN.

    The Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) to-day received the following cable message from the Agent-General:—"London, Aug. 24. Am advised Zieten left Colombo July 29 for Aden, ...

    Article : 49 words
  37. AN EXPLANATION.

    The French explanation of the defeat in Lorraine, and very possibly the true one, is that French troops in this part were drawn from the excitable city population of ...

    Article : 140 words
  38. GENERAL NEWS.

    Fifty papers, mostly trade and sporting journals, have suspended publication since the outbreak of the war. The Germans have established German ...

    Article : 75 words
  39. BRITISH FINANCE.

    The "Evening News" states that the Government placed Treasury bills to the value of £15,000,000 last week, and that it is about to issue another £15,000,000 ...

    Article : 86 words
  40. ATUA AT NORFOLK ISLAND

    The steamer Atua, en route to Fiji, called here at 6 a.m., and left at 10 a.m. She has no mails or passengers. ...

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  41. A THIN RED LINE.

    It is possible that the duty assigned to the British army has been to lie with its left on the coast, and to protect at all costs the French communications with the Channel. If ...

    Article : 128 words
  42. GERMAN WARSHIPS

    The R.M.S. Maloja arrived to-day after a somewhat exciting voyage. Whilst in the Mediterranean she received a wireless message to call at Brindisi for mails, instead of ...

    Article : 355 words
  43. ESPIONAGE.

    A sentry challenged two foreigners a Yarrow and Co.'s shipyard, Clydeside, a midnight. They did not answer the chal lenge, and the sentry fired his rifle in the ...

    Article : 83 words
  44. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 words
  45. MALINES.

    The Germans are said to be attacking Malines. This beautiful old city, which until a day or two ago was unknown even by name to most Australians, is really chiefly famous ...

    Article : 284 words
  46. IF IT CAME TO THE WORST.

    If only the British can keep clear their communication with the sea, then the war would not be lost to France oven if Paris were taken. In fact, the taking of Paris may ...

    Article : 166 words
  47. WAR NOTES.

    Anglo-Saxons can face the truth, even if it is an unpleasant truth; nothing is to be gained by disguising from our people the facts, whether they are good or bad. And the truth is ...

    Article : 204 words
  48. GERMAN VIEW.

    Count von Bernstoff, the German Ambassador, in an interview, stated that Germany was bound to win, because her cause was just. ...

    Article : 158 words
  49. DEFENDER OF LIEGE.

    The "Aachenerpost" states that Pro fessor Lieman, who was in command a Liege, was found half suffocated undo the wreckage of a fort which the ...

    Article : 70 words
  50. AS 100 YEARS AGO.

    It comes to this—that at the worst we may see the position of the Napoleonic wars repeated with only this difference, that the German Emperor stands in place of Napoleon, ...

    Article : 303 words
  51. IN THE NORTH.

    Flying columns have driven the Ger mans out of the district round Antwerp a far as Malines ...

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  52. A GREATER BATTLE BEGUN.

    At the same time that battle, important though it may have been, probably does not compare in importance with the great battle —the greatest so far in the war—which has ...

    Article : 279 words
  53. KIAO-CHAO.

    The Austrian protected cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth has been ordered to join in the operations of the German fleet at Kiao-Chao. ...

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  54. THE RUSSIANS AND BERLIN.

    The Northern Russian Army, at Insterburg, is 360 miles from Berlin. Its advanced troops at Soldau are 300. But if the Russian army of the cent[?]e enters Prussia near Posen or ...

    Article : 69 words
  55. ALBANIAN REVOLT.

    A message from Valona states that the insurgents entered that city, and hoiste[?] the Turkish flag there. ...

    Article : 22 words
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