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  2. LATE WAR NEWS. THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

    A Berlin wireless message on Monday stated that the German Emperor was with the Crown Prince's army to the north-east of Verdun, and that he spent ...

    Article : 46 words
  3. THE FORTS AROUND PARIS.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 words
  4. NEAR PARIS. Siege Precautions

    The censorship, still casts a fog over the operations in France. An official Communique issued in Paris at midnight on Thursday, ...

    Article : 295 words
  5. THE RUSSIAN CENTRAL ARMIES.

    The Russians, by winning the great battle which they have been waging against the Austrians in the south, have forced the Germans Automatically to retire from the line of ...

    Article : 319 words
  6. ESPIONAGE.

    A deliberate attempt to wreck the line of the Canadian Northern railway was made near here this week. Spikes were placed on the rails, but were discovered ...

    Article : 73 words
  7. TORPEDO GUNBOAT SUNK

    The following cable has been received from Sir George Reid:— It is officially reported that the torpedo gunboat Speedy and the steam drifter ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. RECRUITING BOOM.

    So far there have been enlisted 260,000 home recruits for general service. ...

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  9. EMPLOYMENT EOR WOMEN.

    The Queen, in the belief that prevention of distress is better than relief, and that employment is better than charity, has inaugurated a "Queen's Work for Women ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. PATRIOTIC HELP.

    The Professional Musicians' Club will give a band concert in the Outer Domain, near the Macquarie-strect entrance, to-morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock. ...

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  11. THE NAVIES.

    The underwriters demand that stronger efforts should be put forth to capture the few German cruisers now roving the seas. They are chiefly in the South Atlantic, and ...

    Article : 57 words
  12. WAR NOTES.

    The Allies are still slowly retreating on to the line of the Paris forts—by this time they are probably within it. The Germans have arrived at Senlis and Campeigne—where the ...

    Article : 59 words
  13. THE "GUNBOAT" SPEEDY.

    The torpedo-gunboat Speedy, which has been blown up by a mine, is one of a class of obsolete vessels which had been transformed by the Admiralty for use as a mine-sweeper. ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. THE ARMIES.

    A British officer who was wounded at Compiegne, states that the Germans were repeatedly repulsed on Wednesday with heavy losses, and that the Allies are now ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. REFUGEES FOR ENGLAND.

    The Dieppe correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states:—"A fleet of boats is in Dieppe waiting to leave with refugees, who have waited on the quay for hours. ...

    Article : 45 words
  16. WILL NOT BE SHUT UP THERE.

    It may be taken as certain that the field armies of the Allies will not remain in Paris unless they are forced to. The regular garrison of Paris consists of 40 regiments ...

    Article : 171 words
  17. SHOOT THEIR OWN WOUNDED.

    A message from Havre states that the members of the British Army Medical Corps declare that when a German soldier is seriously wounded his comrades simply ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. A DUKE'S GALLANTRY.

    It is authoritatively stated that the Duke of Westminster, in a recent hot engagement at great personal risk carried to safety under a heavy fire Captain Grenfell, ...

    Article : 39 words
  19. BRITONS IN GERMANY.

    Sir James Sivewright, K.C.M.G., who was detained at Nuremburg, has reached England. He states that the hardships which are being suffered by British ...

    Article : 59 words
  20. PARIS.

    President Poincaire, the Ministers, and all the Ambassadors, except the representative of the United States, have gone to Bordeaux. ...

    Article : 132 words
  21. GIFTS OF PRODUCE.

    Mr. A. Caple, of Derra Derra, Bingara, who a short time ago consigned a truck of wheat to Sydney to be sold by auction for patriotic purposes, expressed his appreciation of the ...

    Article : 483 words
  22. SOLDIERS WHO WAITED.

    Ostend advices state that an American attached to the Consulate at Brussels narrates a story about 17 English soldiers who were captured near Waterloo. ...

    Article : 71 words
  23. TO STAND THE SIEGE.

    In 1870 Paris had, at the beginning of the siege, 3000 oxen, 6000 pigs, and 180,000 sheep. But before the siege was ended the Parisians were eating rats. The population was ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. KIAO-CHAO.

    The Japanese report that certain staple lines of provisions are short at Tsingtao, in Kiao-Chao Bay, and that frantic efforts are being made by the Germans to collect ...

    Article : 57 words
  25. TO ARMS.

    There were 20,000 volunteers enlisted yesterday. The authorities in London are scarcely able to cope with the rush. Despite this enthusiasm, the clergy has ...

    Article : 53 words
  26. BOMBARD OR ATTACK?

    The Germans in 1870 had four courses open to them—to sit down around Paris and starve it, to attack it from all sides, to destroy the forts with artillery, or to bombard the ...

    Article : 196 words
  27. TRAITROUS CROSSING-KEEPER.

    Colonel de Bonhomme recounts that in one district, despite the rapidity with which the French guns changed their positions, it was noticed that the new ...

    Article : 71 words
  28. BRUTAL GERMANS.

    Stories of German brutalities are accumulating from all quarters. An agent of the Belgian State railways now at Dieppe describes a cold-blooded ...

    Article : 121 words
  29. TRADES' CONGRESS SUPPORT.

    The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, in a manifesto, strongly supports recruiting, and expresses gratification that the Labour Party is ...

    Article : 47 words
  30. NERVE-RACKING NOISE.

    A sergeant-major, in a letter from the front, says:—"The worst about this war is not the fear of losing one's life, but the hellish nerve-racking noise. ...

    Article : 78 words
  31. FOOD FOR PARIS.

    The Government arranged for 2000 tons of Australian and Argentine meat, which was at Liverpool, to be sent to Paris last week; and an additional 2000 tons are now ...

    Article : 38 words
  32. BRITISH CASUALTIES.

    The War Office has issued a further casualty list, which shows that 18 officers have been killed, 78 wounded, and 86 are missing. Of other ranks, 52 have been ...

    Article : 57 words
  33. THE REINFORCEMENTS FROM INDIA.

    It was on Friday, August 28, yesterday week, that Lord Kitchener stated in the House of Lords that the British Government had decided to send "two infantry divisions and a ...

    Article : 187 words
  34. DOCKERS' UNION MANIFESTO.

    The Dockers' Union has issued a manifesto in which it states that every able-bodied man must fight for or be ready to defend his country from Kaiserism. ...

    Article : 49 words
  35. WAR BULLETIN.

    Sir George Reid (High Commissioner) cables from London, September 3, 7.50 p.m.:— "Official: The President of France and ...

    Article : 399 words
  36. A LANCE-CORPORAL'S STORY.

    A wounded lance-corporal of the Connaught Rangers states:—"One disconcerting thing about the present fighting is that we seldom see the enemy. We lay ten ...

    Article : 205 words
  37. THE RUSSIANS.

    It is officially, announced that Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, has fallen. Sept. 4. It is officially announced that apart from ...

    Article : 287 words
  38. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS.

    The War Office announces the fact that Australia has offered an additional infantry brigade and a light horse brigade. Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for ...

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  39. THE LOUVAIN HORROR.

    The newspapers here are full of descriptions of the German massacre at Louvain. Dutch eye-witnesses state that on the night prior to the outrage the inhabitants ...

    Article : 109 words
  40. WELL ON THEIR WAY.

    The Indian reinforcements must be well on their way by now. If they were on their way from India on friday week they cannot be much more than a week from the front at ...

    Article : 148 words
  41. THE MAILS.

    The postal authorities intimate that correspondence for Russia, specially endorsed via Japan, Manchuria, or Siberia, will be forwarded (as addressed) by Chinese and Japanese ...

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  42. UNITED STATES.

    It is announced that the President of the United States, Dr. Woodrow Wilson, intends asking the joint session of Congress for a war taxation measure to raise ...

    Article : 66 words
  43. A NAMUR MASSACRE.

    An Ostend telegram states that the citizens of Namur were accused of assisting in the defence of the town, and the Germans summarily shot eight men In ...

    Article : 39 words
  44. ANOTHER AIR DUEL.

    A French airman, whose thin polished wooden planes were armoured below, sighted a German air-scout at Chantilly, flying at a great height. ...

    Article : 66 words
  45. NEW ZEALAND.

    A telegram from Dunedin stated on reliable authority that, owing to huge orders from the old world, all stock fit for killing at Otago had been bought up for immediate freezing, ...

    Article : 61 words
  46. CODE WIRELESS MESSAGES.

    The United States has agreed to allow all belligerants to send or receive wireless messages in code or cipher by United State's stations. ...

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  47. THE DARK-BLUE UNIFORMS.

    The reinforcements sent to the British Army last week were probably only the reservists who would not have had time to join their regiments before the Expeditionary ...

    Article : 132 words
  48. A CURE'S STORY.

    Mr. Oliver Maddox Hueffer, the well-known author, has had an interview at Boulogne with the Cure of a little village to the southwest of Brussels. ...

    Article : 123 words
  49. WHAT THE SOLDIER NEEDS.

    A receiving depot having been established at the C.M.M., 139 Castlereagh-street, Colonel-chaplain Green suggests that, while many of the gifts to the soldiers may be found ...

    Article : 201 words
  50. GENERAL NEWS.

    The Ulster Unionist Council at Belfast has passed a resolution deprecating any attempt to interfere with the Home Rule truce, and urging the Ulster volunteers to ...

    Article : 328 words
  51. THE BALKANS.

    Reuter's Agency states that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, in replying to a message of goodwill from Buda Pest, declared that Hungary possessed Bulgaria's full ...

    Article : 57 words
  52. REGIMENTAL COMFORTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 words
  53. THE RESERVISTS IN EAST PRUSSIA.

    Only a certain portion of the German reserve goes towards filling up the regiments in the army of the first line. The reserve in the second stage forms the Landwehr, or ...

    Article : 125 words
  54. THE DARDANELLES MINED.

    Turkey has refused to allow a United States warship to enter the Dardanelles with relief funds for stranded Americans, as the straits are mined throughout. ...

    Article : 59 words
  55. MALINES CATHEDRAL IN RUINS.

    The Germans bombarded Malines on Wednesday, and the cathedral was reduced to ruins. Saint Rombold's shrine was rescued and conveyed to Antwerp, ...

    Article : 42 words
  56. INDEX.

    The index to to-day's paper appears on Page 14 ...

    Article : 12 words
  57. THE GERMAN RESISTANCE.

    Osterode, the pince where the Russians sustained a serious check at the bonds of the Germans, is 75 miles south-south-west of Konigsberg, and 50 miles east of the ...

    Article : 162 words
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