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  2. BATTLE OF POZIERES

    The British offensive is being pressed hard, and already the Germans' third line of defences is being attacked. After bombardment on Saturday evening the Australian troops stormed Pozieres from east and west, and the British from the south. The Australians got into the place, but the British received a check. So far the messages are meagre, but they indicate that after desperate bane-to-hand fighting, the village was occupied, and that the ...

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  3. SUBMARINE WARFARE

    The German newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that there are persistent reports that two of the foremost naval Powers have begun building ...

    Article : 136 words
  4. THE EASTERN FRONT

    General Sakharof's victories on the Lipa River bring the total of General Brussiloff's prisoners taken since June to 300,000. Of this number 27,000 were ...

    Article : 147 words
  5. THE DARDANELLES COMMISSION.

    It is expected that to-day Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, will announce that Mr. Andrew Fisher and Sir Thomas Mackenzie, the High ...

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  6. ATTITUDE OF THE POPE.

    The Rome correspondent of the "New York Times" states, that a high official at the Vatican says the Pope is desirous that the world at large, and ...

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  7. VIEWS IN AMERICA.

    The New York Sunday papers to-day contain several striking cartoons indicative of American opinion that the Central Powers (Germany and Austria) ...

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  8. TASMANIA.

    The following is portion of a letter received yesterday from Private Andrew Inglis Clark, son of the late Mr. Justice Clark, and a member of the ...

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  9. BALTIC FIGHTING.

    Firing has been heard to the north of the island of Gothland, in the Baltic. It is reported that fivo large German submarines have been operating in the ...

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  10. GERMAN ATTEMPTED ADVANCE.

    The official Russian communique issued in Petrograd to-day runs as follows:— The Germans yesterday attempted ...

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  11. THE ITALIAN FRONT.

    The Italian communique issued to-day states:— The artillery on both sides was active yesterday in the Lagarina ...

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  12. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    The "New York Times" contains an article to-day written by Herr Maximilian Harden, the well-known German journalist and politician, and the ...

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  13. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    The manufacturing districts of Great Britain are making specinl efforts to impress upon the Government that there must be a drastic change in the ...

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  14. THE BLACK ANZACS.

    Reference was recently made in "The Mercury" to the fact that some Tasmanians had taken part in a dashing night raid made by the Australians on ...

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  15. AUSTRIAN REPORT.

    To-day's Austrian communique states:—Being threatened by a strong Russian attack south-cast of Tartarov, we withdrew our troops fighting on ...

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  16. EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION.

    The members of the Dominion Parliaments who are attending the Empire Parliamentary Congress returned to London yesterday after a visit to the ...

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  17. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    General Sir Douglas Haig reports this morning:— The battle of the Somme has been resumed with intense violence along ...

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  18. GERMANY'S NEW MOURNING.

    Herr Max Osborne, the correspondent of the "Vossische Zeitung" (Berlin) at the German headquarters, writes: —Our losses are heavy, and the enemy ...

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  19. PETROL SUPPLIES.

    The British Government's restrictions as to the supply of petrol will operate from August 1. The taxi-cab owners and drivers, at a mass meeting ...

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  20. INVASION OF HUNGARY.

    The Vienna "Dio Zeit" states that numerous detachments of Russian cavalry are raiding Hungary north and south of Borsa, which is 40 miles ...

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  21. CAPTURED GUNS.

    The Franco-British captures in the Battle of the Somme during July totalled 140 guns, 40 bomb-throwers, and several hundred machine-guns. ...

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  22. GERMAN DUMPING.

    Signor Luzatti, a menber of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and Professor of Public Law in the University of Rome, in an article in the "Corriere ...

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  23. RUSSIAN MINISTRY.

    M. Sturmer, the Prime Minister of Russia, has replaced M. Sazanoff as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The newspapers pay a tribute to M. Sazanoff for ...

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  24. LUCKY GERMANS.

    A German officer, interviewed by a representative of the "Vassische Zeitung," says:—It is not known how great the English reserves are and the ...

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  25. THE BALKANS.

    The "Petit Parisien" states that the people of Old and New Bulgaria are in a great turmoil owing to the Allies' successes. It is considered the ...

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  26. ENEMY'S PLIGHT.

    Austria has closed the Swiss frontier, supposedly to conceal the movements of troops. PARIS. July 23. ...

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  27. ANZACS CRACK THE NUT.

    Mr. Frederick Palmer, the well-known war correspondent, who is on the Western front, cabled yesterday:—To the Australians is due the glory of to-day's ...

    Article : 115 words
  28. PROGRESS OF THE WAR

    The Hon. P. M. Glynn, the member for Angas, South Australia, in the Commonwealth Parliament, who is one of the delegates to the Empire ...

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  29. BADGE FOR SURVIVORS.

    The King has approved of special silver badges being awardcd to officers and men of the Army and Navy, members of the nursing services, and civilian ...

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  30. OTHER WESTERN LINES

    A Belgian communique says:—Our artillery and trench engines for the past week have continued a destructive fire on the German trenches on our ...

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  31. THE TURKISH WAR.

    Reporting on the operations against the Turks, the official Russian communique states to-day:— We have considerably advanced ...

    Article : 134 words
  32. ATTITUDE OF GREECE.

    It is reported in Athens that Great Britain and France have advanced Greece 20,000,000 francs. ...

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  33. LATEST NEWS.

    An epic struggle is in progress at Pozieres. The Australians are fighting terrifically on both sides of the village, and the British made a frontal attack. ...

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  34. MORE DETAILS.

    This afternoon's despatches from war correspondents at the British Headquarters in France, give fuller details of the fight round Pozieres and ...

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  35. GERMANY'S SUBMARINE SERVICE.

    At an important meeting of merchants with German sympathies held at New York to-day it was decided that while anxious to obtain German ...

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  36. NAVAL OPERATIONS

    Captain William Sowden Sims, of the United States Navy, who is now attached to the Naval War College at Newport, Rhodo Island, in a statement ...

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  37. IN THE AIR.

    Last night's French communique records many aerial operations as follows:— We have bombarded stations in ...

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  38. GERMANY'S CONDITION.

    A German official statement which has been issued says that the scarcity of milk and butter in Germany is due to the numbet of cattle having been ...

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  39. THE FRENCH LINE

    The official communique issued in Paris this morning states:— There was a great artillery struggle yesterday along the Somme front. A ...

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  40. TURKS CLAIM SUCCESS.

    A Turkish communique says the heat impedes activity on the Felahie sector (north-cast of Kut-el-Amara, in Mesopotamia). We attacked a strongly ...

    Article : 107 words
  41. A DASHING SUCCESS.

    "The Times," in a leading article in this morning's issue, dealing with the fighting on the Somme, says:—The Principnl conflicts extend over a front ...

    Article : 242 words
  42. A GERMAN CLAIM.

    In the communique issued to-day the Germans claim that they have repulsed strong reconnoitring detachments in the vicinity of Richebourg, south of ...

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  43. THE GERMAN SIDE.

    To-day's German comunique from Berlin states: After increased artillery fife on Friday night between the rivers Ancre and Somme; there were infantry ...

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  44. A PROMISING CAMPAIGN.

    While the Russians are advancing on the Eastern front, the Grand Duke Nicholas's summer campaign in the Caucasus is extremely promising. The ...

    Article : 103 words
  45. THE BELGIAN ARMY.

    King Albert of Belgium has signed a decree mobilising all unmarried Belgians from 23 to 35 years, of age immediately, and bachelors from 35 to 40 ...

    Article : 91 words
  46. THE BATTLE OF POZIERES.

    Pozjeres is at cross roads, and on the crown of the ground that rises from the valley of the Ancre, being about 500 feet above sea level. To the west and north the ground falls gently—towards Bapaume, on the north, and Thiepval, on the west. The Australians attacked from east and west, and the British from the south, and apparently captured the place, part of which was then retaken by the Germans in a counter-attack. Yesterday ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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