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  2. EAST OF GORZ.

    Prisoners are still coming in from Gorz in a trembling, dazed condition, and suffering from the terrible effects of the battle. The town of Gorz is still ...

    Article : 113 words
  3. THE SOMME

    General Haig reports no change on the Somme front, but his troops are consolidating the position. He refers doubtless to Mouquet Farm, in the angle formed by the Bapaume and Thiepval roads at Pozieres. This farm is on a plateau from which the country falls slowly north and west to the valley of the Ancro. Tho French report says that this was the last German position of advantage in this quarter, and that it commands Thiepval, Courcelette, ...

    Article : 366 words
  4. GERMANY'S "GRUMBLE WIVES."

    The Kaiser's chief chaplain, the Rev. Dryander, has returned from the Western front, and has preached an indignant sermon in Berlin Cathedral. He ...

    Article : 77 words
  5. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    A Fortnight ago the workmen engaged on the erection of the new Commonwealth offices in the Strand declined to work until a sub-contractor ...

    Article : 173 words
  6. ROLL OF HONOUR.

    The following, the 194th and 195th, casualty lists were released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The addressee ...

    Article : 42 words
  7. ENEMY CRIME AGENTS.

    A White Book which has been issued by the American Government gives a definite official statement ot the real leusons for the dismissal of Captain ...

    Article : 321 words
  8. A SEPARATE PEACE.

    Reports from Vienna state that two important Cabinet meetings were held there yesterday, and discussed the question of a separate peace with Italy, in ...

    Article : 43 words
  9. ANOTHER GERMAN ACT OF SAVAGERY.

    Lord Robert Cecil, the Minister of Blockade, stated in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon that the British Government had been informed that ...

    Article : 110 words
  10. KILLED IN ACTION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 593 words
  11. THE TURKISH WAR

    The War Office has issued the following report:— The situation on the Tigris and Euphrates lines is quiet and ...

    Article : 76 words
  12. GERMANY'S SUBMARINE SERVICE.

    The Berlin correspondent of the United Press Association of America states that no news has been received of the German trans-Atlantic submarine ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Co., the Now-York financiers, announce a new loan to Great Britain of £50,000,000 at 5 per cent., redeemable in two years. ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. IN ASIA MINOR

    To-day's Russian official communique says:— An offensive movement by several enemy detachments in the Kala ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. NEW ELECTORAL BILL.

    In the discussion in the House of Commons this afternoon on the motion for the second reading of the Parliament and Local Elections Bill, which ...

    Article : 444 words
  16. FIERCENESS OF THE FRAY.

    Mr. Carl Von Wiegand, the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," cables as follows—The French and British artillery on the River ...

    Article : 177 words
  17. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    In his report issued this morning General Sir Douglas Haig states— With the exception of minor infantry engagements in the vicinity of ...

    Article : 91 words
  18. THE KAISER'S ADVICE.

    The "Cologne Gazette" states that the Kaiser has visited Cologne, and in acknowledging from a window of his train the salutations of the crowd, he ...

    Article : 50 words
  19. AUSTRALIAN MOUNTED DIVISION.

    The minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) said to-day that the recent events in Egypt, where the Australian Mounted Division had successfully ...

    Article : 69 words
  20. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    The Russian communique issued this morning states— We have occupied some places on the western bank of the Zlota-Lipa. ...

    Article : 130 words
  21. TASMANIA

    Our Oatlands correspondent writes: —"Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Burrill, of Oatlands, have received word that their son, Private Harold Burrill, has been ...

    Article : 398 words
  22. LOAN FOR RUSSIA.

    New York bankers expect that a new loan for Russia will be placed on the American market shortly. ...

    Article : 29 words
  23. THE BALKANS.

    M. Zaimis, the Premier of Greece, has protested to the Turkish Ambassador at Athens against the persecution of Greeks in Asia Minor. ...

    Article : 37 words
  24. THE FRENCH ADVANCE.

    This mornings French official communique says— Last night was calm along our front in the region of the Somme. ...

    Article : 169 words
  25. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN.

    Transactions in scrip of the New South Wales loan of £2,500,OOO at 5¼ per cent., 80 per cent of which was taken up by the underwriters, took ...

    Article : 79 words
  26. THE GERMAN SIDE.

    To-day's German Communique from Berlin states—The English continued their fruitless attacks at Poziercs yesterday morning. A night attack by ...

    Article : 38 words
  27. NAVAL OPERATIONS

    A report received in London from Flushing, in Holland, states that at half-past 3 this morning two encounters between British and German ...

    Article : 37 words
  28. OTHER WESTERN LINES

    This morning's French communique states— Last night was calm along the greater part of our front. ...

    Article : 70 words
  29. BRUSILOFF'S CAPTURES.

    It is officially announced that General Brusiloffs armies (operating between the Pripet and the Pruth), between June 4 to August 12, made prisoner ...

    Article : 52 words
  30. WOOL MANUFACTURING TRADE.

    An Order-in-Council issued to-day establishes control of the woollen manufacturing trade, with a view to limiting prices. The schedule of the order ...

    Article : 78 words
  31. GERMANY'S CRIMES.

    ln the House of Commons this afternoon, Sir Edward Carson moved a motion, which he gave notice of on Friday last, urging the Government to ...

    Article : 211 words
  32. DIED.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 562 words
  33. A GERMAN VANTAGE POINT.

    The "Petit Parisien" states—Last night the British reoccupied the [?]enches north of the Thiepval-Pozieresroad, and Mouquet Farm fell into their ...

    Article : 59 words
  34. ENEMY REPORTS.

    To-day's German communique says: —We have broken up Russian outposts cast of Kisselin (south of Kovel), and made prisoner 164. North of the ...

    Article : 58 words
  35. GRAIN FRAUDS IN GERMANY.

    The German newspaper "Berliner Tageblatt" states that nearly 10O arrests have been made in Berlin and West Prussia in connection with ...

    Article : 72 words
  36. THE GERMAN STRENGTH.

    There are 122 German divisions on the Western front, approximately 2,440,000 men. Of these 20 divisions (400,000 men) oppose the Anglo-French ...

    Article : 64 words
  37. EXPENDITURE IN DRINK.

    The National War Savings Committee points out that the British nation is spending £182,000,000 a year in drink, and appeals for a reduction in ...

    Article : 41 words
  38. THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY.

    It was recently reported that, as the outcome of the visit to Vienna of Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Chancellor, and Herr Von Jagow, the ...

    Article : 77 words
  39. THE MYSTERY COMMANDER.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" has interviewed the German Commander-in-Chief on the Somme, who says—"I hope the British ...

    Article : 100 words
  40. FRENCH IN OCCUPIED TOWN

    The townspeople of Halluine (a French town on the Belgian frontier) are refusing to work for the German army, and have invoked the Hague ...

    Article : 91 words
  41. THE ITALIAN FRONT.

    To-day's Italian communique states: We have captured enemy trenches on Monte Peckina and in the areas of San Caterina and San Marco. We ...

    Article : 103 words
  42. THE KING'S VISIT.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, in the course of a further article on the recent visit of His Majesty the King to the Western front, says—The, King witnessed a ...

    Article : 165 words
  43. THE PRESENT SITUATION.

    Mr. Hilaire Bello[?], writing in "Land and water," says—The Allies on the Western front continue to prove their ability to seize successive narrow belts ...

    Article : 91 words
  44. BRITISH AND FRENCH ON THE SOMME.

    The French communiques state two facts which are of importance, though ignored in the British reports. A combined advance has been made by the British and French north of Maurepas, presumably on the line from that village to Hardecourt, and they reached "certain points on the Maurepas-Guillemont-road." This road passes through Combles, and as the advance must have been along the Maurepas-Combles-road, it is to be presumed that the road between Combles and Guillemont has been reached. The communique also states that the French made a big advance on a wide front ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 164 words
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