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  2. GREAT BRITISH VICTORY

    The British have taken Bagdad, a city five times the size of Hobart, [?]ithin little more than a fortnight of having captured Kut-el-Amara, about 100 miles away. It is a brilliant performance, the result of splendid generalship, combined with dash and daring. The Turks have been given no ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 567 words
  3. AMERICA'S ACTION

    Preparations to arm merchantmen[?] are being completed in the American Navy yards. Officials generally admit that armed neutrality is almost certain ...

    Article : 90 words
  4. MR. LLOYD GEORGE.

    The London correspondent of the "New York Tribune" says he believes that Mr. Lloyd George will have to face strong opposition next week, and that ...

    Article : 52 words
  5. BERNSTORFF IN FATHERLAND.

    Count Bernstorff, formerly German Ambassador at Washington, is expected to reach Berlin on Monday evening. The Kaiser will receive him ...

    Article : 34 words
  6. FEDERAL POLITICS

    Both Ho[?]ses of the Federal Parliament will meet to-morrow, and it is hoped that all matters still to be dealt with will have been completed in time ...

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  7. FOR VALOUR.

    It is announced in the "Gazette" that Sergeant J. Stewart and Corporal G. Osbourne, of the Australian Expeditionary Forces, have had bars added to ...

    Article : 77 words
  8. GENERAL CARRANZA.

    Th[?] El Paso (Texas) correspondent of the "New York Tribune" says the life of General Carranza (President of the Mexican Republic) has been threatened ...

    Article : 93 words
  9. INTERNED STEAMERS.

    The "New York Times," in an article on the interned German steamers Kronprinz Wilhelm and Eitel Friedrich at Philadelphia, says that they constitut[?] ...

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  10. RUSSIAN OPERATIONS

    A Russian official wireless message says:- We have occupied Sehna (northwest of Hamadan), and to th[?] west of ...

    Article : 58 words
  11. CABLEGRAMS FOR SOLDIERS.

    Arrangements have been made by the Australian Military authorities in London that all cable messages for members of the Australian Imperial ...

    Article : 96 words
  12. GERMANY'S CONDITION.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent says there is no doubt that Germany fears the worst, internally and externally. Recent speeches ...

    Article : 480 words
  13. GERMAN EXPECTATIONS.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" says Germany received President Wilson's decisions without any sprprise, and the officials expect ...

    Article : 38 words
  14. BELGIAN RELIEF SHIP.

    The "Daily Chronicle" says that only 13 men of the Norwegian steamer Stor[?]tad (a Belgian relief ship torpedoed by the Germans) have been ...

    Article : 166 words
  15. THE EASTERN FRONT

    The British Admiralty has intercepted the following Russian official wireless message:- We to-day made a gas-attack to the ...

    Article : 44 words
  16. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES.

    At a meeting of the Independent Order of Rechabi[?]s to-day it was stated that about 100,000 members of the Order had gone to the war, a total of ...

    Article : 86 words
  17. AMERICAN COMMENT.

    Washington officials and newspapers admit the tremendous military and political importance of the capture of Bagdad. ...

    Article : 74 words
  18. WHOSE TURN FIRST?

    Mr. W. H. Taft says:—If an armed American merchantman sinks a German submarine, as I hope she will, the next step will be Germany's. If a German ...

    Article : 52 words
  19. GREAT BRITISH VICTORY

    The W[?]r Office has received the following official message from Mesopotamia:- By a surprise attack in moo[?]ght ...

    Article : 192 words
  20. AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.

    Mr. J. W. Gerard, formerly American Ambassador in Berlin, and his party arriv[?]d here to-day on the Spanish steamer Infanta Isabel. No submarines ...

    Article : 315 words
  21. CAPTAIN H. W. MURRAY, V.C.

    Captain Henry William Murray, who, it was announced to-day, has been awarded the V.C. "for most conspicuous bravery," has r[?]sen rapidly during the ...

    Article : 339 words
  22. THE BRITISH LINE.

    To-day's report from Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig says:- The prisoners taken by us at Irles on Saturday numbered 292. ...

    Article : 70 words
  23. BAGDAD.

    Bagdad, the capital of one of the richest and most populous previnces in Turkey's Asiatic Empire, and a military base of great importance, stands on bot[?] ...

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  24. WAR-TIME ORGANISATION

    The Government has decided to take immediate action to stop the abuse of the trade cards, which trade unions have distributed to prospective members, ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. THE CAPTURE OF IRLES.

    The Paris newspaper "Petit Parisien" says that the Germans cannot say that they voluntarily evacuated Irles, for they had been preparing defence works ...

    Article : 75 words
  26. CANADIAN FINANCE.

    It is announced that the Government is to raise, within Canada, a loan of 150,000,000 dollars (£31,250,000) at 5 per cent., redeemable in 20 years. ...

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  27. THE NEW SITUATION.

    The news of the occupation of Bagdad was received with enthusiasm everywhere, especially at Anglo-Indian [?]esorts. One diplomatist who has lived ...

    Article : 500 words
  28. THE CAPTURE OF IRLES.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, in a despatch yesterday, says:— The village of Irles, which stands on the high ground beyond Pys, was ...

    Article : 255 words
  29. PLOT AGAINST INDIA.

    Investigations into the German plot to begin a revolution in India are believed to reveal that Herr Wolff Von Igel's papers, which have been seized, ...

    Article : 188 words
  30. SPANISH FINANCE.

    The Spanish Government has authorised a loan of £40,000,000, in order to regulate th[?]ate of exchange. ...

    Article : 29 words
  31. TASMANIA.

    Sergeant A. E. Colledge, of the 46th Battalion, who was wounded severely in the right arm on August 30, 1916, at the battle of the Somme, in France, returned ...

    Article : 240 words
  32. ITALY'S SUBMARINE MEASURES.

    Speaking in the Chamber of Deputies to-day, Vice-Admiral Camillo Corsi, Minister of Marine, said Italy's antisubmarine measures included abundant ...

    Article : 183 words
  33. GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN.

    The North[?]liffe press has this weekend indulged in a violent criticism of the report of the Dardanelles Commission. The "Weekly Despatch," ...

    Article : 291 words
  34. THE FRENCH LINE

    To-day's French communique states: We to-day made several successful attacks on the German trenches in the regions of Lassigny and ...

    Article : 133 words
  35. THE REDMONDS EULOGISED.

    Referring to Home Rule the "Observer" says:—Nationalists like John and William Redmond deserve the Em[?] pire's gratitude. They are great ...

    Article : 111 words
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