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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 44 words
  3. PERSONAL.

    The estate of the late William Newcombe has been valued for probate at £27,850. A cable message from Tokio (Japan) ...

    Article : 744 words
  4. RUSSIANS ADVANCE

    A Petrograd report says:— We are again successfully advancing on the River Sereth and are fortifying all captured positions. We took 850 ...

    Article : 181 words
  5. ANCRE TO A[?]VRE.

    A great Allied bombardment has been in progress for forty-eight hours on the front from Thiepval to Boye. The bombardment is believed to be the prelude to a big event. A Paris message says that the Allied artillery maintained an ...

    Article : 325 words
  6. ITALIANS ON ISONZO.

    The Italians have commenced a great offensive along the Isonzo on a 60 miles front, for which they prepared several, concentrated attacks of colossal proportions with massed troops and guns and mitrailieuses. The action began on Friday morning after a violent bombardment which ...

    Article : 161 words
  7. HEIGHT OF THE EIVEE.

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  9. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 70 words
  10. REJOICING IN ITALY.

    There is great rejoicing over the sussess of the Italian offensive. Its beginning was whispered since Friday, and results have been eagerly awaited. Italy is hoping to soon place to her credit successes comparable to those on the Somme, at Verdon, in Galicia, and in Egypt. The present success exceeds ...

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  11. ITEMS OF NEWS.

    A public meeting under the auspices of the War Service Committee to take into consideration the holding of a Button Day in Waggga in aid of the above ...

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  12. CROSSING THE RIVERS.

    The "Morning Post's" Petrograd correspondent says that the Russian successes on the Graberka and Sereth Rivers bring them within striking distance ...

    Article : 147 words
  13. EGYPT.

    The fact that the Turks have been able to bring a force of 15,000 men across the great stretch of desert lying between their point of concentration and ...

    Article : 401 words
  14. ELECTION MEETING.

    The political campaign in connection with the election for the Wagga seat, will be initiated this evening by an address by Mr. G. S. Beeby, the ...

    Article : 53 words
  15. GAINS NEAR GUILLEMONT.

    General Haig reports:— Our line has advanced 400 yards to the south-westward of Guillemont. There were three enemy attacks with liquid fire north-west of Pozieres, all of which failed. The enemy in the fourth attack occupied about 50 yards of the ...

    Article : 60 words
  16. ALLEGED STREET BETTING.

    At a sitting of the Wagga police court yesterday afternoon Charles William Fuller was charged with having on August 9 been in a street for ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. NORTH OF SOMME.

    A Paris communique says the French are increasing yesterday's gains north of the Somme, and have captured a small wood and a strong trench north ...

    Article : 94 words
  18. MEN FROM KENT.

    Details of the gallant and successful attack by the Kents (who co-operated with the Australians) on the German trenches north of Pozieres, are told in ...

    Article : 378 words
  19. LEMBERG EVACUATED.

    A message from Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, says the report is confirmed that civilians were ordered to evacuate Lemberg on August 4. The ...

    Article : 75 words
  20. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

    The Wagga Lawn Tennis Club's annual tournament was concluded yesterday in fine weather. In the final of the mixed doubles Mrs. Eury and Yule ...

    Article : 108 words
  21. [?] THE APPAM.

    It is understood that the German Government has filed a formal appeal in the Appam case, Lieutenant Berg, Military Attache, signing the necessary bond ...

    Article : 36 words
  22. CAPTURE OF TLUMACZ.

    An Austrian official message after reporting progress on the heights eastward of Jablonica, and the capture of 1000 prisoners, says that the enemy ...

    Article : 76 words
  23. ITALIANS CAPTURE HEIGHTS.

    A Rome official report says:— The Italians captured Mount Sabotino and Mount San Michele and the bridgehead leading to Gorizia. The Italians are shelling Gorizia to expel the enemy from the houses. ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. WAGGA BOY SCOUTS.

    The Boy Scouts Troop, formed in Wagga recently, with Mr. Frank L. Brown, of Albury, as scoutmaster, and Master B. Roebuck, of Wagga ...

    Article : 207 words
  25. PROTECTING POWER WORKS.

    In order to safeguard the power works at Niagara Falls, which supply the Canadian munitions plants, a ring of barbed wire entanglements and ...

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  26. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Replying to a question in the House of Commons as to whether in the terms of peace the Allies would insist on taking from Germany an equal amount of ...

    Article : 67 words
  27. A POLITICIAN AND A MAN.

    The two things are not necessarily synonymous. There are politicians and there are men. The late Corporal Johnson was both. When he enlisted he set ...

    Article : 312 words
  28. AUSTRIAN LINE PENETRATED.

    The enemy line was penetrated on a front of 19 miles. The enemy was also disconcerted by a naval attack. Our destroyers shelled the coast. ...

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  29. £6,000,000 FOR PENSIONS.

    The House of Commons has voted £6,000,000 for supplementary pensions. Mr. M'Kenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated the Government did not ...

    Article : 61 words
  30. VIENNA'S VERSION.

    A Vienna (Austrian) official report says that 2932 Italians were taken prisoners at Gorilla bridgehead, but owing to repeated desperate attacks the defenders have withdrawn to the eastern bank of the Isonzo. ...

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  31. HIRING GERMAN SHIPS.

    The Portuguese Government has announced that Britain is hiring all the German ships seized in Portugal and not wanted by her. ...

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  32. BRITISH CABINET.

    Mr. Arthur Henderson, president of the Board of Education, has resigned from the Ministry. It is understood he considered the labor missions he is called ...

    Article : 136 words
  33. THE BLACK LIST.

    Mr. Bennett, a representative in the American Congress, expressed himself in favor of the use of the American Navy to break the black-list. He proposed ...

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  34. BOATLOAD OF CHILDREN.

    A Copenhagen report says the Danish passenger boat Ydun, while returning to Copenhagen with 200 schoolboys and girls who had been on a holiday to ...

    Article : 61 words
  35. THE WEATHER.

    Though cloudy in the afternoon yesterday, the weather conditions were fine and pleasant. No rainfalls were recorded in any part of the State up ...

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  36. THE BREMEN.

    The "Berlin Tageblatt" says the submarine Bremen has been sunk, owing to an accident to her machinery. ...

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  37. REDUCED ARMY RATIONS.

    Statements by German prisoners show that the troops in the trenches are one day in the week without meat, while those behind were up to four days ...

    Article : 129 words
  38. SOLDIERS' SETTLEMENT.

    Replying in the House of Commons to questions by Mr. Kinlock Cooke regarding the settling of soldiers on the land, Mr. Bonar Law said he was not ...

    Article : 98 words
  39. DOMINIONS' BORROWING.

    The "Financial News" says that while offerings of capital, except for war purposes, should be discouraged, the fullest support should be give ...

    Article : 79 words
  40. PORTUGAL.

    At the opening of the Portuguese Parliament the Finance Minister announced that Britain was advancing loans to Portugal for war purposes ...

    Article : 83 words
  41. WAGGA TEMPERATURES.

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  42. BENZINE STORE BOMBED.

    The Admiralty states that British seaplanes, co-operating with those of the French, successfully bombarded the benzine stores and barracks at Mulheim on ...

    Article : 42 words
  43. FORECAST

    Gloudy over the south-western half, with some showers chiefly south of the Lachlan; fine in the north-eastern quarter, with night fogs and frosts ...

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  44. ANZACS IN LONDON.

    The Y.M.C.A. has made arrangements to suitably entertain and care for the Anzacs spending leave in London. On an average 4000 visit the metropolis ...

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  45. NORTH OF SALONIKA.

    A report from Salonika says that the British dispersed Bulgarian patrols at Doli[?]li, west of Doiran. Bomb and bayonet fighting occurred on Monday ...

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  46. ANILINE DYE.

    A youthful Irish chemist has invented an aniline dye, with which the Government is experimenting and paying him £650 quarterly. ...

    Article : 32 words
  47. KUT-EL-AMARA.

    A semi-official report issued in Constantinople says that 615 officers and 12,597 men were taken prisoners at Kut-el-Amara. ...

    Article : 24 words
  48. REBEL PRISONER.

    John M'Niel, who is serving a the sentence in connection with the rebellion, has been elected president, of the Gaelic League. ...

    Article : 6 words
  49. LABOR'S "LOAD."

    In the course of some pointed comment on the petrol scandal a Gundagai Labor newspaper recently remarked that if the Holman party were defeated at the ...

    Article : 311 words
  50. AUSTRALIA DAY FUND.

    The Australia Day Fund now totals £808,000. The only centres which are now withholding funds of any magnitude are Grafton and Bathurst. ...

    Article : 27 words
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