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  2. DOMINATING HIGH GROUND STORMED DEEPENING AND WIDENING THE GAP.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We slightly advanced our line southeastward of Ypres, and repulsed attempted raids north-westward of Pontru, ...

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  3. ITALY'S SPLENDID DEFENCE.

    An Italian communique states: We repulsed with very severe losses a strong attempted encircling attack against Melette on the Asiago Plateau, preceded by a big ...

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  4. FRENCH FRONT.

    A French communique states: In the region of Cerny and Juvincourt our fire stopped an enemy attack on the left of the positions we won on November 21. ...

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  5. THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS.

    Colonel Burston has received the following letter from General Birdwood, dated September 27:—"We have just come in for mother heavy [?]bout of fighting after a ...

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  6. NEARING JERUSALEM.

    An official announcement made this afternoon respecting the operations in Palestine states:—We stormed on Wednesday Nebi Samwil ridge, which is on ...

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  7. SECRET TREATIES.

    The Bolsheviks are preparing a yellow book of all the secret treaties, translated into all languages. The first treaty to be published will be that embodying ...

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  8. RUSSIAN PEACE PROPOSALS.

    The American Ambassador in France has forwarded a cablegram received from Petrograd, confirming the reports that the Soviet authorities have opened ...

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  9. MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY. CHAPTER XXX.—(Continued.)

    While of course I cannot ascertain the exact amounts, I found, nevertheless, that great quantities of food and other supplies came into Germany from ...

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  10. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.

    When receiving a representative deputation of employers and workmen in the shipbuilding trades, who submitted joint suggestions for securing the greatest ...

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  11. GERMANS ON WEST FRONT.

    Official statistics issued by the French Embassy show that the German strength on the West Front is 5,320,000, comprising, in the Aisne and Champagne sectors 57 ...

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  12. COMING HOME.

    As previously announced approximately 220 returned invalid soldiers are due to arrive by special trams to-day at 3.50 and 7.40 p.m. Flowers for use in ...

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  13. WAR CORRESPONDENT'S NARRATIVES.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, correspondent with the British headquarters, says: When we smashed through the Hindenburg line on Tuesday the German High Command, as ...

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  14. CHINESE TROOPS FOR FRANCE.

    It is understood that the Allies have endorsed a proposal to permit China to send 25,000 troops to France to take up secondary duties, thus releasing ...

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  15. FINANCIAL CONCESSIONS FOR CHINA.

    An International Allied Commission, which wall meet at Shanghai soon, will decide on financial concessions for China for assistance against Germany. The import ...

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  16. PERSONAL NOTES.

    Mr. A. J. Foote, of Karragaroo, Ipswich, has received a cablegram stating that his son, Lieutenant Len. H. Foote, who was reported seriously wounded, is steadily ...

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  17. MESOPOTAMIAN FORCES.

    The official announcement has been made that Lieut.-General W. R. Marshall. C.B., has been appointed to the command of the British Forces in Mesopotamia. ...

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  18. SUBMARINE WARFARE.

    The consensus of opinion among naval experts is that the extension of the barred zone is directcd against neutrals rather than against ourselves, and ...

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  19. TURKISH ARMY.

    Advices from Constantinople state that the mobilisation has been ordered of all Ottoman subjects between the ages of 48 years and 57 years. ...

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  20. CANADA BORROWING.

    Although only half the time allotted for the raising of the Liberty Loan of £30,000,000 has expired, the loan has been oversubscribed. ...

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  21. FIGHTING IN ARABIA.

    An official message states: We captured the Turkish post at Jabir, 15 miles to the northward of Aden. We inflicted great losses, and the enemy defences ...

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  22. NEW SHIPBUILDING COUNCIL.

    The Admiralty announces, through the Press Bureau, the formation of a ShipBuilding Council under the chairmanship of the Admiralty Controller. It includes ...

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  23. THE BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS.

    It is officially announced that General Sir Herbert Plumer has been appointed to the command of the British forces in Italy. ...

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  24. THE RUSSIAN ARMIES.

    Messages from Vienna are to the effect that the Russians are evacuating Galicia. CONSCRIPTS RELEASED. LONDON, Friday. ...

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  25. AMERICA'S EFFORTS.

    The American Shipping Board is confident that it will be able to meet the request of Mr. Lloyd George for 6,000,000 tons of shipping by January, 1919. ...

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  26. MILITARY CROSS FOR BRISBANE BOY.

    Second Lieut. Charles E. Kingsford Smith, of the Royal Flying Corps, has been awarded the Military Cross. The young lieutenant is the youngest son of ...

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  27. GRAVEL FROM HOLLAND.

    A German semi-official statement, in reply to the German Press, which condemned the Dutch Government for stopping the export of gravel to ...

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  28. THE ENEMY PROGRAMME.

    A message from Berne states that Marshal von Hindenburg has planned the rapid and total collapse of Italy, intending then to attack France from the ...

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  29. POSITION IN PETROGRAD.

    The "Dagblad" states that all is calm in Petrograd, that the theatres have been reopened, and that the restaurants are crowded. The Entente legations refuse ...

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  30. DARING AUSTRALIANS.

    Two Australian soldiers, Hector Holmes, and H. L. Thomas, escaped from a prison camp at Fredericksfeld, and have reached London. Both come from the Newcastle ...

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  31. CHARGE AGAINST THE MINERS' FEDERATION.

    Mr. C. B. Stanton, Labour member for Merthyr Tydvil, has asked the Board of Trade to investigate the books of the South Wales Miners' ...

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  32. 12 RELIEF SHIPS SUNK.

    The Belgian Relief Commission has published a protest sent to Germany, charging the U boats with having sunk 12 relief ships, and with having shelled three after ...

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  33. THE KIEL MUTINY.

    Weigat, a boatswain on the dreadnought Kron Prinz, who participated in the naval mutiny at Kiel last month, has escaped to Holland. In the course of an interview ...

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  34. AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS WORK.

    Colonel C. C. Manifold (Director of Medical Services an France), writing to Colonel Murdoch, expresses his warm appreciation of the Australian Red Cross ...

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  35. THE BRITISH VICTORY.

    Flags were hoisted on public and private buildings and residences in Brisbane on Saturday is on outward evidence of the patriotic fervour aroused by the ...

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  36. ANOTHER ENEMY PROJECT.

    The "Journal" states that the Germans are sending troops from the Russian. Front to the Balkans to drive out the British and French from Salonica, and ...

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  37. NEW EARLDOMS.

    The Press Bureau states that Lord Reading (who was head of the recent British Financial Mission to America) has been created an carl, and Lord ...

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  38. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.

    Mr. J. F. Hope, Lord of the Treasury, speaking in the House of Commons, said a British and Turkish conference would be held at Berne shortly regarding the ...

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  39. LABOUR AFTER THE WAR.

    Mr. George Roberts (Minister for Labour), in replying to a deputation from the Trade Union Congress, said the Government's demobilisation plans were ...

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  40. OVERTURES TO ROUMANIA.

    A Roumanian communique, issued on November 21, stated: Attempted fraternisation by the enemy was repulsed by our rifle fire. ...

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  41. GERMAN EAST AFRICA.

    An official message from German East Africa states: We entered Simbas in the Kingari Valley, and also Newala. A small force gallantly engaged a superior ...

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  42. ANZAC COTTAGE COMPLETED.

    The Anzac cottage, which has been under course of erection for seven or eight Sundays, is now completed, and will be officially opened by his Excellency ...

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  43. HEW MILITARY DECORATION.

    The King has approved of the issue of a decoration in the form of a bronze star with a tricolour riband, for all British and Indian military men and civilians who ...

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  44. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MEETING.

    Th[?] Austrian and Hungarian delegations will meet on December 3 for the first time since the commencement of the war. ...

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  45. ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.

    Colonel E. M. House (President Wilson's Confidental Adviser) states that he and General Bliss will represent America on the Allied Supreme War ...

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  46. CELEBRATIONS IN SYDNEY.

    The State Government is making arrangements to fittingly celebrate on Tuesday next the recent great victory on the Western Front. A thanksgiving service ...

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  47. WINE RELEASED.

    The Press Bureau states that Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, has announced that there will be a release of the same quantity of wine from bond as ...

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  48. POST-WAR MANUFACTURES.

    The Government has appointed a committee of bankers, commercial men, and manufacturers to report on the financial arrangements necessary after the ...

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  49. PROPOSED AIR MINISTER.

    It is rumoured that Lord Rothermere is to be appointed Minister of the Air Department. [Herold Sidney Harmsworth. First Baron ...

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  50. A DOG'S FUNERAL.

    Under the use of petrol restriction order the Magistrate at Hungtindon Police Court fined a taxicab driver £50, for driving Sir Maurice and Lady ...

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  51. SOLDIER BIGAMISTS.

    His Honour Mr. Justice Bray, when sentencing 13 bigamists to imprisonment for various terms up to 12 months at Maidstone, remarked that five-sixths of ...

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  52. DISMISSED THE SERVICE.

    Captain A. M. Rattray, of the Otago regiment, has been court-martialled and dismissed the service. ...

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  53. PROTECTION OF SHIPPING.

    Stringent regulations have been gazetted [?]or the inspection of luggage, baggage, and cargo carried by, overseas ships. ...

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