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  2. ECHOES OF THE WAR.

    A New York business man, with influenital European connections which enabled him on a recent trip to England and France to obtain an inside view of some ...

    Article : 940 words
  3. SURRENDER OF PRZEMYSL.

    After six months' siege Prezemysl has surrendered to the Russians, and the number of prisoners is stated to be 130,000 men, with hundreds of officers, including nine ...

    Article : 183 words
  4. MODERN ITALY.

    Of the nine new nations that have arisen in Europe during the last century—Belgium, Greece, Servia, the German Empire, Roumania, Montenegro, Norway, ...

    Article : 1,844 words
  5. WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

    Complaints were made in "The Age" several weeks ago regarding the excessive minimum premiums charged in some cases for insuring mining employes under the ...

    Article : 232 words
  6. CONSCRIPTION FOR ENGLAND.

    In an article on the need for cumpulsory military service in Great Britain, the "Daily Mail" says:— "Voluntary service is already breaking ...

    Article : 154 words
  7. HOW THE SIEGE ENDED.

    A graphic account is furnished of a journey by a Russian correspondent from Lwow (Lemberg) to Przemysl. On learning of the fall of the fortress the ...

    Article : 433 words
  8. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

    The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge, United Ancient Order of Druids, was held in the council dumber at the Trades Hall yesterday. The grand president (Bro. J. Cork) occupied the ...

    Article : 476 words
  9. RUIN IN GALICIA.

    According to a report from Cracow, the damage due to the war in Poland and Galicia amounts to five billion marks. In Galicia a hundred cities and market ...

    Article : 87 words
  10. FRENCHMAN'S HEROIC SACRIFICE.

    M. Rene Bazin, the well-known French author, tells the following story in "L'Echode Paris":— A soldier was lying in hospital ...

    Article : 152 words
  11. WAR OF EXHAUSTION.

    The official "eye-witness" at the front in France, in a despatch issued by the War office says:— 'The duty of the British army is ...

    Article : 222 words
  12. LOOTING IN NEW GUINEA.

    At the meeting of the Victorian branch of the Meat Industry Employes' Union on Tuesday evening, Mr. G. Spiers drew attention to the "spelndid fight put up by ...

    Article : 207 words
  13. "WAR OVER BY AUGUST."

    Even money was bet in the financial district says the New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," that the war would be over by the end of August, and odds of ...

    Article : 197 words
  14. OUR HIDDEN WATERS.

    Sir,—Your admirable article in your issue of 1st inst under above heading should receive earnest and prompt consideration not only by Government but by ...

    Article : 478 words
  15. AUSTRALIAN WINE TRADE.

    Sir,—The fair, is being expressed in connection with the British Government's proposals to increase liquor duties that the intercuts of the Australian wine trade will be ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. Biggest Haul of Prisoners Since Sedan

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 words
  17. JOFFRE GIVES DECORATIONS.

    Sixty-four buglers sounded the salute and General Joffre came upon the field. He had a word or two with the commanding general. Then he walked along the lines ...

    Article : 289 words
  18. BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

    The autumnal session of the Victorian Baptist Union was concluded yesterday in Armadale Baptist Church. Mr. G. H. Doery presided. ...

    Article : 809 words
  19. BRITISH MILITARY STRENGTH.

    People whose estimate of British military strength was bused on facts six months of a year old can hardly believe their eyes when they look at the ...

    Article : 237 words
  20. What Its Fall Means to Russia.

    Przemysl had been under the Russian guns since about the third week in September, but its complete investment did not begin until some weeks later. ...

    Article : 678 words
  21. ENGLISH SERGEANT'S LAST THOUGHTS.

    As he lay dying in a farm house in Flanders last October Sergeant Cecil E. Newman, of the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, scratched on his metal identification ...

    Article : 361 words
  22. WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD.

    "When England entered," says the "Times," "upon the long contest, which dragged its weary length along for more than twenty years and came to an end only ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  23. SOLDIER LIVES WITH THIRD OF BRAIN GONE.

    An operation performed by Dr. Guepin, by which part of a wounded soldier's brian was removed without the patient suffering serious consequences, was described before ...

    Article : 125 words
  24. HOW SOUP IS SERVED HOT IN RUSSIAN TRENCHES.

    Portable soup kettles that are in effect enormous vacuum bottles are one of the interesting features in the commissary equipment of the Russian ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,—In "The Age" of Saturday I read with very great interest the article on Our Hidden Waters: A Neglected Source of Wealth, I also believe with the writer of ...

    Article : 522 words
  26. GERMAN ARMY TRAINING.

    Long before the war the German army had been thoroughly drilled in every phase of attack and defence that might occur in actual fighting. One of these drills was ...

    Article : 98 words
  27. AMERICA'S OPPORTUNITY.

    The San Francisco "Weekly Chronicle," discussing the cost of the war, comes to the conclusion that "all Europe will be bankrupt for at least another hundred years." ...

    Article : 253 words
  28. CONTROL OF CABLE TRAMWAYS.

    Cr. Kellett moved at Kew council on Tuesday that approval be given to the Melbourne Tramway Trust entering into negotiations with the tramway company for the purchase of the whole of ...

    Article : 101 words
  29. "THE GREAT MOMENT."

    The following letter, written by a young Territorial officer to his parents, will give some idea of what leaving for the front means in this war. He says:—"After long ...

    Article : 288 words
  30. Advertising

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    Advertising : 273 words
  31. A DARING 8th ROYAL SCOTS' OFFICER.

    An old Edinburgh man, a former member of the "Dandy Ninth," at present serving with the Canadian contingent at the front, has been in contact with the 8th ...

    Article : 258 words
  32. Several Units Afraid to Move Out.

    The following text of the order issued by General Kusmanek, commanding the fortress of Przemysl, to the garrison on 18th March, the day before the sortie, has ...

    Article : 696 words
  33. Advertising

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    Advertising : 30 words
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