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  2. WHY "YES" WAS VOTED.

    Mrs. G. S. Vidler, Bexhiil, forwards a letter front her son, Cecil, written from France, where he has been since last March, and she adds : -- "This, Sir, is why I ...

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  3. HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- A Geneva telegram says that the Hungarian Parliament opened in the rowdiest and most unprecedented manner. There were numbers of ...

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  5. THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

    PETROGRAD, Friday. -- References to the Riga offensive continue, prudent, but the well-informed correspondent M. Hutin writes : -- The Russians are nearing Mitau, and their ...

    Article : 147 words
  6. PEACE PROPOSALS.

    PARIS, Friday. -- At the reopening of the Chamber of Deputies M. Deschanel was ovated when announcing the first articles of France's programme, viz.,. the deliverance of ...

    Article : 44 words
  7. HOW WALL-STREET WAS AFFECTED.

    NEW YORK, Friday. -- The Entente's reply was the occasion of another upward swing in Wall-street, war shares and related stocks gaining one or two points. But the initial ...

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  8. DEVELOPMENT OF PARLIAMENT.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- It is understood that a proposal will soon be published for developing the present Parliament to an Imperial House, the Lords including ...

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  9. THE DOOR NOT CLOSED.

    WASHINGTON, Friday. -- The opinion prevails in all quarters that while the Entente's reply is a complete answer to President, Wilson's request for a statement of ...

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  10. CLUNES KNITTING CLASS.

    The members of the Chines Knitting Class met on 19th December at the residence of Mrs. T. Elliott, Mackney Hill, for the purpose of packing the last of the soldiers' parcels for ...

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  11. THE BALKANS.

    [?]ficial report says: The enemy pressed us back a short distance south of Cituz River. The Rumanians repulsed an attack west of Monestirka, and Kachinul, and threw back the ...

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  12. THE ALLIES' CONFIDENCE.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The Allies, are confident of .their ability to, hold the enemy everywhere, remaining free to choose their own time and place for the offensives. ...

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  13. PRESS COMMENT.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The Allied press, in supporting the reply to President Wilson, emphasise the reply's palpable good faith, and that it inspires confidence. The French paper ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. GERMAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE.

    LONDON, Friday -- A German official message says: -- We stormed Several positions on both sides of Vituz road, capturing booty and prisoners. We pushed back the Russians ...

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  15. BULGARIAN BOYS MOBILISED.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The Bulgarians have mobilised all boys of 17 years. ...

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  16. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN NOTE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent says, that a Austro-Hungarian. Note to neutrals and the Pope with reference to the Allies' reply to the Central Powers' ...

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  17. GENERAL BIRDWOOD.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Generall Birdwood called on Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Derby and Mr. Long. Several conferences, were held at Horseferry Road. He returns to the front on ...

    Article : 58 words
  18. BULGARIAN COMMANDS RUSSIANS.

    PETROGRAD, Friday. -- The Bulgarian General Dmitrieff commands the Russians advancing on Mitau, and the announcement of his capture of 21 heavy and 11 field guns, ...

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  19. OBITUARY.

    BRISBANE, Saturday. -- Dr. Dunne, Roinan Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, died at noon to-day. The body will be interred in the vault of St. Stephen's ...

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  20. INTER-ALLIED GENERAL STAFF.

    PARIS, Saturday. -- The Parliamentary group of national action resolved to urge the appointment of an inter Allied General Staff to advise the Governments in the ...

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  21. BOMBARDMENT OF GALATZ.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The Germans, and Bulgars are violently bombarding Galatz, a great part of which has been destroyed, but the advance of the enemy is most difficult ...

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  22. DUTCH OPINION.

    AMSTERDAM, Friday. -- The Hinders, blad, after expressing the conviction that England's entry into the Avar preserved Europe from German ...

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  23. "AH ! THE GOOD PRIEST."

    "I am thankful for the expression of good feeling from all denominations. Religion is too sacred, a thing to fight about. I have always noticed that it is impossible ...

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  24. RUSSIAN AND GERMAN MESSAGES.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- A Russian official message says : -- An enemy attack in dense formation at Kalnce was beaten back. An enemy aerial squadron bombed the station ...

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  25. GENERAL DMITRIEFF'S ORDER.

    PETROGRAD, Sunday. -- General Dmitrieff, in an order to the troops participating in the successful offensive on the Riga front, says: -- "Snow, frost and impassable marshes have ...

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  26. SHIPBUILDING

    LONDON, Saturday. -- Official figures show a great revival in wooden shipbuilding in the United States and Canada as the result of the war, including many fitted with ...

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  27. A REPLY TO GERMANY.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- Reuter's agency authoritatively issues a statement which may be regarded as expressing the views of the Allies on the German Note mentioned ...

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  28. AUSTRALASIA.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Senator Pearce announced, that the Government on an urgent appeal from the British War Office for the despatch of railway men, to the war ...

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  29. IN GREECE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Reuter announces that the Allies consider the Greek reply as not sufficiently precise. The Greek Government will be told the reply gives pleasure as far as it ...

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  30. AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE.

    Mr. Commissioner, E. G. Elworthy, writes from Shepherd's Hotel, Cairo (Egypt), under date 131116, to Miss Williamson, Grafton : -- After posting your, letter the -- has been ...

    Article : 255 words
  31. IN FRANCE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- A German official message says: -- The English twice vainly attacked north of the Ancre. Our counter attack north of Beaucourt thrust them back from ...

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  32. OPEN RUPTURE PREFERABLE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The newspapers, commenting on the Greek reply, opine that a complete rupture would be preferable to the present situation. ...

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  33. KAISER'S PROCLAMATION.

    AMSTERDAM, Saturday. -- The Kaiser, in a proclamation to the German people, said : -- " Our enemies have dropped the mask after refusing with scorn and ...

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  34. TRENCHES ENTERED.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Sir D. Haig, reports. : -- Our prisoners taken northward of the Ancre flow number 204. We entered trenches at two points, northward of Arras and took ...

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  35. COMPLETE ACQUIESCENCE IMPERATIVE.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The Allies have informed Greece that complete acquiescence is imperative; otherwise General Sarrail will act. ...

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  36. GERMAN MINISTER.

    BERNE, Saturday. -- Herr Von Jagow has joined Prince Von Bulow in Switzerland. ...

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  37. BRAVE BRITISH PRIVATE.

    PARIS, Saturday. -- A French General the Somme ceremoniously presented a military medal to a British private. His was a battalion relieving in French trenches ...

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  38. GREEK SHELLS.

    LONDON, Friday. -- A photograph taken at Salonika has reached London. It clearly proves that the Bulgarians are firing Greek shells at General Sarrail's army. ...

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  39. IN EGYPT.

    CAIRO, Friday. -- The weather in the Sinai Peninsula is inclement. The Australian Light Horse is in fine fettle while the Turks are thoroughly dispirited. ...

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  40. RAISING AN ARMY.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Reuter learns that the latest evidence of Germany's continued efforts to raise, a Polish army is sixty Russian Polish officer prisoners in Germany were sent ...

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  41. REPATRIATION DAY SHOW.

    Mr. C. D. McIntyre, Secretary Shire of Tintenbar Repatriation Day Show, acknowledges receipt of the following further contributions in cash : -- Amount previously ...

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  42. WAR LOAN.

    LONDON, Friday. -- There was a great rush for the war loan at the Bank of England early this morning, and hundreds and thousands of prospectuses were banded, out in ...

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  43. RAIDING PARTY DRIVEN OFF.

    LONDON, Sunday. -- Sir D. Haig says: -- The enemy broke into one of our posts northwest of Serres, but were driven out. We drove off a raiding party westward of Vimy. We ...

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  44. WIDESPREAD PLOT.

    LONDON, Friday. -- The "Pall Mall Gazette" says the destruction of two Italian Dreadnoughts is believed to be due to a widespread plot, influential aliens residing in Rome ...

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  45. ENEMY CONFERENCE.

    PARIS, Saturday. -- The venue of the conference off enemy Sovereigus has been changed to Bucharest in order to throw out a challenge to the Allies. The Kings of ...

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  46. A QUIET DAY.

    LONDON, Sunday. -- A Paris communique says: -- The day was quiet on the whole front. Intermittent cannonade occurred south of the Somme and in Lorraine and the Vosges. ...

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  47. MUNITIONS PLANT DESTROYED.

    VANCOUVER, Friday. -- New York reports the destruction of the munitions plant at Kingsland, involving a loss of sixteen million dollars. The company officials state that the ...

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  48. SUBMARINE STRIFE.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- A Rome official message says that the battleship Regina Margherita struck two mines in the open sea on the night of the 11th and sank in a few ...

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  49. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    CAPETOWN, Saturday. -- The Government is sending a Minister to the Conference. There is a strong movement to induce General Botha to go. Botha disapproves of ...

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  50. SOLDIERS' AID SOCIETY.

    The usual weekly meeting of the Soldiers' Aid Society was held on Thursday afternoon in St. Paul's School Room, Mrs. N. J. Simmons occupying the chair. The Secretary ...

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  51. AERIAL ACTIVITY.

    LONDON, Friday. -- Official : Two British aeroplanes reconnoitring in the Eastern Mediterranean, on arriving at their destination, found two hostile machines patrolling. An ...

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  52. ENEMY SATISFACTION.

    AMSTERDAM, Saturday. -- The German and Austrian newspapers express satisfaction that Mr. Hughes is not attending the conference. One German paper hopes that the ...

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  53. INCORRECT REPORT.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- A German wireless reports that the British cruiser Juno was destroyed by a direct hit. The British Admiralty states that no British cruiser was ...

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  54. AN ARMY OF FROGS.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- It is reported from Melbourne that hundreds of thousands of green frogs resembling a plague of grasshoppers on the move have appeared in and ...

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  55. THE N.S.W. PREMIER.

    SYDNEY, Sunday. -- The Premier states there is no truth in the rumor that he intends to go to London at the time the Imperial Conference is to be held as a sort of uninvited ...

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  56. TURKISH MASS LEVY.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The Turkish Government has made, a mass levy, on all men for the front, and is replacing them with female and children's labor. ...

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  57. VESSELS SUNK.

    LONDON, Saturday. -- The Greek vessel Evangelos and the British steamers. Brentwood and Beanfront have been sunk. ...

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