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  2. VERDUN

    PARIS, Sunday.--A communique says:--'"Hot fighting has occurred near Douaumont. We hold the upper part of the knoll on the northern slope whereon the village is situated. A sharp counter-attack enabled us to regain ground in the immediate vicinity of the village ...

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  3. YANCO PROBLEM.

    LEETON, Saturday.--At a largely-attended public meeting in the local hall last night the Premier (Mr. W. A. Holman) received the representations of the settlers in regard to the ...

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  4. PORTUGUESE SEIZURES.

    BOMBAY, Saturday.--The Portuguese Government seized all the German steamers at Mormugao, including the Brisbane (5668 tons), Kommodore (6064 tons). Lichtenfels (5605 tons) ...

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  5. THIS MORNING'S CABLES.

    PETROGRAD, Sunday.--An official statement gives details of the capture of Bit[?] "Our troops attacked the enemy entrenchments during a snowstrom, and the final charge was ...

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  6. AMERICA'S STAND.

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.--The Senate, by 6[?] votes to 14, defeated Senator Gore's resolution warning Americans off armed ships of the European belligerents. ...

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  7. GERMAN FLEET.

    ROME, Sunday.--A wireless message to the press states that 20 German Dreadnoughts have sailed out of Kiel. ...

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  8. TROUBLED TURKEY.

    ATHENS, Sunday.--Advices from Constantinople state that an attempt was made to assassinate Enver Pasha, Minister for War, who was wounded. ...

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  9. PROGRESS OF THE WAR

    In spite of the recall of the Crown Price, and the German recapture of at least a part of Douaumont this morning's Verdun news is, on the whole ...

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  10. SINKING OF ARABIC.

    NEW YORK, Sunday.--A remarkable example of German mendacity has been revealed. The German Ambassador at Washington, Count Bernstorff, handed Mr. Lansing, Secretary of ...

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  11. AUSTRIAN SUBMARINES.

    ATHENS, Sunday.--An Austrian submarine torpedoed the Italian steamer Java. The crew was landed at the Piraeus (Greece). ROME, Sunday.--An Austrian submarine ...

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  12. GENERAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The operation performed on P. F. Warner, the well-known international cricketer, who has been engaged in duties at the War Office, proved successful, and he is ...

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  13. CLAN MACTAVISH.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The "Daily Chronicle" reports that eighteen of the Clan Mactavish's crew have arrived at Tilbury. The state that Count von Donah is commander of the Moewe. ...

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  14. REMOVING YUSSUF.

    PARIS, Sunday.--During the summer of 1915 the Committee of Union and Progress at Constantinople discussed the hostility of the late Prince Yussuf, heir to the Turkish throne ...

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  15. FRENCH SUCCESSES.

    PARIS, Sunday.--A communique reports:--"We carried out destructive artillery fire on the enemy's works at East Neuville, south of Berry au Bac. ...

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  16. THE CAUCASUS.

    PETROGRAD, Sunday.--A communique says:--"The Caucasian campaign is proving exceptionally difficult, owing to the roads being ...

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  17. THE BALKANS.

    ATHENS, Sunday.--Seven French aeroplanes flew from Salonika to Smyrna, a distance of approximately, 260 miles. They dropped bombs on the batteries, and returned. The double ...

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  18. SWIMMERS ENLIST.

    Newcastle League of Swimmers has what it regards as something of a record in the matter of enlistments. Mr. M. Lahiff, its secretary, was in the city ...

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  19. TURKS IN DESPAIR.

    ATHENS, Saturday.--The Turks are in complete despair over the probability of Bagdad being occupied. I tis believed that Turkey will strive by all ...

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  20. RED CROSS EXECUTIVE.

    At the last meeting of the Red Cross executive Mr. Richard Teece wrote accepting the position of vice-president. The name of Mr. Adrian Knox was added to the advisory ...

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  21. APPAM OWNERSHIP.

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.--The Government has decided that the British steamer Appam, captured off the West African coast by the German raider Moewe and brought to America ...

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  22. MAGAZINE EXPLODES.

    PARIS, Sunday.--An explosion in the magabine at Couronne fort, Saint Denis, spread to the powder works nearby. A car containing thirty-two passengers was overturned, and the ...

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  23. SOLDIERS AT FOOTBALL.

    LONDON, Sunday.--Four thousand spectators, mostly in khaki, from the Queen's Club, witnessed a Rugby football match, when a team of South African soldiers beat a team of New ...

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  24. YPRES.

    LONDON, Sunday.--A German communique states:--"South-east of the Ypres Canal the English penetrated the position which we took on ...

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  25. HURRICANE OF SHELL.

    PAIRS, Sunday.--The "Figaro" tells a thrilling story of Vordun. The Germans were reported eastward at 3 o'clock in the morning. Flares and rockets lit up the battlefield like broad ...

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  26. THE DVINA FRONT.

    LONDON, Sunday.--The Petrograd correspondent of the "Observer" writes:--"There is a curious tremor on north-Russian front as if anticipating a coming struggle. German aircraft ...

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  27. SEAPLANE WRECKED.

    LONDON, Sunday.--It is officially announced that a Germa seaplane, returning from England, after dropping bumbs on the south-east coast, fell into the North Sea. The observer ...

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  28. AUBURN AMBULANCE.

    The Auburn District Division of the St. John Ambulance Association has commenced the erection of a building on a piece of ground granted by the Commissioners for Railways in ...

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  29. AN AUSTRIAN CLAIM.

    AMSTERDAM, Sunday.--An Austrian communique claims a recent capture near Durazzo of 34 Italian guns and 11,400 rifles. ...

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