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  2. ON BLUE WATER.

    LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--It is officially reported that the British destroyer Amphion sank the Hamburg Amerika Company's Koenlgen Lulsp, which had been utilised for the ...

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  3. LONDON FINANCE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, explained that the issue of small notes had been decided upon ...

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  4. AT THE HEADS.

    Three shots were fired from one of the South Head batteries yesterday in order to impress upon several steamers the necessity of complying implicitly with the naval regulations ...

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  5. A GERMAN CHECK.

    Belgium is offering unexpected resistance to the advance of the German troops along the Meuse Valley. There has been heavy fighting, and the invaders have been checked. German losses are reported severe, and eight hundred of their wounded have ...

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  6. TO-DAY'S PAPER.

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    THE COCKPIT OF EUROPE. THE MEUSE VALLEY, SHOWING THE SCENE OF THE BELGIAN VICTORY OVER THE GERMANS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. BOSPHORUS AND DARDANELLES CLOSED.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, Thursday.--Turkey has declared her neutrality. Both the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles hare been closed. ...

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  9. AT SIX PER CENT.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--The Premier intimated to-day that he had received a cable message from London stating that the bank rate ...

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  10. GNEISENAU STOPPED.

    LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--The Belgians seized the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Gnelsenan at Antwerp, and ordered the passengers ashore, including many Australians, ...

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  11. IMPERIAL CREDIT.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Imperial Government has asked for £100,000,000 credit; Three million £1 and 10s notes will be issued to-morrow; afterwards £5,000,000 will be ...

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  12. AS BEFORE.

    Up till yesterday the oversea shipping companies trading to Sydney had no intention of withdrawing, or postponing the departure or any of their steamers. ...

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  13. ENGLISH FOOD SUPPLIES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Home and Foreign Produce Exchange is fixing prices every two days. All butter is worth 136s to 145s a cwt., except Danish, which is quoted at ...

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  14. FOR WAR.

    LONDON, Thursday.--General Sir Ian Hamilton has been appointed to the command of the Home Array. Lord Kitchener has accepted the ...

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  15. IN THE NEW WORLD.

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.--Heavy firing has been heard off the Maine coast. It is believed that a naval engagement has been in progress but no details are to hand. ...

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  16. FOOD SUPPLY.

    MELBOURNE. Thursday.--The inquiries instituted by the direction of the Prime Minister have satisfied him that Australia is uncommonly well situated as regards food requirements. ...

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  17. SHIPS MUST HAVE PERMITS.

    No vessel, with the exception of fishing boats, can now leave port without first obtaining, on each trip, a special certificate. This is causing a certain amount of inconvenience, and ...

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  18. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 words
  19. GERMAN AMBASSADOR LEAVES.

    LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--Prince Lichnowsky, German Ambassador in Groat Britain, together with his staff, have received their passports. and wil leave Harwich on Thursday ...

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  20. A MEDIATOR.

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.--President Wilson has offered to net as mediator between all the nations at war. The death of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the President of ...

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  21. BOLD BELGIANS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--Belgian, is offering unexpected resistance to the advance of the German troops along the River Mouse. Heavy lighting is taking ...

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  22. STEAMERS CHANGE BERTHS

    The Collector of Customs said yesterday that he had granted a permit to the German steamer Tiberius to move from the Orient Wharf, at Circular Quay, to the China Navigation ...

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  23. IRELAND UNITED.

    LONDON, Thursday Morning,--The Nationalist Volunteers committee expresses complete readiness to co-operate with the Ulster volunteers in defence of Ireland. ...

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  24. NEW ZEALAND AND WAR RISKS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. T. Mackenzie. High Commissioner for New Zealand, will ask the British Government to include in the war risks vessels on their way to the United Kingdom. ...

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  25. CANADIANS FOR EUROPE.

    OTTAWA. Thursday.--Arrangements are now complete for sending a Canadian army corps to Europe. It is understood that a request for troops has ...

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  26. BRITISH CABINET.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--It is announced that Earl Beauchamp, First Commissioner of Works, will succeed Lord Morley as Lord President of the Council and Mr. Waler ...

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  27. TO-DAY.

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  28. MERCHANTS GRAVELY CONCERNED.

    Numbers of Sydney merchants expressed themselves gravely concerned yesterday about the material additions which they would be presently called upon to make to prices, in the ...

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  29. NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEN.

    WELLINGTON, N.Z., Wednesday.--A hundred ex-members of the former naval volunteers have offered to man the forts and afford relief to the regular troops, If necessary. ...

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  30. STRANDED AMERICANS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--A number of American visitors to Great Britain have purchased the steamship Minting to convey 400 American passengers from Liverpool to Now ...

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  31. THE OVERSEAS OFFERS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Lord Emmett, replying to Lord Denman in the House of Lords, said there was no immediate necessity to accept the overseas offers of troops. ...

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  32. ONE OF THE LAST.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Professor Marshall Hall, the well-known Victorian musical authority and composer, was among the last passengers to reach England from Zurich ...

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  33. ANTI-GERMAN.

    VANCOUVER, Wednesday.--A crowd tore down the insignia outside the Vancouver German Consulate and trampelled It in the dust. Other anti-German demonstrations are reported ...

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  34. THE OVERSEAS FORCE.

    An excellent start was made yesterday with the enlistment of men for overseas service. Such large numbers applied at the Army Service Corps Drill Hall that they had to be ...

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  35. HOSPITAL PREPARATIONS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Complete arrangements have been made at Grimsby to receive men who may be wounded in North Sea naval engagements. ...

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  36. ENEMY SHIPS.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The German steamer Scharzfels, at Port Adelaide, was moored at the wharf to-day. An armed naval guard is on board, and a bluejacket, with fixed bayonet, ...

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  37. RAILWAY SMASH.

    JOPLIN, Wednesday.--A serious railway accident occurred to-day. in which 25 Persons wore killed and 25 injured, six of them it is feared, fatally. ...

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  38. STRICT CENSORSHIP.

    LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--The most rigorous censorship of cable messages has been established by the Government, and the wires are practically held for service per[?]s. ...

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  39. GAZETTE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--After the meeting of the Federal Executive to-day a special gazette was issued amending the proclamation issued in regard to the practice of granting a ...

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  40. DANGEROUS ALIENS.

    LONDON, Thursday E. ening,--A bill introduced by Mr. M'Kenna, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, has passed the House of Commons, securing control of all dangerous allens ...

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  41. AMMUNITION SUPPLIES.

    BERTH. Wednesday.--Speaking at Green hushes last night, Sir John Forrest auld he had been in constant communication with the State Premier, and every precaution would be ...

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  42. STATE OF WAR IN HOLLAND.

    THE HAGUE, Wednesday Evening.--A state of war has been proclaimed over a portion of Holland. ...

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  43. STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSED.

    Members of the Stock Exchange of Sydney met yesterday morning, and decided to suspend all business operations until Monday next. August.10 when they will meet again, and ...

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  44. BOMBS FOR LONDON.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Detectives raided a number of London house by Germans, several Germans were arrested, and a number of homes and rifles were discovered in a pork ...

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  45. GERMANS IN PARIS.

    PARIS, Wednesday Evening.--The streets are peaceful, and Germans are flocking to the American Consulate and raying to get home. The authorities are sending them ...

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  46. BALTIC EXCHANGE.

    LONDON, Wednesday Morning.--The Battle Exchange is still open, but there is little attempt to do business. Forty-five shillings is asked for Australian wheat afloat, and big ...

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  47. BIG PROPERTY DEALS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Her Majesty's Theatre, Exhibition Street, city,'which formed part of the G.E. Porter estate, was submitted to action to-day. It was bought by J. C. ...

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  48. ALSATIANS SHOT.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Germans shot 17 Alsations who were endeavoring to cross the frontier at Mulbausen. ...

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  49. THE POSITION IN SYDNEY.

    Sydney's overseas business of practically every description was in a state of suspended animation yesterday. Merchants here did not know enough, one way or the other, to venture ...

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  50. AUSTRALIAN NOTES IN LONDON.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Arrangements have been made by the Federal Treasury to enable Australian notes and silver to he exchanged for gold at the office of the ...

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  51. JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

    TOKIO, Wednesday Evening.--The Foreign Office has issued a statement reiterating that Japan will take the necessary measures to discharge her to obligations to Great Br[?]in. ...

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  52. THE MILITIA.

    OTTAWA, Wednesday.--Orders have been formally issued for the mobilisation of the Canadian Army Division of 21,000 men immediately. The Government bus ordered the militia to ...

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  53. DUDLEY FIELD HOSPITAL.

    LONDON, Wednesday,--Sir George Hold, High Commissioner for Australia, is supporting Lady Dudley's movement to equip a field hospital. Dr. Douglas Shields will he in charge. ...

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  54. EMPLOYERS SPEAK.

    An urgent meeting of the council of the Employers Federation of New South Wales was held yesterday morning. Mr. E. R. Buchanan, president, was in the chair. The meeting was ...

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  55. THE OUT-OF-WORK PROBLEM.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--It is estimated that 250,000 waterside workers have already been thrown out of work col.sequent upon the war. ...

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  56. SHIPS FOR BRITAIN.

    OTTAWA, Wednesday.--The Canadian Government. has purchased two submarines now being built at Seattle for the Chilian Government. The cruisers Rainbow and Niobe have aslo ...

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  57. STRANDED AMERICANS.

    LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--A number of American visitors to Groat Britain have purchased the steamship Viking to Convoy 40s American passengers from' Liverpool to Now ...

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  58. NEWSPAPER LIBEL ACTION.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--An action has been commenced in the Supreme Court by William Alexander Watt, of Park Street, Moonee Ponds, against David Syme and Co., claiming £3000 ...

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  59. STILL THE POLK.

    LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--Sir Ernest Shackes[?]on has service to the King, who desired him to proceed with his Antarctic ex[?] edition, and presented him with a silk Union ...

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  60. CAT AND MOUSE.

    The Niagara bus been granted her granted her clearance, and is expected to sail from Vancouver within 12 hours. It has been definitely disclosed to the passenger, aboard that the German cruiser ...

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  61. "THIS IS BAD NEWS."

    FREMANTLE, Thursday.--Three days over her due time. the Griefswald arrived at Fremantle shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. ...

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  62. PREPARATIONS AT SUVA.

    SUVA, Thursday.--Defence preparations are proceeding. The rifle clubs and cadets are mobilised. ...

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  63. RICE EXPORT STOPPED.

    BATAVIA, Thursday.--All export of rice has been stopped. ...

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  64. Advertising

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