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  2. PROGRESS OF THE WAR

    The Italian successes cabled this morning really are of very great importance. Gorizia has been ...

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  3. THIS MORNING'S CABLES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Early this morning airships raided the East Coast of England, and another raided the Scottish coast. Three women and a child were killed, and 14 people ...

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  4. ALL FRONTS.

    HOME, Wednesday.--The Italians have commenced a great offensive on the Isonzo-Carso 60 miles front, for which they had prepared for several weeks. They concentrated a colossal number of massed troops, guns, and mitra[?]leuses. The action begun on Friday morning. After a violent bombardment, which destroyed ...

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  5. TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT.

    PARIS, Wednesday.--The Allied artillery has been engaged in an exceptionally severe bombardment during the last 48 hours, on a 45 kilometre front (about 28 miles), extending from Thie[?]val to the outskirts of Roye. The first and second, and even the third, German lines have been deluged with ...

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  6. THE APPAM DECISION.

    NORFOLK (Virginia), Wednesday.--Counsel for the German Government has filed a formal appeal against the American Court's decision regarding the Appam, Lieutenant Berg ...

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  7. THE LONDON LOAN.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Referring to the New South Wales loan, the "Financial News" states that, while offerings of capital, except for war purposes, should be discouraged, the fullest ...

    Article : 134 words
  8. IRELAND.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Irish Trades Congress at Sligo passed a resolution expressing abhorrence at the Redmond Nationalists accepting Mr. Lloyd George's Home Rule scheme ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. UNION STEAMSHIP CO.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Union Steamship Company's shares, which were quoted at 48s on Saturday, were sold yesterday at 56s. It is rumored that the New Zealand ...

    Article : 148 words
  10. THE ANZACS.

    BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, France, August 5.--Last night, immediately after dark, the Australians broke the main German second line on a front of one and a half miles, ...

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  11. THIAUMONT-FLEURY.

    PARIS, Wednesday.--A communique reports:--"We stopped successive strong German attacks at Fleury and Thiaumont Work, though ...

    Article : 102 words
  12. MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. Arthur Henderson (President of the Board of Education) has resigned from the Ministry. It is understood he considers that Labor missions on ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. PORTUGAL'S SHARE.

    LISBON, Wednesday.--Parliament has opened. The Finance Minister (Senhor Guimara[?]s) announced that Britain was advancing loans for war purposes, repayable within two years ...

    Article : 79 words
  14. EIGHT HOURS DAY.

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Of 400,000 employees of railroads throughout the United States[?] 94 per cent. declared in a ballot in favor of a strike unless they are conceded an ...

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  15. THE DESERT BATTLE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A communique issued in Egypt states:--"Our mounted men came into contact with the Turkish rearguard six miles eastward of ...

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  16. A GERMAN CAPTURE.

    COPENHAGEN, Wednesday.--The Danish passenger boat Ydun, returning to Copenhagen with 200 school boys and girls who were holidaying at Jutland, was captured in the ...

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  17. DEPORTING CIVILIANS.

    HOME, Wednesday.--Cardinal Hartmann, replying to the Pope on behalf of the German Government, said that owing to the difficulty of feeding the dense populations of the towns in ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. AMERICA'S ARMY.

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.--The Senate has adopted the Army Appropriation Bill. This involves a sum of £53,000,000, including £2,[?]00,000 for aviation. ...

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  19. STAVING OFF CRISIS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Statements by German prisoners show that the troops in the trenches have one meatless day weekly, and those behind up to four meatless days. The meat ...

    Article : 224 words
  20. GUARDING NIAGARA.

    BUFFALO. N.Y., Wednesday.--In order to safeguard the power works at Niagara Falls, which supply the Canadian munition plants, a ring of barbed wire entanglements has been ...

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  21. SALE OF WEST INDIES.

    COPENHAGEN, Wednesday.--Opposition to the sale of the Danish Islands in the West Indies, to America, is increasing, and it is probable that the Rigsdag will not ratify the ...

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  22. TO BREAK BLACK LIST.

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.--In Congress, Representative Bennet favored the use of the navy to break the British black list. Ships with black list goods, he said, should be ...

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  23. ANILINE DYE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A youthful Irish chemist has invented an aniline dye. The Government is making experiments with it, paying him £650 quarterly. ...

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  24. THE BALKANS.

    SALONIKA, Wednesday.--British troops dispersed Bulgarian patrols at Dol[?]eli, west of Doiran. Bomb and bayonet fighting occurred on Monday night. This was the first encounter ...

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  25. THE RUSSIAN DRIVE.

    PETROGRAD, Wednesday.--A communique reports:--"We took the offensive south of the Dniester, on a front of 16 miles. We penetrated the trenches and pursued the enemy. With an irresistible onslaught our brave troops drove back the enemy along the whole line. ...

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  26. RECRUITING.

    At Victoria Barracks yesterday [?]3 men offered themselves for enrolment, of whom 22 were r[?]ected[?] leaving 61 to go into the camps. RUBBER STAMP SIGNATURES. ...

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  27. LOSS OF SHIPPING.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons[?] Mr. Asquith, replying to a question whether in the terms of peace the Allies would insist on taking from Germany an equal amount ...

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  28. STANLEY WOOTTON.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The King has conferred the Military Cross upon Lieutenat Stanley Wootton, the well-known jockey, who was ...

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  29. SCULLER KILLED.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--William Albany, the well-known sculler, has been killed in action. ...

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  30. ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.--The military expert of the New York "Times" says:--"The capture of the bridgehead at Gorizia is unquestionably the greatest victory that the ...

    Article : 41 words
  31. WAR PENSIONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The House of Commons voted £6,000,000 for supplementary pensions, after Mr. M'K[?]nna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had stated that the Government did ...

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  32. COTTON PRICES ADVANCE.

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.--There has been a great advance in cotton during the past fortnight. May option has touched 15 cents. ...

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  33. KUT-EL-AMARA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--A semi-official report issued in Constantinople shows that 615 officers and 12,[?]97 men were taken prisoner at Kut-el-Amara. ...

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  34. A RUSSIAN ON THE AUSTRALIANS.

    A Russian writer, M. Chukovsky, visited the camp of the Australian soldiers near London. He saw them with the eyes of a foreigner, and what he thought of them makes most excellent ...

    Article : 282 words
  35. CLOUD BURST IN TASMANIA.

    ZEEHAN (Tas.), Wednesday.--A tremendous downpour of rain, resembling a cloud burst, occurred throughout the Lyell district on Tuesday. The water descended in sheets, doing ...

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  36. 750,000 SHELLS DAILY.

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.--The evidence, at a court case involving the right to ship munitions from Jersey City disclosed that one company alone has a contract with Russia ...

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  37. MULHEIM.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Admiralty announces that British seaplanes, co-operating with the French, successfully bombarded benzine stores and barracks at Mulheim, an ...

    Article : 42 words
  38. THE ADRIATIC FIGHT.

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.--A wireless message from Berlin states that Austrian torpedo-boats and the cruiser Aspern engaged an Italian cruiser and six destroyers in the Adriatic on ...

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  39. AFTER THE WAR.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Replying to Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke's questions regarding the settling of soldiers on the land, Mr. Bonar Law, Secretary for the Colonies, stated in the House of ...

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  40. VICTORIA'S FINANCES.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--In the Legislative Assembly today the Premier submitted supplementary estimates for the year, which ended on June 30. He said the Budget ...

    Article : 103 words
  41. THE BREMEN.

    FARIS, Wednesday.--An ambiguous report in German and Swiss newspapers state that the submarine liner Bremen, which was built to fellow the Deutschland to America, probably ...

    Article : 62 words
  42. CARING FOR ANZACS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Y.M.C.A. has made arrangements to suitably entertain and care tor Anzacs spending their leave in London. On an average four thousand visit the ...

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  43. NEW SOUTH WELSHMAN KILLED.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Second-Lieut[?]nant Harold Carver, of the Liverpools, and formerly a resident of Leoton, New South Wales, has been killed in action. ...

    Article : 27 words
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