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  2. MAILS FOR RUSSIA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Anglo-Swedish correspondence which has been published relating to Sweden's detention of British parcel mails for Russia, as a reprisal of British searching of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 427 words
  3. THIEPVAL.

    Fresh progress is reported from the Somme front, where all German counter-attacks have been repulsed, and some more trenches captured south of Thiepval. We now occupy half of Guillemont, and, according to a "Daily ...

    Article : 218 words
  4. MEN WHO FELL.

    Company Sergeant-Major J. S. V. THOMPSON, third son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Thompson, of Sandringham, Barraba, was killed in action in France on July 25. For a number of ...

    Article : 1,980 words
  5. THIS MORNING'S CABLES.

    THE HAGUE, Thursday.--A German war loan is to be issued on September 4 for an unlimited amount at 88. The interest will 5 per cent. Old war loan bonds will be accepted ...

    Article : 56 words
  6. PROGRESS OF THE WAR

    A very interesting fact comes out in one of the cables this morning; a British patrol has entered the village of Martinpuich, and it is ...

    Article : 1,425 words
  7. IMPRISONMENT OF LIEBKNECHT.

    THE HAGUE, Thursday.--The sentence of imprisonment, imposed on Dr. Liebknecht, the German Socialist, has created a deep impression in Germany. The Socialists are indignant, ...

    Article : 48 words
  8. DARDANELLES INQUIRY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Dardanellies Commission has adjourned to September 12. In the meantime the commissioners are examining the documents in the case. ...

    Article : 27 words
  9. THE DEUTSCHLAND.

    THE HAGUE, Thursday.--The Deutschland brought three mailbags from Count Bernstorff. The commander is being feted as a national hero. He has been summoned to the Kaiser's ...

    Article : 34 words
  10. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    LONDON, Thursday.--At Cardiff: Largo Law, str., from West Australia. At Port Angeles: Minnie .A. Calne, 4-m. sch., from Melbourne. DEPARTURES. ...

    Article : 49 words
  11. DUBLIN INQUIRY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The inquiry into the shooting of Skeflington, Macintyre, and Dickson has opened in Dublin. The Court was crowded. ...

    Article : 278 words
  12. FOOD PRICES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In the House of Commons, Captain Pretyman (Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade), replying in the debate on food prices, said the matter could not be ...

    Article : 407 words
  13. ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

    ROME, Thursday.--A communique announces: "The Austrians intensely bombarded the bottom of the Astico Valley. Our fire checked an attempted advance on the Asiago Plateau. ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. THE BALKANS.

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" had an interview with Mr. Joseph Reinach, an ex-American Senator and a noted international ...

    Article : 620 words
  15. WEST FRONT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Sir Douglas Hale reports:-- "We repulsed two determined counter-at- tacks southward of Thiepval, inflicting heavy losses on the Germans. ...

    Article : 446 words
  16. ARMENIAN HORRORS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Professor Grader and Dr. Niepage, German teachers of Armenian children at Aleppo, protested to the German Foreign Office in October against Turkish ...

    Article : 265 words
  17. THE DEUTSCHLAND.

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--A Berlin message states that the Deutschland has arrived at the mouth of the Weser. COPENHAGEN, Thursday.--The Deutschland ...

    Article : 30 words
  18. CREDIT FOR FRANCE.

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--Arrangements have been made for a second commercial credit for France of £5,000,000. bringing Franco's borrowings in the United States since the war to ...

    Article : 34 words
  19. TIN PLATES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Owing to the shortage of pig iron, the Government thinks that too ninny tin plates are being manufactured. The Ministry of Munitions has notified ...

    Article : 130 words
  20. APPEAL TO MR. HUGHES.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Mr. Joseph Cook, leader of the Federal Opposition, at a meeting at Windsor to-night, said Australia's man supply was steadily going out. The gaps were not ...

    Article : 282 words
  21. AUSTRIAN MILITARY AGE.

    BERNE, Thursday.--The Austrian General Staff recommends raising tho military ago to 60 and lowering it to 16, in view of the enormous losses. ...

    Article : 28 words
  22. DARDANELLES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Dardanelles Commission examined General Monro. ...

    Article : 11 words
  23. RECRUITING.

    At the Victoria Barracks yesterday 93 men offered themselves for enrolment, of whom 21 were rejected, leaving 72 to go into the camps. CITIZEN FORCES' INSPECTION. ...

    Article : 434 words
  24. FRENCH WAR FACTORIES.

    PARIS, Thursday.--In addition to employing Chinese in war factories, 10,000 Portuguese workmen above the age of 32 will take up work in French factories. Below this age they are ...

    Article : 43 words
  25. POLAND.

    BERNE, Thursday.--The "Journal de Geneve" affirms that, owing to her disastrous defeats, Austria has renounced her pretentions to Poland, which falls to Germany. The latter ...

    Article : 82 words
  26. MACHINERY BY MAIL.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Prize Court has declared as contraband munitions and trench drilling machinery intended for Germany and taken from American mails carried on four ...

    Article : 57 words
  27. LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

    "We are opening up our Crown lands to closer settlement in a manner which has been unprecedented in the history of land selection in our State," said the Queensland Minister for Lands ...

    Article : 191 words
  28. RUSSIAN FRONT.

    PETROGRAD, Thursday.--A communique announces:--"We repelled a gas attack south of Krevo, with heavy losses. "Enemy aeroplanes dropped 100 bombs on ...

    Article : 132 words
  29. FRUITLESS AIR RAID.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--An airship visited the east coast at midnight. Several incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped on the fields, but there were no casualties and no damage ...

    Article : 34 words
  30. PEACE OVERTURES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to numerous questions, said:--"I can say definitely and explicitly that ...

    Article : 225 words
  31. GENERAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Lord Montagu of Beaulleu, in a speech at Bury St. Edmunds, said that three or four new 780-feet super-Zeppelins would be ready in October. One of them had ...

    Article : 283 words
  32. MINERS AND MILITARY TRAINING.

    HELENSBURGH, Thursday--The colliery proprietors on the South Coast have approached the Defence Department in connection with the position likely to be created if the employees ...

    Article : 151 words
  33. RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.

    The adjourned meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association was held at Macdonell House last night, and was largely attended. Dean Talbot presided. ...

    Article : 206 words
  34. BRAVE GREEK GARRISON.

    LONDON, Thursday.-- The "Daily Chronicle's" Athens correspondent telegraphs:--"The heroic struggle of the Greeks in resisting the Bulgarians at Pheapetra and elsewhere has ...

    Article : 173 words
  35. THE WESTFALEN.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A report from Berlin admits that the battleship Westfalen was torpedoed in the naval battle on Saturday, but claims that she was only slightly damaged. ...

    Article : 143 words
  36. WARM CLOTHING FOR TROOPS.

    The minds of the thousands of workers for the troops abroad are just now concentrated on the Christmas gifts which the War Chest and other kindred organisations are packing up ...

    Article : 159 words
  37. MACKAY'S PLIGHT.

    BRISBANE, Thursday.--In consequence of the wharf laborers' strike and [?]-Judge Dickson's award for [?] workers, Mackay is on the verge of a crisis. Supplies of imported ...

    Article : 100 words
  38. FOE'S NEW BOMBS.

    BERNE, Thursday.--The latest enemy device is a bomb which explodes laterally, causing mutilation or death within an area of 30 yards. ...

    Article : 47 words
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