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  2. SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

    In the House of Lords Sir Edward Carson, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, gave a strikingly comprehensive review of the navy's work. He said that the submarine menace was grave, but declared that it would be effectively dealt ...

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  3. FEDERAL POLICY.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Both Houses of the Federal Parliament were crowded afternoon with listeners to the announcement on the policy of the new Government. Mr. ...

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  4. TO-DAY IS THE DAY.

    To-day is Win the War Day, and elaborate arrangements have been completed to make it a success. Bunds will play at various centres in the city, processions will be held in the ...

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  5. THE NAVY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--There was a wellfilled House to hear Sir Edward Carson. First Lord of the Admiralty, survey naval affairs in Introducing the Navy Estimate. He said that ...

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  6. PROGRESS OF THE WAR

    The sanguine hopes expressed by Admiral von Copelle and of the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, as to the [?] ...

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  7. PERSIA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Viscount Bryce, in the House of Lords, sought a Ministerial statement regarding the condition of Persia. Lord Curzon, President of the Council, ...

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  8. FOOD SUPPLIES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Liverpool potato merchants assert that the farmers are holding up stocks until the Increased price operates in March. ...

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  9. WEST FRONT RAIDS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Sir Douglas Haig reports:-- "We seized portion of the enemy's trenches north-eastward of Guodecourt. ...

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  10. FISCAL PROBLEMS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The "Manchester Guardian" remarks that the recommendations of Lord Balfour of Burleigh's committee concern Britain more than the Dominions. ...

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  11. EUROPEANS IN INDIA.

    DELHI, Thursday.--Lord Chelmsford (Viceroy of Indla), addressing the Imperial Legislative Council, referred to his speech delivered on February 7, in which he forecasted the ...

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  12. ROUMANIAN FRONT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A Roumanian communique states:--"On February 19 there were weak artillery firing and patrol encounters on the whole of the front north of Dornawatra. ...

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  13. MESOPOTAMIA.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Candler, correspondent with the British forces, telegraphs:-- "The losses of the Turks on February 15 in cluded two brigadler-generals. The enemy's ...

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  14. U BOAT ACTIVITY.

    AMSTERDAM, Thursday.--It is suggested here that Von Capelle's report concerning the submarines' activity with Impunity either aims at heartening the Germans or drawing the British ...

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  15. AUSTRIA AND AMERICA.

    BERNE, Thursday.--A semi-official message from Vienna states that the Austro-American situation is extremely grave. Count Tisza's newspaper, "Pester Lloyd," ...

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  16. WAR LOANS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Speaking in the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that he had an open mind as to the propriety of raising a further loan, ...

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  17. PEACE OVERTURES.

    ROTTERDAM. Thursday.--The newspaper "Tyd" stales that the Pope has replied to the Hungarian Episcopate's address, and considers that the time has come to renew attempts to ...

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  18. GENERAL CABLES.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A Copenhagen message states that the new German Budget includes a clause preventing the people from quitting Germany before guaranteeing payment of the ...

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  19. LLOYD GEORGE'S STATEMENT.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The House of Commons meets specially on Friday to hear Mr. Lloyd George's statement. STATEMENT POSTPONED. ...

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  20. IN THE HANDS OF THE TURKS.

    LONDON, Thursday.--It is announced that the Turks hold 327 British officers and 1652 men prisoners, 13 colonial officers and 140 men, 195 Indian officers and 3573 men. It Is st.[?] ...

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  21. A TALL STORY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--A Christiania message states that a Norwegian, just returned from Germany, relates an extraordinary story of explosions of an enormous character in munition ...

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  22. FOOD AND ECONOMY.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Lloyd George. in a letter to Rev. Shakespeare, appeals to him to secure the organised co-operation of the Free Churches in the matter of the food economy ...

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  23. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Canadian and Newfoundland representatives to the Imperial Conference cute have arrived in London. In the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law, ...

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  24. WHEAT.

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--A Berlin message slates that Dr. Helfferich, German Minister of the Interior, in a speech, declared that the world's wheal crop for the year was 36,000,000 ...

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  25. FARMERS RESTIVE.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Allegations have been made in some quarters respecting the existence of a widespread strike of farmers owing to the fixing of maximum prices. It has been ...

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  26. "WORSE THAN WAR."

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--Mr. Howard Taft, in a statement, said:--"Germany's invasion of our rights is little short of an invasion. Our land, yielding to craven opportunism, is in a ...

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  27. AMERICA'S FRIENDS.

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--President Wilson, in a letter to Senator Stone, urging the ratification of the Colombian treaty, says:--"We need now, and possibly will need very much ...

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  28. AMERICAN EXODUS.

    ZURICH, Thursday.--Forty Americans have arrived here, including the Consuls at Dresden and Hamburg. The letter's first words were, "Thank God, I am again in a land of liberty." ...

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  29. CLAIM DISALLOWED.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Prize Court decided that the claim of the commander of Submarine E14 must be disallowed on the ground that it had not been proved that the transport ...

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  30. THE SPY SYSTEM.

    THE HAGUE. Thursday.--German newspapers demand that Mr. Gerard, United States Ambassador at Berlin, should disprove Count Reventiow's charges declaring that he spied on ...

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  31. ENEMY DISCORD.

    AMSTERDAM, Thursday.--According to the "Nonvelles Maestricht." the Prussians and Bavarians fought with firearms in the Beverloo the camp, near Hasselt Thirty-two were killed ...

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  32. THE GERMAN WAY.

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--It is stilted that more than 50 prominent men are concerned in a gigantic system of espionage. The Federal authorities are investigating, and report that ...

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  33. LORD FISHER.

    LONDON, Thursday.--Sir Edward Carson announced in the House of Commons that Lord Fisher had Joined the Admiralty in his capacity as President of the Inventions Board. ...

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  34. CONSCRIPTION IN CANADA.

    NEW YORK, Thursday.--The New York "Times" Montreal correspondent expects that conscription will shortly be enacted. The first rail is likely to be made on unmarried men of ...

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  35. NEUTRAL SHIPPING.

    LONDON, Thursday.--An Order-in-Council declares that any vessel encountered at sea, and voyaging to or from any neutral country affording access to enemy territory, without ...

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  36. ENEMY ADMISSION.

    LONDON, Thursday.--The "Morning Poet's" Budapest correspondent states that AustroGerman naval experts have revised their calculations as to the blockade prospects. It was ...

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  37. CONSCRIPTION IN N.Z.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Minister for Defence was informed in the Senate to-day by Senator M'Kissock that he had received a letter from New Zealand complaining of ...

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  38. DOGGED BRITAIN.

    PARIS, Thursday.--An article in the "Figaro" declares that in the British phase of the war now opening, everything indicates preponderance of the British contribution to the general ...

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