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  2. THE WAR.

    The following official despatches have been issued:— London, Dec. 21 (1.30 a.m.).—"The enemy raided a post north-east of Hargicourt, and ...

    Article : 331 words
  3. THE RUSSIAN MUDDLE.

    General Kaledin gained a signal victory over the Red Guards at Rostoy (on Lake Nero). The Cossacks took bloody vengeance, transfixing the Red Guards on their ...

    Article : 335 words
  4. THE REFERENDUM.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 429 words
  5. PEACE CLAMOUR.

    A Socialist newspaper in Vienna, commenting on Germany's peace proposals, cabled on December 17, declares that Germany seeks to restore the world's situation ...

    Article : 175 words
  6. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The 374th casualty list was released by the Censor on Saturday, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...

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  7. BRITISH VESSEL TORPEDOED.

    The Admiralty authorities report that the British armed boarding steamer Stephen Furness of Newcastle (1,712 tons, built in 1910) was torpedoed, and sank in the ...

    Article : 136 words
  8. CIVIL WAR IN THE SOUTH.

    Civil war is developing in the south, notwithstanding the fact what the Rada and the Soviet are negotiating to secure a peaceful settlement. The Bolsheviks have ...

    Article : 125 words
  9. DARDANELLES DESPATCHES.

    General Sir Ian Hamilton, in a preface to a volume entitled "Dardanelles Despatches." complains that his cable messages were altered and garbled in London, and ...

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  10. WAR CASUALTIES.

    Mr. and Mrs. J. Gilwhite of Lawler-street, Subianco, have received word that their son, Stanley, was wounded on October 1 in the right hand, which is progressing favourably. ...

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  11. ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

    The following official bulletins have been issued:— Rome, Dec. 21 (6 p.m.).—"In the region of the Monte Asolone front east of the ...

    Article : 140 words
  12. TROUNCING THE TURKS.

    An official despatch received from the British headquarters in Palestine says :—"Our troops, having crossed the Nahr-el-Auja at midnight on rafts and light ...

    Article : 287 words
  13. COLLIE COAL.

    Sir,—It is indeed cheering news to all connected with the Collie coal industry to read the assurance given by the Minister for Railways in to-day's issue that "the ...

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  14. THE FOOD PROBLEM.

    The London Press Bureau reports that, with the object of abolishing the food queues, Lord Rhondda (the Food Controller) has empowered local committees to control ...

    Article : 370 words
  15. GERMAN CHANCELLOR EXPLAINS.

    The Imperial Chancellor (Count' von Hertling) explained at a confidential meeting of representatives the lines on which Germany would conduct the peace ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES.

    Lord Willoughby de Broke, speaking at the Colonial Institute on Friday, said that when the settlement came he hoped that Britain would never consent to hand back ...

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  17. SCENE IN PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Price, the war correspondent, telegraphs that the House broke up in an uproad when Signor Pirolini compared M. Caillaux with Signor Giolitti (an ...

    Article : 142 words
  18. BOLSHEVIK RULE SHAKY.

    Private messages received through Finland from Petrograd indicate that the Bolshevik regime is shaky. Several of the leaders have left Petrograd, and M. Lenin ...

    Article : 205 words
  19. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S FORMULA.

    Mr. Lloyd George's statement regarding the control of conquered enemy territory has been contrasted with Mr. Walter Long's emphatic pronouncement in J[?] ...

    Article : 107 words
  20. ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS.

    M. Joseph Reinach, writing in the "Figaro," estimates that the Germans are withdrawing fifty divisions from the Russian front, representing 500,000 men, and ...

    Article : 63 words
  21. "WEST OF AUSTRO-GERMAN SPIES."

    A disturbance took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday when the Republican Deputy, Signor Pirolini, denounced the espionage which was still ...

    Article : 76 words
  22. NEW GUINEA.

    Germany has appointed Dr. Haber to be Governor of New Guinea. The newspapers rejoice at the appointment as an indication that Germany is not going to renounce her ...

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  23. WESTER AUSTRALIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 words
  24. LUDENDORFF'S DICTUM.

    "Don't write too much about peace. Only victory leads to peace," said General von Ludendorff (the Chief of the German Military Staff) to a party of journalists at the ...

    Article : 76 words
  25. AN ARAB VICTORY.

    The British War Office notifies that the Arabs, under the King of Hejaz's son, destroyed a troop train south of Tebuk, killing or capturing the whole of a Turkish ...

    Article : 143 words
  26. HONOURING THE FALLEN.

    Mr. Douglas McLean, a New Zealander, entertained yesterday the widows and orphans of the fighters who fell at Mons, the Marne, and Ypres. The function took place ...

    Article : 57 words
  27. HOPES OF THE BOLSHEVIKS.

    Dr. Harold Williams, the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," reports that the Bolsheviks are convinced that the revolutionary ...

    Article : 109 words
  28. CENTRAL POWERS MOVING.

    A Swiss correspondent reports that a German of high rank said recently that Germany was delaying the peace negotiations with Russia, as the onerous conditions ...

    Article : 176 words
  29. CANADIAN VETERANS.

    In answer to an appeal made to Canada by General Sir Arthur Currie (commanding the Canadians in France) to send reinforcements, a number of army and navy ...

    Article : 257 words
  30. ITALY'S RECOVERY.

    The Minister for Munitions, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday, announced that after the October reverse 3,500 factories had been worked at full speed, ...

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  31. TIN TO BE CONTROLLED.

    The Ministry for Munitions is taking control of tin, as a metal required for use in connection with the war. ...

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  32. THE CAPTURE OF BETHLEHEM.

    Mr. W. T. Massey, the official representative with the British forces in Palestine, states that owing to the vigorous progress of the Welsh and home counties' troops ...

    Article : 367 words
  33. ALLEGED CZECH TREACHERY.

    In the Austrian Reichsrath, the Minister for War said that the offensive against Italy had been delayed owing to treachery on the part of some Czechs. It had been ...

    Article : 92 words
  34. A MURDER CHARGE.

    An Australian corporal, who was an instructor in the working of the Lewis gun, has been committed for trial at the Wiltshire Assizes on the charge of having ...

    Article : 76 words
  35. OPEN-AIR MEETINGS FORBIDDEN.

    The Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says that drunken disorders continue in that city. The Soviet has prohibited open-air ...

    Article : 100 words
  36. THE POPE AND PEACE.

    Herr Nemans Bernstein, who obtained the celebrated "Willy-Nicky" correspondence between the Kaiser and the Czar, has given the New York "Herald" the report of an ...

    Article : 255 words
  37. THE ASOLONE REVERSE.

    Mr. G. Ward Price, the British official war correspondent at the Italian front, says that the capture of Monte Asolone is unwelcome news, but not important, except that ...

    Article : 100 words
  38. THE WAR AND AGRICULTURE.

    Mr. Lloyd George, in a letter to the War Agricultural Committee, says that the struggle is now largely one of tonnage. "Nothing else can beat us, and nothing ...

    Article : 286 words
  39. THE ARMY POST OFFICE.

    A special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) says, that the army post office—the soldiers' Santa Claus —has done a very large war handling, ...

    Article : 95 words
  40. PEACE THE ONLY HOPE.

    M. Trotsky (the Bolshevik Minister for Foreign Affairs), in a speech which he delivered yesterday said that Russia, intended to proceed with the peace ...

    Article : 65 words
  41. THE LATE LIEUTENANT B. J. STUBBS, M.L.A.

    The following letters having reference to her late husband have been received by Mrs. B. J. Stubbs, of Subiaco:—"France, October 7, 1917.—Dear Mrs. ...

    Article : 837 words
  42. ARGENTINA.

    The Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that the Department of State has, with the concurrence of Argentina, published 38 cable messages ...

    Article : 275 words
  43. GERMAN TROOPS FOR PETROGRAD.

    The Stockholm correspondent of the London "Morning Post" writes that telegrams received from Petrograd notify that leaflets have been distributed among the ...

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  44. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.

    In the House of Commons Mr. J. C. Wedgewood (Liberal, Newcastle-under-Lynne) asserted that the House had a right to consider three points with ...

    Article : 202 words
  45. NEW SOUTH WALES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 words
  46. POLAND.

    Count Reventlow, the notorious pan-German journalist, in an article in the "Deutsche Tageszertung,' warns Baron von Kuehmann (the German Minister for ...

    Article : 68 words
  47. THE WAR AT SEA.

    It has been ascertained from an authoritative source that there is every reason to suppose that the downward tendency in the curve on the official diagram showing ...

    Article : 99 words
  48. VICTORIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 words
  49. GENERAL ITEMS.

    A serious fire has broken out at Krupp's works at Essen, and the Dutch workers have left for the frontier. ...

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  50. MARGARINE COMMANDEERED.

    The local food committees in seven London suburbs have commandeered the surplus margarine at the "multiple" shops, and have handed it over to other shops, ...

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  51. EX-CZAR TO BE LIBERATED.

    It is announced that M. Lenin is issuing a decree releasing the ex-Czar and all the other members of the Imperial family in order that they may go abroad in ...

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  52. BRITISH NEWS.

    The following official report has veen issued :—"An air raid was attempted at about 6 p.m. yesterday, on the Kentish coast. One of the raiders was forced to ...

    Article : 135 words
  53. DISAPPOINTED WAR PRISONERS.

    German officers in the internment camps in Britain have not received any Christmas parcels from Germany. Very few parcels have reached the men's camps. ...

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  54. RUSSIA'S PEACE TERMS.

    It is announced unofficially that Germany has refused to agree to Russia's peace terms. ...

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  55. PROHIBITION IN CANADA.

    The Government has decided to prohibit the importation of intoxicating liquors, and to suppress at a later stage the manufacture, domestically, of liquor, with the ...

    Article : 54 words
  56. THE CHATEAU RENAULT.

    The old French cruiser Chateau Renault was torpedoed in the Ionian Sea, the torpedo striking the starboard side. The engine-room was soon filled with water, and ...

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  57. CLUB FOR WOMEN.

    H.R.H. the Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyll) opened a new club in the Duchess of Norfolk's residence (Norfolk House, St. James's Square, London) for the use of ...

    Article : 54 words
  58. THE SITUATION CHAOTIC.

    The Russian situation is chaotic. The Bolsheviks are in a precarious condition, their power being limited to northern Russia, and depending on the union of the ...

    Article : 123 words
  59. THE CAILLAUX CASE.

    In the Chamber of Deputies last evening M. Caillaux delivered an impressive oration in which he defended his pre-war policy, and he declared that he had been unable ...

    Article : 185 words
  60. COMMONWEALTH.

    Commenting on Saturday on the enlistments for the year, the Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon) said that from January 1 to December 31, ...

    Article : 126 words
  61. A LONDON DIVORCE CASE.

    Captain Adrian Bethell, of the 2nd Life Guards, has obtained a divorce on the ground of his wife's misconduct with Major Lionel Hallam Tennyson (son of ...

    Article : 74 words
  62. TWO HUN SUBMARINES SUNK.

    Two French destroyers sank two large German submarines in the Ionian Sea. One of the submarines sank immediately. The crew of the other submarine abandoned ...

    Article : 116 words
  63. Advertising

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    Advertising : 59 words
  64. BRITAIN'S POSITION.

    In the House of Commons on December 20, Mr. H. H. Asquith (the ex-Prime Minister), following Mr. Lloyd George, declared that the two most formidable problems a ...

    Article : 151 words
  65. A GROWING AGITATION.

    There is a growing agitation for the restoration of despotism. Curious proclamations are placarded in the streets demanding that the Grand Duke Alexieff be ...

    Article : 70 words
  66. WAR TANK COLLECTIONS.

    The Manchester war tank collected in a week £4,500,000 for war bonds, this amount exceeding London's subscriptions for a fortnight. The week's total for Leeds was ...

    Article : 43 words
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