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  2. AT SEA.

    Advices received by the State Department at Washington from Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere account for 17 vessels captured or destroyed by the German raider ...

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  3. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION

    A disastrous fire and explosion occurred on Friday evening in a munitions factory on the Thames, to the eastward of London. The fire broke out in a mixing shop. ...

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  4. EASTERN WAR ZONE

    The Russians during last year captured 8,770 officers, 420,000 men, 525 guns, 1,661 maxims, and 421 trench mortars. Of these captures General Brusiloff's three ...

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  5. LABOUR HEAD-HUNTING.

    So the Federal Labour members representative of this State who supported Mr. Hughes and conscription, are in the outer darkness. This according to a weird body ...

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  6. PLIGHT OF OUR ENEMIES.

    The "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent reports: "The population of Berlin is in the throes of a food crisis, more serious than anything it has yet experienced ...

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  7. FEDERAL POLITICAL SITUATION.

    The proposal of the Liberal and Ministerial partics that a National War Ministry, embracing all three parties in Parliament, should be formed, was the sole topic ...

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  8. FAMISHED GERMAN OFFICERS.

    The Rotterdam correspondent of the "Globe" states:—"Hunger frequently drives German officers across the Dutch border in search of nourishment. They famish when ...

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  9. DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS.

    A German memorial to the United States defends the deportation of Belgians, and asserts: "Of 1,200,000 Belgians employed at the beginning of the war, 650,000, ...

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  10. THE YARROWDALE.

    The Germans claim to have taken the Yarrowdale to Swinemunde in the Baltic. A German official report states:—"The British steamer Yarrowdale was brought ...

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  11. FRENCH GENERAL MOBILISATION.

    M. Thomas, Minister for Munitions in the Briand Cabinet, has informed the Parliamentary Committee of France that he is contemplating a general mobilisation of ...

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  12. GERMAN STORIES.

    A Berlin official message reports:—"The enemy attacks on the heights of the region of Moinesti, northward of the Susita Valley, were repulsed, with severe losses. ...

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  13. AUSTRO-GERMAN CONFERENCES.

    Speculation is rife in London as to whether the Swsis invasion rumours are associated with political and diplomatic movements at Berlin. ...

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  14. SWITZERLAND.

    The German troops massed along the Rhine between Basle and Lake Constance may be connected with an intended attack upon Belfort, or part of a feint to induce the ...

    Article : 129 words
  15. RUSSIA'S DARK FORCES.

    Commenting upon the recent change of Premiers in Russia, the "Nation" says: "Though there have been five Russian Cabinets during the war period, none has ...

    Article : 318 words
  16. THE RAIDER'S METHODS.

    The crews of the ships sunk by the German raider say that she is of the Moewe type. The Dramatist sighted her on December 18. She came alongside and then ...

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  17. THE OCEAN BLOCKADE.

    Reassuring details as to the efficiency of the British blockade have been given in an interview with Lord Robert Cecil to the Radio Agency, published in the Parisian ...

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  18. FRENCH COMMENT.

    Commenting on the German war experts' insinuation that France contemplates an offensive at Belfort, near the Swiss border, the "Echo de Paris" suggests that ...

    Article : 71 words
  19. LABOUR SUPPORT FOR MR. HUGHES.

    In response to an invitation to the unionists opposed to the expulsion of the Prime Minister and his followers from the Labour movement, about 200 members of ...

    Article : 205 words
  20. AN ITALIAN REPORT.

    The "Giornale d'Italia" states that the Germans have ordered the inhabitants of Alsatian villages on the Swiss frontier to evacuate their homes, and to withdraw ...

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  21. A BRAZILIAN REPORT.

    A telegram from Rio de Janeiro states that a strange vessel with four funnels, and travelling at high speed, is reported to have been seen off Cuara, in Brazil. ...

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  22. BRITISH COMMENTS.

    The newspapers state that German raiders have little chance of breaking through the North Sea cordon, except during the long nights of midwinter, towards the end ...

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  23. BULGARIA DISSATISFIED.

    The "Informazione" reports that Hindenburg's refusal of Bulgaria's repeated appeals to commence a great offensive in Macedonia is causing ill-feeling at Sofia. ...

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  24. SWISS MOBILISATION.

    The Swiss Government has notified the Swiss Minister here to direct all conditional leave reservists to sail for home by next Wednesday for the mobilisation of three ...

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  25. BRITISH NEWS.

    The following are among the large subscriptions to the Victory War Loan, and are mostly new money:—North-Eastern Railway Co., £2,000,000; Edinburgh Life ...

    Article : 87 words
  26. SENATOR GARDINER ON THE GOLDFIELDS.

    Senator Gardiner addressed a meeting in Hannan-street on Saturday night. He dealt at great length with Federal affairs without breaking much fresh ground. He said that ...

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  27. THE POLISH REGENT.

    The Zurich correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" states that Prince Adam Czartoryski has arrived at Warsaw to take up the regency of Poland. ...

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  28. ANOTHER RAIDER.

    A British cruiser off Sandy Hook yesterday sent out wireless messages informing shipmasters that the steamer St. Theodore had been converted into a German raider, ...

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  29. GREECE.

    The situation has greatly improved. The released Venizelists are not being molested, and the question of indemnifying them for imprisonment is to be settled by an ...

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  30. SUBMARINE VICTIMS.

    The following steamers have been sunk by German submarines:—Valle (Spanish), 2,366 tons; Bergenhus (Norwegian), 3,606 tons; Manuel (Spanish), 2,419 tons; ...

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  31. THE NATIONAL SPIRIT.

    When spoken to on Saturday regarding the new development in the Federal political situation, in the direction of a proposed National Government, including ...

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  32. WOOL EXPORT.

    In reference to the announcement from America that permission will shortly be granted for the export of Australian and carpet wools to America, it is stated ...

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  33. INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

    A mass meeting of members of the Breadcarters and Operative Bakers' Unions on Saturday decided not to work for members of the Master Bakers' Association after ...

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  34. A DRIFTING MINEFIELD.

    Swedish torpedo boats yesterday discovered a drifting minefield north of Kalmar. They exploded eleven mines with shells, but many other mines exploded on the coast at ...

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  35. AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.

    Representative agriculturists have appealed to Mr. Lloyd George against calling up agricultural labourers. The War Office claims that the census reveals a ...

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  36. WESTERN FRONT.

    Field Marshal Haig's report on Friday night stated:—"We dispersed enemy working parties in the Ancre area to-day, and shelled positions in the neighbourhood of ...

    Article : 192 words
  37. TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    The Federal Minister for Works (Senator Lynch), who has returned from a journey over the trans-Australian railway, announced on Saturday that he had dismissed ...

    Article : 213 words
  38. NORWEGIAN LOSSES.

    The Norwegian newspapers make bitter anti-German comments in connection with the publication of the Norwegian shipping losses for 1916. No less than 300 ships of a ...

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  40. A SPANISH MYSTERY.

    Some mystery attaches to the unexpected announcement that the Spanish submarine Peval, of 500 tons, will shortly arrive here from America. ...

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  41. DUTCH INCIDENTS.

    A German torpedo boat has brought into Zeebrugge the Dutch mail steamer Prinz Hendrik. The German vessel Ursula Fishcher flying the German flag, lately ...

    Article : 56 words
  42. SEPARATION ALLOWANCES.

    Owing to the increased food prices the Government has increased the separation allowances to the wives of soldiers and sailors. This involves an additional ...

    Article : 35 words
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