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  2. EUROPEAN WAR.

    Reports of the struggle in Russian Poland and in Galicis continue to be highly contradictory. Advices from Petrograd are still couched in an optimistic tone and give ...

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  3. A CONSULAR OUTRAGE.

    At Hodeidah, an Arabian port on the Red Sea, some Turkish soldiers endeavoured to arrest the British Consul who escaped to the Italian Consulate. The Turks forced ...

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  4. RUSSIANS' GREAT RESISTANCE.

    A wireless message from Berlin states:— "Much remains to be done before the Russian resistance is broken at Lodz. The significance of the fighting at Lowicz is that if ...

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  5. BRITAIN AND SERVIA.

    Sir Edward Grey, in thanking Servia for her congratulations on the British victory off the Falkland Islands, paid a warm tribute to the Servians' briliant victories ...

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  6. DOVER SUBMARINE ATTACK.

    In connection with the attack of German submarines on Admiralty Harbour at Dover it has now transpired that on Wednesday night a steamer was seen in the ...

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  7. AUSTRALIANS IN EGYPT.

    The Australian and New Zealand war contingents, which recently disembarked in Egypt have gone into camp pitched on a beautiful site behind the Great Pyramid ...

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  8. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 words
  9. GERMAN FICTION.

    The Secretary of State (Mr. Bryan) has ordered a legal inquiry to determine if any basis exists for United States' action should investigation establish the ...

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  10. ITALY'S POSITION.

    Italy is purchasing horses and wheat supplies on a big scale in the United States. The Italian Consul her states that Italy intends to have 2,000,000 men in arms when ...

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  11. THE POLISH CAMPAIGN.

    The official communique, issued on Friday, gave the following report of the fight-in gsouth-west of Warsaw:—"The Germans took the energetic offensive at Mlawa on ...

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  12. RESPECT FOR CHRISTMAS

    A Berlin wireless telegram states that the Kaiser immediately agreed to the suggestion of his Holiness the Pope the hostilities should be suspended on Christmas ...

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  13. FLIGHT FROM A SUBMARINE.

    In the North Sea 30 miles off the Dutch coast, yesterday a German submarine challenged the British steamer Colchester (1,209 tons), bound from the Hook of ...

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  14. GERMAN INHUMANITY.

    A Russian non-commissioned officer, who has escaped from the Germans to Lodz, narrates that he with two officers and 30 men were taken prisoners. They were ...

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  15. UNITED STATES DEFENCES.

    The Rules Committee of the United States Parliament refused to give Mr. Gardner, of the House of Representatives, permission to raise the question of ...

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  16. METAL MONOPOLY.

    The "Financial News" in an article on the announcement made by Mr. Hughes, Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, in respect to the effects of war conditions on ...

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  17. ANOTHER CRUISER GONE.

    The Ministry of Marine has received a report which states that the German armoured cruiser Friedrick Karl (8,858 tons displacement 21 knots) has been sunk in ...

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  18. PAPAL EFFORTS FAIL.

    The Vatican authorities have announced that the Papal efforts to secure the suspension of hostilites on Christmas Day have failed owing to the opposition of a certain ...

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  19. OFFICIAL AUSTRIAN STATEMENT.

    An official message from Vienna states:—"The Australian are continuously victorious in advancing over the Carpathians. They captured 2,000 Russians and the garrison at ...

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  20. WAR AND UNEMPLOYMENT DISTRESS RELIEF FUND.

    £ s. d. Previously acknowledged 4,135 2 4 W. H. Crow, Naval Base 0 7 6 Employees Perth City Council, ...

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  21. MR. CARNEGIE'S VIEWS.

    Mr. Andrew Carengie, interviewed on the war, expresses the opinion that it would be unchristian and immoral to stop fighting on Christmas Day and resume ...

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  22. MINE-SOWING PLOT.

    The Madrid correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Admiralty has discovered and frustrated a plan which Germany had matured for sowing sea-mines in ...

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  23. PACIFIC NAVAL DIVISION NEEDED.

    The United States Secretary of the Navy (Mr. Daniels), giving evidence before the Naval Investigation Committee of Congress, declared that American ought to have ...

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  24. GERMAN ANTWERP PLUNDER.

    The "Telegraaf" reports that the Dutch authorities have seized at Hansweern 15 boat loads of grain and goods of various description—apparently booty from ...

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  25. RECENT SERVIAN VICTORY.

    "Le Matin" states that when the Australians penetrated Doukonba, outnumbering the Servians by six to one, the King, accompanied by Princes Alexander and ...

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  26. PROGRESS IN ALSACE.

    After an eight hours' desperate hand to hand fight yesterday the French occupied Moos and Biesel, in Upper Alsace. The casualties included 215 French and 720 ...

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  27. NAVAL BOMBARDMENT.

    A message received from Berlin states that it has been announced that a fleet of British cruisers on Thursday violently bombarded the Belgian coast for the purpose ...

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  28. AT SEA.

    The Admiralty has issued the official list of casualties sustained by Vice-Admiral Sturdee's squadron in the action off the Falkland Islands, in which four German ...

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  29. NEW YORK STOCKS EXCHANGE.

    The New York Stock Exchange has reopened, after a suspension of four and a half months. Approved stocks to the number of 192 were traded in, and upward ...

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  30. MORE GERMAN SAVAGERY.

    Van Horsen, a Dutchman, and a volunteer in the Belgian Army, has escaped from the Wesel camp. He reports that his battalion was surrounded on the Yser, and ...

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  31. BRITISH ITEMS.

    The Customs officials of Gravesend have seized a huge box from a liner bound for Rotterdam. When the box was opened a German officer stepped out, and the box ...

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  32. GERMAN RETREAT.

    The British are reported to be gaining ground northwards of Passchendaele, and to be imperilling the German positions nearer the coast. The German General ...

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  33. AMERICA'S NEUTRALITY.

    The "Cologne Gazette," referring to President Wilson's desire to assume an important role in the conclusion of peace, declares:—"Germany does not inspire the ...

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  34. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 615 words
  35. AUSTRALIAN BASE METALS.

    Mr. Hughes, on the 10th inst., made the following speech in the House of Representatives:—"Investigations into the position of the Broken Hill Proprietary and other ...

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  36. RUSSIAN TROOPS FOR SERVIA.

    The "Frankfurter Zeitung" publishes a report that five Russian infantry regiments, shipped from Archangel, on the White Sea, reached Antivari, on the ...

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  37. THE DRESDEN'S PLIGHT.

    The German cruiser Dresden, which escaped after the engagement with Admiral Sturdee's squadron off the Falkland Islands, and was pursued by the British vessels, has ...

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  38. KAISER'S DISASTROUS PLAN.

    The "Handelsblad" states:—"Von Moltke some time back wished to make an attack concentrated at Verdun, combined with an advance on Paris from the north, with a ...

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  39. VICTORIA CROSS.

    Lieutenant Walter Brodie, of the Highland Light Infantry, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry at Becelaere, in ousting the e[?]my from ...

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  40. AUSTRO-GERMAN ROUT.

    The Petrograd "Army Messanger" reports that the Russian troops investing Cracow, have routed an Austro-German army south of that city. The Russians ...

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  41. MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD.

    Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., is serving with a field ambulance corps in Belgium. ...

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  42. TURKEY'S INTRUSION.

    Colonel Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, K.C.I.E., Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, in being despatched to Egypt as British High Commissioner. ...

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  43. INDIAN SOLDIERS' REWARD.

    For some years past it has been the practice of the Indian Government to reward deserving Indian military pensioners with grants of valuable land in the ...

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  44. SINKING THE NURNBERG.

    After the Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, and Leipsig were sunk the British squadron had an exciting chase after the cruiser Nurnberg. She was summoned to surrender, ...

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  45. STORMING GERMAN TRENCHES.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" war correspondent in France gives a graphic description of the recapture of Pasachendaele by a night attack. The village was strongly ...

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  46. THE KAISER'S ILLNESS.

    According to a statement published by the "Echo de Paris," the state of the Kaiser, who has been reported to be suffering from bronchial catarrh and nervous ...

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  47. GERMANY'S AMBITION.

    Speaking at Bristol last night, Mr. A. J. Balfour declared:—"The war is due to a crime against civilisation. It was a crime of a nation that had not merely ...

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  48. THE KARLSRUHE STILL ACTIVE.

    The steamer Scottish Prince, which has arrived from Rio Janeiro, reports that the only remaining German cruiser in the Atlantic is still active on the South American ...

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  49. A BAVARIAN SLAUGHTER.

    The German attempt to take a ferryman's house on the Yser was a terrible failure. Bavarian prisoners taken in the attempt declared they were ordered to recapture ...

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  50. THE VICTORIOUS SQUADRON.

    It is reported here that Vice-Admiral Sturdee's squadron included four armoured cruisers. Von Spee's flagship, the Scharnhorst, kept ...

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  51. KAISER V. KING.

    The "Daily Mail" diplomatic correspondent, in describing the interview of King Albert of Belgium with the Kaiser at Berlin a fortnight before the war began, states ...

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  52. AUSTRALIA.

    Contributions to the patriotic and relief funds organised in Sydney in connection with the war now reach a total of £485,243. Included in this amount are the Lord ...

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  53. CLOTHING FROM AUSTRALIA.

    The gifts of clothing forwarded to England by Farmer and Co., Sydney, have been distributed among Belgian refugees and British poor. The portion given to the ...

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  54. SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLT.

    The "Onsland," the loyal Dutch organ appeals to the English South Africans for kindly forbearance in discussing the problem of dealing with the rebel leaders ...

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  55. THE BERLIN VIEW.

    A Berlin semi-official statement, suggests that after the engagement last month with the Good Hope at Santa Maria Island, on the Chilian coast, the ...

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  56. BRITISH VICTORY REPORTED.

    Rumours have come in from the front of a victory won by British troops in recovering a considerable stretch of country. The Germans lost very heavily in the fight. The ...

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  57. OVERSEAS BRITONS' LEAGUE.

    The movement for the presentation of a battleship to the Navy by Britons resident in foreign countries (estimated to number 1,000,000) emanates from the ...

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  58. THE DARDANELLES MINES.

    A message from Constantinople states that a Turkish gunboat has been sunk by one of the mines placed at the entrance of the Dardanelles. ...

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  59. 14TH. INFANTRY BATTALION.

    In the presence of about 7,000 people at St. Kilda to-day the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) presented a set of regimental colours to the 14th battalion ...

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  60. LADY FRENCH'S FUND.

    In response to the Western Australian Women's National Council's appeal on behalf of Lady French's Fund, the object of which is to assist particularly those women ...

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  61. BATUM BOMBARDED.

    A report from Berlin states that a Turkish fleet has bombarded Batum. A number of inhabitants were killed and many more were wounded by the shells. ...

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  62. THE FAR EAST.

    Many thousands of Japanese lined the streets yesterday to welcome the arrival of Colonel Barnardiston, who commanded the British troops which took part in the ...

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  63. A FAMILY FIGHT.

    The Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that violent riots have occurred between the Prussian and the Bavarian Landwehr in Antwerp barracks. ...

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  64. HOW JAPAN HELPED.

    Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty has cabled to Tokio a reply [?] the cordial congratulations sent by Japan on the Falkland Island victory. ...

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  65. OUTRAGE ON MISSIONARY.

    The steamship Morinda, which arrived from Rabaul to-day, brought a number of German prisoners, including those who were responsible for the flogging of the Rev. ...

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  66. IN RUINED DIXMUDE.

    There was a very fierce skirmish on Thursday night in the ruins of Dixmude. One body of Germans advanced shouting loudly for the purpose of concentrating ...

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  67. TURKISH SOLDIERS' REVOLT.

    A message from Athens reports that Turkish troops near Constantinople have been for several weeks in virtual revolt against the tyranny of the German officers ...

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  68. THE LOCAL FORCES.

    Instructions have been recived by the military authorities to recommend recruiting for the expeditionary forces. Full particulars will be notified through the Press ...

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  69. RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

    The German offensive has hitherto failed in every direction. Simultaneous attacks at several points along the Russian centre, right and left were repulsed, with heavy ...

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  70. THE SULTAN'S VICEROY.

    General Von der Goltz, who was lately withdrawn from his command on the Franco-Belgian front to act as military adviser to Turkey as Germany's ally is staying a few ...

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  71. THE YSER CANAL.

    Yesterday afternoon's communique stated" "The enemy has completely evacuated the west bank of the Yser canal, north of the ferryman's house we occupied on the bank. ...

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  72. FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

    The War Ministry's report of Friday morning's operations stated:—"We made continued progress towards the enemy's lines in the Ypres region. Several attacks ...

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  73. CHURCH PARADE.

    At yesterday morning's service at St. John's, Fremantle, some 200 members of the Army Medical Corps, together with 36 nurses, a detachment of 50 naval men ...

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  74. GENERAL NEWS.

    It is stated that the members of a German mission which was recently at Angola, Portuguese West Africa, studying the railway system and agricultural conditions ...

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  75. ANOTHER CHILIAN ACTION.

    Telegrams from Valparaiso report that heavy firing has been heard off the Chilian coast near Mochan Island midway between Conception and Valderia. It is believed ...

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  76. THE ARMY'S LEGAL BRIGADE.

    There are now 1,250 solicitors and articled clerks serving in the army. Over a million men above 38 years of age, who for age or other physical reasons were debarred ...

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