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  2. EUROPEAN WAR.

    If, as a German military expert has stated, the battle proceeding between Lille and the Belgian coast, is a matter of life or death to the Germans, a ...

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  3. AFRICAN REVOLT.

    It appears that Colonel Maritz, at the outset of the Rebellion started by him in the north of Cape Colony, disarmed a garrison of 38 men at Kakadimas on the ...

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  4. BRITISH FLOTILLA WORK.

    The following official report of the naval operations on the Belgian coast, from Nieuport to the French border line, has been issued:— ...

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  5. BRITISH PRISONERS AT DRESDEN.

    There are reported to be 4,000 British prisoners confined at Dobritz, in Saxony, near Dresden. Of these 44 are still under medical treatment for wounds. ...

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  6. KILLED IN ACTION.

    The War Office casualty lists report Lord John Cavendish D.S.O., captain in the 1st Life Guards, and brother of the Duke of Edinburgh, killed in action. ...

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  7. A BELGIAN SUCCESS.

    The Belgians, taking the offensive on Monday, fought fierce engagements at Schoore, Keyem, and Vlasloe, east of Nieuport, while a force under cover of the ...

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  8. HOW GERMANY PREPARED.

    Another instance of treacherous German provision for the invasion of France has now come to light. A French farmer, residing in a district recently in German ...

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  9. JAPAN'S PACIFIC SEIZURES.

    Reuter's Agency at Tokio telegraphs that a profound impression has been created in Japan by the Publication of the British Government's warm appreciation of Japan's ...

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  10. ATTACK UPON BRITISH GARRISON.

    On Thursday last Maritz attacked Kosmoss, near Uweington, on the northern bank of the Orange River. The garrison, consisting of 150 men, repulsed the enemy ...

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  11. KAISER VISITS FRANCE.

    It is reported that the Kaiser, now said to be at Czestechowa, on the Polish frontier, last Tuesday paid a visit to the western headquarters of the German armies, ...

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  12. SPORT AND WAR.

    A peculiar instance of British cavalry dash was recently afforded at Viso. A British cavalry detachment had taken advantage of a lull in hostilities to engage in a ...

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  13. MARITZ'S FORCE.

    It is understood that Maritz's force consists of 1,000 rebels and 75 German gunners with a few Maxims and field guns. Maritz endeavoured to retire into German ...

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  14. RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

    It is officially announced that the German retreat from the Vistula continues without stoppage. The Russians captured a large quantity of munitions at Iwangorod. ...

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  15. GREATEST BATTLE OF THE WAR.

    The fierceness of the fighting in the north-west corner of France, and the desperate efforts which the Germans are making to get between the allied army's left wing and ...

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  16. NORTH SEA MINES.

    The Swedish steamer Alice, 1,481 tons, of Gothenburg, struck a German mine in the North Sea yesterday and foundered. The bulk of her crew were saved. ...

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  17. BRITISH ITEMS.

    The German Athenaeum Club, a rendezvous of wealthy aliens in London, has been closed by the police. Prince Jean Sawicha, an Austrian, was ...

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  18. "ATROCITIES" OF THE ALLIES.

    Many German newspapers have been endeavouring to stimulate national hatred of the Allies by publishing false stories of atrocities of Germans wounded or taken ...

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  19. AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE SANK.

    The Trieste correspondent of the Roman "Tribuna" reports that the Austrian submarine Pola has been destroyed in the Adriatic by a French warship. ...

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  20. OFFICIAL MESSAGES.

    The following cable message was received to-day from the High Commissioner:—"London, October 24: Admiralty reports that a German submarine was remmed and ...

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  21. GERMAN MARINES.

    German marines have occupied Knocke, Heyst, and other coast towns to the northeast of Ostend. ...

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  22. ANTWERP GARRISON GONE.

    A report from Breda states that nearly all the German troops in Antwerp have been marched south-westward to reinforce the line of defence in south-western Belgium. ...

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  23. H.M.S. DRYAD.

    The British gunboat Dryad, which ran ashore on the northern coast of Scotland yesterday, has been floated off, undamaged. ...

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  24. THE BIBLE.

    The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that the Pope has published a letter declaring that the Bible ought to be found in every household, and that a ...

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  25. DUKE OF ROXBURGHE WOUNDED.

    The Duke of Roxburghe, who is a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), has been severely wounded in the front, and has been sent back to England ...

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  26. GERMANS IN CHINA.

    A Victorian lady, Miss Hepburn, who returned to-day from the East, states that the Germans in China are doing their best to work up feeling against the British ...

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  27. KAISER APPEALS TO HIS TROOPS.

    A message from Basle states that the Kaiser on the 18th inst. inspected the German troops in Alsace-Lorraine and incited them to make a last victorious effort in the ...

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  28. THE AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL.

    Over 500 motor ambulances have been presented to the Red Cross Society. Thirty of these are attached to the Australian Voluntary Hospital, including the New ...

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  29. THE IWANGOROD FIGHT.

    A wounded soldier describes the desperate fighting in the region of Iwangorod. The Germans held a strongly entrenched position on a ...

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  30. DUTCH REPORTS.

    Refugees from Belgium who have reached here by sea state that when the Germans occupied Roulers, east of Dixmude, they murdered 40 of the inhabitants. A great ...

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  31. THE STARVING BELGIANS.

    The food situation in Belgium is now grave. The Relief Committee is feeding 300,000 at Brussels, and over 200,000 at other places. Two hundred thousand ...

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  32. GERMANS WANT AN ARMISTICE.

    An official announcement states that yesterday the French refused a request from the Germans for an armistice to bury their dead and to gather their wounded ...

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  33. SIEGE OF KIAU-CHAU.

    It is officially announced that the Japanese cruiser Takachiho was not, as was at first reported, sunk by a mine, but was torpedoed by a German Destroyer and that ...

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  34. CONTRABAND OF WAR.

    The German Government, in an official communique despatched to neutral nations, condemns Great Britain's attitude with regard to contraband of war and the seizure ...

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  35. FOOD SUPPLIES.

    The following additional recommendations have been received by the Governor-General from the Royal Commission on Food Supplies and on Trade and Industry ...

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  36. PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

    The following cable messages have been received from the High Commissioner:— "London, Oct. 23.—Admiralty reports that all yesterday the monitors and other vessels ...

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  37. ESPIONAGE QUESTION.

    At Liverpool yesterday George Dullett, a German, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having represented himself as a Frenchman. In his possession was ...

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  38. GREAT GERMAN DISASTER.

    "The Observer's" Calais correspondent states that the allies forced the Germans to retire to Thield (18 miles south-east of Bruges) and took 1,200 wounded and 700 ...

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  39. OSTEND DESERTED.

    The "Daily News" correspondent at Rotterdam telegraphs that very few Germans are now at Ostend or at the places recently occupied in Flanders, as they are ...

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  40. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

    A communique states that the Russians beyond the Vistula are closely following the retreating enemy, the Germans only feebly resisting. The Germans north of the Pilica ...

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  41. PROTECTING THE KAISER.

    The "Daily News" reports that the Kaiser who is with the German troops operating against Russia, is at Czentochowa, a town on the south-west frontier of Poland. The ...

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  42. HEAVY GUNS IN ACTION.

    It is officially announced that Japanese naval heavy artillery is co-operating with the land forces in the bombardment of Tsing Tao. The Japanese Minister has ...

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  43. SPY IN NAVAL DOCKYARD.

    At the Rossyth, the torpedo flotilla depot is Fifeshire, a German, who was in charge of the naval dockyard telephone switch-board, has been arrested on a charge ...

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  44. LONDON BUSHMEN'S ENGAGEMENT.

    Two officers attired in British uniforms in a British motor-car, near Armentieres, approached an ammunition column, which was carrying supplies to the British ...

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  45. A LOCOMOTIVE TORPEDO.

    An instance of signal gallantry by Belgian sappers in the defence of Antwerp is now reported. The Germans were attacking the Antwerp South station, and designed ...

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  46. BOSNIA BATTLING.

    Further sharp fighting, in which the Austrian forces were worsted, has occurred in Bosnia, where the Servian and Montenegrin armies are co-operating. An official report ...

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  47. IN AUSTRALIA.

    The following official statement was issued to-night:—"Under the powers given by the Order-in-Council already published in the Press, the Commandants have carried out ...

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  48. CANDIAN PATRIOTIC FUND.

    The Canadian Graingrowers' Association has issued an appeal to members to earmark one acre of next year's crop for the Patriotic Fund. It is expected that 600,000 ...

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  49. NECESSARY COMMODITIES.

    The Necessary Commodities Control Commission is considering the question of fixing up the price for new wheat. It is stated that whatever is done will be done ...

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  50. GERMAN GENTLEMEN LOOTERS.

    Reuter's Agency in Belgium reports further looting of private property by German officers in that country. At Montmort officers who lodged in a chateau, ransacked the ...

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  51. AUSTRIA'S SORRY PLIGHT.

    Reuter's correspondent at Rome states that private advices from Austria show that the calling up of the Landsturm has created a profound impression as the members of ...

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  52. THE KAISER'S HEADQUARTERS.

    It is semi-officially stated that the Kaiser's headquarters in France r esemble a thickly-populated centre. The personnel numbers 1,500, besides the convoy. There ...

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  53. GREECE AND TURKEY.

    Reuter's Agency at Athens sends an official telegram stating that popular feeling against Turkey is increasing strongly. The Turkish action in expelling Greeks from the Aegean ...

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  54. SUNDAY'S SPECIAL EDITION.

    The position of the allied armies is set out as follows by an official communique issued to-day:—On our left very strong German forces continued to deliver violent ...

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  55. TELEGRAPHIC BUSINESS.

    On and after October 26 telegraphic addresses registered prior to July, 1914, may be used as addresses but not as signatures in telegrams as between any two places in ...

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  56. A GORGEOUS BANDMASTER.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" war correspondent publishes a story told by a British soldier who was wounded in the fighting at Ypres in the south of Belgium, of the ...

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  57. ARROWS FROM THE HEAVES.

    In the recent fight in France between French aeroplanes and German cavalry the aviators carried boxes of steel arrows, which were dropped from a height of ...

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  58. AUSTRIAN WARSHIP SUNK.

    An official announcement states that an Austrian monitor struck a mine in the Save River yesterday and sank. Thirty-three members of her crew were drowned. ...

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  59. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Mr. Schalkburger, a leading Boer, in a letter to the "Volkstem," has denounced Generals De Wet and Beyers for betraying their oath of loyalty. ...

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  60. AMERICAN PEACE TREATY.

    The United States Senate has ratified the Peace Treaty arranged by the President with Sweden. ...

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  61. WAR PATRIOTIC FUND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 words
  62. THE BOSNIAN ASSASSINATION.

    At the trial of the Servian who assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, the Public Prosecutor declared that Servian Ministers had been in ...

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  63. WELL-KNOWN CRICKETER WOUNDED.

    Mr. R. H. Spooner, the well-known Lancashire cricketer, has been wounded at the front in France. ...

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  64. AT SEA.

    A telegram from Teneriffe, in the Canary Islands, reports that the German cruiser Karlruhe has sunk 12 merchant steamers, mostly in the Atlantic. The crews of these ...

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  65. ITALY'S ATTITUDE.

    The police are making strenuous efforts to stop demonstrations at Milan, Venice and Brescia in favour of making war against Austria. Several demonstrators ...

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  66. ON THE BELGIAN COAST.

    The fighting between Ostend and Nieuport was of a most sanguinary character. A captured German states that after one fight bodies of 1,500 of his comrades were ...

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  67. NIGHT ATTACKS AT VERDUN.

    Some sharp fighting has occurred at Verdun, the French frontier fortress which the Germans have been assailing for nearly two months. A night attack had been ...

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  68. NEWFOUNDLAND'S CONTINGENT.

    The war contingent raised by the colony of Newfoundland, independent of the Canadian force, has arrived in England. ...

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  69. GERMANS IN OSTEND.

    A French torpedo boat arrived off Ostend on Friday. The German artillery along the waterfront fired on her, and in answering she shelled the Hotel Majestic, where the ...

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  70. AUSTRIAN PRISONERS.

    The Czar has offered Italy to release all prisoners of Italian nationality in Russia. The Czar, in offering to liberate the Italians asked Italy to undertake that they ...

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  71. SHELLED BY BOTH SIDES.

    The Amsterdam "Telegraf" reports that 4,000 German wounded reached Bruges on Thursday. The Allies, from a strongly entrenched position at Armentieres, have ...

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  72. WAR MATERIAL EXPORT.

    The Spanish Government has issued a proclamation forbidding the export of horses and mules, which has been started on a large scale for military purposes. ...

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  73. ALLIES FURTHER ADVANCE.

    The fighting at Nieuport was of extraordinary violence. A German column advancing towards Dunkirk, close to the seashore, and using the sand dunes for cover, ...

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  74. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 words
  75. GERMAN SHARPSHOOTERS.

    While a British shore party, with a machine gun, was being landed on the Belgian coast, German sharpshooters, lying flat among some sand dunes, picked the ...

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  76. GERMAN FOOD SUPPLIES.

    A message from Berlin states that owing to a shortage of flour the bakers in Germany have been authorised to use 20 per cent of potatoes ...

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  77. GERMANY'S SUGAR TRADE.

    In order to prevent the indirect importations of German and Austrian beet sugar, or of sugar from neutral countries, which has been imported from Germany, the ...

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  78. BRITISH SUBMARINES.

    Sir George Reid cables as follows:— London, Oct. 23, 1.40 a.m. (official). "Commodore Keyes, in reporting the services performed by submarines, states that ...

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  79. FRANCO-BELGIAN CAMPAIGN.

    A communique issued early yesterday evening stated: "There have been inevitable fluctuations on our left wing, but the line is being generally held. The enemy ...

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  80. WAR AND UNEMPLOYEMENT DISTRES RELIEF FUND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 words
  81. THE SCOTS GREYS.

    The French cavalry and infantry in advancing near Lille were almost bogged in marshy ground under the fire of German artillery. The French 75-milimetre guns were ...

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  82. A GERMAN ROUT.

    On Wednesday the allies won one of the fiercest fights which have been fought in the whole course of the campaign in the Arras district. ...

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  83. ALONG THE YSER.

    A British officer relates that, in the darkness, on Wednesday. some Belgians approached to within 300 yards of the German trenches along the Yser and opened a ...

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  84. MINES IN BLACK SEA.

    The steamer Sheraz, flying the Persian flag, and loaded with petroleum, bound from Constanza to Constantinople, has been destroyed by a mine in the Black Sea. ...

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  85. BELGIAN GIRLS FOR AUSTRALIA.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Flushing, on the Dutch island of Walcheren, at the mouth of the Scheldt, which is crowded with refugees from Antwerp, says ...

    Article : 55 words
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