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  2. RUSSIA'S ADVANCE.

    The following Russian communique was issued yesterday:—"There is intermittent artillery and rifle fire on the whole front from Riga to Polesie. Persistent ...

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  3. ITALY.

    The following communique was issued yesterday:—"We made progress in the Adige Valley, north of the Serra Valley, to-day. Our batteries ignited ...

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  4. GENERAL ITEMS.

    The German military authorities' obvious attempts to break the disastrous news gently have led to a rapid spread of pessimism. Many newspapers are openly ...

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  5. BOY SOLDIERS.

    The calling up of youths of 17 and 18 years, professedly for training purposes, has caused panic in Germany. Parents are no longer willing, as they were in the delicious ...

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  6. AN AUSTRIAN CLAIM.

    A Vienna official report issued yesterday stated:—"We repulsed a strong Italian attack at Monte Rusta to-day. Tne enemy lost 1,000 men" ...

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  7. MESOPOTAMIA.

    In reply to questions in the House of Commons yesterday Mr Asquith said he did not think the time, was opportune for a discussion of the campaign in ...

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  8. THE ADRIATIC MENACE.

    The British Admiral in the Adriatic reports that an Austrian cruiser sank two patrolling British trawlers yesterday, and that two others were damaged. Ten men ...

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  9. THE WESTERN ZONE.

    Yesterday morning's communique stated: —"Last night, on the Somme was calm. We carried but several successful coup de mains on the enemy trenches in ...

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  10. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    Flight-Lieutenant Douglas Gray, an Australian, is a missing member of the air squadron which attacked and destroyed a number of German balloons on July 2. ...

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  11. SCANDINAVIAN TRADE.

    Many British submarines have been seen in the northern part of Cattegat. Only small German steamers are able to reach Norway. ...

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  12. GERMAN PRISONERS.

    Mr. Edward Johnson, who has just returned to America from a prison camp in Germany, says:—"The conditions in Germany are terrible. Hundreds of ...

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  13. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.

    The Home Secretry (Mr. Herbert Samuel) announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the Committee appointed to deal with conscientious objectors ...

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  14. HOME SERVICE.

    Members of the A.I.F., who have been discharged, and who desire to enlist for home service in the Australian military forces, are requested to forward ...

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  15. DEPRESSION IN HUNGARY.

    It is reported that General Pflanzer and Archduke Joseph Ferdinand have been relieved of their commands. The Austrian reverses in Bukowina have produced a ...

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  16. THE JUTLAND BATTLE.

    The "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent states, on information obtained from reliable sources, that the following warships are being repaired at the ...

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  17. FRENCH TRIBUTES TO THE BRITISH

    The newspapers are paying magnificent tributes to the couage of the British in recapturing Contalmaison. They note that this is the 23rd village wrested from the ...

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  18. EMPIRE TRADE.

    At the Freetrade Hall, Manchester last night, Lord Derby presided at an address on Empire trade, by Sir Geo. Foster, Canadian Minister for Commerce. ...

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  19. STARVATION IN POLAND.

    Representatives of the Polish societies yesterday told President Wilson an appalling story of suffering in the portion of Poland in possession of Germany. In some ...

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  20. POSITION AT PERONNE.

    German wounded soldiers say that the Germans have blown up the Peronne-Saint Quentin railway, and that every street in Peronne has been transformed into a small ...

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  21. MUNITIONS.

    That the cessation of operations at the local munitions works is in no way due to the fault of the War Munitions Supply Company was emphasised by Mr. George ...

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  22. WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND.

    Over £1,000 (including £500 from Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan)l have been raised here for the British Wounded Soldiers' Fund. F. W. Tewkesbury is briiging from England ...

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  23. GENERAL HAIG'S REPORT.

    The following report was issued by General Haig yesterday evening:— "Since the commencement of the battle the enemy, largely reinforced, strongly ...

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  24. THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

    The grey line denotes the fronts from which the Russians began their offensive. The points of attack against Kovel are along the Kovel-Sarny and the Kovel-Rovno railways. On the former the Russian forces under General Losch are advancing. General Kaledino commands the attack along the latter. In the south ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. GERMAN MOVEMENTS.

    Considerable movements of German troops throughout Belgium are reported. All the Landsturmers have been sent to the front. Heavy artillery is being transported to the ...

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  26. COMMONWEALTH.

    His Excellency the Governor-General to-day received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies a copy of a telegram which was sent by President Poincare to his ...

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  27. ROUTE MARCH.

    The 4th reinforcements of the 51st Battalion, under the command of Lieutenants Millard and Smith, left Claremont yesterday, on a route march through Fremantle ...

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  28. WHAT THE GERMANS SAY.

    A Berlin communique issued yesterday stated:—"The fighting near Contalmaison, Mametz wood and Trones wood continues with bitter stubbornness. A big French ...

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  29. ENEMY COMMUNIQUES.

    The following communique was issued in Berlin yesterday:—"The position on the Stokhod front is unchanged. We captured in two days 1,938 men and 12 ...

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  30. GERMAN MESSAGE TO AMERICA.

    Dr. Max Osborn, of the Berlin "Vossiche Zeitung," in a special cable to the New York "Times," states: "The fierceness and bitterness of the fighting on the ...

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  31. RECRUITING.

    Twenty men entered camp at Blackboy Hill yesterday. ...

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  32. THE CAUCASUS.

    A communique issued yesterday stated:— "We captured on Monday the hew Turkish fortified line westward of Erzerum. We have made considerable progress in this ...

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  33. SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION FUND.

    At the last meeting of the State War Council a report was tabled by the finance committee on the question of launching the Soldiers' Repatriation Fund in Western ...

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  34. A TURKISH TALE.

    A Turkish communique issued yesterday stated:—"We surprised an enemy cavalry detachment in the Felahaie sector. The enemy fled. leaving their horses. We ...

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  35. THE TRONES WOOD BATTLE.

    Fighting continues with unabated vigour on the Somme. A recrudescence of activity at Verdun shows that the Germans intend to maintain the same activity on the Meuse ...

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  36. GALLANT AUSTRALIANS.

    A gazette, issued yesterday, supplementing General Monro's despatch of April 10, mentions the following Anzac troops for distinguished and gallant services. The ...

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  37. CENTRAL AFRICA.

    A Belgian report states:—"The Germans have been expelled from the provinces of Ruanda and Urundi, in Central Africa, and they have abandoned the province of ...

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  38. THE STEAMER ADELAIDE.

    The Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) has received a cablegram to the efect that the steamer Adelaide, an enemy vessel which had been sheltering at Loanda, ...

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  39. COMMONWEALTH RECRUITING.

    Of the 76 men who offered their services to-day 38 were accepted. ...

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  40. SUBMARINES.

    The German submarine Deutschland is expected to leave Baltimore shortly, as her uploading is almost complete. An American offered to pay £10,000 for a passage in her ...

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  41. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Mrs. G. H. Birt, Tambellup, received cable from the War Office last Tuesday reporting that her son, Major C. W. H. Birt, had been wounded in last week's fighting ...

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  42. THE FIGHT FOR CONTALMAISON.

    Writing to the "Daily Chronicle," Mr. Philip Gibbs states:—"Prior to the capture of Contalmaison, the enemy's shellfire was more intense and widespread than it ...

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  43. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The one hundred and eighty-fourth casualty list of Western Australian members of the A.I.F. was released by the Censor yesterday and is published below. ...

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  44. GERMAN ADMIRALS REBUKED.

    Admiral Holtzendorff's recall from the retired list to take an appointment as expert adviser to the German Admiralty is interpreted in Berlin as a rebuke to ...

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  45. NEWS FROM HOME.

    The Conmonwealth High Commissioner (Mr. Andrew Fisher) issued yesterday the first number of the "Anzac Bulletin." The bulletin contains a selection of Australian ...

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  46. GERMAN JUBILATION.

    The Deutschland's feat has caused great jubilation in Germany. Her owners advance the extravagant claim that the British blockade is now ended, and that ...

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  47. BRITISH NEWS.

    Mr. H. W. Forster (Financial Secretary to the War Office) stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the percentage to be paid growers for their wool above ...

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  48. BLIND OARSMEN.

    Blinded soldiers, training at St. Dunstan's Hostel, competed in a regatta at Putney yesterday, and won every event for which they entered. Private E. C. ...

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  49. THE LIFE OF PARLIAMENT.

    Mr. Asquith stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government was unable to find any practically uncontroversial solution of the registration ...

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  50. A COMMERCIAL PROJECT.

    It is stated that a German-American company is being formed, with a capital of many millions of pounds, to build commerce submersibles, with a capacity of 5,000 ...

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  51. THE RAID ON SEAHAM.

    In connection with the submarine attack on Scaham, in Durham, on Tuesday night, it is reported that over a dozen shells passed over the town and dropped a mile ...

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  52. THE BANK RATE.

    The bank rate is now 6 per cent. ...

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