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  2. THE WAR.

    The later reports of the battle in the Gulf of Riga are lacking in detail. They do not state clearly the full extent of the German losses; but apparently the invading force was soundly beaten and a British submarine accounted for the German Dreadnought. ...

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  3. DURATION OF THE WAR.

    Lord Esher, in a letter to the Glasgow "Herald" stated that all the British people are actors in this great tragedy. He urges the rich to abandon all profits derived from ...

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  4. RECRUITING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Yesterday the recruiting staff at District Headquarters experienced a light day, the total number of volunteers for the Australian Imperial Forces amounting to only ...

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  5. PUBLIC OPINION INFLAMED.

    President Wilson is still awaiting details of the sinking of the Arabic. The British announcement that the Arabic was not convoyed, made no attempt to escape, and ...

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  6. TRAINING OUR FORCES.

    In connection with the new scheme of training the men of the Australian Imperial Forces in depot battalions, a start was made in this State yesterday, when two ...

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  7. GERMAN POLICY.

    Messages from Berlin indicate that the German official spokesmen are seeking to allay American irritation by suggesting that the Arabic was mined and not submarined. ...

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  8. TRADE UNIONISTS.

    Mr. J. Hodge, M.P. who visited France recently and met the French trade union and socialist leaders, allayed their fears with regard to the attitude of British trade ...

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  9. WOOLWICH ARSENAL.

    The control of Woolwich arsenal has passed from the War Office to the Ministry for Munitions. ...

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  10. THE CALL TO ARMS.

    To-day proved brisk as regard recruiting for the expeditionary forces. The number of men accepted at the metropolitan depots was 370. ...

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  11. UNDESIRABLE ALIENS.

    There are 30,000 alien enemies interned in the United Kingdom. ...

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  12. ALLEGED DISLOYAL UTTERANCES.

    The members for North Perth (Mr. Smith) asked the Premier in the Legislative Assembly yesterday if the police had made any report "concerning the disloyal ...

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  13. SOUTH AFRICA'S AID.

    There were uproarious scenes yesterday at a Labour Congress which was attended by delegates from all parts of South Africa. Mr. Creswell's resolution, wholeheartedly ...

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  14. THE SUBMARINE MENACE.

    Mr. W. J. Bryan, formerly Secretary of State, has issued through the newspapers an appeal to Americans not to travel on British vessels owing to the risks of the latter ...

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  15. THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM.

    The Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) received a telegram to-day from the Premier of New South Wales stating that it was not now proposed to convene a confference ...

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  16. GALLANT NEW ZEALANDERS.

    When this morning, the sixth day of the fight, broke, not a sound of a gun or even of rifle firing, could be heard. The perfect silky glassiness of the sea opposite Suvla, ...

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  17. GERMAN FEELING.

    The Socialist newspaper "Volkreicht" publishes a memorial, which Germany suppressed, and which was presented to the Reichstag by the newly founded German ...

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  18. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    Captain W. C. Robinson, of the 10th Light Horse, who is included among the wounded in the last casualty list, was born in England, in 1869, but was brought ...

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  19. CEREBRO MENINGITIS.

    Another death from cerebro spinal meningitis was reported to-day when there were eleven fresh cases notified. ...

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  20. VOLUNTEERS.

    Forty South African volunteers have arrived in England. The majority of them participated in the South-West African campaign and are eager for further service. ...

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  21. THE RIGA BATTLE.

    The old battleship Slava put up a fine fight against the enemy's cruisers in the Riga action. Two of the German's best destroyers were sent to attack the Slava, ...

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  22. TURKEY.

    Russian warships have again destroyed the coaling stations and fortifications on the Anatolian coast, after their reconstruction. They also sank several coal laden ...

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  23. BRITISH NAVAL ACTION.

    A British bombardment of Zeebrugge began at 6 o'clock on Monday morning, and lasted for three hours. The shock smashed many windows in Dutch Zeeland. There ...

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  24. AUSTRALIA DAY.

    The Australia Day Fund for this State now stands at £608,000, including £37,000 to the credit of what is called "The Mothers' Thirty Thousand." ...

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  25. TRANSVAAL COAL OWNERS.

    It was officially announced yesterday that the Government had gratefully accepted the Transvaal Coal Owners' Association's offer in behalf of the Witbank collieries of ...

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  26. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    A meeting of the owners of lathes and other machinery suitable for munition work will be held in the Builders' Exchange, Commercial Union Chambers St. George's ...

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  27. GENERAL ITEMS.

    The American Association of Commerce, whose reports regarding Germany have hitherto been optimistic, now disclose that Germany is facing a serious meat shortage ...

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  28. SUBMARINE FEATS.

    A British submarine torpedoed the coalship Espanan near Constantinople yesterday. The German liner Tenedos (3,564 tons) ...

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  29. ITALY.

    An Austrian communique issued yesterday, declared that the Italians had suffered severe losses in an unsuccessful attack on the Tolmino bridgehead. ...

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  30. FIRES IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

    The tremendous fires in Constantinople about a month ago, in which 3,000 buildings were destroyed, were caused by bombs dropped by Russian avistors. ...

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  31. A PERTH SOLDIER.

    Private D. C. Johnson, of the 11th Bastalion, A.I.F., who is an inmate of the Bed Cross Hospital in Manchester, writes as follows to a relative in Perth:— ...

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  32. RUSSIAN ENTHUSIASM.

    Enthusianstic demonstrations were made outside the British Embassy yesterday. ...

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  33. ROUMANIAN RAILWAYS.

    Roumania has guarded all the railway material in the country which from September 14 will be placed at the Government's disposal. ...

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  34. BRITISH NEWS.

    It was officially announced yesterday that Mr. Walter Runciman's promised decisions on the various deferred points in connection with the South Wales coal trade agreement ...

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  35. ITALIAN ENTHUSIASM.

    The war with Turkey is enthusiastically approved of throughout Italy. General Cadorna's army has received the news with frantic hurrahs and cheers, so loud that ...

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  36. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    A communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"The situation in the Riga district on land is unchanged. We held up the enemy's offensive in the Kovarsk, ...

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  37. GERMAN ECONOMY.

    General Von Faldeck has ordered that the German soldiers' equipment must not be abandoned on the battlefields. Helmets must not be placed on graves and the tunics ...

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  38. DESPERATE TURKISH POSITION.

    It is freely rumoured in Berlin that the position of the Turks is becoming desperate, owing to a shortage of ammunition. A collapse of the defence is inevitable unless ...

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  39. FALLING GERMAN BIRTHRATE.

    The German birthrate has decreased by 25 per cent. since the beginning of the war. ...

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  40. FRENCH NAVAL SUCCESS.

    It is officially announced that two French torpedo boats sank a-German destroyer off Ostend on Sunday night, after a fight in which the French torpedo boats sustained ...

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  41. THE GREEK CABINET.

    General Danglis has accepted the portfolio of Minister for War. M. Cafantaria is the new Minister for the Interior. The other Ministers are the same as in the ...

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  42. GERMANY'S BROKEN PROMISES.

    The Dedeagatch correspondent of the "Temps" reports:—"At the last Cabinet meeting under Prince Said Halim Pasha as Grand Vizier, hard words were exchanged ...

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  43. ENEMY REPORTS.

    A Berlin communique issued yesterday stated:—"General von Eichord's troops are advancing east and south of Kovno. We occupied the fortress at Ossowiee, ...

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  44. ILL-TREATMENT OF CANADIANS.

    Canadian Prisoners in Germany have been placed on reduced rations, in consequence of allegations that Germans interned at Amherst. Nova Scotia, are being ...

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  45. FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.

    A communique issued yesterday afternoon stated:—"We captured several trenches on the Linge and Barenkopf crests to-day. Our aeroplanes bombarded the railway ...

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  46. HERDES.

    The following list of winners of the Victoria Cross and descriptions of their achievements was issued yesterday:— Captain Paul Butler, of the Gold Coast ...

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  47. A DAMAGED ZEPPELIN.

    The remains of the Zeppelin which was damaged by British aeroplanes after taking part in a raid upon England on the 9th inst. were conveyed through Bruges, ...

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  48. AUSTRALASIAN WOUNDED.

    Two trainloads of Australian and New Zealand wounded soldiers arrived in London Yesterday, some of them having participated in the battle on August 8. There ...

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  49. THE DARDANELLES.

    Since Friday night the battle, which started on the Australian right at Anzac with the magnificent capture of Lonesome Pine trenches by our 1st Infantry Brigade, ...

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  50. BREST-LITOVSK BATTLE.

    Private advices from Berlin states that the struggle at Brest Litovsk is developing into a big battle, extending along the whole line. The Russians are constantly sending ...

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  51. E13 VICTIMS.

    The steamer Vider is being fitted up for the purpose of conveying to Hull the bodies of the men lost on the British submarine E13. Numerous wreaths have been ...

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  52. AMERICA AND GERMANY.

    It was officially announced yesterday that the American course of action would be determined when all the Arabic facts had been ascertained. This is interpreted to ...

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  53. A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

    The following communique was issued at Berlin yesterday evening:—"New fighting has developed on the Lingekopf. Schratzmanelle, Barrenkopf line to-day. Strong ...

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  54. THE NEUTRALITY QUESTION.

    The Danish Legation at Berlin telegraphed yesterday that Herr Von Jagow, the German Foreign Minister, had expressed Germany's regrets and had apologised ...

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  55. FALL OF KOVNO.

    The Germans subjected the first fort captured at Kovno to a bombardment of 600 guns. The shellfire destroyed the facade of the Cathedral. Three Zeppelins and 30 ...

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  56. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Salvation Army are pushing on with the arrangements to prosecute their work at the Claremont new military camp. The transfer of troops began yesterday, when ...

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  57. SINEWS OF WAR.

    It is stated officially that M. Ribot, French Minister of Finance, and Mr. R. McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, met at Boulogue on Saturday and discussed ...

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  58. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    An important statement was made to-day by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) with regard to contracts made by the Commonwealth, the States, and ...

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  59. COMMANDANT GOES EAST.

    The District Commandant (Colonel J. H. Bruche) has been appointed president of a committee which was constituted recently for the purpose of considering the new ...

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  60. BOOTY AT KOVNO.

    A wireless message despatched by the German authorities from Berlin states:—"The list of booty secured by us at Kovno is incomplete, but it is known that we took ...

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  61. CONSCRIPTION.

    Mr. J. Hodge, M.P. (Labour) announced yesterday that the question of compulsory service was thoroughly discussed at the trade union conference in Bristol in ...

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