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  2. THE LIQUOR LAWS.

    In Committee last night, the Legislative Assembly gave further attention to the Sale of Liquor Regulation Bill. On clause 4 (referendum as to closing ...

    Article : 1,853 words
  3. THE WAR.

    The Russians report that there has been severe fighting on the Eastern front, and that they have repulsed several German attacks. The Germans and Austrians, on the other hand, claim to have inflicted heavy defeats upon the Russians. They declare that they have taken over 1,000,000 ...

    Article : 156 words
  4. GERMAN-AMERICANS DRILLING.

    Reports confirm the statement that Germans and Austrians are quietly drilling in their Turn Verein halls, professedly to repel a Canadian invasion. The Department of ...

    Article : 66 words
  5. THE ROLL OF HONOUR.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,320 words
  6. WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

    The King and Queen spent two and a half hours yesterday at the 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth. Two hundred prisoners, recently returned from ...

    Article : 164 words
  7. DYNAMITING OUTRAGES.

    An extraordinary series of dynamiting outrages are breaking out in the ammunition and powder plants in the United States. It is unquestionable that German ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. THE CAMEROONS.

    The following communique was issued yesterday— The French column in the south-east of the Cameroons are advancing towards ...

    Article : 93 words
  9. THE COMMONWEALTH LOAN.

    The London newspapers give prominence to the result of the Commonwealth loan. They consider it a gratifying evidence of Australia's financial strength. ...

    Article : 30 words
  10. SHELLS.

    There are perhaps no three things in this world more entirely innocent and commonplace by themselves than a reel of cotton, a bottle of glycerine, and a pot of ...

    Article : 954 words
  11. RETRENCHMENT.

    Owing to retrenchment 1,700 valuers, technical assistants and clerks, who had been employed in connection with Mr. Lloyd George's land valuation scheme, ...

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  12. A GERMAN DEFEAT.

    The Governor of Nigeria reports the capture of the town of Gashaka, in the Cameroons, 50 miles from the Nigerian border. The enemy's position was surprised on ...

    Article : 51 words
  13. GENERAL ITEMS.

    A sailor on board the Bisson writes:— "We had good luck at sunrise on August 13, when we ran across the Austrian submarine U3. It took us just five seconds ...

    Article : 86 words
  14. THE BADGE OF COURAGE.

    The following list of awards of the Victoria Cross and accounts of the valour of the recipients was issued yesterday:— Major Wheeler, of the 7th Lancers. He ...

    Article : 476 words
  15. ROUMANIAN NEUTRALITY.

    Roumania has informed Austria and Germany that her refusal to allow the transit of munitions through her territory is due to a desire to maintain strict neutrality, ...

    Article : 63 words
  16. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    French official reports continue to record violent cannonading, especially in Argonne, indicating a continuous effective bombardment of the German trenches, ...

    Article : 68 words
  17. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    A communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"We captured four guns on the right bank of the Vilia to-day. The enemy has occupied Crany. Desperate fighting ...

    Article : 181 words
  18. THE BATTERING OF BELGIUM.

    The Belgian Government has published a Grey Book containing a series of documents showing that Austria plotted for war and that she foresaw a European conflagration, ...

    Article : 291 words
  19. JAPAN AND THE ALLIES.

    Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Ambassador, states that the public are not aware of the extent of Japan's co-operation with the Allies. When it is possible to tell the ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. GERMAN BOMB-DROPPING.

    German aviators yesterday dropped bombs into Luneville (20 miles south-east of Nancy). The bombs wounded some civilians. ...

    Article : 23 words
  21. ADMIRAL VON TIRPITZ.

    Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is ill, suffering from overwork. The doctors have ordered him to take an extended holiday. ...

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  22. DEATH OF PEGOUD.

    M. Pegoud was killed in an air duel on the eastern frontier of France. Pegoud brought down his sixth enemy aviator on July 11. ...

    Article : 257 words
  23. SECRET GERMAN TRADE.

    The customs authorities at Dieppe have seized 1,800 postal packets originally from Germany, containing jewellery, textile goods, and silks. They had been conveyed ...

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  24. GENERAL PFLANZER'S DEFEAT.

    Details of the defeat of General Pflanzer show that some of the hardest fighting took place on the Bug, near Baelykamen, 10 miles south-west of Durk. The enemy on ...

    Article : 168 words
  25. WORKING FOR THE ALLIES.

    The Austro-Hungarian Government announces that all subjects working in neutral countries, particularly America, who are employed in factories producing war ...

    Article : 50 words
  26. BRITISH NEWS.

    The Cardiff Conference almost unanimously accepted the terms of the coal settlement, thanking the leaders for their able conduct of the negotiations. The miners who ...

    Article : 88 words
  27. AMERICA AND GERMANY.

    Count von Bernstorff has informed Mr. R. Lansing, Secretary of State, that Germany has accepted the American principle that passenger liners must be warned ...

    Article : 331 words
  28. GERMAN WAR AGE RAISED.

    The Reichstag has passed a Bill, raising the military age to 54. German newspapers have been forbidden to disclose the fact. ...

    Article : 29 words
  29. EASTERN GALICIA.

    Military critics attach much importance to the Russian successes in eastern Galicia. The German attack on the Upper Bug and the Strypa aimed at pushing the Russians ...

    Article : 80 words
  30. AMERICAN FINANCE.

    There have been further movements in the American Exchange rate. Yesterday there was a substantial decline to 4 dollars 48 cents, but later on the rate recovered ...

    Article : 54 words
  31. INTREPID BRITISH AVIATORS.

    A party of Frenchmen yesterday was watching the Germans shelling a British monoplane. The machine was falling into the German lines when suddenly it rose ...

    Article : 176 words
  32. WAR OFFICE CRITICISED.

    The military correspondent of the "Times" questions whether there are sufficient trained minds at the War Office competent to give the best advice on strategical matters, ...

    Article : 129 words
  33. ENEMY COMMUNIQUES.

    A Berlin communique issued yesterday stated:—"General von Hindenburg's troops are before the outer line of the forts at Grodno. Prince Leopold ...

    Article : 144 words
  34. LINCOLN, THE SPY.

    Ignatius Lincoln, the self-confessed German spy, formerly a member of the House of Commons, who offered his services to the British secret service while acting for ...

    Article : 73 words
  35. A DRUNKEN FATHER.

    John Samuel Griffiths, aged 25, at the Central Criminal Court to-day, pleaded "not guilty" to a charge of having murdered his father, Patrick James Griffiths, at ...

    Article : 174 words
  36. TURKEY.

    A report from Sir Ian Hamilton received yesterday stated: "Further fighting took place on Friday and Saturday on the northern section of our line and resulted in ...

    Article : 118 words
  37. SMALL NATIONS AND THE WAR.

    Dr. E J. Dillon, writing to the "English Review," advocates a scheme for enforcing the smaller neutral countries into the war. He urges that the Allies ought to adopt two ...

    Article : 88 words
  38. MONSTER AEROPLANE.

    The Germans are testing a monster warplane, carrying 20 men. The trials are taking place over Lake Constance. The new machine is noisier than the Zeppelin. ...

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  39. RUSSIAN COMMANDERS.

    General Russky has been appointed commander-in-chief of the armies for the defence of the northern region, and General Yanushkevitch has been appointed Assistant ...

    Article : 55 words
  40. SOUTH AFRICA.

    In view of a suggestion that political differences should be set aside and that the Unionists should support the Ministerialists. Sir Thomas Smartt has written ...

    Article : 60 words
  41. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury is suffering from a severe attack of the illness from which he suffered in 1913. He has obtained relief, and his convalescence may be ...

    Article : 52 words
  42. SUBMARINE TOLL.

    The Board of Trade issued a statement yesterday showing that in August the Germans sank 39 sailing vessels, aggregating 20,190 tons, and 56 steamers, aggregating ...

    Article : 58 words
  43. GERMAN P.N'S.

    The Governor of Warshaw has sent 30 Russian bankers to a concentration camp for refusing to accept promissory notes issued by the German authorities. ...

    Article : 34 words
  44. BRITISH COUNTER OFFENSIVE.

    The Press believes that Germany has lost so many submarines owing to the excellence of the British counter offensive methods that she is now willing to concede ...

    Article : 48 words
  45. FATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

    The general impression here is that lack of ammunition will lead to the early fall of Constantinople which, according to the "Messagero," is destined to mark the ...

    Article : 47 words
  46. RUSSIAN FINANCE.

    A financial statement was presented to the Duma yesterday showing that the Government had already borrowed £600,000,000. Probably an important loan will be on ...

    Article : 47 words
  47. CAPTAIN COOK.

    At Great Ayton, in Yorkshire, yesterday the Postmaster-General (Mr. Herbert Samuel) unveiled a tablet erected to the memory of Captain Cook in the school in ...

    Article : 38 words
  48. ALLEGED NOTE FORGERIES.

    The Treasury, referring to statements circulated in various parts of the country that currency notes bearing certain specified serial numbers are forgeries, says that ...

    Article : 83 words
  49. MUNITION WORKERS FOR ENGLAND

    Experienced munition works to the number of 156 are either paying their passages or working their way to England. ...

    Article : 27 words
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