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  2. NAVAL ACTIVITY.

    The Admiralty made the following announcement yesterday:—"An escorting force of light cruisers and destroyers, under Commander Tyrwhitt, on Saturday ...

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  3. SUSSEX DISASTER.

    It is believed that 100 lives were lost in connection with the torpedoing of the British, steamer Sussex, in the English Channel on Saturday, and that most of ...

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  4. TASMANIAN ELECTIONS.

    There has been no change in the figures of the Dension electorate. The latest totals for the other divisions are:— FRANKLIN. ...

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  5. THE ANTARCTIC.

    The "Daily Chronicle" publishes an interview with Sir Daniel Gooch, who was the last man to say farewell to Sir Ernest Shackleton. Sir Daniel signed on the ...

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  6. FRANCE AT WAR.

    In the booking office of the railway station at Boulogne we bought our tickets from a middle-aged woman. But a sturdy porter, with plenty of fight in him, car ...

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  7. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN ENGLAND.

    According to Mr. R. Higgs, a resident of this State, who returned by the Mooltan yesterday after an extended tour of Great Britain and America, the Australian ...

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  8. ALCANTARA-GREIF FIGHT.

    Describing the engagement that took place in the North Sea on February 29, between the British armed merchantman Alcantara, and the German raider Greif, ...

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  9. AN AUSTRALIAN'S EXPERIENCES.

    Mr. Andrew McHarg, an Australian station owner, who was on board the Sussex, stated to an interviewer yesterday: "I was knocked flat by the explosion. The first ...

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  10. SPORT AND THE WAR.

    At yesterday's meeting of the Perth City Council the general purposes committee recommended, in connection with a letter received from the Western Australian ...

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  11. CITY COUNCIL'S GREETINGS ACKNOWLEDGED.

    At yesterday's meeting of the Perth City Council the following letter, dated February 8, from Lieut. A. Matheson, officer commanding the 2nd Australian ...

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  12. THE AGNOSTIC.

    In his lecture to men at St. George's Cathedral School on Sunday afternoon, Dean Mercer said:—Every man living in a Christian country is brought, however unwittingly, ...

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  13. AN AMERICAN INQUIRY.

    The Secretary of State (Mr. Robert Lansing) has ordered an inquiry to be made into the torpedoing of the Sussex and Englishman. ...

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  14. MR. W. M. HUGHES.

    Mr. W. M. Hughes (the Commonwealth Prime Minister) is suffering from a mild attack of influenza, which has greatly affected his throat. He has been ordered to ...

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  15. BIG LINER TORPEDOED.

    The Atlantic Transport Company's steamer Minneapolis (13,543 tons), belonging to Belfast, was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans yesterday. ...

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  16. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

    There passed through Fremantle yesterday, on board the P. and O. liner Moolten, a number of officers and naval ratings who have been serving in different parts of ...

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  17. THE WESTERN ZONE.

    The following communique was issued yesterday afternoon:—"There was a most violent bombardment west of the Meuse yesterday. The Germans attempted two ...

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  18. BURIAL OF GERMANS.

    The prisoners from the Greif who died in Edinburgh were buried with marks of the utmost respect. The coffins were borne on a gun-carriage and were covered with ...

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  19. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Mr. A. W. Thompson, formerly of the "West Australian," is now a member of the Anzacs Company, 7th Transvaal regiment, and is fighting with the South African ...

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  20. BUTCH CAUTION.

    The newspapers of Holland deplore the uncertainty of the shipping situation. They point out that Dutch shipping cannot exist without the free navigation of the North ...

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  21. BRUNSWICK STATE FARM.

    The Agricultural Commissioner for the South-West (Mr. J. M. B. Connor), has received a report from Mr. J. D. Martin, manager of the Brunswick State Farm, ...

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  22. A GERMAN REPORT.

    A German wireless message stated yesterday evening:—"Five English hydroplanes on Saturday attacked our airship sheds in Northern Schleswig, and three of them, ...

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  23. THE BRITISH FRONT.

    General Haig reported yesterday evening: "The enemy sprang a mine near our front to-day and occupied the crater, but we drove them out. Enemy bomb throwers, ...

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  24. RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGNS.

    The following communique was issued yesterday:— "The Germans assumed the offensive on the Mitan railway to-day but were repulsed. Desperate fighting continues ...

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  25. THE TUBANTIA.

    Commenting on the description of the pieces of metal found in the boats of the Tubantia, after she had been blown up, the Admiralty states that they correspond ...

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  26. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) stated to-day that consignees of goods on the German steamer Magdeburg, now lying at New York, may if they so desire make ...

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  27. MORE STEAMERS SUNK.

    The British steamers St. Cecilia and Senaybridge were sunk by the Germans in the North Sea yesterday. The crews of the vessels were saved. ...

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  28. PROGRESS AGAINST THE TURKS.

    A communique issued yesterday stated: "Making vigorous progress, we ousted the Turks on the heights of the Upper Choronkh to-day. We also advanced ...

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  29. ANXIETY IN NORWAY.

    The German submarine activity is causing increased anxiety in Norway, especially in insurance circles, as neutral vessels worth over £2,000,000 have been torpedoed ...

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  30. THE NEAR EAST.

    On Saturday 22 French aeroplanes bombed and seriously damaged the German camp at Ghevgeli. German aviators pursued the raiders and brought down a ...

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  31. BRITISH NEWS.

    The London "Gazette" publishes Sir Ian Hamiltion's corrections of misspelt names in the list of those mentioned in his despatches of January 28 last for gallantry ...

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  32. INJURIOUS STATEMENTS.

    The Acting Attorney-General (Mr. Mahon) announced to-day that he had acceded to the request of a deputation to the release of Joseph Skurrie, who had been fined £20, ...

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  33. SHIPPING FACILITIES.

    The Premier (Mr. Ryan) and party will leave Brisbane to-morrow morning, and will board the steamer ventura in Sydney enroute for America and Britain. ...

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  34. COMMONWEALTH RECRUITING.

    In Victoria to-day 239 men volunteered for active service, and 164 were accepted. ...

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  35. THE BRITISH WORKERS.

    Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., addressing a meeting of railwaymen at Grimsby yesterday, said the British workers ought to demand nothing short of the Australian policy, ...

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  36. TURKS WILL EVACUATE KONIEH.

    It is reported that the Turks have crdered the evacuation of Konieh (310 miles east of Smyrna). ...

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  37. BARMAID AND PUBLICAN.

    The hearing was to have been continued to-day of the case before Mr. Justice Ferguson and jury, in which Hannah Ryan, a barmaid, sued Alfred William Sharland, of ...

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  38. GERMAN-BULGAR SCHEME.

    It is reported that the Germans and Bulgarians proposed recently to occupy Constantinople sending the Turkish troopsh to the Caucasus and Baghdad. The Young ...

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  39. THE ALLIES' CONFERENCES.

    Mr. Asquith, Lord Kitchener, Sir Edward Grey, and Mr. Lloyd George arrived yesterday to attend the Allies' War Conference. They were accorded an ovation by ...

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  40. CONTRAVENTION OF THE ARBITRATION ACT.

    In the Arbitration Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Powers, leave was asked on behalf of the Federated Mining Employees' Association to institute proceedings against ...

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  41. Advertising

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  42. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Fifty-five volunteers were examined at the Drill Hall on Saturday, and of this number 29 were accepted. On Sunday only 23 men came forward, and 10 were ...

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  43. DARDANELLS STRAITS.

    M. Milinkoff stated in the Duma on Saturday that the Allies arrived at a satisfactory agreement in April last in connection with the straits of the Dardanelles. ...

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  44. THE CENSORSHIP.

    The "Messagero" states that on the initiative of Great Britain, a conference of the Allies, with a view to the co-ordination of the censorship, will meet in London ...

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  45. A TRAINING COLLEGE MEMORIAL.

    The students of the Claremont Training College who graduated from that institutions in 1908 have decided to erect a memorial to the memory of the late Sergeant Frank ...

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