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  2. The British.

    General-Sir (Douglas Haig reports that three enemy attacks against Leesbon has were driven back with considerable enemy louses. Five bombing raids on the ...

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  3. British Repulse Attacks.

    Mr. Philip Gibba writes that in the fighting since July 1 there was nothing more fierce or bloody than the hand-to-hand struggles on the left of Flers, where ...

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  4. Air Raid.

    Fourteen or fifteen airships engaged in the raid. Three attacked London. Two were brought down in Essex, both being of a large and new pattern. The first ...

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  6. The Italians.

    A communique reports that in the Astico Valley yesterday the enemy exploded mines on Mount Cimone, obliging us to withdraw 100 metres from the ...

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  7. A GOLDEN GLOW.

    The burnt Zeppelin when travelling at a territie speed dropped incendiary and high explosive shells in East Anglia, It was greeted with an inferno of ...

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  8. GREAT COPPER DEAL

    There have been great increases in the price of copper, and the greatest sale of the metal ever made was concluded on Saturday, when the allies, through ...

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  9. ADVANCE IN THE BALKANS.

    From Salonika the War Office is advised that we crossed the Struma at three places, and occupied Janinan, which has been set on fire. We are driving on ...

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  10. The Anzacs.

    General Sir Archibald Murray, in a despatch dated June 1, details the reorganisation of the Dardanelles army, the re-equipment of Australians and ...

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  11. LEATHER TRADE

    Owing to the report that Russia wants millions of shoes, the price of leather has been greatly increased. ...

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  12. DESTROYED AIRSHIP.

    The burning Zeppelin crashed into a liedgerow, and was interspersed between the trees, stripping off branches, and the debris; was piled up in a mass of sixteen ...

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  13. THE BODIES.

    It was impossible to get near owing to the heat, but three bodies were seen at the edge of the fire being slowly consumed. Another body stripped to the ...

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  14. CONDITIONS IN GERMANY

    Owing to under-nourishment, the German people have suffered an average loss of weight of 13 pounds each adult. ...

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  15. JUMPING TO DEATH.

    It has been ascertained that the destroyed Zeppelin was of a recent pattern. An eye-witness stares the flaming ship despended slowly in a zig-zag course ...

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  16. KILLED IN ACTION

    Captain John Aldworth Merewether, of the Rifle Brigade, was killed in action. He was the only son of the late Mr. Walton Merewether, a barrister, of Sydney. ...

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  17. PATHETIC INCIDENTS.

    The darkness led many Londoners to expect the said, and a few stayed up. A majority, however, had gone to bed, and were peacefully asleep when the ...

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  18. RED SPOT IN THE SKY.

    A special correspondent telegraphs that the airship passed over here at midnight. The engine was humming and the searchlights flickering across the ...

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  19. CONSCRIPTION.

    The Warden of Beaconsfield has received the following telegram from the Prime Minister:—"1 urge immediate action to call a meeting of your citizens ...

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  20. The Russians.

    A communique reports that in stubborn fighting from the Pripet to the Roumanian frontier, we prisonered 1500 Austro Germans. The enemy on Saturday strong. ...

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  21. THE STRETCHER-BEARER.

    The heroism of the bayonet fighters was splendid, but the valour of the stretcher bearers was perhaps finer. Their duty was to go into open country ...

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  22. THE TASMANIAN COUNCIL.

    The Premier (Mr. Lee) is returning to Hobart by the mail train in the morning for the purpose of attending a meeting to-morrow in connection with the ...

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  23. THE USEFUL "TANKS."

    At dawn on the 16th inst. the New Zealanders advanced upon the left of Flers, their first line going forward with hardly a check to the German switch ...

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  24. PANDEMONIUM OF JOY.

    Almost immediately there was a chorus of weird sounds from the earth. Steam whistles sent up screams of triumph, and people danced with happiness. it was ...

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  25. FIGHTS IN ASIA.

    The communique adds that our Caucasus detachments advanced to the town of Elleu-Saiz. ...

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  26. Enemy Reports.

    A Berlin communique reports that the artillery between the Anore and the Somme attained a violence rarely previously reached. We repulsed night ...

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  27. FULL OF ADMIRATION.

    Mr. Gibbs concludes, "This story will be read gladly in New Zealand townships and up-country farmsteads. If any words of mine can give a little extra ...

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  28. ACTION BY THE A.W.U.

    The executive of the Australian Workers' Union concluded its sittings in Melbourne to-day. The conscription issue was again discussed, the following ...

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  29. SCENES IN LONDON.

    The artisan districts of London suffered severely, especially the small working class houses, which were never of a good structural condition. A number of ...

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  30. The French.

    A communique reports that our artillery was active northward of the Somme. The Germans replied feebly. Our guns and machine guns dispersed an attack ...

    Article : 283 words
  31. THRILLING INCIDENTS.

    Scores of stories of eye-witnesses of the raids in the eastern counties and London are coming in. They show that the raid was on the biggest scale, and way full ...

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  32. "POLICY OF UNIONISTS."

    Convened jointly by the Melbourne Trades Hall Council and National Convention of the Interstate Industrial Anti-Conscription Congress, a meeting of ...

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  33. VIEWING THE WRECKAGE.

    Many men and women supping after theatres in the Were End immediately directed their motor cars Essexwards, and by three scores of people in evening ...

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  34. THE BALKANS

    A Berlin despatch states Germany is willing to comply with the Greek request, and the interned Greek army corps will be returned via Switzerland. ...

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  35. LATEST DETAILS.

    The latest official message declares that probably snore than twelve airships participated. The damage in the provinces was slight, but on an cast midland town ...

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  36. MOST GALLANT WORK.

    Meanwhile the New Zealand Infantry were ordered to swing to the left to make a flanking front up the edge of the valley running north-west of They ...

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  37. EIGHT HOURS PRINCIPLE

    Dr. Wilson, in a speech, defended his action in the railway strike. He said an eight hour law was a national necessity, and was not a surrender to the ...

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  38. PURSUIT OF THE ASSASSINS.

    Eye-witnesses record a fine spectacle of several British airmen going up in pursuit of the assassins. Though the Zeppelins were very high, the Britishers ...

    Article : 73 words
  39. SUBMARINES.

    The seizure of the Prinz Hendrick by a German submarine startled and angered Dutchmen. The mails were not tampered with and the search was curtailed ...

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  40. GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY

    The "Lokal Anzeiger" says a motion for the establishment of a commission composed of Parliamentarians authorised to deal with the foreign policy, will be ...

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  41. A REMARKABLE SIGHT.

    A correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" in an Essex village states thousands, of soldiers, sailors, and civilians of all classes poured down on this out-of-the. ...

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  42. MEETINGS IN ADELAIDE

    Meetings for and against conscription attracted considerable attention to the Botanic Park this afternoon. Mr. D. P. Russell, president of the Victorian ...

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  43. TRAWLERS SUNK.

    Submarines sank 12 steam trawlers, belonging to Grimsby. ...

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  44. LOSSES ON THE SOMME.

    The French casualties on the Somme were proportionately one-half of those of 1915, the minuteness of the artillery preparation and aerial observation ...

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  45. GERMAN REPORTS

    The New York "Times" military expert whose comments are notably unbiassed, remarks on the German official claim of success in the Dobrndja. followed by the ...

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  46. WARRING NATIONS

    The New York "Times" financial expert, in a masterly analysis of the finances of the warring nations, points out the steady fall of German exchange. The ...

    Article : 109 words
  47. RUSSO-ROUMANIANS

    The enemy's losses in the Dobrudja was one-fourth of their effectives. The Russian artillery was colossally destructive. No prisoners were taken. An ...

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  48. SURRENDER OF THE GERMANS.

    The sound of the airship's engines awakened the special constable near by, and he tumbled out of bed and dressed. Looking out he heard a cracking sound ...

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  49. WALL STREET GAMBLE

    The largest dealings in stock on Wall. street since 1968 took place in. a two hours' session on Saturday. A total of 994,000 shares in the United States Steel ...

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  50. CANADIAN AIR SERVICE

    Mr. Charles Wilcox, a Parliamentarian, will be appointed Minister in charge of the Canadian air services, Whish will consist of 600 aviators. ...

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  51. GERMAN FLEET

    The "Colnisehe Volks Zeitung" publishes the Kaiser's decree, dated September 10, thanking the workers in the dock. yards for repairing the navy damaged ...

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  52. A BRAVE OFFICER.

    'A' New Zealand officer, a very splendid and heroic man, was the life and soul of the defence in the counter-attack. Three were moments when his ...

    Article : 252 words
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