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Article : 564 wordsThere has been an important development in the Balkan theatre of war. Bulgarian troops crossed the frontier and seized Greek forts and the town of ...
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Article : 60 wordsProfessor H. Roxwell, in a lecture in London on Saturday night, expressed the hope that now that the public had taken kindly to paper money, the notes would not be ...
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Article : 138 wordsA Copenhagen message states that the bodies of an officer and a man belonging to a Zeppelin have been washed ashore at the Danish scaport of Esbjerg together ...
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Article : 53 wordsA member of the Pioneer Battalion of the 1st Australian Division writes to a friend in Middle Park, from France, as follows:— ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 30 May 1916, Page 7
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