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  2. SENSATIONAL RAILWAY SMASH.

    South Australia has been singularly free from railway disasters, and a serious accident to the Broken Hill express at Stockport, near Hamley Bridge, on Friday ...

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  3. NATIONAL COALITION.

    The Federal political situation has at last advanced definitely towards a solution. Both Ministerial and Liberal parties have expressed their agreement with the ...

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  4. "Victory" Loan.

    Harry louder, the famous song writer and entertainer, has subscribed £ 50,000 to the war loan. The Alliance Assurance Company has invested £3,000,000 ...

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  5. LABOUR AND RECRUITING.

    Considerable interest was caused in Adelaide on Friday by the publication in The Register of the decision on the question of recruiting of the delegates who attended ...

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  6. HORSE AND CART DISAPPEARED IN QUICKSAND.

    Quicksands are fortunately not common along the coast of this State, but Mr. H. Jenkins, a plumber, of Canning street, Rosewater, bed an exciting experience of ...

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  7. FOES' OFFENSIVE CHECKED.

    Telegrams from Roumania indicate that the situation of the Allies on that country is steadily improving. The Austro-German offensive has been arrested, and the ...

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  8. EASTERN TIDE TURNED.

    Cheering news from the eastern battlefield says that the Russians and Roumanians have pushed back the foe for a mile or two along the whole Roumanian front, that the enemy is leaving Braila, and that on the northern Muscovite front the foe is believed to be evacuating Mitau. In the western ...

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  9. GERMAN RAIDER.

    It is reported that 170 British awl Hindoos, 64 French, 13 Americans, and persons of some other nationalities, from steamers sunk or captured by the German ...

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  10. ASSISTANCE FROM INDIA.

    The India Office announces the rasing of a special war loan in India in 1917/18 for an unlimited amount, to b entirely handed over in the British Government for ...

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  11. Wealth Levy Mentioned.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Bonar Law), addressing a gathering of 4,000 people at St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow on Thursday, made a stirring appeal to ...

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  12. THE GIRLS OF LILLE.

    The Paris correspondent of The Morning Post says that a girl who was recently at Lille has laid a terrible indictment in reference to the German deportations from ...

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  13. ALLIES' PREPARING

    Field-Marshal Gen. Sir Douglas Haig reported on Thursday evening:—"We made progress during last night northward of Beaucourt, and bombarded defences ...

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  14. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY

    In a criminal summons which was heard at the Mansion House to-day the Oldham Company, of which Mr. Handel Booth, a member of the House of Commons is ...

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  15. RUSSIA'S LOYAL CO-OPERATION.

    The new Premier of Russia (Prince Galatzin) has sent a telegram assuring Mr. Lloyd George of loyal co-operation in rendering still more intimate the ...

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  16. RAIDER SANK SIXTEEN SHIPS.

    A Berlin message states that a returned submarine claims that it sank 16 ships, which aggregated 26,000 tons. ...

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  17. NEW RUSSIAN WAR MINISTER.

    Gen. Belaieff has been appointed Minister of War in the new Golatzin GOvernment. ...

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  18. More Than One Raider.

    It has been learned at Washington that there is more than one raider at large, awing to the transfer of guns and prize crews from the enemy craft to captured ...

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  19. Russia's Christmas Drive.

    The Petrograd correspondent of The Morning Post has forwarded a description of Gen. Dmitrieff's surprise attack in the Courland operation on the eye of the ...

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  20. Enemy Seized With Fear.

    a correspondent at the western front, describing one of the British raids made last Wednesday, states that it was carried out in a snowstorm. Several days of ...

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  21. A Military "Confessional."

    German placards at Tongres (Belgium) threaten that the town will be fined £2,500 for each man who crosses the frontier. The Germans insist that Belgians ...

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  22. Missing Crews Safe.

    According to reliable information, the Yarrowdale, which was captured by the German raider in the South Atlantic, has arrived at St. Vincent. Cape Verde ...

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  23. A Labour Protest.

    The Agricultural Labourers' Union threatens to take action if the President of the Board of Agricultural (Mr. Prothero) carries out his expressed intention to draft ...

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  24. LOCAL ACTIVITIES SPREADING.

    Women all over Australia are rallying to the call for help in raising recruits, and it is understood that the recruiting committee formerly working under the name ...

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  25. Bulgaria's Prisoners.

    The Balkans correspondent of The Rotterdam Courant says that Bulgaria holds 90,000 prisoners, including some Australians and Canadians, and ...

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  26. BRITAIN AND NORWAY.

    A secret session of the Norwegian thing has considered the British reply to Norway regarding the coal supply. The reply does not repeat the previous ...

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  27. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of the Right Hon. the ninth Earl of Elgin and Kincardine (Victor Alexander Bruce, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., P.C., LL.D., P.C.L.), who had ...

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  28. FRENCH STAFF APPOINTMENT.

    Gen. Allouin has bean appointed to the French Headquarters Staff to study preparatory questions dealing with the general conduct of the war, in preparation for ...

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  29. The Graves of Heroes.

    His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, presiding over a meeting of the Soldiers' Graves Committee, stated that 150,000 British soldiers' graves were registered in ...

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  30. Coal Discoveries.

    Rich coal seams have been discovered close to the surface in the Russian province of Bessarabia. ...

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  31. "What Germany Must Get."

    The Berlin financial weekly, Plutus, says that the obtaining of on indemnity is an imperative necessity to Germany If the war should find by June, it will have cost ...

    Article : 109 words
  32. Enemy's Eye on Alsace.

    M. Marcel Hutin, writing to the press, says that when the peace maneuvres failed, the enemy concentrated large forces in the direction of the Swiss frontier. The ...

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  33. President's Life Threatened

    The prosecution in a bomb explosion enquiry stated that an Anarchist organization known as "The Blastera," had threatened to assassinate President Wilson. The ...

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  34. An Act of Revenge.

    An official telegram from Constantinople states that Gen. Townshend, the British leader who surrendered at Kut-el-Amara, has been removed to a fresh place of ...

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  35. THE TUMULTUOUS BARRIER.

    Mr. B. J. Doe, the Independent Labour candidate for the Start seat in the Legislative Assembly, addressed a meeting at the town hall last night—at least he tried ...

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  36. Incidents of the War.

    The minimum rate of discount of the Bank of England was to-day lowered to 5½ per cent. Previously the rate was 6 per cent to which it was advanced on July 12 ...

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  37. Starvation in Syria.

    Official information to hand dhows that as the result of the war conditions in Turkish territory 110,000 persons have died of hunger in Syria, and that hundreds of ...

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  38. Worthless German Pledges.

    The New York Times emphasizes the profound importance of Mr. Balfour's Note, and asks—"Can Germany fail to reply to the charges retarding the worthlessness ...

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  39. GERMAN SUBMARINES.

    A neutral passenger who was captured on board a Dutch mailboat, which was seized by the Germane, has given interesting details of life on the German ...

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  40. More Men Than Waterloo.

    The Premier of New Zealand (Mr. Massey), at the dinner of the Junior Constitutional Club in London, said, the war had taught the British Empire to think ...

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  41. "Hold the Colonies."

    The Cape Times, discussing the omission of any direct reference to the lost German colonies in the Allies' reply to the Note from President Wilson, says:—"The ...

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  42. GENERAL CABLES.

    The estate of the late Sir Joseph Beecham has been provisionally sworn not to exceed £1,000,000. The bulk of it is divided among the children. The American ...

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  43. GREEK MUDDLE.

    The Rome representative of The Daily Telegraph announces that, in accordance with the Entente's ultimatum, the Greek Government has remived Gen. Callaris ...

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  44. A STEAMER SUNK.

    The Marine Underwriters Association of Victoria has received a cable message from the Institute of London Underwriters, stating that the steamer Port Nicholeon ...

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  45. DUCAL ESTATE ON MARKET.

    The Duke of Sutherland, who owns about 1,358,600 acres in the United Kingdom, is offering for sale 7,500 acres of his Lilleshall House Estate, Newport ...

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  46. Food Control.

    The town bellringer at Whitehaven urged the public not to pay more than 1/ for 14 lb. of potatoes. A crowd of women, carrying flags, compelled the sellers to ...

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  47. TROOP TRAIN SMASH.

    In an accident to a British troop train, nine miles from Paris, 10 soldiers were killed and 40 were injured. The train contained 1,300 rank and file and 210 ...

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  48. FORENSIC PUGILISM.

    The bellicose spirit which animated counsel for the prosecution (Mr. W. G. Manchester) and for the defence (Mr. M. Lazarus) respectively during the hearing of ...

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  49. ITALY AND ARABS.

    An Italian communique states:—"We completely defeated 5,000 rebels at Zoara (Tripoli) on January 16, and the losses against the vanquished were at least 1,000. ...

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  50. More Steamers Sunk.

    Lloyds reports that the British steamers Manchester Inventor (4,247 tons), and Wragby (3,641 tons) have been sunk by submarines. ...

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  51. LATE ZEPPELIN RAID.

    The Amsterdam correspondent of The Doily Chronicle reports that 11 brothers members of the German raiding crew—perished in the recent destruction of e Zep ...

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  52. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    We understand that the ship Glenaros (570 tons register), now in port, has been chartered to carry wheat to England, and that the rate of freight will not exceed 1/4 ...

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  53. WOMEN LAWYERS.

    The British Bar Council has, by an overwhelming majority of votes, defeated a motion proposing the admission of women to practise at the Bar. The ...

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  54. RUTHLESS SUBMARINE POLICY.

    The Zurich correspondent of The Petit Parisien says that many meetings urging increased submarine ruthlessness are being held in Germany. At Dresden a resolution ...

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  55. Advertising

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  56. Australian Wool Export.

    In reference to the announcement from America that permission will shortly be granted for the export of Australian and carpet wools to Amreica, it is stated in ...

    Article : 106 words
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