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  2. FOUNDATION DAY.

    Although Australia, Trill celebrate its 129th birth anniversary today, ifc is only during the past four or fire decades that this huge continent has made progress on ...

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  3. POST RIVER MISHAP.

    Late on Saturday night an exciting misadventure occurred an the Port Adelaide' River. The Coast Steamship Company's steadier Juno, from Stansbury, was ...

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  4. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) yesterday expressed the opinion that it was imperative that Australia should be directly represented at the forthcoming ...

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  5. FIGHTING ON FROZEN FRONTS.

    A German torpedo boat raid was made on the Suffolk coast on Thursday night, and the raiding craft retired after having bombarded the coast for three minutes. Intense cold is reported throughout Europe. Taking advantage of the frost, the British have achieved several successes on the French ...

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  6. PARLIAMENTARY SITUATION.

    Before leaving for Melbourne this evening the Leader of the Federal Liberal Party (Mr. Joseph Cook) said:—"I think Mr. Tudor's conduct in treating the Prime ...

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  7. Heavy Losses Caused.

    A French communique states:—The Germans in the Verdun region lust evening attacked at four points from Avocourt Wood to cast of Dead Man's Hill ...

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  8. EASTERN FRONT.

    A furious battle is in progress south-west of Riga on a 31 miles' front. Tie temperature is 20 deg. below zero (Fahr.), and the rivers and ground are frozen. The ...

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  9. Swiss Frontier Closed.

    The Swiss frontier contiguous to Germany has been rigorously closed. ...

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  10. A General Wounded.

    A wireless Russian official message intimates:—On the Riga front between the Tirul Swamp and the River Aa, we made an offensive, dislodged the enemy, and took ...

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  11. ASPHYXIATING GASES.

    The Matin's correspondent at the British front reports, that an officer who was made prisoner during a recent raid, declared that the Germans never discharged asphyxiating ...

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  12. RAID ON SUFFOLK.

    An official statement has been issued to the effect thai a small unidentified German vessel approached the Suffolk coast last night. The raider appeared off the east ...

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  13. WESTERN FRONT.

    Field Marshal Gen. Sir Douglas Haig, in a report on Saturday night, says:—A successful operation was carried out this morning in the neighbourhood of the ...

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  14. Wolves and Machine Guns.

    To add to the horrors of the war in the eastern theatre packs of hungry wolves are infesting the Polish front. The [?] are beating them off with machine guns, and in ...

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  15. DEATH OF INSPECTOR BUSHELL.

    Inspector Henry Bushell, a well-known and highly respected member of the mounted police force, died suddenly at hid residence, 32 Week terrace, Adelaide, at ...

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  16. MR. HUGHES DISAPPOINTED.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), who returned from Chiton Springs to-night, when questioned regarding the political situation, said he regretted that Mr. ...

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  17. THE ANZACS

    Karl Ton Wiegand, the famous American J correspondent, has arrived from Germany: on a brief visit to New York. In an exclusive interview granted to the Australian ...

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  18. WHAT OUR FIGHTING MEN THINK.

    Australia may wish to know bow party differences in the Commonwealth at the present juncture appear to their fellow-countrymen who watch them from the ...

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  19. NO BRITISH SHIPS SEEK.

    A Berlin official message, announcing the raid, says:—"Our light naval forces penetrated English coastal waters south of Lowestoft in order to attack the hostile ...

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  20. "War Actually Won"

    M. Sazonoff (ex-War Minister in the Steuenner Government of last year) says:—"The alliance concluded between Russia end Great Britain against the common ...

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  21. ELECTIONS AND QUESTION OF COST.

    Sir John Forrest sees no possiblity of any lasting good from a temporary coalition of Mr. Hughes and Mr. Cook's followers in the Commonwealth Parliament. In an ...

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  22. German Cruiser Destroyed.

    Two German officers who have arrived ac Berne state that an explosion occurred on the cruiser Bremen, 3,250 tons, at Kiel, causing the destruction of the ship and ...

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  23. Successful British Raids.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his Friday night report, states:—The British carried out raids east of Loos and north-east of Vermelles. Some prisoners were ...

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  24. Eleven Hours' Fight.

    A Roumanian official communique says:—Despite snow, we attacked and repulsed an enemy force southward of the Valleys alloys' of Kasino and Susrta, after 11 hours of ...

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  25. The German V69.

    Ii Is expected that the damaged German destroyer V6D, which as at the Dutch port of Ymuiden, will be released on the ground of unseaworthiness. She is entitled to ...

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  26. GIGANTIC EFFORT IN SPRING.

    Von Wiegand considers that the war will last throughout 1917. He believes that the British and French will make a gigantic effort in the west in the spring. The ...

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  27. LABOUR CONGRESS.

    The sittings of the Labour Congress were continued to-day at Manchester. A resolution was carried protesting against tie proposal to introduce black labour in the ...

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  28. Men Braving Bad Weather.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, war correspondent at the British headquarters in France, says:—The hardest frost that has occurred during the war in France and Flanders is ...

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  29. Mackensen in Tight Corner.

    The Berne correspondent of the Rome, newspaper Corrierc d'Italia says:—Gen." von Mackensen has intimated that unless he is speedily reinforced his armies in ...

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  30. P.L.L. AND BARRIER CANDIDATE.

    Mr. P. Brookfield, the Socialist candidate for the Stunt seat, addressed a public meeting on Friday night. He announced that no endorsement of his candidature had ...

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  31. CASUALTIES.

    On Saturday evening Mr. Gustav Rosenbauer, storekeeper, of Greenhill road, Burnside, met with a painful accident in Pirie street. He was getting up into a cart ...

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  32. AUSTRIAN GENERAL ELECTION.

    The Geneva newspaper , La rune states that it has learned from an official source that Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary will dissolve the Reichsrath and ...

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  33. LABOUR PARTY PLEBISCITE.

    The return of the Labour Party plebiscite papers, untouched, by a big union at Port Adelaide has aroused much interest in the seaport. Although Mr. Kelleher ...

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  34. MESOPOTAMIA.

    A British official report from Mesopotamia says:—By a determined assault under cover of an intense bombardment from the Turks we seized and consolidated 1,100 ...

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  35. German Pressure at Verdun.

    French military critics consider that the German attack on tie left of the Meuse portends, not a groat offensive, but an attempt to hamper the preparations for the ...

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  36. CHINA AND JAPAN.

    The Cheng-chia-tung dispute between Japan and China haB been settled. China has agreed that the Chinese officials concerned shall make due apologies, and that ...

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  37. FIRE IN A HEDGE.

    Early on Sunday afternoon the Thebarton Fire Brigade received a call to the premises of Mr. C. H. Scown, in Jervois street, Torrensville, where a blaze which ...

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  38. THE GREEK SITUATION

    The Athens correspondent of The Morning Post says that the population of the Greek capital is greatly relieved because of the Government's acceptance of the ...

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  39. SOLDIER'S TRAGIC DEATH.

    PERTH, January 28.—Mr. Karl J. Fourdrinier, managing law clerk to Mr. A. F. Abbott, Perth, was found dead in Abbott's Chambers on Saturday with a revolver ...

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  40. IMPROVED CONDITIONS SOUGHT.

    At the Labour Conference at Manchester to-day a motion was unanimously carried demanding that the British plenipotentiaries who may be entrusted with the ...

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  42. Concentration in Alsace.

    Lord, Sydenham, in aa article in The Sunday Times, points out that the Germans are concentrating in Alsace. Possibly they are contemplating an attempt ...

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  43. EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.

    Am official report concerning the campaign in German East Africa states that Lieut.-Gen. A. R. Hoslins has succeeded Gen. Smuts aa commander of the British ...

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  44. TOWN PROPERTY BURNT.

    PORT AUGUSTA, January 27.—A fire occurred last night at Tassie's Buildings, owned by Mr. S. Wills, of Adelaide. The premises were occupied by Mrs. S. Gainey ...

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  45. Effect of Allies' Blockade.

    The Athena correspondent of The Daily Chronicle telegraphs that after 50 days of blockade by the Allies, the Greek wheat supply is exhausted, and that now only rye ...

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  46. SOLIDARITY OF LABOUR.

    The Premier of New Zealand (Mr. Massey), in an address at Peterborough, said ho was delighted with the magnificent solidarity of the Manchester Labour ...

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  47. Greater Liveliness.

    There is renewed activity on both sides upon the western front. The belligerents arc taking advantage of the clear, frosty weather, and the fresh movement seems ...

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  48. Coal Landed for Railways.

    The Greek Government has accepted the list of allied officers who have been stationed at 12 of the principal towns for the purpose of exercising military control. The ...

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  49. Welcome to Gen. Smuts.

    Gen. Smuts had a magnificent reception at Pretoria upon his return from German East Africa. The huge crowds were augmented by many English-speaking visitors ...

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  51. MISHAPS IN THE COUNTRY.

    KADINA, January 26.—An accident happened to Mr. Harry Mann, of Wallaroo alines, on Wednesday night. He was riding home at about 11.15 on a motor cycle on ...

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  52. CAUGHT AFTER A FIGHT.

    After a six hours' fight Italian gendarmes have captured Pavlo Crisapi, a noted brigand who lias terrorized the Sicilian province of Caltanissetta for 12 years, and ...

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  53. THE DARDANELLES.

    It is understood that the opinions, of the members of the Dardanelles Commission arc pretty evenly divided on the question, of issuing any report before the conclusion ...

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  54. ATLANTIC RAIDER.

    The Tageblatt states that it las learned that the German raider in the Atlantic is the second-claes cruiser (training ship) Vincta (5,791 tons). ...

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  56. THE ONION CROP.

    it was announced to-day by Sr. Russell that the Federal Ministry did not propose to interfere with the export of onions if the crop was large enough to supply local ...

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  57. Severe Winter.

    The cold in Germany and Austria is intense. There have been 41 deaths, due to the cold, at Munich in six days. He winter in Switzerland is far more severe ...

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  59. STATION MANAGER KILLED WHILE MOTORING.

    KOORINGA, January 28.—News has been received here that Mr. M. T. Newland, manager for Mr. E. W. Hawker, of East Bungaree, Care, met his death in ...

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  60. The Military Cross.

    The Military Cross has bean awarded to Lieut. Walter Kilroy. Harris, of the Naval Volunteer Reserve, an Australian. He led a raid against an enemy machine gun ...

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