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  2. THE EARTHQUAKE.

    Further details regarding the appalling earthquake which wrought disaster throughout a belt of country running between Ancona and Naples in Italy, a ...

    Article : 243 words
  3. A Feat by Cossacks.

    A force- of Cossacks ambushed two companies of Turks and 120 gunners at a point on the Caucasus frontier. They killed or captured the whole party, and, in addition ...

    Article : 42 words
  4. A COUP IN BELGIUM.

    The Allies have apparently had some hard fighting in France, and in one or two places have lost ground slightly, while holding tenaciously to the positions they have gained elsewhere. The latest official announcement, however, indicates that in the Roye district they have ...

    Article : 494 words
  5. Outrages in Persia.

    Soudja Eddoales, formerly Governor pf Azerbijan, the north-western province of Persia, has arrived at Tiflis, the capital of Russian Caucasia. With a force of 400 ...

    Article : 104 words
  6. Artillery and Aircraft.

    The battle in Flanders is at present confined to artillery and aircraft duels. The fields have been converted into lakes by the melting of the snows, and the trenches ...

    Article : 121 words
  7. MAYORS PATRIOTIC FUND.

    In a report forwarded to this office upon the work of the committee of the Mayor's Fund, from its inception until January 9 it is mentioned that the establishment was ...

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  8. A German Bombardment.

    The Germans have begun a bombardment along the whole Russian front in Poland with 11in. and other guns, besides heavy Maxim and rifle fire. The Russian ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. MEAT TRADE OUTLOOK.

    Weddel's annual review of the meat trade remarks that experiences of the war have already shown that for ease of transport, capacity, to stand exposure, and ...

    Article : 132 words
  10. Pope and King Albert.

    Pope Benedict XV. has sent a most cordial letter in reply to the communication from the King of the Belgians, in which the latter expressed admiration at the ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. Austria Professing Confidence.

    An Austrian Communique states that the attacks of the enemy in Galicia along the front on the Nida River have failed, and that matters are for the present quiet else ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. "Kaiser Saw, Brilliant Capture."

    A German wireless report states:—"Our troops north-east of Soissons attacked the heights of Vregny. They cleared the elevation and the plan. Trench after trench ...

    Article : 70 words
  13. Secret Wireless Stations.

    A high-power wireless station has been discovered concealed at Panama, through the investigations of British agents. Other stations situated somewhere in the Isthmus ...

    Article : 53 words
  14. WHIRLWINDS OF DUST.

    There are many prosperous towns and famous holiday resorts around the town and former Lake of Fucino. A train which was travelling near the lake was derailed ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. Priest's Bold Utterance.

    Father Bernard Vaughan, the well-known Roman Catholic preacher and philanthropist of London, in an address at the East-End, in reply to the manifesto of the ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. Incidents of the War.

    Two hundred German survivors of the Falkland Islands naval battle, when the Kaiser's Pacific Squadron was annihilated by Vice-Admiral Standee's British Fleet ...

    Article : 37 words
  17. RAID THAT FAILED.

    The German Minister at Copenhagen has told the correspondent of The Petrograd Courier that bad weather prevented the Germans from making their Zeppelin ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. BACK PROM NEW GUINEA.

    Commander Col. Holmes and 250 men of the Commonwealth Naval and Military Expeditionary Force to New Guinea will return home to Sydney tomorrow by the ...

    Article : 91 words
  19. WITH THE RUSSIANS.

    The Times states that 1,000,000 Russian soldiers have been recently dispatched to the various war fronts as reinforcements. Eighty thousand destitute Armenian ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. British Officers in Fortress.

    The Dutch authorities, without giving any explanation of their action, have suddenly removed 30 British officers from the Groningin camp, where they were interned ...

    Article : 37 words
  21. DAMAGE IN ROME.

    Fifty-seven buildings have been damaged in Rome. The Tower of Cicero at Arpino (the great Roman's birthplace) has also collapsed. ...

    Article : 66 words
  22. Enemy's Guns in the Mud.

    The Germans have abandoned their attempt to move from the Belgian coast the new guns they recently placed there under great difficulties. The guns are sunk ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. THE WESTERN FIELDS.

    The afternoon official communique from the western front states, that Gen. von Kluck is now in command of the German troops in the neighbourhood of Soissons. ...

    Article : 204 words
  24. TIDAL WAVE NEAR NAPLES.

    At the ancient town of Potenza, the capital of the province of that name, buildings have been seriously damaged, but there were fortunately few victims. ...

    Article : 98 words
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  26. Raids for Copper.

    A member of the crew of the steamer Belle Vue, which was captured by the German raiding merchant cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm, relates that art the outbreak of ...

    Article : 162 words
  27. A RUMOUR AND A BEGGAR.

    The Secretary of the Mayor's Patriotic Fund has supplied the following statement with regard to a report which recently appeared in a section of the press, to the ...

    Article : 243 words
  28. MESSINA DISASTER ECLIPSED.

    It is believed that there are only about 100 survivors at Avezzano, which had a population of 8,000. These unfortunate individuals are camped around fires in the ...

    Article : 199 words
  29. Allies' Hard Pressed.

    Another German aeroplane has been brought down at Amiens, and the pilot and observer were killed by the fall. The Thursday midnight communique ...

    Article : 122 words
  30. KING AMONG RESCUERS.

    His Majesty King Emmanuel III. is personally supervising the rescue work at Avezzano. The town presents a frightful appearance. Great blocks of stone have ...

    Article : 60 words
  31. German Trenches Destroyed.

    An official announcement states that the French troops have made a sudden coup and destroyed the trenches which the Germans had recently constructed north-west of ...

    Article : 87 words
  32. TRIUMPH FOR CONCRETE.

    The prevailing faulty system of house construction is regarded as the chief cause of the enormous death roll. The only house left standing at Avezzano has ...

    Article : 33 words
  33. POPE'S VISIT TO WOUNDED.

    His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. made a personal visit to the injured persons at Santa Maria Hospital, in Rome, which is near to the Vatican. ...

    Article : 61 words
  34. SHOCK FELT IN FRANCE.

    The earthquake extended to France, and severe shocks were experienced at Mont Blane, which is close to the Italian frontier and 400 miles south of the Lake of ...

    Article : 87 words
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  36. TREMENDOUS LANDSLIDE.

    A section of a mountain near Salerno (33 miles south-east of Naples) split off and crashed into the valley below. The pieces of detached rock measured 3,000 ft. long ...

    Article : 51 words
  37. MELBOURNE, January 15.

    An examination of the Seismograph at the Melbourne Observatory to-day snowed that a faint record of the earths tremor had been made between 6.30 and 6.40 p.m. ...

    Article : 38 words
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