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  2. A BIG "NIBBLE."

    After a period of comparative quietude the British and French have again made important gains on the River Somme front, capturing the villages of Guillemont, Clery, and Le Forest, with 2,000 prisoners, and extending the front to a quarter of a mile east of Guillemont, The Russians have also ...

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  3. UNIVERSAL SERVICE.

    The Premier (Hon. C. Vaughan), who returned, from Melbourne on Sunday, stated on Monday that it was remarkable how quickly public opinion had swung ...

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  4. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    The scheme proposed by Col". K. Mackay for passing into the reserve forces of the Commonwealth men who have served with the A.I.F. as they return to ...

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  5. EASTERN FRONTS.

    The Petrograd communique of Sunday afternoon states:—The Germans in the region of Riga attacked Lettish battalions, whose counter-offensive drove them back ...

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  6. THE MONTH'S TEST.

    The position is that no fewer than 32,500 men must be enlisted in September, or a proclamation, calling upon men under the Defence Act, will be ...

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  7. JAPAN AND CHINA.

    As the outcome of the receat conflict between Chinese and Japanese at Cheng-Chia-Tung, Japan has presented to the Chinese Government four demands, as ...

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  8. Bulgarians in Roumania.

    A Berlin message asserts that "In the Roumanian frontier region Bulgarians and Germans crossed the Dobrudja border, between tho Danube and the Black Sea, and ...

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  9. THE AIR RAID.

    An official message states that 13 airships visited England last night. Three approached London, and oil being engaged by the defences, one was downed near ...

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  10. GERMAN ADMISSIONS.

    Significance is attached to the fact that the German censor has allowed the Berlin correspondent of The New York Times to make [?] admissions of the ...

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  11. Grerman Soldiers Hanged.

    Returning to Sydney by the R.M.S. 0sterley are Sisters Brendan and Hilda, two Australian Sisters of Mercy, who have re-cently lived in portions of Belzium now ...

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  12. ASIA MINOR.

    A Russian communique announces that fierce fighting continues in the Caucasus in the region of Ognot. Muscovite fire repelled Turkish attacks on the village of ...

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  13. Russian Leader at Bucharest.

    Gen Radko Dimitrieff, who is in command of the Russian Army marching through the Dobrudja province of Roumania toward Bulgaria, is visiting the ...

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  14. A "LITERARY" DISPUTE.

    A case in which alleged threats to kill were jumbled up with challenges to conjugate foreign verbs, was heard in the District Court to-day. Alleging that threats ...

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  15. FRANCO-BRITISH GAINS.

    A report received from Gen. Haig on Sunday afternon said:—Last night gene-rally was quiet. There was fighting this morning near Mouquet Farm, ...

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  16. GREEK KING'S VIEWS.

    The Athens correspondent of The Daily Chronicle states:—King Constantine has expressed a belief in the expediency of Greece abandoning her attitude of ...

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  17. SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY.

    Horace David Cohen aged 37 years, a merchant, appeared at the local Police Court to-day on a charge of the man-slaughter of Edward John Dyer. He was ...

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  18. THE SUEZ CANAL.

    An Australian flying squadron sent to effect a reconnaissance on the Sinai Peninsula returned, having accomplished its mission-, but with the information that ...

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  19. FRIEND OF THE SLAVS.

    Gen. Radko Dimitrieff was the leader of a Bulgarian army in the first Balkan war, in which campaign he captured Kick Kilis[?] and other Turkish forts. When the ...

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  20. SONGS BY THE CROWD.

    The story of an eyewitness appears in The Weekly Dispatch. "I was awakened by the sound of bombs and heavy gunfire. Searchlights were playing in all directions. ...

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  21. A MELBOURNE PROTEST.

    There was an attendance of about 5,000 at a mass meeting to appose universal service, which was held on the Yarra bank yesterday afternoon, under the auspices of ...

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  22. PATRIOTIC STREET SALES.

    A meeting of the Council of Control of Patriotic Street Sales was held at the Adelaide Town Hall on Friday afternoon. The President, the Mayor of Adelaide ...

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  23. German Leader to be Tried.

    Djemal Pasha, the Turkish Minister of Marine and Public Works, is angry at the failure of the attack on Romani (in the desert to the cast of Suez Canal), which ...

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  24. POSITION" OF YOUTHS.

    "The inauguration of the scheme under, which men are to be called up in October if the necessary reinforcements are not forthcoming," said the Minister for ...

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  25. FRONT EAST OF GUILLEMONT.

    Gen. Haig, in his report on Monday night, said:—The new British front runs 500 yards east of the village of Guillemont, from Ginchy to near Fallemont Farm. We ...

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  26. PARLIAMENTARY ARRANGEMENTS.

    The Prime Minister (Air. Hughes) spent the greater part of the afternoon in con­ference with members of the P.L.L. executive with regard to the subject of the ...

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  27. Treasure Trove.

    A young artillerist, who was digging a shelter on the front in Picardy, unearthed an iron box. Inside he found securities worth £42,000. A will was enclosed which ...

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  28. STEAMER UPSET.

    The steamer Stormbird was wrecked at Wanganui on Saturday while approaching the bar of the harbour. The vessel was caught by two seas and was overturned. ...

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  29. TWO DEATHS. 13 INJURIES.

    Another official message announces that careful enquiries show that the casualties and damage caused by the air raid were Quite disproportionate to the number of ...

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  30. Austrian Arrested as Conspirator.

    An arrest, made in connection with the great explosion at Communipaw, U.S.A., on July 30—when the munitions works of the National Storage Company were blown ...

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  31. CASUALTIES.

    About 1 o'clock on Monday afternoon Edward Charles Lewis, a driver employed by Mr. E. Dealty, baker, of Qneenstown, bad his right leg fractured in a strange ...

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  32. A FARMER'S WHEAT.

    At the Supreme Court to-day Ockerby and Co., millers, sought to recover from Francis Murdock, farmer, £117 damages for failure to fulfil a contract made on ...

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  33. TWO VILLAGES OAPTURED.

    A French official notification published on Sunday night said:—"North of the Somme, after an intense artillery preparation, the French infantry, in conjunction ...

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  34. "THE GREATEST TRAITOR."

    In the Central Police Court to-day Charles Reeve, Donald Grant, and Peter Larkin, three men who addressed a meeting of the I.W.W. in the Domain on ...

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  35. Germany After the War.

    Karl von Wiegand, Berlin correspondent for The New York World, has published an interview with Heir Ball in, head of the HamburK-Amerika Steamship Line, and a ...

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  36. EPSOM OUTVIED.

    The most amazing fact in connection with the bringing down of the Zeppelin was the immense number of people who witnessed the spectacle, despite the lateness of the ...

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  37. Advertising

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  38. MAN'S HAND CRUSHED.

    PORT AUGUSTA, September 2.-Fred I Welk, employed as a carpenter on the East-West railway, had one of his hands badly crushed on Tuesday last. It appears ...

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  39. ITALY AND AUSTRIA.

    An Italian communique says:—The Austrians shelled villages in the Astico Valley and our positions in the Avisia Valley. Our Alpine troops on the northern slopes ...

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  40. Revolutionary Preparations

    The Committee of National Defence is exerting its authority in a determined manner. It has forbidden Greeks between the ages of 19 and 45 years to leave ...

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  41. MOTOR CAR CAPSIZED.

    GUMERACHA, September 2.—Last night, at about 8 o'clock, a motor car, in which were John Pearce and his brother, L. Carson, and another man, was ...

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  42. How Australia Can Help.

    The Minister for Defence (Mr. Pearce) to-day directed attention to a statement by the British Minister for Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George) that Australia could help ...

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  43. BIG CAPTURES BY ITALIANS.

    The latest totals of the captures in the Isonzo operations are 18,385 soldiers, 393 officers, 30 cannon, 92 machine guns, 62 bombthrowers, and 5,000,000 cartridges. ...

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  44. Temporary German Gain.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent at British headquarters in France, states that the fivefold German attack on our position beyond Delville Wood owed its ...

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  45. SCHOOL TEACHER INJURED.

    POINT PASS, August 31.-Mr. E. H. Neal (Head Teacher of Point Pass Public School) met with an accident yesterday morning. While engaged in splitting a ...

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  46. EAST AFRICA.

    Gen. Smuts sent a despatch on Satur-day, reporting that the pursuit of the Ger-mans in East Africa is being actively pressed in the Uguru Mountains, despite ...

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  47. GERMAN BARRICADED.

    The Athens correspondent of The Daily Telegraph has sent a message stating that the German agent, Baron Scbenk, has apparently determined to play we fool. He ...

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  48. Big Guns Very Busy.

    The French communique of Sunday afternoon states:—Violent_artillerv action continues on the Struma and Lake Dioran fronts in Macedonia. French patrols have ...

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  49. PROTEST IN THE WEST.

    An anti-conscription meeting from which the press was excluded, was held at the Trades Hall on Sunday night. ...

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  50. Verdun Battles.

    A Paris communique says that heavy battles are in progress east of the Mouse. The French have captured positions in the Fleury region. The ...

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  51. AN ITALIAN TO DIE.

    The sentence of death passed on Anto-nio Picone, an Italian, by Mr. Justice Hood, on August 17, for the murder of Joseph Lauricella, at the Victoria ...

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  52. INNKEEPER SPECTATOR.

    Only from the inn was the final scene risible. Apparently the innkeeper was the solitary close-range eyewitness" of the Zeppelin's end. He notified all the ...

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  53. SEARCHLIGHTS AND GUNNERY.

    Thousands of sightseers found themselves stranded at the village of Cuffley at night fall, and hundreds walked miles to neighbouring towns in order to reach trains and ...

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  54. INTO CAMP ON MONDAY.

    Following are the nameS of the men who enlisted at Adelaide, and wnet into the Exhibition Camp on Monday:—J. H. Beyers, J. B. Backley, W. D. Briggs, R. R. Cox. F. B. Carey, ...

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  55. ANOTHER ZEPPELIN DAMAGED.

    It is reported that a Zeppelin was seen from an east coast port drifting seawards with its long envelope in a perpendicular position. ...

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  56. ENLISTMENTS IN THE COUNTRY.

    Following are the names of the men who enlisted at country centres, and reported at the Exhibition Camp last week:—H. W. Gould and W. D. Roberson. ...

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  57. A Month's Air Fights.

    According to English, French, and Ger-man communiques, 189 aeroplanes, were brought down during August on the western fronts. Of these 68 were allied ...

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  58. DIVED LIKE LIGHTNING FLASH.

    The innkeeper of Cuffley, on being interviewed, said:—I saw- two Zeppelins travelling very high and fast, apparently towards London. They came under ...

    Article : 152 words
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