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  2. THE WAR SITUATION.

    More thrilling messages are to hand, describing graphically incidents of the latest great struggle in country east of Ypres. A serious menace to the British ...

    Article : 338 words
  3. EVOLUTION IN LIGHTING.

    The present restrictions in the metropolitan area in connection with the use of gas and electricity for power and lighting have caused much comment. One citizen, who ...

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  4. IS THE END NEARING?

    The Munich Post reports that the Kaiser has approved of the German Imperial Chancellor (Dr. Michaelis) outlining Germany's minimum peace terms in the ...

    Article : 168 words
  5. Fight for Zonnebeke.

    M. Marcel Hutin writes in The Echo that the outstanding feature of the fierce fighting yesterday was the splendid unanimaty with which the English, Scottish, and ...

    Article : 145 words
  6. STRIKE DRAGGING ON

    The Illawarra miners' delegate board sat all day considering the Government's terms for resumption of work at the collieries, and finally decided to refer the ...

    Article : 460 words
  7. VALOUR OF AUSTRALIANS.

    Correspondents at British headquarters on the western front estimate that 40 German divisions have been exhausted in the battle of Flanders since July 31, and that ...

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  8. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    Mrs. P. O'Brien, of Alberton, has been notified that her second son, Lce.-Cpl. J. D. O'Brien, who was missing on April 11, has now been reported killed on that date. The late soldier was ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. EASTERN FRONT

    Lettish workmen refused to work for the German General Staff on the eastern front, and six of the leaders were shot. ...

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  10. "Pillbox" Defence Beaten.

    Mr. Percival Phillips reported on Thursdays:—Our latest victory has been well maintained. The German losses were even greater than was thought yesterday, but ...

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  11. EMBARGO ON GERMAN NEWS.

    The Amsterdam correspondent of The Daily Express says that only smuggled German newspapers are arriving in Holland, for in consequence of serious ...

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  12. Huge Austrian Deficit.

    The Austrian Budget shows a deficit of nearly £749,000,000. The cost of the war for the three years has been £1,162,000,000, and the estimate of expenditure for a ...

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  13. With the Australians.

    Mr. Gilmour wrote from the Australian section of the Ypres front on Tuesday:— An officer relates the following incidents of the battle:—"When we went over the ...

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  14. "HOW THE WIND BLOWS."

    A committee appointed to consider the reform of the Constitution of Saxony has rejected by nine votes to seven, proposals to introduce the Parliamentary system of ...

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  15. 1,600 Prisoners.

    Gen. Sir Douglas Haig reported on Thursday night:—"After all our objectives had been gained yesterday, seven powerful counter-attacks in the ...

    Article : 364 words
  16. LATE LIEUT. R. L. FREW.

    Information has been received at Mount Gambier that Lieut Reginald Lansell Frew, only son of Mrs. C. M. Frew, now of Bendigo, was killed in action on the French front on ...

    Article : 56 words
  17. AMERICA AND THE WAR.

    The Secretary for War (Mr. Newton D. Baker) has issued the first official American, review of the war. The document says that the definite ascendency of the ...

    Article : 62 words
  18. Bulgaria Ready for Peace.

    The United Press Association representative at Washington reports that the Bulgarian Minister at Washington (Mr. Panaretoff) has declared that Bulgaria was ...

    Article : 189 words
  19. LATE PTE. ERNEST SIMPSON.

    Mrs. G. H. Burke, Airlie avenue, Prospect, has been notified that her brother, Pte. E. A. Simpson, of the l0th Battalion, was killed in action on August 7. Pte. . Simpson was the eldest son ...

    Article : 119 words
  20. GENERAL CABLES.

    The New Zealand soldiers who were killed in the railway accident near to Plymouth were buried at Plymouth to-day. The funeral was attended by a party of ...

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  21. PERSONAL NOTES.

    The Kensington District Rifle Club will tender a social to Lce.-Cpl. J. E. Yaughan (ex-Attorney-General) on the eve of his departure for active service, in the Emulation Masonic Hall. ...

    Article : 546 words
  22. SHIPPING TONNAGE.

    The Shipping Board, in an official statement, announces that the Allies and neutrals have 25,000,000 tons of shipping in the Atlantic and 5,500,000 tons in the ...

    Article : 72 words
  23. BERNSTORFF AND BRIBES.

    The State Department announces that when Count Bernstorff sent to Berlin for £10,000 he was aware that Germany had decided on the campaign of ruthless ...

    Article : 68 words
  24. Ready and Skilful Help.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs writes:—The menace to the British right wing on Wednesday was averted by the courage of the English and Scottish units, and the quick, skilful ...

    Article : 241 words
  25. THE IRISH CONVENTION.

    The Press Bureau reports that the Irish Convention has concluded to the presentation stage a scheme for the government of Ireland. ...

    Article : 28 words
  26. United States and Peace.

    Mr. W. H. Taft (ex-president of the United States), in a speech, declared that the Allies must oppose all proposals for peace at present. When the war had ...

    Article : 89 words
  27. NATIONAL HOUSING SCHEME.

    The Daily Telegraph states that the national housing scheme devised to meet the shortage of dwellings caused by the cessation of building operations during the war ...

    Article : 81 words
  28. FUEL AND LIGHT REDUCTIONS.

    Further restrictions on the use of fuel, gas, and electric current will become operative from next week. So short is the available supply of coals that the Minister ...

    Article : 82 words
  29. MANY GERMANS ARRESTED.

    More than 100 Germans were arrested to-night in a series of raids. ...

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  30. From Defence to Attack.

    Despite the terribly heavy fighting on the southern slopes of Polygon Ridge yesterday the British-Australian attack went over this morning punctual to the second ...

    Article : 533 words
  31. An Anti-German Alliance.

    The Washington correspondent of The Sun reports that the State Department has handed to the Argentine Ambassador a complete file of the messages to ...

    Article : 108 words
  32. FRENCH AND WALLIS ISLANDS.

    The Committee on Foreign Affairs has approved of a Bill to declare the Wallia Islands a French colony. These islands, which, have hitherto been under French ...

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  33. STRIKE BREAKING IN VICTORIA.

    Gradually, but surely, the strake in Vic-toria is breaking down. The unions are ready to compromise freely, but employers and themselves obliged to go slowly in ...

    Article : 132 words
  34. Famous Danseuse to Die.

    The French Appeal Court has confirmed the death sentence for espionage, passed an July 28, upon Marguerite Zelle, the divorced wife at a Dutch officer, formerly ...

    Article : 121 words
  35. MISLEADING GERMAN BULLETINS.

    A wireless German official message reports:—The battle in Flanders has continued without cessation all day and night. At least 12 British divisions, often ...

    Article : 187 words
  36. LOCAL EFFECTS.

    An advertisement elsewhere notifies that owing to the shutting down of the Glanville refinery through the lack of coal the Colonial Sugar Refining Company is unable ...

    Article : 158 words
  37. COMMONWEALTH LIBERTY LOAN.

    It has been decided to call the new Commonwealth, war loan, which will close on November 2, the "liberty Loan." Preparations have been made to give it wide ...

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  38. "GOOD ENOUGH FOR US."

    After a terrific shelling on Tuesday the enemy launched an attack at 6 o'clock against the Carlisle Farm and Black Watch Corner, and forced the British to fall back ...

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  39. WAR FINANCE.

    The British Government'e new war-borrowing proposal consists of the issue of an unlimited amount of national war bonds, saleable daily over the counter. The prices ...

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  40. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    From The Register, Saturday, Sept. 28, 1867.— In the Assembly on Friday, Mr. Everard moved the second reading of the Fire Brigades Bill, and restarted that there were 15 or 26 insurance ...

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  41. Soldiers Returning To-day.

    Advice was received by the military authorities on Friday morning that returning South Australian soldiers, numbering 8, and comprising list No. 18, which ...

    Article : 165 words
  42. UNIONS DE-REGISTERED.

    Mr. Justice Rolin made some caustic remarks in the Industrial Court to-day when ordering the cancellation of the registration of the Australian Society of ...

    Article : 205 words
  43. Labour and the War.

    The Conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain has decided to accept the Coal Controller's offer of an increase of 1/6 daily for workers over 16 ...

    Article : 116 words
  44. British Aerial Raid.

    The Admiralty reports that British naval aircraft dropped many tons of bombs an Tuesday night on Tuesday the Thourout, Lichtervelde, and Cortemareq junctions in ...

    Article : 152 words
  45. PEARLER'S STRANGE LETTER.

    An extraordinary letter from defendant to plaintiff was read at the Supreme Court to-day, during the hearing of the case in which Mrs. Lovelle, divorced wife of A. G. ...

    Article : 256 words
  46. WAR HONOURS.

    The fallowing awards of military distinctions are gazetted:— BAR TO MILITARY MEDAL. Australians.—Sgt. D. MacPhai ...

    Article : 98 words
  47. British Line Held.

    The United Press correspondent in a despatch emphasizes the ferocious nature of the German counterattacks, which ended fruitlessly. Heavy shelling forced the ...

    Article : 175 words
  48. THE "COLD-FOOT" SLANDER.

    Several months ago indignation was aroused through the reprinting in The Register of a message which has been inserted in a parcel sent to soldiers in Egypt ...

    Article : 282 words
  49. CONSPIRACY CHARGE.

    Frank Owen, Secretary of the Federated Liquor Trades Employes' Union, was committed for trial today on a charge of having conspired with Francis Frost and ...

    Article : 41 words
  50. DISTRESS AT THE BARRIER.

    The city council last night spent much time listening to, and discussing, the request of a deputation from the A.M.A., which asked for relief for the sufferers by ...

    Article : 433 words
  51. German Attacks Repulsed.

    The French communique on Thursday night reported:—There is intermittent artillery firing against the greater part of our front. It is most marked south of Allies ...

    Article : 103 words
  52. Packs of Submarines.

    The Correspondence Militaire, Madrid, announces that Germany is inaugurating new submarine methods. The U-boats will in future be grouped in squadrons, instead ...

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  53. GERMAN CORPS LEADERS SEIZED.

    The Germans made at least four counterattacks on various parts of the line which the British and Australians seized yesterday. At noon they began to conae out ...

    Article : 468 words
  54. BUTTER AND CHEESE FOR ENGLAND.

    A cable message has been received by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) from the Imperial authorities in reply to his offer of a quantity of butter and cheese. ...

    Article : 66 words
  55. "SUNK WITHOUT TRACE?"

    A newspaper report states that during the war 23 Swedish steamers have been lost without any tidings having been received regarding their fate. ...

    Article : 30 words
  56. A Dutch-German Fight.

    Dutch newspapers condemn the breach of neutrality perpetrated by German seaplanes in seeking to prevent the internment of the crew of a disabled German ...

    Article : 61 words
  57. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 865 words
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