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  2. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    Athens reports that M. Zamis declined the King's invitation to form a Ministry, and M. Counaris has been summoned. Zeppelin L8 crashed into some trees while ...

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  3. THE BLOCKADE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The Admiralty announces that since the beginning of the war the British have done their utmost to rescue Germans whose vessels were sunk. Over ...

    Article : 338 words
  4. CRISIS IN SOFIA.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Advices from Athens state that M. Venizelos, the Premier of Greece, advised intervention on the side of the Allies. King Constantine was not ...

    Article : 752 words
  5. THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

    LONDON, Thursday.—A Petrograd communique states our offensive in the Suwalki region is developing. The German offensive along Piliea has been checked, and a ...

    Article : 351 words
  6. THE DARDANELLES.

    LONDON, Tuesday. — Admiral Carden reports that on the 6th inst. the Queen Elizabeth, Agamemnon and Ocean attacked Forts Hamidich 1 and Hamadieh 3, across ...

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  7. METHODIST CONFERENCE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—There was some plain speaking regarding the alleged neglect of the outposts of the Church where a few helpers were heroically holding positions, ...

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  8. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

    The memorial to the late Mr. Donald MacDonell, former Minister for the Crown, was unveiled yesterday at St. Arnaud, Victoria, by Mr. Spence, P.M.G. ...

    Article : 553 words
  9. SECOND REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the Methodist Conference yesterday Rev. F. Colwell moved that the matter of second registration of marriages having come to the knowledge of ...

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  10. HEROIC DEFENCE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The "Times" correspondent at Flanders writes the country where the British are entrenched is the most disheartening, monotonous, muddy and ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. GERMANS THROWN BACK IN POLAND.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—A Petrograd communique says:—The Germans have been driven back behind the Sopozkine-Lypsk front, and there have also been further successes on ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. FINAL READING OF STATIONS.

    The Conference passed the third and final reading of the stations to-day, and appended is a full list for the North Coast district:— Grafton, Richard J. Murray. ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. A DRASTIC BILL.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. Lloyd George, in the House of Commons, introduced a Bill giving the Government power to take over works at which war material is not being ...

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  14. THE WHEAT COMMISSION.

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into rumours of Ministerial corruption in connection with the passage of the Wheat Acquisition Act ...

    Article : 333 words
  15. ALSACE AND LORRAINE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—A Paris official message says:—"In Champagne there is nothing to add, except that our progress has been accentuated, and we have captured ...

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  16. MINISTERIAL ELECTION.

    One feature of Labour rule is that it provides us with plenty of excitement in the shape of Ministerial elections. In this respect, as Mr. Black remarked some time ago, ...

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  17. NEEDS OF THE NORTH COAST.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for Agriculture said yesterday he thought one of the needs of the North Coast was a bacon factory. They should make some attempt ...

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  18. TROUBLE IN MEXICO.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—It is reported from Mexico that Carranzaists seized a British steamer and imprisoned the captain. The United States Secretary for the Navy ...

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  19. FIGHTING AT SUEZ CANAL.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Cairo reports that Djemal Pasha's despatch to Constantinople describes the fighting at Suez Canal as a reconnoitring exploit in which the Turks ...

    Article : 90 words
  20. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION PARLIAMENT.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—During the debate on the Indemnity Bill, Sir Edgar Walton said the responsibility for the rebellion rested on Mr. Steyn and Mr. Hertzog. If both ...

    Article : 102 words
  21. A SPECTATOR'S GRAPHIC STORY.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The Athens correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Turks are using floating mines for the protection of the Dardanelles, and some ...

    Article : 236 words
  22. SIR JOHN FRENCH'S DESPATCH.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Sir John French, in a bi-weekly report, says the situation is unchanged. The mastery over the enemy's snipers in the vicinity of La Bassee is ...

    Article : 127 words
  23. CABLE SUMMARY.

    Three Sydney girls, Misses O'Brien (2), from a convent at Louvain, and Pauline Sullivan, from Mons, have arrived in London. They are well and state they suffered ...

    Article : 144 words
  24. ROUMANIA MOBILISING.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Roumania has partially mobilised her forces, and all preparatory arrangements for a general mobilisation have reached a forward stage. The ...

    Article : 71 words
  25. A TREFLE MEMORIAL.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart presided at a meeting of friends of the late Mr. J. L. Trefle with the object of establishing a memorial in token of his ...

    Article : 110 words
  26. SPORTS AND THE WAR.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Melbourne sportsmen are unanimous as to the necessity of everyone who can to join the Expeditionary Forces. There is a division of opinion as ...

    Article : 62 words
  27. BELGIAN RELIEF COMMISSION.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—The British Government remains adamant in its determination to refuse grants from the Treasury towards the maintenance of Belgians except on the ...

    Article : 105 words
  28. INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES IN BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—One thousand labourers in the Clyde shipyards will go on strike on Saturday unless they receive an increase in pay of 1d an hour. ...

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  29. FEDERAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The conference of the Federal Labour Party in Adelaide in May may be the means of inducing the Government to proceed at once with a ...

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  30. FIRES IN MAITLAND MINES.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Maitland telegram states that a big fire occurred north of Rothbury and destroyed nearly all the tents and huts in the pit paddock. The fire, ...

    Article : 77 words
  31. AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE.

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Capetown reports that the Union troops, under the command of Colonel Venter, captured the enemy's camp at Nabas, on the Orange River, forming the ...

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  32. PROTEST AGAINST MAIZE BAGS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The wharf labourers of the North Coast wharves have convened a meeting for to-morrow afternoon to consider the best course to adopt as a ...

    Article : 53 words
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    It is officially stated that Austrians are massing large forces on the Montenegrin frontier and driving out of Herzegovinin and Bosnia many families of the Orthodox ...

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