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  2. MINES NEAR DOVER.

    The P. and O. liner Maloja, 12,431 tons, which had just completed a voyage from Australia, and was bound for India with passengers and mails, was ...

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  3. BATTLE OF VERDUN

    The Germans in their reports are claiming victories before Verdun, and as yet have achieved very little. They have fought their way at enormous cost up the valley of the Meuse to a point not far from tho French defensive positions. Given sufficient forces and guns, and indifference to losses, that advance was inevitable. They are now late to face with formidable difficulties. They have to take a number of fortified heights, armed with guns as ...

    Article : 332 words
  4. THE FIGHTING IN PERSIA.

    The official communique issued in Petrograd to-day confirms the report of the capture by the Russians of the important Persian town of Kermanshah, ...

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  5. GERMAN RAIDERS.

    The British steamer Westburn, 3,300 tons, which was brought by a German prize crew from the raider Moewo to Toneriffe, and taken out to sea and ...

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  6. THE BALKANS

    It is announced in Amsterdam from Vienna that the Austrians have occupied Durazzo. An Austrian communique issued ...

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  7. WAR IN THE AIR.

    Allied airmen have destroyed the Eleyberg station, on the Belgo-German frontier, and damaged the tunnel. ...

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  8. OTHER VESSELS SUNK.

    The Dutch steamer Mecklenburg, 2,885 tons, which was bound from English ports to Flushing, in Holland, yesterday struck a mine on the voyage, ...

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  9. THE COLONIAL ARMY IN EGYPT

    A special correspondent of an English newspaper who is now at Cairo states that the three Southern Dominions— Australia, New Zealand, and South ...

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  10. AUSTRALIA.

    The acting-Prime Minister (Senator Pearce), referring to the announcement made by the Prime Minister and Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes), and ...

    Article : 94 words
  11. GERMAN BRUTALITY.

    Captain Cargill, of the Liverpool steamer Belle of France, 3,876 tons, has arrived home with a tragic story of German callousness. His vessel wastoi ...

    Article : 136 words
  12. BATTLE OF VERDUN.

    To-day's communique states:— Our troops during the night continued to strengthen our positions north of Verdun. There is no change ...

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  13. GERMANY'S PLANS.

    Colonel Repington, the well-known military expert, says:— Verdun is the real thing at last. The enemy's decision to put their fortunes to the ...

    Article : 158 words
  14. TASMANIA.

    The following extracts from a letter dated Y.M.C.A. Tent, Heliopolis, Christmas Day, addressed to Mr. E. A. Brooke, Hobart, from Trooper Geiss ...

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  15. PORTUGAL.

    General Pimenta Castra, the Premier of Portugal, urges the denunciation of the German-Portuguese treaty, and in doing so adds: "We are ready for all ...

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  16. FORT DOUAUMONT.

    Thought the German claim to a great victory came as a shock on Saturday evening, the French announcement this morning brought equality great relief, ...

    Article : 241 words
  17. THE BRITISH FRONT.

    General Sir Douglas Haig today reports as follows:— Yesterday we repulsed a small infantry attack north of the ...

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  18. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    General Kouropatkin, who has been General of Infantry of the Russian army since 1901, and commanded the Russian forces in the first part of the ...

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  19. SLAUGHTER NEAR MAUCOURT.

    A wounded Flench soldier, describing the lighting near Maucourt, northcast of Fort Douaumont, says the slaughter of the Germans was pitiful. ...

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  20. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    The proposal to form a Returned Soldiers' Association is being pushed on, and the organisers, Sergeant H. Neilson and Trooper H. W. Matthews, have ...

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  21. CAPTURED RUSSIAN TERRITORY.

    The condition of the inhabitants of the Suwalki, Kovno, and Grodno Governments of Russia now in the hands of the Germans is lamentable, and the ...

    Article : 53 words
  22. FRENCH OCCUPY HIGH ALTITUDES.

    The French have withdrawn to a line of field works on the high altitudes just outside the permanent forts. German outposts are within seven miles of ...

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  23. DAMS OF THE DEAD.

    The "Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent says the Crown Prince's army has been brought to a standstill on the second line positions from Champneuville ...

    Article : 151 words
  24. RAID IN COURLAND.

    The official communique issued in Petrograd to-day states:— Yesterday our scouts daringly raided the German posts at Friedrichstadt, ...

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  25. THE TURKISH WAR

    It is officially stated that a column of South African troops, British yeomanry and Territorial artillery, under General H. T. Lukin, formerly ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. THE TREMENDOUS GERMAN LOSSES.

    The consensus of opinion expressed in the Sunday newspapers in London is that the colossal onslaught of the Germans to the northward of Verdun ...

    Article : 353 words
  27. GERMAN REPORT.

    To-day's German communique states: —"Five French attacks made in the attempt to recapture Fort Douaumont were repulsed, with sanguinary enemy ...

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  28. THE BATTLE OF VERDUN.

    The above map shows with sufficient clearness the site of the great German advance on Verdun. The enemy advanced between the range of hills called Les Cotes de Meuse and the river. The battle began to the north of Samogneux, the French advanced posts being out four or five miles beyond the forts. The French have fallen back to a line running between Champneuville and the Cotes de Meuse to the east of Fort Douaumont. The forts of Verdun are on heights that overlook the valley of the Meuse, up which the Germans are advancing. Beyond the Cotes de Meuse is the plain of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 87 words
  29. JACK JOHNSON.

    Jack Johnson, the pugilist, who has ...

    Article : 78 words
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