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  2. EAST AFRICAN WAR

    General Smuts the commander of the British sorces operating against British East Africa, reports a decisivo victory after severo fighting, near the borders of British East Africa and German East Africa. A very few years ago this would have been considered an important war, but to-day it is merely a side-show. A remarkable feature the campaign is that the British forces drawn from India, Great Britain, and africa are commanded by a Boer ...

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  3. WAR IN AFRICA.

    General Smuts, the Commander-iu-Chief of the British troops operating against the Germans in East Africa, cables that an action which ...

    Article : 226 words
  4. AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER.

    Mr. Hughes's principal engagements to-day included an interview with Mr. Lewis Harcourt, a visit to the Board of Trade and a discussion with London ...

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  5. ENEMY SHAREHOLDERS.

    Action has been taken by Mr. Stephen Mills (Comptroller-General of Customs), who is the public trustee under the War Precautions Regulations ...

    Article : 144 words
  6. THE PRICE OF FLOUR AND BREAD

    "If we find that any obstructive tactics are being indulged in by any person, I think we will find that the Commonwealth powers are sufficient to deal with ...

    Article : 373 words
  7. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    An agreement has been signed between British and Italian financial groups, the former having a capital of £1,000,000, and the latter of £100,000, ...

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  8. GERMAN SCHOOLS IN VICTORIA.

    German schools and German teachers were discussed by the Council of Public Education to-day, and the following motion was agreed to:— ...

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  9. THE WESTERN FRONT

    The fighting in the Verdun region is still practically contined to artillery duels. Yesterday afternoon's communique says: ...

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  10. SINEWS OF WAR.

    The Council of the Empire has accepted by 90 votes to 53 the Progressive Income Tax Bill passed by the Duma. ...

    Article : 135 words
  11. TASMANIA.

    The steamer Leongana, which reached Launceston about 8 o'clock this morning, brought a party of 28 returned soldiers, the biggest continuent so far. ...

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  12. IN CHAMPAGNE.

    Last night's rommunique says:After a lively artillery preparation the Germans yesterday attacked the brenches to the castward of Seppois ...

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  13. TASMANIAN NURSES AT THE FRONT.

    Many letters of thanks have been received from Tasmanian nurse at the front, gratefully acknowledging the Christmas presemts sent them by the ...

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  14. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    Advices from Roumania state that the Russians are making great preparations in Bessarabia for an offensive against the Austro-German forces in ...

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  15. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    Mr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner of Australia, was the principal speaker at a big meeting at the Mansion House this afternoon, on ...

    Article : 92 words
  16. RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

    To-day's communique says:— We have captured eight guns near Kermanshah, and have driven the Turks back in the region of the ...

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  17. AUSTRALIA.

    In the High Court to-day, further argument was heard by Mr. Justice Isaacs on the application to vary the remuneration of the controller of the ...

    Article : 298 words
  18. THE ITALIAN FRONT

    The Milan newspaper "Corriere Della Sein" states that all nuws regarding military operations is forbidden for a few days. It continues:— The ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. THE GERMAN LOSSES.

    The French daily review estimates that the German losses at Verdun now amount to 200,000 officers and men. WHOLE BRIGADES WIPED OUT. ...

    Article : 288 words
  20. THE BALKANS

    The Roumanian Parliament yesterday agreed to a War Office vote of £16,000,000. Germany recently asked Bulgaria to ...

    Article : 53 words
  21. THE SLINGSBY CASE.

    The remarkable Slingsby case, involving the question of the right of succession to large estates in Yorkshire, was decided by the Court of Appeal ...

    Article : 254 words
  22. THE PEACE PROPOSALS.

    It is authoritatively stated that Colonel House, who was the American peace delegate to Europe, has submitted to President Wilson the ...

    Article : 141 words
  23. THE SERBIAN ARMY.

    The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that" the Serbian army, amounting to 150,000 men, has been completely recognised at ...

    Article : 53 words
  24. LAYING OF MINES.

    Passenger steamers between Flushing, in Holland, and Tilbury, on the Thames have resumed running, and are carrying between them about 2,500 ...

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  25. AVALANCHE WARFARE.

    The Austrians and Italians have developed a deadly avalancho warfare Gigantic avalanches of snow, earth, rock and trees are precipitated by shelling ...

    Article : 97 words
  26. ON THE BLACK SEA.

    In connection with the official Russian communique notifying that enemy submarines had attacked two Russian torpedo-boat destroyers, which were ...

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  27. EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION.

    The United Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, at a meeting at the House of Commons to-day, decided to invite 32 members ...

    Article : 226 words
  28. LINER DESTROYED.

    A fire, followed by several explosious, destroyed the Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Matatua. 6,488 tons (well-known in the New Zealand trade) at St. ...

    Article : 57 words
  29. AIR FIGHTING.

    A German wireless message says that their airmen successfully attacked positions on the lino from Clermont-enArgonne to Verdun, and also destroyed ...

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  30. NAVAL OPERATIONS

    Travellers arriving at Geneva from Germany report that all the German warships at Kiel are under steam. ...

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  31. THE TURKISH WAR

    The Athens, newspaper "Neulogos" states that about 75,000 Turks in the Asia Minor districts of Aidin, Broussa, and Konich, have sent a petition to the ...

    Article : 278 words
  32. THE NEW ARMY.

    Six men presented themselves for enlistment at Launceston to-day. One was rejected, and the others accepted as follows:—For active service: Fredk. ...

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  33. OTHER OPERATIONS.

    Sir Douglas Haig reports as follows: We qarried out yesterday (Sunday) successful bombardments near ...

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  34. THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.

    The British forces under General Smuts landed at Mombasa, and their first important action with the German forces has just been fought a little to the west of Taveta. This finally ended in the retreat of the Gorman native troops. Just within the bend of the frontier, to the north-west of Taveta, lies Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain, in German East Africa, and a British mounted brigade was engaged, while the fight was going on near ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 284 words
  35. GERMAN SUBMARINES.

    Five German submarines with a displacement of 1,000 tons have, it is reported, entered, or are about to enter, the Dardanelles on their way to the ...

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