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  2. MORE VERDUN BATTLES

    The Germans are becoming more active along the British front, and have had at least one important success. They attacked a trench to the north-east at Vermelles, and captured 500 yards. The British counter-attacked, and recaptured portions only of the lost ground. This trench lies somewhere between Vernelles and Hulluch, or rather the Hohenzollern Redoubt, which is to the north-west of the latter place. The danger of this success lies in the fact ...

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  3. STATE OF TREBIZOND.

    Some lurid sidelights on Turkish methods are contained in a report by Prince Argutinski to the Hussian Government on the condition of Trebizond ...

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  4. IMPORTANT AGREEMENT.

    The allusion by the United States Secretary of State (Mr. R. Lansing) to an Anglo-American agreement for the settlement of disputes, coupled with ...

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  5. GERMANY'S BLUNDER.

    The New York correspondent of the "Weekly Despatch" says that Germany's attempt to persuade America to press the blockade question against ...

    Article : 86 words
  6. THE APPAM.

    The State Department at Washington has ruled that the case of the liner Appam, which was seized by the German raider Moewe, and sent with a ...

    Article : 137 words
  7. THE BALKANS

    A big movement of the Bulgarian troops from the Roumanian frontier is taking place. During the last few days 36,000 Bulgarians have been ...

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  8. AIM OF THE ALLIES.

    The Foreign Secretary (Sir Edward Grey) has given an interview to the correspondent of the "Chicago Daily News." He says in the course of it:—Our people ...

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  9. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    There is a strong feeling among the directors of the Anglo-Australian companies that the proposal or the Federal Government that the excess profits tax ...

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  10. WAR IN THE AIR.

    Last night's communique says:—One of our aeroplanes to-day dropped eleven shells on the airship sheds at Metz and Freseaty. ...

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  11. GREECE AND THE WAR.

    Advices received in New York from Athens declare that Greece is bankrupt. The army has not been paid for two months, and the families of the ...

    Article : 86 words
  12. FIRE IN HUNGARY.

    Advices have been received at Zurich, in Switzerland, that in a recent Russian air raid on Kecsenzi, in Hungary, the flourmills there, the largest in the ...

    Article : 49 words
  13. EAST AFRICA.

    General Smuts reports as follows regarding the campaign against German East Africa:— A German force, under General ...

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  14. THE ANZACS.

    A few nights ago the Germans made a raid on a small salient held by the Australians. A small section of the line wus heavily bombarded, and about ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. RELATIONS WITH THE FRENCH.

    A correspondent at British headquarters says:— Never since the first British Expeditionary Force secretly entered France ...

    Article : 453 words
  16. THE WESTERN FRONT

    Sir Douglas Haig reports as folllows:— On Wednesday evening the Germans captured about 500 yards of ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. GERMANY'S FOOD.

    Great food riots occurred in Berlin on Tuesday, according to a neutral traveller who has just arrived from that city. He relates that on Tuesday the ...

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  18. SUBMARINE WARFARE

    In March last a telegram received in London from Denmark described a new German submarine at a size and speed previously unknown, seen off Utsire, ...

    Article : 164 words
  19. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    Last night's communique saya:— A German offensive movement is in progress on the outskirts, of the village of Tepukin, in the region of ...

    Article : 95 words
  20. NAVAL OPERATIONS

    The "Nationale Tidende" states that a shipbroker at Malmo, in the south of Sweden, who has business relations with the German Baltic ports, has ...

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  21. A LIVELY FIGHT.

    The "Morning Post" has received the following message from its correspondent at the British headquarters in France:— ...

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  22. THE BRUTAL GERMANS.

    The Swedish schooner Harald has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine since the new instructions were issued by the German Government ...

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  23. THE GERMAN STATEMENT.

    To-day's Berlin communique says:— Our Palatinate troops yesterday carried by storm several of the British lines to the south-east of the ...

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  24. VERDUN.

    This afternoon's communique says:— Last night the Germans made two vain attempts to recapture the positions they had lost on the western ...

    Article : 202 words
  25. THE ATTACK ON THE SUSSEX

    Mr. R. Lansing, the American Secretary of State, has asked Mr. J. W. Gerard, the Ambassador in Berlin, to ascertain informally the nature of the ...

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  26. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    Dr. Liebknecht, the leader of the German Socialists, who is now a prisoner owing to his May Day utterances, in his speech summoned the ...

    Article : 112 words
  27. THE TURKISH WAR

    Last night's communique says:— Yesterday the Turks attempted an offensive against our forces operating in the direction of Bagdad, but were ...

    Article : 184 words
  28. THE BRITISH BLOCKADE.

    The Associated Press, of America is publishing the semi-official British reply to the American compliant that Great Britain is intercepting medical supplies ...

    Article : 103 words
  29. THE AUSTRALIANS IN FRANCE.

    Our London correspondent, writing under date London, April 5, with reference to a visit to France by the Tasmanian Agent-General (Sir John ...

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  30. ENEMY BASE DISCOVERED.

    The Italians have discovered an Austrian submarine base between Cyronaica and Egypt. Huge supplies of benzine and tons of food were found in caverns ...

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  31. INDIA AND THE WAR.

    The fall of Kut-el-Amara and the recent Irish disturbances have been taken with remarkable calmness in India, and the former incident only seems ...

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  32. BRITISH PRIZE CREW CAPTURED.

    The Norwegian "Mercantile Shipping Gazette" states that a German submarine on March 22 took prisoner a British prize crew on board the ...

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  33. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS ENTERTAINED.

    There was a gathering of about 2,000 Australian and New Zealand troops of the London area at the Alexandra Theatre today, when they were the ...

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  34. BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

    Dr. Wilson, the President of the United States, has decided to defer further communication on trade questions with Great Britain until the ...

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  35. THE LOWESTOFT RAID.

    The "Cologne Gazette" gives a flamboyant report of the recent German naval raid on Lowestoft. It says:— Our ships arrived at Lowestoft at ...

    Article : 202 words
  36. SEQUESTRATION OF METALS

    The Federal Council of Switzerland of all metals in the country. ...

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