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  2. SUBMARINE WARFARE

    It is stated that the German factory at Schwartzkopf has during the last eight months, turned out 18 submarines. ...

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  3. VERDUN AGAIN

    The Germans on Sunday began another great offensive on the Verdun front. They attacked from Mort Homme (Dea' Man) Hill to Cumieres,and failed completely, except at one point, between these places. First, they attacked Mort Homme at the western end, and at Cumieres, near the Meuse, at the eastern end of the section. The Mort Homme affair appears to have been readily disposed of, but at a point in Caurettes Wood, along the road from ...

    Article : 308 words
  4. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    Among the long list of brave deeds for which honours have been conferred nothing is more notable than the conduct of Second-Lieutenant Campbell, ...

    Article : 206 words
  5. EAST AFRICA.

    Colonel Northey reports as follows on the advance into German East Africa from Rhodesia, along the frontier from Lake Tanganyika to Lake Nyassa:— ...

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  6. THE ALTERED TONE.

    Sir Edward Garson has conveyed to Mr. Bonnar Law,the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the War Commitee's resolutions in favour of a revision of ...

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  7. AUSTRALIA.

    The Acting Prime Minister (Senetor Pearce), when asked his opinion of Mr. Catts's proposal regarding the calling up of the citizen forces, which was ...

    Article : 204 words
  8. GERMAN FOOD SUPPLIES.

    Messages received in Rotterdam from Berlin state that Herr Batocke, the newly-appointed Director of Food Supplies in Germany, is carrying out his ...

    Article : 302 words
  9. THE ITALIAN FRONT.

    Very heavy fighting continues on the plateau of the Sette Comuni (in the region of Asiago), where the Austrian pressure is strongest. The Italians have ...

    Article : 173 words
  10. NAVAL OPERATIONS

    It is semi-officially announced in Rome that on Sunday night last an Italian warship attacked and sank a large Austrian transport at Trieste. ...

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  11. RETURNING NEW ZEALANDERS.

    To-day, at Paddington railway station, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, the High Commissioner of New Zealand, bade farewell to a party of unfit soldiers ...

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  12. TASMANIA.

    Our Parattah correspondent writes:— "A welcome home social was tendered last, week by the residents to Private Roy Figg. The arrangements were made by ...

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  13. ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS

    Mr. A. Henderson, the President of the Board of Education, in extending a welcome to-day to a number of French professors who intend making a tour ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. ENGAGEMENT IN THE BALTIC.

    British and Russian submarines operating in the Baltic had a brisk engagement yesterday with German armed trawlers between Stor Kage and ...

    Article : 61 words
  15. THE BALKANS.

    Concentrations of Bulgarian troops threaten Seres, Drama, and Kavalla The Allies view the invasion with equanimity. The policy of throwing ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    This afternoon's communique says:— Yesterday evening the Germans, after a bombardment of redoubled violence, made a very strong attack ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. THE BRITISH LINE.

    Lord Midleton called the attention of the House of Lords this afernoon to the statement made last week by Mr. Winiston Churchill that 200,000 officers' ...

    Article : 90 words
  18. WAR IN THE AIR.

    Swiss spectators declare that a monster Zeppelin has been seen flying over Lake Constance. It was, they state, nearly 250 yards long, "and had four ...

    Article : 47 words
  19. LABOUR GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN.

    A dinner was given in the House of Commons yosterday by the Labour members to Mr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier of Queensland. Mr. A. Henderson, he ...

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  20. THE 40th BATTALION.

    At a meeting of ladies held at the Hobart Town-hall yesterday, and presided over by the Mayoress (Mrs. Macleod), final ariangements were made for a dinner, to ...

    Article : 341 words
  21. TALK OF PEACE.

    Lord Cromer, in a letter in to-day's "Times," says:—Dr. Wilson, the American President, cannot too clearly understand that, desirous as the people, of ...

    Article : 360 words
  22. AEROPLANES AT SEA.

    To-day's Berlin communique says:— Our aviators yesterday attacked some enemy destroyers off Ostend. ...

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  23. THE BRITISH AND VERDUN.

    France, both the France in the trenches and the France behind the lines, fully' appreciates the assistance given by the British Army during the ...

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  24. FEEDING THE POOR.

    The Copenhagen newspaper "Dagens Nyheder," states, that the Allies will permit the population in country now in Austrian and German occupation to ...

    Article : 103 words
  25. FIRE IN GERMAN FACTORY.

    Advices received in Copenhagen from Germany state that an aviation shed at Neustadt, 21 miles from Dresden, has been destroyed, with 24 ...

    Article : 36 words
  26. ENEMY WASTING MUNITIONS.

    The Salonika correspondent of the "Petit Parisien" states that General Sarrail, when asked a question as to the enemy's artillery activity, shrugged ...

    Article : 95 words
  27. GERMAN MERCANTILE MARINE.

    Herr Ballin, head of the Hamburg-Amerika and other German chipping lines,addresing a meeting of shareholders of the Woermann line yesterday, ...

    Article : 115 words
  28. LOSS OF ZEPPELINS.

    It is reported that since the beginning of the war Germany has lost 47 Zoppelin airships. ...

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  29. THE GERMAN STATEMENT.

    To-day's Berlin communique says:— We have captured the whole of the French positions between the southern ridge of Mort Homme and Cumires, ...

    Article : 37 words
  30. GREEKS HOLD DEMIR HISSAR.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent at Salonika telegraphs as follows:— The Greeks continue to hold the ...

    Article : 76 words
  31. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    Great Britain and France have agreed to a miximum price for freights on coal, thus reducing prices by 35 per cent. In addition to a reductin of 45 ...

    Article : 63 words
  32. HEAVIEST ATTACK YET MADE.

    Yesterday's German attack on our positions between Mort Homme and Cumieres was the most powerful yet attempted. They used fresh divisions, ...

    Article : 52 words
  33. EXCHANGE OF WOUNDED PRISONERS.

    The first contingent of 500 wounded British prisoners from Germany to be exchanged through Switzerland have arrived at Chateau Doex, and are ...

    Article : 98 words
  34. ROLL OF HONOUR.

    The following, the 173rd, casualty list was released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are thone of privates. The addiesses ...

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  35. POSITION AT,SERES AND DRAMA.

    The inhabitants of Seres are sending in petitions for Government protection owing to the Bulgarian invasion. They point out that powerful bands of ...

    Article : 59 words
  36. THE PARIS CONFERENCE.

    Owing to the illness ot Mr. Walter Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade, it is feared that he will be unable to attend the Paris Economic ...

    Article : 67 words
  37. TEN ATTACKS FAIL.

    The "Petit Parision" says:— The new German offensive between Mort Homme and Cumieres began on Sunday evening. An unusual movement ...

    Article : 184 words
  38. THE TURKISH WAR.

    A considerable force of Turks, operating on a 10-mile front, yesterday attacked a Russian column which was advancing on Nineveh. The Turks ...

    Article : 332 words
  39. A GERMAN ALLEGATION.

    A message from Berlin states that the Bulgarians are operating in Macedonia in accordance with an agreement with the Greek Government. ...

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  40. KILLED IN ACTION.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 words
  41. CONSTANTINOPLE.

    In the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, the Liberal member for Hanley, called attention to a statement made by M. ...

    Article : 90 words
  42. DIED.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 words
  43. THE GERMAN GUNS.

    M. Marcel Hutin, writing in the who de Paris," says:— Some idea of the expenditure of projeetiles which is likely to procede the ...

    Article : 77 words
  44. BULGARIANS AT NEVROKOP.

    Important Bulgarian forces are being concentrated at Novrokop. The Greeks still hold the town of Demir Hissar, but the inhabitants have left. ...

    Article : 41 words
  45. THE AVOCOURT-CUMIERES LINE.

    The Germans are directing on the French line from Avocourt Wood to Cumieres, a distance (including windings) of about 7½ miles, the fire of 100 heavy batteries and an unknown number of light guns. They have also made fieres infantry attacks at Mort Homme (close to Bethincourt) and Cumieres, and the line between these points. to Their repeated efforts failed, except at one place in the Bois des Caurettes, along the road from Bethincourt to Cumieres. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 136 words
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