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  2. STRICT POLICE REGULATIONS.

    The police-have forbidden the drinking of absinthe, and are searching even private cellars for it. Several cafes have already been closed. ...

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  3. THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

    The military news censor is very effective, in his work. The transport of the British expeditionary force began apparently on Friday, and was completed. on Tuesday morning. The force is organised in divisions—six divisions of infantry, with artillery, and one division of cavalry, and "army troops" of various services. All told, if the full expeditionary force was sent, there would be 167,000 men, and with them would have to go immense ...

    Article : 436 words
  4. AN EYE-WITNESS'S STORY.

    An English officer, who was recently in Brussels, interviewed some of the defenders of Liege. A Belgian officer told him: "As line after line of the ...

    Article : 218 words
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  6. FRANCO-GERMAN WAR.

    It is officially stated that the French continued their advance into Upper Alsace throughout the day on Monday, and that the Germans retreated in ...

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  7. CARING FOR THE WOUNDED

    An excellent Red Cross system has been established in connection with the French operations. "First line" hospitals are temporarily established about ...

    Article : 185 words
  8. FURTHER FRENCH SUCCESSES.

    General Joffre, in the course of n report on the French advance into Alsace, stales that the enemy had established a fortified position to the south of ...

    Article : 344 words
  9. ROYAL PRINCES FOR THE FRONT.

    The Duke of Teck and Prince Alexander of Teck, of the Life Guards, brothers of Queen Mary, visited Buckingham Palaco yesterday, and took ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. THE BATTLE OF DINANT

    Later reporte regarding the battle of Dinant show that it was more important than has hitherto been realised. The loss on both sides was heavy, ...

    Article : 147 words
  11. SWITZERLAND.

    Switzerland is seriously feeling the war pinch, owing to the tourist and other trades being paralysed. Nearly everybody is on guard on the frontiers ...

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  12. THE NORTH SEA.

    The Press Bureau states that yesterday desultory fighting took place betiveen a British patrolling squadron and flotilla, of destroyers and some German ...

    Article : 62 words
  13. FIGHTING IN WEST AFRICA.

    The French Embassy states that troops from the French Congo have dislodged the Germans from Yaunde, one of the chief places in the German ...

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  14. GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS IN PARIS.

    Sir Francis Bertie, the British Ambassador to France, and M. Malay, the Minister of the Interior in the French Government, received Field-Marsnal ...

    Article : 185 words
  15. THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

    The hemaintenance of a large overseas army-the largest in the world-requires for its proper working the maintenance of an army of an approximately equal ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. GREAT BRITAIN AT WAR

    The despatch of the British expeditionary force to France was carried out with remarkable secrecy and success, and was highly characteristic of Lord ...

    Article : 617 words
  17. THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS

    It is officially stated here thal the Russian vangiard has occupied five, points within the territory of the enemy. The forward movements made ...

    Article : 81 words
  18. THE RED CROSS.

    The British Red Cross Society has registered over 2,000 trained nurses for the war. ...

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  19. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO CROSS.

    The Germans made another attempt to cross the budge over the Mouse near Dinant on Monday but the French, artillery repulsed them with considereble ...

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  20. TOGOLAND.

    A contingent of native trrops from the Gold Coast of Africa has entered Togoland. and taken a number of Gormans prisoner, and also captured two ...

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  21. THE GERMAN PRISONERS.

    A number of German prisoners are to be sent to England immediately. ...

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  22. SHELLING OF PONT-AMOUSSON.

    The Gormans are continuing to shell Pont-a-Mousson, a French town on the Moselle. 16 miles to the south of Metz. Over 200 six, seven, and eight inch ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. BELGIAN OPERATIONS.

    Some German cavalry patrols have boen sighted to the north of Antwerp, the chief port-of the country, to which the sent of Government was removed a ...

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  24. EFFECT OF FRENCH ARTILLERY.

    The Germans have suffered considerable losses in all the actions tought along the Alsatian frontier during the last few days. The overwhelming ...

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  25. THE KING'S MESSAGE.

    The King, in his message to the expedition before it started, said:— You will be fighting for the safety and honour of the ...

    Article : 129 words
  26. GERMAN AEROPLANE DESTROYED.

    Yesterday the Russians destroyed German aeroplane at Sammo, on the const of Finland. Three aviators who were in the machine were killed. ...

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  27. "THE RED INDIANS OF EUROPE."

    During the pursuit of the Germans, after the battle of Dinant, the French and Belgian cavalry passed a series of burned vilages which the Germans had ...

    Article : 85 words
  28. COSSACK'S REMARKABLE FEAT.

    The details of the recent encounter between the Cossacks and the Germans, in which a Cossack named Kriutchk off, who was afterwards decorated by the ...

    Article : 98 words
  29. BOMBS DROPPED ON LUNEVILLE.

    A German monoplane carrying the French colours flow over carrying yesterday, and dropped three bombs. The damage done was insignificant. ...

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  30. TURCOS AT MULHAUSEN.

    Wounded soldiers from Mulhausen state that the Germans, not recognising the uniforms of the Algerian sharpshooters (the Tureos) allowed the latter ...

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  31. MAP OF THE ALSACE OPERATIONS.

    The French troops have now advanced across the frontier all along the line for a distance pi about 100 miles, from Marsal, a point opposite Nancy, in the north, to Dannemaric, just opposite Beltort, in the south. The French hold the whole, line of the Vosges, and have forced the Gormans to evacuate Saarburg, 13 miles Iroin Strassburg, though it was held by a stroug garrison. Further to the south the French have occupied Colmar, and there has been fighting at Mulhausen, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  32. ANOTHER GERMAN REQUEST

    The statement which recently reached Paris to the effect that King Albert of Belgium had rejected Germany's fresh request, which was made through ...

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  33. FALSE REPORTS.

    The Press Bureau warns the public against the enemy attempting to spread false reports of disasters. The warning adds that the consor. has already ...

    Article : 78 words
  34. ROYAL SOLDIERS.

    Eleven members of the Russian Royal Family are at the front. ...

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  35. GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.

    The press here circulates a statement to the effect that the German Crown Prince has been wounded in Belgium, and is now lying at Aix la Chapelle, ...

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  36. THE CZAR AT MOSCOW.

    The Czar took part to-day in a great procession to the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kremlin, the citadel of Moscow, where a solemn act of worship ...

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  37. LORD KITCHENER'S MESSAGE.

    Lord Kitchener's message, which has been ordered to be kept in every soldier's pay-book, warns the troops in outspoken language of the importance ...

    Article : 101 words
  38. THE SIEGE OF LIEGE.

    The French Embassy states that the forts at Lipge are still holding out, and that not one has been captured. ...

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  39. THE SERVIAN CAMPAIGN

    The Montenegrin are invading the Ausburn coast province of Dalmatia theough Herzegovina, and are now within two houis' match of Ragusa, a ...

    Article : 56 words
  40. THE FRENCH ARTILLERY.

    M. Paul Doumer, once a candidate for the Presidency of the French Republic, who has just returned from the lighting line in Belgium, states that the ...

    Article : 98 words
  41. LORD KITCHENER THANKS THE PRESS.

    The Press Bureau says that the embarkation, the transportation, and the debarkation of the men and stores were carried out with the greatest precision, ...

    Article : 71 words
  42. JOY OF FRENCH PEOPLE

    Letters received from British soldiers sate that the French people were frantic with joy on their landing. The women bugged and kissed the soldiers, and ...

    Article : 76 words
  43. MUTINOUS CZECH SOLDIERS.

    It was recently reported that a regiment of Czech (Bohemian Slay) soldiers stationed in Bosnia had mutinied, and had been annihilated as a punishment. ...

    Article : 36 words
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