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  2. ENTHUSIASTIC RECRUITING.

    There is great recruiting enthusiasm in Canada. One hundred and twenty-five thousand men are now in training while recruiting for the third contingent ...

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  3. SINKING OF SHIPS.

    Following the statement made that the German steamer Otavi had arrived at Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, and landed 38 sailors of French ...

    Article : 140 words
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  5. GREAT TURKISH DISASTER

    There is still no news of the British army's doing. We are told, however, that the Germans had captured some trenches near La Bassee, and that they were afterwards retaken. The Indians and British Territorial troops were recently reported as operating in that region. Chief interest still centres in Alsace, but it has not yet been explained whether the battle at Steinbach is only a local operation or part of an advance in force into the province. ...

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  6. THE CASUALTY LIST.

    Major E. B. Hankey, who was formerly an aide-de-camp to the Governor of West Australia, has been wounded at the front whilst serving with the ...

    Article : 38 words
  7. TRAITOROUS RAILWAY OFFICIAL.

    The mystery which surrounded several bombardments of Furnes (between Nieuport and Dunkirk, and on the Belgian side of the border) by the ...

    Article : 100 words
  8. PARALYSIS OF COTTON TRADE.

    The American Round Bale Press Company, which is a large American cotton concern, has failed owing to the paralysis of the cotton trade. The ...

    Article : 47 words
  9. WAR IN THE AIR

    A "New York Times" correspondent who has interviewed the chief of the German aeroplane squadron says that officer is cagerly awaiting orders ...

    Article : 77 words
  10. CONTRABAND.

    Tne United States Government has decided to certify the exact contents of American cargoes before leaving port. This is expected to simplify the British ...

    Article : 92 words
  11. THE PRICE OF BREAD.

    In reference to the advance in the price of bread to 7[?]d. the quartern (4lb.) loaf, and the statement that the rise is due to gambling in wheat in the ...

    Article : 86 words
  12. LORD LONSDALE.

    Since the sentence of death was passed upon Lord Lonsdale, who is now a prisoner of war in Germany, for striking his guard, there has been a remarkable ...

    Article : 44 words
  13. GERMAN AEROPLANES IN AFRICA.

    Two German aeroplanes dropped bombs on the British trenches near Luderisch Bay. in German South-West Africa which has been occupied by the ...

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  14. INDIAN VIGOROUSLY PUNISHED.

    At Calcutta yesterday, Indra Chand, of Messrs. Gunput, Roy and Co., Calcutta, was sentenced to 18 months' rigorous punishment, and ordered to ...

    Article : 56 words
  15. THE GERMAN LOSSES.

    It is reported that German sappers have buried 10,000 dead near Duffel (10 miles south-east of Antwerp). STRASSBURG FULL OF WOUNDED. ...

    Article : 65 words
  16. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    Cardinal Mercier, the Archbishop of Louvain, recently issued a pastoral letter to the Belgian people, in which he stated that the occupied provinces of ...

    Article : 141 words
  17. THE PRIZE COURT.

    Five German prize steamers, which have been seized by the British during the war, were sold at auction yesterday, and altogether realised £130,725. A ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. THE TURKISH WAR.

    Reuter's correspondent at petrograd states that as a result of the fighting between the Russians and Turks at Sarykamish, in Transcaucasia, the ...

    Article : 59 words
  19. THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS

    There is practically no news from the eastern front Fighting is now developing on the left bank of the Vistula between Plock and Thorn, but no ...

    Article : 272 words
  20. GERMAN BARBARISM.

    The Amsterdam newspaper "Telegraaf" states that it has secured a copy of the report of investigations made by a Dutchman, who visited 100 towns and ...

    Article : 75 words
  21. WAR SUPPLIES FROM AMERICA.

    Mr. Henry Delaware Flood, a member of the United States House of Representatives told the Foreign Relations Committee to-day that the ...

    Article : 60 words
  22. NAVAL OPERATIONS.

    The "Verbruggen" republishes an article from the Chilian newspaper "La Paine," which states that in an interview between a German clergyman and ...

    Article : 140 words
  23. INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS.

    The Ships Purchase Bill, when has been introduced into the United States Congress for the purpose of taking over German and Austrian vessels now in ...

    Article : 72 words
  24. MARKETS AND MONEY

    The Government of India has been considering possible action in connection with the cotton situation for some time past, and recently convened a ...

    Article : 362 words
  25. THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY.

    Cardinal Bourne the Archbishop of Westminster, received in audience to-day Colonel Ahearne, of Townsville, Queensland, and in conversation with ...

    Article : 56 words
  26. THE REPORT CONFIRMED.

    A communique issued in the Russian capital to-day confirms the report of the defeat, of the Turkish army at Sarykamish. ...

    Article : 245 words
  27. THE ATROCITIES IN BELGIUM

    Mr. Charles Brooks, of Moorehead-street, Redfern, who has returned from a visit to England, expresses surprise at the scepticismi of Sydney people ...

    Article : 350 words
  28. HOME RULE AND THE WAR.

    Sir Edward Carson, the leader of the campaign against Home Rule, addressing a meeting last night at Bangor, said the Home Rule difficulty would come ...

    Article : 48 words
  29. CANADIAN TROOPS.

    Addressing the United States Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Mr. Richard Bartholdt. the Republican member, for the 10th Missouri district, ...

    Article : 65 words
  30. THE CUXHAVEN RAID.

    The Germans are taking elaborate precautions to prevent a repetition of the naval and seaplane raid on Cuxhaven, and are establishing many new ...

    Article : 60 words
  31. GERMAN RESERVISTS IN AMERICA.

    The New York correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that officers of the American Secret Service assert that an attache of the German Embassy ...

    Article : 145 words
  32. THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN.

    Fighting is now gown on along the Vistula, between Plock and Thorn. The Russians have concentrated forces on the right bank of the river, which are threatening to cut the railway from Thorn to Skiernewice, which forms the main line of communication for the German forces in Middle Poland. The Germans have replied by massing forces along the left bank of the river to defend their communications. Last Saturday they attempted to force the passage of the Vistula, and get a footing on the left bank, but failed. The Vistula is here a broad stream, navigable for vessels of considerable size (as it is up to its junction with ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 243 words
  33. AN ISLAND FORTRESS.

    During the recent fighting round Saint Georges, near Nieuport, 40 Germans held a farmstead occuphying an important position. It was hard to get ...

    Article : 140 words
  34. FIGHTING ON THE CARPATHIANS.

    Reports from Buda-Pest state that three Hungarian officers who have come back from the front tell strange stories of the fighting alone the snow-clad ...

    Article : 246 words
  35. TURKISH WAR MINISTERS CHIEF SPY.

    Almay Abdullah, a Soudanese, and the chief spy in Egypt of Enver Pasha, the Turkish Minister of War, was recently arrested in Cairo for ...

    Article : 88 words
  36. EXPORTATION OF TEA.

    The British Board of Trade is allowing the exportation of tea to certain destinations, but exporters must satisfy themselves that none will reach the ...

    Article : 35 words
  37. FEDERATION OF THE EMPIRE.

    Early last month the Prime Minister (Sir R. Borden), speaking at the Canada Club, said that Germany's challenge to the British Navy had been ...

    Article : 362 words
  38. THE FIGHT FOR STEINBACH

    On December 31, before the final assault on Steinbach, the French commander sent a message to the Germans holding the village, pointing out that ...

    Article : 622 words
  39. THE ALLIES' CAMPAIGNS

    As a result of the continued bad weather operations are nearly at a standstill along most of the front. The Allies continue to force their way ...

    Article : 459 words
  40. ALBANIAN REBELS.

    Prior to the rebel attack on Durazzo the Albanian capital, the rebels demanded that the French and Servian representatives should be handed over to ...

    Article : 59 words
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