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  2. THE GENERAL HOSPITAL

    At a special meeting of the board of management of the Hobart General Hospital held at the hospital yesterday afternoon, the matter of the ...

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  3. ENGINEERING TRADE.

    The Clyde engineers, by a large majority, have rejected the offer of the employers of an advance of three farthings per hour, despite the offer affecting 10[?],000 ...

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  4. BATTLES IN POLAND

    The Germans are making desperate efforts to get to Warsaw, and generally to the line of the Vistula River before the Allies take the offensive on the Western front in the Spring. They are fighting fiercely to the north of Warsaw to break the Russina line, and away down in East Galicia the troops that advanced through Bukowina are striving to move northward, and if they succeeded in would be a very dangerous thrust. Military experts consider that ...

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  5. RUSSO-TURKISH WAR.

    The following communique was issued to-das:- The Turks have attempted to take the heights on the left bank of the ...

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  7. THE CASUALTY LIST.

    Lieut-Colonel Charles Campbell, formerly of the New Zealand Defenco Force, has been wounded the second time. He has been twice mentioned in despatches. ...

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  8. SIR GEORGE REID.

    Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner of Australia, who celebrated his 70th birthday to-day, received hundreds of congratulatory messages, including ...

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  9. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    The following are the Bank of England returns for the week ending to-day:- Coin. £62,330,000. ...

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  10. AUSTRALIA.

    From the British War Office the Defence Department has recevied a request for 100 medical men to he sent to Europe as soon as possible. This ...

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  11. CONTRABAND.

    The police of Amsterdam have discovered 50 tons of copper concealed in a vessel at Rotterdam. Many persons in Holland are buying up copper and ...

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  12. BOMB OUTRAGE IN BULGARIA

    At a gala performance which was held in the Bulgarian capital on the night of the 14th inst. a bomb was thrown in the vicinity of the box occupied by ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS

    [?]hen the Germans began their present great offensive movement in East [?]us[?]n and North Poland they crossed the [?]ontier at six points on the ...

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  14. ALCOHOLISM AND THE WAR

    The following motion was passed at the meeting of the South Australian branch of the British Medical Association yesterday:— ...

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  15. THE DACIA.

    The steamer Dacia, whi[?] left New Orleans recently with a cargo of cotton for Germany, has benn sighted 400 miles to the west of Land's End. ...

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  16. ADMIRALTY'S STATEMENT

    The Admiralty, in a statement issued yesterday, announces that 708 vessels arrived at British ports and 673 sailed between Febrauary 18—the day the ...

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  17. THE RUSSIAN RETREAT.

    When the Germans launched their great onslaught in East Prussia they broke over the Russian frontier at six points between Wirhallen (the frontier ...

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  18. ALLEGED LOG-ROLLING.

    The appointment by the Imperial Government of Mr. Montague Meyer as sole timber buyer for the War Office was hotly criticised in the House ot Commons ...

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  19. WAR IN THE AIR.

    The official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:- Our aviators to-day throw 60 bombs on the enemy's railway stations and ...

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  20. QUEENSLAND LOAN.

    The prospectus of the Queensland conversion loan of £11,728,000 at 4? per cent, will be advertised on Saturday. The price of issue will be 99, and the loan ...

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  21. METHODIST CHURCH AND THE WAR.

    At the general conference of the Methodist Church of Victoria and Tasmania to-day, the president (Rev. A. T. Holden. B.A.,) being in the chair, the ...

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  22. A DRAMATIC ENDING.

    The steamer Harpaliou, which was torpedoed yesterday off Beachy Head when on a voyage from England to the United States, three of her crew being killed ...

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  23. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    Sir John McCall, the Agent-General for Tasmania, is giving the £500 sent from Tasmania to the Belgian refugees in England. ...

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  24. PERSONAL.

    The Treasurer (Hon. J. A. Lyons) left for the North-West Coast yesterday. He will prohably be back in Hobart on Wednesday. ...

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  25. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.

    The steamer Deptford, which was blown up in the North Sea by a German submarine, was struck abaft her engineroom. A lifeboat was launched, ...

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  26. GERMAN BARBARISM.

    The derailment of a German military train near Lovitch exploded several trucks of ammunition, killing and wounding many German soldiers. The ...

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  27. R.A.M.C.

    After being four months with the Russian army at Warsaw, Colonel Herbert Barclay, of South Canterbury, New Zealand, goes to the front as a major ...

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  28. THE ALLIES' CAMPAIGNS

    It is officially stated that the recent French success at Les Parques was due to the remarkable effect of the French artillery fire. An officer of the Eighth ...

    Article : 133 words
  29. AMERICAN FLEET MOBILISED.

    The "New York Sun" state that the attempt made by Dr. Wilson, the President to effect a compromise on the question of food supplies for Germany ...

    Article : 121 words
  30. SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.

    Yesterday a German aeroplane dropped bombs on the British camp at Garub, an important position in Luderitzlaud, German South-West Africa, which ...

    Article : 51 words
  31. "MADE IN GERMANY."

    The "Vossische Zeitung." a Berlin daily paper, states that the number of prisoners in Germany and Austria include 692,000 Russians, 239,000 French, ...

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  32. NEW ZEALAND MEAT.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) has completed arrangements by which all the meat available for export shall be shipped for the use of the allied forces. ...

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  33. THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY

    After ten weeks' training in the desert, which has been carried out in a spirit which one would have expected from Australians, the 1st Australian ...

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  34. BRITISH EMPIRE LEAGUE.

    The Army Council has authorised the British Empire League to raise a divisional ammunition column. Places have been reserved for 100 Australians and ...

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  35. TASMANIA.

    The Director of Agriculture has sent out the following circular:- "Arrangements are now being made for the shipment of fruit donated by the ...

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  36. GREAT EFFORT AGAINST CALAIS.

    It is stated in Berlin that German officers declare that a great effort will by made against Calais in three weeks' time. ...

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  37. BATTLE OF PRZASNYSZ.

    Wireless messages received in Berlin from the eastern front state that the Russians are bringing their reserves into the field, and that the fighting is very ...

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  38. NORWEGIAN REPRISALS

    Most of the great Norwegian exporters of dried codfish have stopped sending shipments to Germany owing to the submarine attacks made on Norwegian ...

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  39. ATTACK ON SIR EDWARD GREY.

    The "Daily Telegraph" states to-day that the attention of the Government is to be drawn to a pamphlet being circulated in Germany, entitled "The Facts ...

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  40. SUBMARINE BLOCKADE.

    The steamer Western Coast has been blown up and sunk off Beachy Head. All hands were saved. It is believed that the Western Coast ...

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  41. ATTEMPTED MURDER.

    In the Criminal Court to-day, Mr. Justice Hood passed a sentenece of five years' imprisonment on Francis Charles John Elliott on a charge of attempted ...

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  42. NAVAL OPERATIONS.

    It is officially stated that the bombardment of the Dardanelles was resumed this morning by a powerful squadron of British and French battleships and ...

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  43. FIGHT ROUND STANISLAWOW.

    The following message has been received from Budapest:- "Fierce fighting continues in south-eastern Galicia, in the region round ...

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  44. QUEENSLAND MINISTRY.

    All speculation regarding the vacancy in the Ministry was set at rest this afternoon, when Mr. K..M. Grant was sworn in as a member of the Ministry. ...

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  45. GERMAN DEFENCES.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. H. J. Tonnant, the Under-Secretary of State for War, said it was estimated that the strength of Germany in 1912, ...

    Article : 48 words
  46. GERMANY BEATEN.

    M. Viviani, the French Premier, in an interview with American press representatives in Paris yesterday, declared that the Germanic torrent had been checked. ...

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  47. CONSTANTINOPLE.

    Replying to a question in the House of Commons this afternoon as to whether Russia intended to permanently occupy Constantinople, Sir Edward Grey, the ...

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  48. EXTENDING OPERATIONS.

    A telegram received in Geneva from Pola, the chief naval station of AustriaHungary. states that three new German submarines have reached there, having ...

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  49. GENERAL CABLES.

    The appeal to the Privy Council has been allowed in the case of the Minister of Lands of New South Wales versus Cooke. ...

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  50. GERMAN CASUALTY LIST.

    The publication of the German casualty lists in the newspapers of the province o[?] Schleswig, the population of which is largely Danish, has been forbidden. ...

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