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  2. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    The Board of Trade returns for May show that, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, imports increased by £12,545,676, but exports ...

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  3. THE TURKISH WAR.

    Large consignments or barrels, supposed to contain beer, which were despatched from Germany to Turkey, have been detained at Bucharest, the capital ...

    Article : 68 words
  4. WHAT DOE'S IT MEAN?

    The frontier between the Dutch province of Zeeland and Flanders is to be closed to traffic to-morrow for a period of nine days. ...

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  5. SEVERAL GREAT BATTLES

    The Russians continue to offer a vigorous resistance to the advance of the Austro-Germans towards Lemberg, in the Austrian province of Galicia. The battle has now proceeded for several weeks, and it is expected to last another month. Time is on the side of the Russians, for it will enable them to bring up reinforcements. A ferocious battle has been fought in the Baltic province of Russia. The dead lay in the thousands in a river, ...

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  6. ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID.

    Zeppelin airships made another raid on the East Coast of England last night, and dropped incendiary and explosive bombs at various points. Two ...

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  7. THE KAISER.

    It is stated in Geneva to-day that the Kaiser, who was last reported to have been visiting the Austro-Italian frontier, has arrived at Vienna. ...

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  8. FRENCH MINE-LAYER DESTROYED.

    It is officially announced in Paris that the French minelayer Casabianea has been blown up by a mine at the entrance to a bay in the Egean Sea. ...

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  9. BATTLE INCIDENTS.

    The official "Evewitness at the British headquarters tells the following story of herioc incidents which occured at the fighting near Y press on May 23; ...

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  10. FURTHER DETAILS.

    The Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that one British and one French aeroplane attacked the Zeppelin at 3 o'clock in the morning ...

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  11. THE KAISER'S PRIDE.

    The Milan newspaper "11 Secolo" publishes an interview to-day which its representative has had with a well informed personage in European affairs, ...

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  12. KRUPPS FACTORY IN TURKEY.

    The great German firm of Krupps has established a large factory for the making of shells and other explosives in Constantinople. Four thousand ...

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  13. SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS

    The master in Lancashire are rapidly organising for the purpose of shell-making. Of 50,000 skilled engineers in the Mauchester district, about 18,000 ...

    Article : 273 words
  14. LANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE

    The members of the Card and Blowing Room Amalgamation in the Lancashire cotton trade have decided to proceed with then claim for a 10 per cent. war ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. THE FLANDERS FRONT

    The Germans are making desperate attempts to pierce the Allies' line near Pervyse (on the Yser between Nieuport and Dixmude), where they hold the ...

    Article : 131 words
  16. HELP FROM OVERSEAS.

    The Imperial Government has revoked its decision not to accept contingents from the Barbados, British Guiana. Jamaica, and Trimdad for service in ...

    Article : 53 words
  17. FIGHTING IN AFRICA.

    The Press Bureau states that a British naval and military expedition on May 30 captured the town of Sphinxhaven, in German East Africa, destroyed the ...

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  18. THE ADVANCE ON LEMBERG.

    A telegram from Vicnna states that the Austrians are within 15 kilometres (about 10 miles) of Lemberg. ...

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  19. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    The great German ra[?] into the Baltic provinces yields to none of their operations in determination and ferocity. A sa[?]agely-contested battle, which finally ...

    Article : 255 words
  20. SWEDISH GUN-RUNNER.

    A week ago the Swedish steamer Pas, with a cargo of rifles, ostensibly consigned for Bulgaria, was seized by a German torpedo-host off the coast of ...

    Article : 173 words
  21. THE ITALIAN FRONT

    The Italians captured Cortinia (?) after a diflicult ascent of a rocky mountain range, and the perilous occupation of a ridge. Here they were nearly ...

    Article : 119 words
  22. THE BATTLE OF THE SAN.

    A special correspondent of the "Novoe Vremya, who is with the Russian forces on the San, has sent the following message about the fighting on the Middle ...

    Article : 140 words
  23. HEAVY BLOW STRUCK.

    The hamlet of Moulin-sous-Touven[?] lies near the centre of the angle between the Oise and the Aisne, about 3½ miles south-east of Tracy-le-Mount, ...

    Article : 114 words
  24. NEW SERVIAN CAMPAIGN

    Serbian troops have invaded Albania and occupied the region in the direction of Bibra unopposed. The "Echo de Paris" states that now ...

    Article : 61 words
  25. THE NEW PROPOSALS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

    Sir, John Simon, the new Home Secretary, in moving the second reading of the Ministry of Munitions Bill yesterday, said the now Minister would ...

    Article : 114 words
  26. SUBMARINE BLOCKADE.

    Passenger by the Anchor liner Cameronia (10,693 tons), which arrived at New York to-day, report that three German submarines were recently ...

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  27. THE STRUGGLE FOR LENS.

    Heavy fighting continuos in the region between Arras and Lens. This afternoon's communique says:- Artillery duels of extreme intensity ...

    Article : 159 words
  28. THE AUSTRO-GERMAN FORCES.

    It is estimated that there are now 40 German and Austrian army corps in Galicia (nearly 1,750,000 men), and that the great battle which has already been ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY

    For the first time for months there was dust on the roads as we motored out from headquarters towards the frenches, and the troops filled their ...

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  30. THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.

    In connection with the visit of Mr. R. McKenna, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Cuncliffe, the Governor of the Bank of England, to Nice, ...

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  31. POSITION IN RUSSIA.

    Manufactures in Russia are endeavouring to co-ordinate the resources of the Empire. All establishments hitherto manufacturing luxuries are ...

    Article : 68 words
  32. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    The Germans have concentrated considerable forces in the corner between the River Oise and Aisne, and made desperate assaults on the French lines ...

    Article : 226 words
  33. THE PIRATES ACTIVE.

    A German submarino yesterday sank the trawler Star of the West, 187 tons, belonging to the Walker Steam Trawling Co., of Aberdeen. The crew were ...

    Article : 207 words
  34. GALICIAN OPERATIONS

    The Austro-German forces are trying hard to force their way castward from Przemysl towards Lemberg, and also to get across the Dniester from the south, ...

    Article : 188 words
  35. WAR IN THE AIR.

    A British airman dropped bombs on a Zeppelin airship between Ghent and Brussels this morning. The bombs took effect, for the airship exploded, and was ...

    Article : 214 words
  36. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

    The House of Commons resumed its sittings to-day, when most of the new Ministers took their places, and were warly welcomed. The House was full. ...

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  37. FIGHTING NEAR ALBERT.

    This afternoon's communique refers as follows to the fighting near Albert:- We attacked the German position ...

    Article : 88 words
  38. MATE OF TRAWLER KILLED

    A German submarine has sunk the trawler Arctic, 168 tons, belonging to the Newnham Trawlers Company Limited, of Granton. Five survivors ...

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  39. RETALIATON ON THE GERMANS.

    Last night's communique says:- By way of retaliation for the spraying of our positions with burning oil by the Germans, we to-day sprayed ...

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  40. THE FIGHT AT ZURAWNA.

    The German and Austrian communique claim that the troops under General Von Slingen have stormed the bridge-head at Zurawna, and gained a ...

    Article : 85 words
  41. SINKING OF A GREEK STEAMER.

    Germany has agreed to compensate the owners of the Greek steamer Hellispontas, which was torpedoed and suak in April last by a German submarine ...

    Article : 53 words
  42. A CANNON HOSPITAL.

    Krupps have erected a "cannon hospital" at St. Quentin, the headquarters of the German forces in the region between Arras and the Aisne, for ...

    Article : 49 words
  43. ZEPPELIN SHED ATTACKED.

    This morning British airmen dropped bombs on a German airship shed to the north of Brussels, and set it on fire. LONDON, June 7. ...

    Article : 98 words
  44. THE ORIGINAL FRENCH SUCCESS.

    The latest communique gives the following account of the French success near Tracy-le-Mont, which led to the series of German counter-attacks:— ...

    Article : 93 words
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