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  2. WAR IN WINTER

    Winter has set in early in Europe The troo[?]s on the Western front are manning trenches Knee-deep in ice-cold water and slush, while in the Balkans heavy snow has fallen, and cold winds are blowing in blizzards. The main Austro-German army has not yet reached Mitrovitza,but must be near there, for the Serbians that have boen conducting a successful campaign on the Kossovo Plain between there and Uskub against the Bulgarians ...

    Article : 261 words
  3. SUBMARINE WARFARE.

    The War Office recently announced that an enemy submarine in the Mediterran[?]an attacked the transport Mercian, 6,305 tons, with shell fire, and ...

    Article : 163 words
  4. RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

    The following communique has been issued regarding the Russian operations in Turkish Armenia and the adjacent parts of Persia: ...

    Article : 113 words
  5. CANADIAN WHEAT CROP.

    The Canadian Government has commandeered all the high-grade wheat elovators from Fort William to the Atlantic. The action has been taken ...

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  6. DRINK RESTRICTION.

    Although intoxicants are saleable only between noon and half-past 2 and 6.30 and 0.30 on week days in London, except at Woolwich, Greenwich, ...

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  7. THE TALK OF PEACE.

    Mr. Ford, who has secured the first and second-class cabins on the Dutch liner Oscar II., 9,996 tons, is spending plenty of money dashing about the ...

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  8. THE WAR COMMITTEE.

    The 'Observer" recommends the appointment of a nationally representative advisory board of financial and business experts, from which the Cabinet's War ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. SINKING OF THE ANGLIA.

    The casualty list of the hospital ship Anglia, which sank in the English Channel after striking a mine, gives the names of four officers, one nurse, ...

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  10. TURKS AND GERMANS.

    There are persistent reports from Constantinople of daily increasing discord between the Turks and the Germans. There is a German regiment ...

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  11. SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WAR.

    Addressing a recuiting meeting at Capetown yesterday, General Smuts, the Minister of Defence, said there was a tremendous cloud overhanging ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. PROSECUTING THE WAR.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Entente Powers—Great Britain, France, Russia, and Italy—are beginning to realise the ...

    Article : 141 words
  13. ATTACK BY TURKS.

    A Turkish submarine recently stopped the British passenger ship Burulos when on a voyage to New York. After 25 people had been drowned the crew ...

    Article : 131 words
  14. THE LATE NURSE CAVELL.

    M. Raymond Poincare, the President of France, attended an impressive demonstration which was held yesterday at the Trocadero, in Paris, in honour of ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    The main feature of this afternoon's communique is the description of the fighting in the Labyrinth, near Neuville St. Vaast. It says: ...

    Article : 83 words
  16. THE BALKANS.

    The battle of the Kossovo Plain continues. The Bulgarian losses have been colossal. Fugitives affirm [?] [?],00 Bulgarian wounded have [?] [?]in. ...

    Article : 168 words
  17. THE GERMANS IN BELGIUM.

    A message from Berlin states that the German authoritics have placed a ban on a book by the Danish writer Jorgenson, which deals in a caustic ...

    Article : 81 words
  18. THE GERMAN LOSSES.

    Mr. P. A. R. Ameallen, the representative of the British press at the French headquarters, says:- "It is estimated that the total ...

    Article : 159 words
  19. POSITION AT MONASTIR

    A body of Gorman cavalry has appeared before Veles. Advices received from Monastir on Thursda[?] state that the situation there ...

    Article : 61 words
  20. LORD KITCHENER.

    Lord Kitchener and Sir Rennell Rodd, the British Ambassador to Italy, had a conference yesterday with Signor Salandra, the Premier of Italy, Baron ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. MUNITION OUTPUT.

    The Government has transferred from the Army Council to the Ministry of Munitions the responsibility for testing arms and examining munitions and ...

    Article : 216 words
  22. CHAMPAGNE FRONT.

    To-day's Berlin communique says:— "The French artillery is showing great activity in the Champagne district." ...

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  23. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    Messrs. Perey and Archibald Hurd, the well-known writers on Imperial affairs, in a book entitled "The New Empire Partnership," point out that ...

    Article : 197 words
  24. THE LOWER DANUBE.

    The "Corriere della Sera" states that a partion of the Austro-German forces in Serbia have been withdrawn and sent down the Danube to Rustchuk ...

    Article : 126 words
  25. WEATHER CONDITIONS

    A terrific blizzard is raging in the district of the Balkans where the Allied headquarters are Correspondents state that snow is lying deep, and that ...

    Article : 131 words
  26. WINTER WARFARE.

    In a message to the "Daily Telegraph" Mr. Philip Gibbs gives a remarkable picture of the winter conditions on the western front. He says: ...

    Article : 289 words
  27. AUSTRALIA.

    At a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to-day a regulation under the War Precautions Act was passed prohibiting persons of military age ...

    Article : 140 words
  28. THE EGYPTIAN FRONTIER.

    It is officially stated that the Sherifel-Senussi, the head of the powerful Senussi organisation in Northern Africa, continues to maintain a friendly ...

    Article : 267 words
  29. HAMPERING THE ENEMY

    The Serbian Minister states that all the tunnels, of which there are a considerable number, along the section of the Belgrade-Sofin-Constantinople ...

    Article : 56 words
  30. SERBIANS FALLING BACK.

    The advance of the Austro-Germans southward from Prishtina and Mitrovitza to support the Bulgarians has compelled the Serbians to relinquish ...

    Article : 168 words
  31. THE NOTE TO GREECE

    The Three demands made in the Allies' Note are:- (1) Adequate railway facilities. (2) The withdrawal of Greek troops ...

    Article : 196 words
  32. FILLING THE RANKS.

    Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, has assured members of the Miners Federation that men returning to civil employment after being attested under ...

    Article : 138 words
  33. BRITAIN'S GREAT EFFORT.

    In a recent issue of "Le Journal," Paris, Senator Humbert gives his impressions of a recent visit to England, during which he interviewed Mr. Lloyd George. ...

    Article : 853 words
  34. THE NEW ARMY.

    It is understood that an aviation corps will be sent away with the new army, which is to be sent from Australia by June next. It is considered ...

    Article : 151 words
  35. OVERTURES FOR PEACE.

    The newspaper "Il S[?]" states that the Serbian Premier, in [?]municating the overtures for peace [?]ade by General Von Mackensen to the Serbian ...

    Article : 113 words
  36. WAR IN THE AIR.

    This afternoon's communique says:- Our aeroplanes are doing splendid work. They have dropped 90 bombs on the railway station at Noyon, and ...

    Article : 155 words
  37. MONTENEGRO

    King Nicholas has issued a proclamation in which he exhorts his people to remain calm in face of the danger which is threatening Montenegro. He says: ...

    Article : 72 words
  38. MOUNTAIN FIGHTING

    Mr. Ward Price has sent the following message from Salonika:- The British troops are now in the first line, face to fa[?] with the enemy. ...

    Article : 417 words
  39. PRIME MINISTER ON THE WAR.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) was the guest of the Institute of Journalists to-night. In the course of his speech, which dealt manily with the ...

    Article : 422 words
  40. THE GERMAN CLAIM

    To-day's Berlin communique says:— "We have occupied Rudnik, to the south-west of Mitrovitza, where we made 2,700 prisoners. Our main ...

    Article : 87 words
  41. THE TURKISH WAR

    Last night's communique says:- There has been marked artillery activity at the Dardanelles. The Turkish forces attacking the British ...

    Article : 46 words
  42. THE ALLIES' LINE

    The "Temps" states that the British have taken over from the French the section of the front between Doiran (38 miles north-north-west of Salonika) and ...

    Article : 92 words
  43. THE ALLIES AND THE AUSTRO-GERMAN ADVANCE.

    The British troops in Macedonia have received further reinforcements, and have taken over from [?] French a section of the front near Doiran. The Bulgarians are said to have suspended their advance on Monastir, and to be concentrating for an attack in force on the French positions along the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 246 words
  44. SECOND AUSTRALIAN DIVISION.

    Information has been received by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) that the commanding officer of the 2nd Australian Division, Major-General J. ...

    Article : 107 words
  45. ATTACK ON BRITISH STEAMER.

    Yesterday three German aeroplanes near the Noorvinder lightship, on the coast of Holland, attacked the steamer Bargownie, bound from London to ...

    Article : 71 words
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