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  2. BATTLE OF THE SAN

    Soon chief interest will be centred on the Western front, where big things are browing. Both British and French are worrying the enemy here, there and everywhere, to put him into doubt as to where the great blow is to be struck. Allied airmen have dropped leaflets at Ostend warning the inhabitants of a great battle about to take place in that locality, but that may be only a ruse de[?]guerre. There has been an engagement at Festubert, in ...

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  3. BEN TILLET AT THE FRONT.

    Mr. Ben Tillett, the well-known Labour leader, who has been on a visit to the front, reached Paris yesterday, and in the course of an interview stated:— ...

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  4. NAVAL OPERATIONS.

    It is officially announced in the Russian capital that a Russian squadron operating in the Black Sea has attacked and severely damaged the ...

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  5. BATTLE OF SESIS PASS.

    The official communique issued in Rome this afternoon runs as follows:- The enemy made repeated attempts yesterday to break through the Sesis ...

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  6. THE USE OF MINES.

    A Dutch fishing smack was blown up by a mine yesterday off Knocke on the coast of Belgium. Four of the crew were killed. ...

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  7. FIFTY BOMBS DROPPED.

    The subject of a neutral country who has reached Amsterdam from Karlsruhe says that 50 bombs were dropped on the town by the French airmen. ...

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  8. GERMAN BARBARITIES

    The Russian Commission of Inquiry investigating German atrocities has examined Sergeant-Major Atho, who had a large slice of flesh cut from his back ...

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  9. MARKETS AND MONEY.

    The "Pall Mall Gazette," in an ar[?] ticle discussing the issue of the New South Wales loan of £5,000,000 at 4½ per cent., stated last night that it ...

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  10. A GERMAN ADMISSION.

    The communique issued in Berlin to-day thus refers to the lighting on the Dniester front:- The Russians have gained some ...

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  11. ENGLISH AIRMEN'S ATTACK.

    Yesterday three English airmen dropped three bombs on the Zeppelin shed at Grontrode, to the south of Ghent. The damage done is not known. ...

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  12. IN NORTH POLAND

    Not only have the Germans recently been making great efforts in the Baltic Provinces and attacking desperately in the part of North Poland, north of ...

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  13. ZEPPELIN REPORTED IN FRENCH LINES.

    It was reported in Paris yesterday that a German airship had been forced to alight within the French lines at Noroy-sur-Gurcq, to the east of ...

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  14. CONTRABAND.

    A few days ago the Roumanian authorities found at Bucharest l8 new transport waggons forwarded from Germany for the Turkhh railways. The ...

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  15. DEFENCE OF GORIZIA.

    The Austrian forces defending Gorizia (Gorz) are mainly concentrated in strong positions on the heights of Podgora, west of the town. There ...

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  16. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    At a meeting at the Mansion House yesterday the Lord Mayor of London (Sir Charles Johnston) made a special appeal on behalf of the Red Cross fund, ...

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  17. BELFORT AND ST. DIE BOMBED.

    Last night's communique say's:- On Tuesday German aircraft dropped some bombs on St. Die and on Belfort. Some civilians were ...

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  18. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    The following report regarding the British operatins has been received from Sir John French:- Yesterday evening we captured the ...

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  19. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    The great battle alon[?] the front east of the River San is growing in magnitude and in fiercepuoss, and the Austro-German armies are making tremendous ...

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  20. FIGHT FOR MALBORGHETTO.

    Fierce fighting is going on in the passes which lead from the Val[?]d[?]nferno to Malborghetto at a height of about 7,000 feet. So far, all the ...

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  21. THE ENEMY'S LOSSES

    The Paris "Matin"' says that since the war started the Austrians and Germans have suffered the following losses: — ...

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  22. COTTON SHIPMENTS.

    In the House of Commons yesterday afternoon Lord Robert Cecil, the Under-Sceretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said the Government had taken ...

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  23. RHEIMS BOMBARDED.

    Last night's communique says:- The Germans have again bombarded Rheims. They threw several hundred shells into the town, and some ...

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  24. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

    Owing to the war the funds of Cambridge. University show a serious deficiency, and the Senate is appealing for £13,000 to meet it. ...

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  25. STRUGGLE IN THE SNOW

    A battle has been raging tor several days at the foot of the glaciers and snowfields in the Dolomite Alps, on the eastern borders of the Trentino. It ...

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  26. THE BALTIC PROVINCES

    The following account of the fighting in the Baltic Provinces, and of the failure of the German attempt to outflank the Russian force at Shavli by an ...

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  27. WAR PROFITS.

    Mr. F. S. Montagu, one of the Lords of the Treasury, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government was devising means to tax war ...

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  28. THE ALSACE CAMPAIGN

    The communique issued at midnight last night gives the following account of the French operations in Alsace:- We have made important progress ...

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  29. LABOUR AND THE WAR

    It is understood that the Government, with the assent of the trade unions, has resolved to ask for greater powers than those conferred by the ...

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  30. FIGHTING IN ALBANIA.

    The Montenegrin troops have occupied Clementi, in Albania, after defeating the Malissori tribesmen. The advance of the Greco-Servien force on ...

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  31. SUBMARINE BLOCKADE.

    The Board og Trade inquiry into the loss of the Lusitania, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine last month, with the loss of ...

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  32. ALLEGED TRADING WITH THE ENEMY.

    The trial was continued in Glasgow yesterday of Messrs. Robert Irvingdale and Henry Wilson, partners in the well-known firm of William Jacks and ...

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  33. THE GERMAN STATEMENT.

    The communique issued in Berlin to-day gives the following account of the fighting east of the San:- On Wednesday we defeated the ...

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  34. THE GERMAN STATEMENT.

    The communique issued in Berlin today gives the following account of the recent fighting between the Germans and the British:- ...

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  35. WAR IN THE AIR.

    The British Admiralty reports that a Zeppelin airship raided the East Coast of England last evening, and as the result of bomb-dropping, 15 people were ...

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  36. HELMETS FOR FRENCH TROOPS.

    The French are equipping their infantry with light steel helmets, resembling the head-pieces used by the oldtime man-at-arms, as some protection ...

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  37. THE ITALIAN FRONT.

    The communique issued at midnight last night sums up the developments along the front as follows:- To-day's combats have been ...

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  38. THE ENEMY'S OBJECTIVES

    The Austro-German forces in the region east of the San are now of enormous strength. With their new reinforcements the Germans alone (not ...

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  39. WAR BONUSES.

    The Board of Trade statistics on war bonuses show that so far 1,987,444 workers between January and May secured a weekly increase of nearly 3s. ...

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  40. DROUGHT IN GERMANY.

    There is a persistent drought in Germany, and this is likely to seriously affect the coming harvest, especially in Mecklenburg and East Prussia. ...

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  41. BATTLE OF THE YSER.

    The following communique was issued by the Belgian authorities regarding the fighting along the Yser:- We gained a footing to-day in the ...

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  42. THE WORK OF THE HUNS.

    It is officially stated that in the North-East Coast raid by the German Zeppelin 16 persons, including a policeman, were killed, and 40 injured. ...

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  43. COMMANDER OF PIRATE HONOURED.

    It is officially announced in Berlin that Captain Hersing, the commander of the German submarine U21, has been decorated by teh Kaiser "in ...

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  44. SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS.

    The State Department at Washington has ordered an investigation into charges against a supposed Dr. Amton Meyer Gerhard, of the German Red ...

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  45. HOW ADVANCE WAS CHECKED.

    The Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that a spirited British advance near La Bassee is been checked by the German mach[?] ...

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  46. LAYING OF MINES.

    The British steamer Arndale, 3,557 tons, belonging to Messrs. Smailes and Sons, of Whithy, which was laden with a cargo of coal for Archangel, ...

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  47. THE AUSTRIAN STATEMENT.

    The communique issued at Vienna yesterday says:- During the last 15 days we have made prisoner 108 Russian officers ...

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  48. THE BRITISH FLYING CORPS

    In the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. H. J. Tennant, the Under-Secretary of State for War, said it was impossible to speak in detail of the ...

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  49. FRENCH OPERATIONS

    Further French successes in the Lens region are mentined in the communique issued at midnight last night, which says:- ...

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  50. ATTACK ON NEUTRAL VESSELS.

    The Swedish mail steamer Horsten, bound from Gothenburg to England was seized yesterday by a German submarine and conveyed to Swinemunde, ...

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  51. THE AUSTRIAN PLAN.

    The plan on which the Austrians are acting is now becoming clearer. They have prepared for a desperate defence along the Middle Isonzo from ...

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  52. FIGHTING AT DIXMUDE AND NIEUPORT.

    Advices from Belgiuin state that, after heavy artillery actions there have been severe infantry engagements at Dixmude, and on the front from ...

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  53. EXCITEMENT IN BELGIUM.

    The execution of eight citizens of Liege for alleged espionage has produced intense anger in Belgium, and as twenty others are still imprisoned, ...

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  54. THE DNIESTER FRONT.

    The Russian have met with cosiderable successes in the fighting on the line of the Dniester front. Yesterday afternoon's communique says:— ...

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  55. THE ATTACK ON KARLSRUHE.

    An official communique issued in Berlin states that in the Allies' raid on Karlsruhe, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Baden, which was undertaken ...

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  56. ALONG THE AISNE.

    Last night's communique thus describes the development of the fighting in the corner between the Oise and the Aisne:- ...

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  57. MORE TRAWLERS SUNK.

    The trawlers Petrol, Explorer, and Jorpiniea, belonging to Aberdeen, were submarined and sunk yesterday in the North Sea by German submarines. ...

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