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  2. DAM AT SAGRADO DESTROYED.

    The fire of the Italian heavy artillery has broken down the dam which the Austrians had built across the Isonzo at Sagrado, and thus defeated the ...

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  3. FINANCING THE WAR

    Many business firms ure assisting their employees to subscribe to the war loan. The post-offices are selling the 5s. ...

    Article : 98 words
  4. THE TURKISH WAR.

    Advices received in Copenhagen from Berlin state that several Italian cruisers and smaller ships had left Taranto, and are joining the Anglo-French ...

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  5. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    The following detailed account of the recent fighting near Ypres is given by Reuter's special correspondent at the British headquarters: ...

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  6. LEMBERG EVACUATED

    The cablegrams to-day bring us close to the operations in Galicia, Lemberg was evacuated on Tuesday by the Russians and occupied by the Austrians, and, we have not only a general idea of the fighting that proceded the retreat, but also reports from Vienna, and Berlin of the joy bells ringing there. The sweeping movement of the Austro-German to the north of Lemherg was carried near to the city on Sunday, and there was desperate fighting on ...

    Article : 408 words
  7. FOR VALOUR.

    Lieut-General W. R. Birdwood, the commander of the Australian and New Zealand troops at the Dardanelles, has been made a Knight Commander of the ...

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  8. THE FRENCH VICTORY.

    In the Senate this afternoon, Senator Pearce read the following cablegram from Sir lan Hamilton:- "After 24 hours' heavy and ...

    Article : 403 words
  9. SUBMARINE BLOCKADE.

    The steamer Belgrave has been torpedoed off Pembrokeshire, and has been towed to Broadhaven bottom upwards. The crew are missing. ...

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  10. FRANCE SPENDING £2,000 A MINUTE.

    The Budget Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday asked for a further vote of six milliard francs (£10,000 000) for war expenses, ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. FRICTION IN GERMAN CABINET.

    In view of the sinking of the liner Lusitania, some of the German leaders of opinion have declined reponsibilitY for the policy of the submarine attacks ...

    Article : 150 words
  12. THE POPE.

    The Paris newspaper "Liberte," continuing its interview with the Pope, states that His Holiness said:—"You will be astonished to hear that ...

    Article : 211 words
  13. WHY LEMBERG FELL.

    The full of Lemberg is foreshadowed in a message from the special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Petrograd. He says: ...

    Article : 85 words
  14. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    The great German turning movement to the northward of Lemberg has been so far successful that the Russians, seeing their communications threatened by ...

    Article : 238 words
  15. THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

    It is reported from Czernowitz that Austrian reinforcements are continually being thrown into the fighting line along the Dniester to the north of ...

    Article : 103 words
  16. BRITISH CRUISER STRUCK.

    The British Admiralty states that the cruiser Roxburgh (10,850 tons, and a main armament of four 7.5-inch guns) was struck by a torpedo in the North ...

    Article : 59 words
  17. GETTING RID OF GERMAN OFFICERS.

    Djomal Pasha, the Turkish Minister of Marine and Public Works, continues to rid himself of German officers. It is estimated that there are 3,400 ...

    Article : 54 words
  18. FRENCH OPERATIONS.

    The operations in the Woevre district are thus described in to-day's communique:- We have recaptured a fresh portion ...

    Article : 168 words
  19. GERMAN ADVANCE STOPPED

    A telegram from Przemysl states that the Russians have attacked the German left flank in great force to the northeast of Lemberg and have thus ...

    Article : 51 words
  20. CONTRABAND.

    The Customs Exportation Restriction Bill passed all stages of the House of Commons this afternoon. The hill provides for more effective control of ...

    Article : 141 words
  21. THE ITALIAN FRONT

    General Cadorna, the Italian Commander-in-Chief, reports that in their operations in the Monte Nero zone the Alpine Chausseurs have encountered ...

    Article : 119 words
  22. OPERATIONS IN POLAND

    The Germans are still trying to breakthrough to Warsaw. To-day's communique thus refers to the fighting in Middle Poland: ...

    Article : 66 words
  23. HEROIC FIGHT.

    Wounded men who have reached Cairo from the Gallipoli Peninsula narrate that an heroic fight was put up by 19 men of the Munster Regiment on ...

    Article : 101 words
  24. ON THE TANEW RIVER.

    The Russians recently evacuated Tarnogrod (25 miles north of Jaroslav), and retreated northward across the River Tanew, but they have again ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS.

    In the House of Commons this afternoon[?] Mr. Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions, in reply to questions, referred to the agreement made with ...

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  26. THE POSITION IN SYRIA.

    Travellers who have reached Cairo from Syria state that only about 11,000 Turkish troops are now in the province, the rest ...

    Article : 61 words
  27. THE DNIESTER FRONT.

    The Russians continue to meet with successes on the Dniester front. The Austrians crossed the river in considerable force below Nizniow (20 miles ...

    Article : 163 words
  28. VISTULA-KIELCE LINE.

    It is officially stated in Vienna that the Russians began on Tuesday a further retreat along their line South Poland, between the junction of the ...

    Article : 53 words
  29. THE AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT.

    Ihe following official statement with regard to the fall of Lemberg and the operations connected with it was issued in Vienna yesterday: ...

    Article : 276 words
  30. THE GREAT STRUGGLE IN GALICIA.

    After taking Grodek, the Austro-German forces advanced on Lemberg (Lwow) from the west and north-west, while at the same time strong forces carried out a movement by way of Zolkiew, which threatened the Russians' main line of communications, the railway line from Lemberg to Dubno. Lemberg is, too, in a weak position for defence under modern conditions once the enemy gets close, since it lies in a hollow, surrounded by hills, from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 423 words
  31. THE ALSACE CAMPAIGN.

    This afternoon's communique thus describes the French operations in the Fecht Valley in Alsace:- We have occupied Sondernach, and ...

    Article : 41 words
  32. THE BALTIC PROVINCES

    The operations in the Baltic provinces are thus described in to-day's communique:- In the region round Sha[?]li our ...

    Article : 73 words
  33. THE STRUGGLE FOR LENS.

    This afternoons communique refers as follows to the fighting between Arras and Lens:- The Germans made counter-attacks ...

    Article : 210 words
  34. ENORMOUS FORCES

    The special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Petrograd say it is semi-officially stated there that, there are now 4,000,000 Austro-German ...

    Article : 115 words
  35. THE SPIDER AND THE FLY.

    Below Nizniow the Dniester forms several great loops, and thus makes a series of peninsulas, almost surrounded by the river, in particular the one ...

    Article : 253 words
  36. OUTBURST OF JOY.

    It is officially stated in Vienna that Lemberg has fallen. AMSTERDAM, Later. The Second Austrian Army has ...

    Article : 104 words
  37. ARMY AVIATOR KILLED.

    Lieutenant Morvill, of the army wing of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed yesterday at Shoreham in Sussex, owing to the collapse of his machine. ...

    Article : 41 words
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