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  2. THE STRUGGLE IN GALICIA

    After desperate fighting for several plays, Austro-German troops have made good their position on the northern bank of the Dniester River, and the Russians at that point—along a front of from 20 to 30 miles— have fallen back about fifteen miles, to the Cnita Lipa River, which empties into the Dniestor at Haliez. Their past Rohtayn to Busk, then near Zolkiew to Rawa Ruska, and on in a north-westerly direction. Considered on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS.

    Subscriptions have been opened in Johannesburg to send 20 munition workers to England under an expert. It is hoped that the contingent will be ...

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  4. ON THE ADRIATIC.

    The communique issued in Vienna yesterday says:- On Saturday one of our submarines sank an Italian torpedo-boat in ...

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  5. NAVAL OPERATIONS.

    A member of the crew of the British submarine E11 (810 tons, 16 knots on surface, 12 knots submerged, and an armament of four torpedo-tubes and ...

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  6. INDIA'S WHEAT CROP.

    A writer in to-day's "Observer" says that the deal of the Indian Government in Indian wheat has been remarkably successful. The shipments to Great ...

    Article : 126 words
  7. TURKEY AND ITALY.

    It is understood that the Turkish Ambassador to Italy has demanded his passport. ...

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  8. LABOUR AND THE WAR.

    Mr. W. Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade, has intimated to both employers and employees that, at the South Wales collieries supply the ...

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  9. AN OFFER TO SERVIA.

    The Milan newspaper "H Secole" states that Colonel Metaxa, of the Greek General Staff, visited the Serbian Minister at Athens two days ...

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  10. STRIKERS FOR THE FRONT

    A correspondent belonging to a neutral country, writing to the "Daily Chronicle," states that strikes are unknown in the factories making ...

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  11. AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECRUIT.

    Richard O'Halloran, a soldier attacked to the Signallers' School at Broadmeadows, who was knocked down by a motor-car near Flinders-street railway ...

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  12. AWARD TO BRITISH DOCTOR.

    The French Academy of Science has awarded to Sir Almroth Wright, the distinguished British surgeon, the Lecomte triennial prize of £2[?]00, in ...

    Article : 57 words
  13. ALBANIA AND THE WAR

    Four thousand Albanians, under Issabol Winatz and Riza Bey, accompanied by an Austrian official, have attacked the Montenegrin frontier forts ...

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  14. UNITED STATES AND GERMANY.

    An address by Mr. W. Jennings Bryan, the late American Secretary of State, at a German-American demonstration in Madison-square, New York, ...

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  15. DEATH OF AN AUSTRALIAN NURSE.

    A report of the first death of an Australian nurse in Egypt has come to hand. The victim is Nurse Louisa Annie Bicknell, whose parents reside at ...

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  16. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg (Chancellor) and Herr Von Jagow (Secretary of States for Foreign Affairs) of the German ministry are conferring ar Vienna ...

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  17. MAKING OF MUNITIONS.

    From information now in the possession of the Munitions Committee a provisional specification for steel for 18-pound quickfiring high explosive ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. THE TURKISH WAR.

    The artillery duel on the Gallipoli Peninsula continues, and shows undisputably the superiority of the French artillery. ...

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  19. THE EASTERN FRONT.

    Heavy fighting has been going on in the corner between Lemberg and the Dniester, which formed a salient angle of the Russian position. After ...

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  20. SUBMARINE BLOCKADE.

    A German submarine, flying the Union Jack, fired four shots at the schooner Edith off Youghal, on the south coast of Ireland, yesterday, and ...

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  21. DE WET.

    Now that General Christian De Wet has been found guilty and sen[?]need on the charge of high treason, 12.63 nativeborn Africans of Dutch blood have ...

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  22. THE SOCIALIST MANIFESTO.

    The manifesto issued by the German Socialistic newspaper "Voerwarts," which led to the supression of that journal, has creaed rage and ...

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  23. TASMANIA.

    During the last few weeks there has been a substantial increase in Tasmania in the number of men volunteering for active service. Whether this has ...

    Article : 311 words
  24. REOCCUPATION OF LEMBERG.

    Prior to the Austrian reoccupation of Lemberg the males between the ages of 15 and 50 left the city. The Russians removed the grain, oil, ...

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  25. THE WESTERN FRONT.

    The communique issued at midnight last night after stating that things are quiet at present along the whole front, except for a violent artillery duel to ...

    Article : 117 words
  26. CONTINUED ATTACKS ON ENEMY'S SHIPS.

    Submarines of the Allies in the Sea of Marmora continue to destroy the enemy's revictualling ships. ...

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  27. WAR IN THE AIR

    yesterday allied airment attacked and destroyed the railway viaduct at Tagolsheim, in the south of Alsace, and thus severed the railway communication ...

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  28. THE KAISER'S EMISSARY.

    Herr Dernburg, the Kaiser's Emissary to the United States, who has reached Christiania, in Norway, on his way back to Germany, said in an ...

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  29. ITALY'S CO-OPERATION.

    The rumours which have got abroad that Italy is sending troops to the Dardanelles are incorrect. Italy has offered Great Britain and France the ...

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  30. ROMANIA AND THE WAR

    The Conservatives and the Conservative Democrats in the Roumanian Parliament, which are now in opposition to the Liberal Government led by M. ...

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  31. IN SOUTH POLAND

    The lighting in South Poland is thus described in the communique issued at midnight last night:- The Austro-Germans have brought ...

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  32. THE AUSTRIAN STATEMENT

    The communique issue in Vienna to-day gives the following acount of the struggle in Galcia:- After several days' fighting our ...

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  33. A TASMANIAN HONOURED.

    Writing to his parents under date May 9, Private Stanley McKenzie, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. McKenzie, Invermay, explains the way in which his ...

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  34. THE STRUGGLE FOR LENS.

    The official communique issued in Paris this afternoon states:- The Germans have regained a footing along a 200-metre front on the ...

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  35. BULGARIA ANB TURKE

    Following the statement made by the leading Bulgarian newspaper the "Mir," that the indications are that Turkey prefers making peace with the Triple ...

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  36. NEUTRAL TRADE.

    Statistics of American trade for the year ending April last substantiate Great Britain's contention that American exports to neutral countries have ...

    Article : 115 words
  37. BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS IN CAMP.

    At the Y.M.C.A. held sei vice building at Claremont Military Camp on Saturday evening representatives of the Victoria League of Tasmania ...

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  38. THREATENED ATTACK ON WARSAW.

    In connection with the attack which the Germans are threatening to make on Warsaw, it is stated that several trains of heavy guns have left Esssen ...

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  39. THE FRENCH FORCES.

    A decree has been issued which allows those who would nominally not be called up for military service till 1917 to enlist before July 16 for the ...

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  40. THE GERMAN ACCOUNT.

    The communique issued in Berlin to-day refers as follows to the lighting in Galicia:- We have carried by storm a height ...

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  41. IN NORTH POLAND.

    The Germans are still active in the province of Suwalki between the East Prussian frontier and the Niemen, but they have been beaten back on the ...

    Article : 112 words
  42. THE ITALIAN FRONT.

    Reports received in Rome from Milan state that the Italians have captured Gorizia, after making several attacks upon the town. ...

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  43. EIGHT WEEKS' STRUGGLE.

    Eight weeks tremendous onslaught by the Austrians and Germans has failed to conquer the Russians in Galieia. The Russians have ...

    Article : 229 words
  44. AUSTRALIA.

    The seriousness of the position in relation to recruiting and the need for men are resulting in increased activity in official circles. ...

    Article : 306 words
  45. ARTILLERY DUELS.

    The communique issued at midnight last night says:- The lighting along all the fronts is principally, confined to artillery ...

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  46. WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

    It is announced by advertisement that at the sample rooms of Messrs. Gay Limited, Murray-street, on Thursday, afternoon tea will be dispensed, ...

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  47. GERMANY'S PREPARATIONS.

    Mr. McCormick, son of a former American Ambassador at Petrograd, who was recently teh Grand Duke Nicholas's guest at the front for two ...

    Article : 187 words
  48. ALONG THE ALPS.

    The official communique issued in Rome this afternoon says:- We have occupied, Zwolfer Kofl, a summit to the westward of the ...

    Article : 43 words
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