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  2. OUR TROOPS.

    The week, which concludes to-day (the fourth since the Christmas and New Year holidays), has hardly been productive of the same amount of recruiting achieved during the ...

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  3. BRITAIN WANTS

    A influential deputation of wool buyers and brokers asked the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. W. M. Hughes, yesterday to assist them [?]o prevent enemy subjects from exporting ...

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  4. WAR COMEDY.

    The following cable his been received from Captain C. E. W. Benn, Australian press representative with the Australian Expeditionary Imperial Force: ...

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  5. ENEMY SUBJECTS.

    All previous instructions which have been issued to the police relative to the internment and treatment of alien enemies and to the treatment of naturalised ...

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  6. THE SEA FIGHT.

    It is reported that the German battlecruisers Seydlitz and Derfflinger got home little more than afloat. The former was afire, w[?]e the Derfflinger had every gun ...

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  7. FRANCE.

    The Austro-German forces are developing a movement in Galicia apparently with the object of relieving Przemysl. ...

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  8. ITALY AND TURKEY.

    What is known as the Hodoideh incident threatens to procipitate a crisiss between Italy and Turkey. It will be remembered that some weeks ago Turkish soldiers attacked the ...

    Article : 385 words
  9. GUERILLA WARFARE.

    After the battles in Belgian Lucembourg in August several small French detachments were unable to rejoin their corps. They carried on guerilla warfate in the ...

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  10. MOTOR LORRIES.

    "Although funds are coming in "very freely," said Miss Marjorie M. Mort, yesterday, "we want more, as in addition to those already purchased, the Red Cross Society has four or ...

    Article : 350 words
  11. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    The "Times" correspondent at Toronto says that although the Canadian Government is unconvinced that great advantages will accrue from the holding of the ...

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  12. IN ALSACE.

    The civilian population has quitted Thann (In Alsace, north-west of Mulhausen), which is on fire owing to the German bombardment. ...

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  13. AUSTRIAN ARTILLERY.

    In reply to a series of questions from "R. B." (Moree) concerning the artillery of the Austrians, some recent remarks by an English military writer may be quoted: ...

    Article : 373 words
  14. WAR NOTES.

    Wednesday last was the German Emperor's birthday, and the news from the western theatre of war indicates that a special effort was put forth by his generals to present him ...

    Article : 298 words
  15. NEAR SUEZ CANAL.

    A German spy has been captured near EI Kantara. British sailors have destroyed the telegraph wires at Sidon and Alexandretta. ...

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  16. RUSSIA'S TASK.

    An Austro-German movement te developing along the Dukla-Wyszkow front (Galicia), approximately 100 miles in extent. ...

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  17. ITALY AND TURKEY.

    The "Echo de Paris" states that Turkey has failed to settle the Hodeldeh incident according to promise. Italy threatens to take action. ...

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  18. EQUIPMENT.

    The Minister for Defence was questioned today with reference to various rumours concerning lack of equipment and clothing for troops at present in camp. "My recent visits to ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. THE TURKS.

    The Turks have obtained considerable renforcements in the Caucasus, and are developing vigorous attacks, which are being repulsed. ...

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  20. LOYAL NATIVES.

    The natives of the Ellice Islands recently approached the resident commissioner, Mr. Smith-Rewse, and suggested a fund for the, relief needed in England on account of the ...

    Article : 256 words
  21. THE VON DER TANN.

    The Admiralty declares as unfounded a report recently circulated that the German battle-cruiser Von der Tann had been sunk. ...

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  22. ARMENIAN MASSACRES.

    An Influential Kurdish Sheikh, Shah Madzinoff, has joined the Russians. He states that the Turks massacred almost the entire Armenian population in the ...

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  23. TO COREESPONDENTS.

    "W.G.M." (Arncliffe). "W.D.M." (Forbes), "J.W." (Bathurst), "A.H." (Lewisham), "K.M." (Penrith), and "J.A." (Surry Hills): It has been neither confirmed nor denied ...

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  24. MORAL EFFECT OF SUNDAY'S ACTION.

    The naval action of Sunday last should certainly have a big moral effect on the German fleet. inasmuch as it has rammed home so hard the lesson of the British guns. In the ...

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  25. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    The Australians ware having a gay time in Egypt when the last mail left. The "Egyptian Gazette" saya that companies of Australians daily explore the inscrutable ...

    Article : 163 words
  26. METAL CONTRACTS.

    A peculiar situation has arisen in connection with certain contracts made between Australian mining firms and agents and German metal buyers. ...

    Article : 323 words
  27. CAPTURED AIR-RAIDERS.

    The crew of the Zeppelin, which was brought down by the forts at Libau, after dropping bombs on an undefended part of the town, will not be treated as ...

    Article : 61 words
  28. AUSTRALIANS IN EGYPT.

    Signaller Isaac, ot the 3rd Battery of the First Division of the Expeditionary Force in Egypt, in a letter to his parents, states that the Zoo at Cairo is credited with being the best ...

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  29. GERMAN EFFORT.

    A communique yesterday stated that the total German losses on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday exceeded 20,000. The enemy made a great effort on the ...

    Article : 151 words
  30. BLUE CROSS.

    "Our Damb Friend's League," an old-established English society, recently started the Blue Crosss Fuod, the object of which is to help horses wounded in battle. The ...

    Article : 488 words
  31. GERMAN TOWN.

    Berlin newspapers are circulating a report that aeroplanes dropped bombs on Dortmund (20 miles north-east of Essen), doing considerable damage. Twenty-one ...

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  32. THE TEST.

    We have heard the call of the Empire, we have seen the lure of the flag, But here we have something greater than even the grand old rag. ...

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  33. "WE WANT YOU NOW."

    "My earnest word to every man who [?]oels that he ought to present himgelf for active service, and that he can offer himself. is, 'Come, we want you now;' and to the man who ...

    Article : 138 words
  34. TERMS OF PEACE.

    The "Times" says: "Manifestly the Dominions must be consulted on the terms of peace. The essential point is that they should be our partners in every necessity ...

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  35. LA BASSEE BATTLE.

    Monday's fight was the biggest in which the British recently have been engaged. The La Bassee plains were a bog, and the Germans found the only workable ...

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  36. PROBABLE ATTEMPT TO HIT BACK.

    We may take it for granted, however, that the Gorman Admiralty will put forth a special effort to achieve some sort of a set-off against the disastrous expedition of Sunday. ...

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  37. BELGIANS THANK AUSTRALIA.

    The director of a large manufacturing firm in Brussels, writing to the Australian representatives, says:— "We have noticed in the press that the ...

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  38. TRADE AND COMMERCE.

    A committee of dye users has adopted a modified scheme of national dye-making, with provision for future expansion. The Treasury has approved of financial ...

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  39. GERMAN SHIPS.

    The annual report of the Fremantle Harbour Trust Commissioners states that during the year ended June 30, 1914, the number of German ships using the port while ...

    Article : 130 words
  40. MINE-SWEEPING.

    In his report to the Premier announcing the purchase of three steam trawlers for fishing in Australian waters Mr. D. Q. Stead, Fisheries Inquiry Commissioner, makes some ...

    Article : 172 words
  41. SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS.

    It has been frequently stated recently, even by members of the units in training at Broadmeadows camp, that one of the difliculties with which the defence authorities are ...

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  42. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET.

    The following quotations ruled on the Chicago wheat market yesterday:—May, 149 to 150? cents per bushel; July, 133¾ to 135½. ...

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  43. BETHUNE ATTACKED.

    Renter's correspondent at Saint Omer says the Germans concentrating important forces between La bassee and Festubert on Monday, attempted to pierce the Allies' ...

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  44. FREEZING SPACE.

    Owing to the war and drought there is an unprecedented demand on freezing space for the purposes of export. Contractors for army supplies of beef for the Allies are ...

    Article : 81 words
  45. RECRUITING AMONG POLICE.

    In the Legislative Assembly a motion by Mr. Johnson that the Government allow the police to volunteer for military service under a guarantee that their positions would be ...

    Article : 59 words
  46. MERCHANT SHIPPING.

    The steamer Marathon, which left Sydney on December 7, has arrived at Plymouth. The steamer Perth has reached Queenstown. ...

    Article : 30 words
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