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  2. EUROPEAN WAR.

    Telegrams from the western front in Europe show that the British and the French have scored signal successes over the Germans—the British in Flanders, and the French in the east of France, as well as in Alsace. A leading Dutch journal announces that the inundations along the Y[?]er Canal have subsided, and that the fighting in Belgium has become livelier. British warships are engaged in bomarding the German positions along the Belgian ...

    Article : 341 words
  3. MINES IN THE BALTIC.

    A German fleet has laid a minefield in the vicinity of the Aland Islands, in the Baltic, off the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, to prevent communication between ...

    Article : 39 words
  4. THE DARDANELLES.

    A Russian aviator reports that the Turks have concentrated in great strength on the coasts to the north and the north-east of Gallipoli, and have brought great ...

    Article : 67 words
  5. THE PRINZ EITEL FRIEDERICK.

    Some members of the crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich (interned in an American port) have reached Copenhagen en route for Berlin with the ...

    Article : 38 words
  6. MILITARY SUPPLIES.

    At a largely attended meeting of the South Australian Chamber of Manufactures to-day the following motions were carried—(1) That in the opinion of this chamber the ...

    Article : 283 words
  7. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The South African Union forces which recently captured Aus, on the inland railway from Luderitz Bay, in German South-West Africa, has made a further advance. ...

    Article : 108 words
  8. FATE OF U15.

    The Turkish account of the sinking of the British submarine U15, in the Dardanelles, states that the vessel left Tenedos at midnight. She dived after entering the strains ...

    Article : 104 words
  9. BRITISH NEWS.

    In spite of the remonstrances of their leaders the South Wales miners have decided to support a national strike to secure a 20 per cent. war bonus. ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. GENERAL ITEMS.

    Count Ramoneones, formerly Liberal Premier of Spain, in an important public speech here yesterday, strongly urged Spanish adherence to the Triple Entente. ...

    Article : 56 words
  11. VICTORIA.

    Recollections of the bombardment of Hartlepool by German warships on December 17 were revived by the arrival at Williamstown to-day of the steamer ...

    Article : 226 words
  12. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    The Victoria Cross has been awarded to the following British soldiers for signal gallantry in fights in France and Flanders:— Private Barber, 1st Grenadier Guards, ...

    Article : 213 words
  13. THE HIDEOUSNESS OF WAR.

    The British delegates to the Women's International Peace Conference are unable to reach The Hague, owing to the steamer service between Holland and England ...

    Article : 88 words
  14. JAPAN'S NAVY.

    It is announced in Japanese diplomatic circles in London that Japan is materially augmenting her navy. She is now building two first-class battleships. ...

    Article : 32 words
  15. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    The hearing was concluded to-day of the case in which Harry Goldman, trading as D. Bernard and Co., the H. Goldman Manufacturing Co., and the Swiss Studios ...

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  16. FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

    An official communique issued this evening stated: "The British troops in Flandera have attacked and captured German trenches, 200 metres in length, near ...

    Article : 205 words
  17. RUSSIA'S OPERATIONS.

    Details are now made public of the recent desperate battles in the Carpathians at Telepoich and Zuella. The Russians began their advance on the night of April ...

    Article : 205 words
  18. A MODERN NAVAL BATTLE.

    An officer on the Meteor, the destroyer which sustained some damage in the recent North Sea battle, supplies a wonderfully vivid account of the great fight. The ...

    Article : 894 words
  19. AMERICA AND JAPAN.

    The Chinese Government has received a note from the United States pointing out that the latter has certain treaties with China from which she does not intend to ...

    Article : 56 words
  20. SENTRY'S CHALLENGE IGNORED.

    Four English officers, motoring to Ram[?]gate last night, disregarded the challenge of a sentry, who called upon them to stop. The soldier fired, and shot dead ...

    Article : 61 words
  21. AMERICAN WAR VIEWS.

    A Berlin telegram denies that Herr Ballin, who was recently interviewed by the New York "World," was authorised by the Kaiser to express his views on the war, ...

    Article : 161 words
  22. GERMAN ATROCITIES.

    The "Daily Chronicle's" war correspondent in Flanders states that after the defeat by Belgian troops of the German force which last week crossed the Y[?]er near ...

    Article : 124 words
  23. MORE BRITISH OFFICERS PENALISED.

    The Berlin "Lokalanzeiger" states that 13 British officers, held as prisoners of war at Cologne, have been ordered into solitary confinement in revenge for the segregation ...

    Article : 51 words
  24. MOTOR AMBULANCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 271 words
  25. A TSING-TAO COMPLAINT.

    The United States Ambassador, Dr. Page, has handed to Sir Edward Grey, a protest sent through him by Germany, against the seizure of the German steamer Hakalat ...

    Article : 129 words
  26. GERMANISING BRUSSELS.

    The Germans have fined the City of Brussels 500,000 marks (£25,000) for refusing to re-name the leading street Berlinstrasse. The Germans threaten to shoot 100 ...

    Article : 46 words
  27. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 words
  28. FALLEN FROM GRACE.

    The "Novoe Vremya" states that General von Hindenburg, the leader of the German operations against Poland, has fallen into disfavour. The German General Staff has ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. A GERMAN REPORT.

    A Berlin telegram reports the issue of a German communique claiming to have repulsed with heavy losses a British attack on a position in Flanders, near the Ypres to ...

    Article : 38 words
  30. THE DUTCH FRONTIER.

    It is notified that the German Government has absolutely closed all frontier communication between Holland and Belgium. Not even consignments of food are ...

    Article : 41 words
  31. ACTIVITY IN BELGIUM.

    The "Telegraaf" stated this morning: "British warships are bombarding the German positions from Middelkerke to Ostend. The inundations on the Yser are subsiding ...

    Article : 60 words
  32. AT SEA.

    The Grimsby trawler Fermo reports that a submarine yesterday torpedoed the trawler Stanilla in the North Sea. The Stanilla was almost shattered to pieces, and she sank ...

    Article : 83 words
  33. AUSTRO-GERMAN FEELING.

    Count Julius Andrassy, the Austro-Hungarian Envoy, has admitted to a Hungarian newspaper interviewer at Buda-Pesth that the recent conference he attended in ...

    Article : 100 words
  34. AERIAL WARFARE.

    A "Daily News" war correspondent reports from the Belgian frontier that great activity is shown by the entire German naval and military air services. Large quantities of ...

    Article : 163 words
  35. IN MONTMARE WOOD.

    Further details of the great fight in Montmare Wood, reported on the 10th inst., state that the German troops received peremptory orders to recover the ...

    Article : 192 words
  36. PLIGHT OF THE GERMANS.

    According to Major Durand, a French military officer, who took part in the early operations of the French army at Verdun, and who is now proceeding on a military ...

    Article : 242 words
  37. WAR AND UNEMPLOYMENT DISTRESS RELIEF FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 words
  38. ITALY'S WAR FEVER.

    The relations between Italy and Austria have become acute, owing to the frontier skirmishes and the failure of Austria to make the territorial concessions ...

    Article : 64 words
  39. THE KILLING OF FISHERFOLK.

    The Admiralty states that the torpedoing of the Stanilla and the killing of the fisherfolk for no military purpose will not escape attention. This is the second ...

    Article : 58 words
  40. AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE.

    The capture of Hill No. 60 was an important step in the task of swinging the German right around. The blowing up of the hill resembled a volcanic eruption, and ...

    Article : 149 words
  41. PROPOSED REPRISALS.

    The "Daily Mail" states:—"If the Government is unwilling to enforce the law of hostages by placing a number of Germans in penal prisons reprisals for the sinking of ...

    Article : 77 words
  42. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 964 words
  43. A FRENCH LOSS.

    A Berlin official report received in Amsterdam states that the Germans have captured the famous French aviator Garros, who has performed so many serial ...

    Article : 72 words
  44. SPARRING FOR AN OPENING.

    The Rome correspondent of the "Daily News" telegraphs:—"Italy's neutrality must expire before May 12, when the Italian Parliament meets. The date of ...

    Article : 123 words
  45. WITH THE WESTERN AUSTRALIANS

    Ten weary weeks of hard training in this sandy wilderness has sufficed to discount any predilection the A.I.E.F. may have entertained for the "flesh-pots of Egypt." ...

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  46. DUTCH STEAMER WRECKED.

    The Dutch steamer Olando (2,136 tons), bound from England to Rotterdam with a cargo of coal, was sunk by a German mine in the North Sea yesterday. Her crew ...

    Article : 38 words
  47. THE GREEK EX-PREMIER.

    M. Venizelos, who resigned the Premiership of Greece because the King declined to accept his proposal to take up arms against Germany and Austria, arrived here ...

    Article : 68 words
  48. THE PIRATE HERO.

    In anticipation of the birthday of Admiral von Tirpitz, the originator of the submarine piracy policy against the merchant shipping, large quantities of postcards, ...

    Article : 57 words
  49. IN ALSACE.

    An official communique reports signal and continuous successes in Southern Alsace, where the French troops are fighting their way down the valley of the Fecht, a ...

    Article : 153 words
  50. A SIGNIFICANT RUMOUR.

    The "Figaro" states: "It is rumoured at Rome that Italy has fixed to-day as the last day for receiving a definite Austrian answer to her demands." ...

    Article : 36 words
  51. BILLIARDS.

    The scores in the Gray-Inman billiard match are:—Gray, 10,501; Inman, 10,327. ...

    Article : 15 words
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