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  2. STATE GOVERNORS.

    A number of suhjocts of political importance were debated at longth at the conference of Premiers and Treast[?]ers at Parliament House yesterday. ...

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  3. RECRUITING.

    It is officiatlly announced that 80 recruits wete accepted on Thursday, making the total since Monday in New South Wales 364. To-day Recruiting-officer Church and ...

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  4. AUSTRALIAN STEAMERS TORPEDOED.

    In answer to a question by Mr. Higgs (Qld.), the Acting Minister, for Navy (Mr. Poynton) stated in the House of Representatives today that two of the Commonwealth steamships ...

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  5. LATE WAR NEWS.

    The Admiralty announces: The operation designed to close the ports of Ostend and Zeel[?]ugge was successfully completed on the night of the 9th inst, when the ...

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  6. WEST FRONT.

    Reporting on Thursday afternoon Sir Douglas Haig, stated: Successful AngloFreach counter attacks in the La Clytle Voormezeele sector drove the enemy out ...

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  7. SALONICA FRONT.

    An official report from Salonica states: The British raided trenches near Lake Doiran on the night of May 6, mid reached all their objectives. They bombed ...

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  8. LLOYD GEORGE WINS

    In the House of Commons to lay the closure was applied and Mr. Asquith's motion for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into Major-Geneial Maurices, charges ...

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  9. WAR NOTES.

    The strength of the Allied defence on the very important sector south-westward of Ypres was demonstrated during the fighting which took place there on Wednosday last ...

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  10. "FIVE-HUNDRED DAY."

    There will be a military procession through the city on May 17—"Five Hundred Day"— and special efforts wilt be made to secure city and suburban recruits. Speakers are to ...

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  11. AUSTRALIA AND THE WAR.

    "God help this land of ours if England should not come out of this fight all right," said Mr. Fred Flowers, presidimt ot the New South Wales Legislative Council, while ...

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  12. THE TEUTON HAND.

    The State Department at Washington has Issued a copy of a document circulated in Spnln by a German propagandist, which, the Stnte Department says, is undoubtedly of ...

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  13. WESTERN FRONT.

    A French communique issued at midnight on Thursday says: There was ouly marked reciprocal artillery acthity on the Hallies Mont Didier front. ...

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  14. INSURING RECRUITS.

    The headmastar of the Boys' Public School, Faloon-strect, North Sydney, has notitied the committee at headquarters that, since advising of a second recruit, the school had got ...

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  15. ENEMY REPORT.

    A German official message on Thursday evening says: Our local attacks southward of Dikkcbusch Lake wore completely successful. We stormed strongly fortified ...

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  16. PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

    In view of the increase in the separation allowances to the wives, children, and other dependents of soldiers in the A.I.F., it was considered advisable that a conference of the ...

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  17. GENERAL MAURICE'S CITAROES.

    Somo relief will be felt at the fact that the controversy regarding General Maurice's recent statements has not been as protracted as it threatened to be. Although the matter ...

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  18. ATTACK COMPLETELY FRUSTRATED.

    Mr. Percival Phillips telegraps that yesterday s German attack planned on an ambitious scale between Locro and the Yprcs Canal, on a five or six miles front, was completely ...

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  19. GOOD PROSPECTS IN QUEENSLAND.

    Mr. R. B. Orchard: Minister for Recruiting, returned from Brisbane yesterday. Heexpressed the belief thnt Queensland, would unite in a genuine effort to supply its quota ...

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  20. TRADE WITH THE EAST.

    The report of Senntor Long, who about l8 months ago, was appointed by the Federal Ministry to inquire into the trade conditions between, Australia and Java, the Dutch East ...

    Article : 270 words
  21. SUPPOSED SPY.

    Mr. Macpherson, Assistant Secretary for War, stated that a man was recently put ashore from a German submarine on the Irish coast by a collapsible boat. He was ...

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  22. AERIAL ACTIVITY.

    Sir Douglas Haig, in his aviation report of Thursday evening says: We diopped 10 tons of bombs on Le Cateau, Cambral, Bapaume, and Zoebrugge docks and mole. ...

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  23. ZEEBRUGGE BLOCKED.

    Although there is no official confirmation of a t statement from Switzerland that submarines have been compelled to return to German bases instead of Zeebrugge, a high ...

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  24. AMERICA'S MACHINE-GUNS.

    According to a cablegram published this morning the United States Secretary for War has announced that there is no shortage of light or heavy Browning machine-guns. The ...

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  25. AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS.

    There have been many changes in the Australian Red Cross organisation in France. These have been necessitated in order to meet the new military situation. April was the ...

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  26. TEUTONS MASSING.

    The "Dally Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent states thut the Austro-Germans are being regrouped, and fresh artillery is massing fon the resumption of the battle at at ...

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  27. BLACK SEA FLEET.

    The latest Moscow news revoals that the Russian Government is without knowledge of the fate of the Black Sen fleet. ...

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  28. VICTORY POLICIES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 words
  29. BRITISH NAVAL LOSS.

    The Admiialty announces that a British mine-swceper was mined and sunk on May 1. Three officers and 23 others, including the crow attached to the mercantile marine, were ...

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  30. PROCESSION ON MONDAY.

    A large number of wounded and sick soldiers will arrive in Sydney on Monday, and the procession will be from Haig-avenue to Park-street, thence by way of George-street ...

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  31. IRELAND.

    Mr. Bonar Law stated in the House of Commons that the Home Rule Bill would not be introduced before Whitsuntide The House of Commons would adjourn on May 16 to ...

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  32. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

    Additional offers to previde policies of £200 each under the scheme, inaugurated by the fchnmber of Commorce have been received from the following:—Previously acknowledged, ...

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  33. BRITIESH SUBMARINES.

    An official statement received in Washington, from Great Britain, says that more than 4[?] German warships have been successfully attacked by British submarines since the ...

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  34. WORK OF BRITISH SUBMARINES.

    The brief but interesting announcement published in Washington, regarding one phase of the work of the British submarines throws some light on a subject concerning which we ...

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  35. MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' CLAIMS.

    Application has been lodged in tbe Federal Arbitration Court by the Federuted Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia for a compulsory conference in the ...

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  36. INCITING SOCIALISTS.

    A sensattonal trial is proceeding at Edinburgh. John Maclean, formerly a schoolmaster, at Glasgow and afterwards. Boishevik Consul, is charged with inciting socialists. ...

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  37. CAPTAIN WILKINSON TWICE HONOURED.

    News has been received that Captain W. A. C. Wilkinson (Coldstream Guards), son of Dr. W. Camac Wilkinson, formerly of Sydney, but now of London, has been awarded a [?]ar ...

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  38. MARINE WAR RISKS.

    A Washington message says that the Government rates for marine war risks have been reduced to two per cent. This is regarded as evidence that the submarine monace is ...

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  39. MR. LLOYD GEORGE.

    Mr. Lloyd George, in concluding his speech in the Houso of Commons, with deep emotion, begged and implored there be an end to this sniping, and sat down amid prolonged cbeers. ...

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  40. LONDON FINANCIAL CABLES.

    The Bank, ot. England gold and silver coin is £60,751,000, against £52,777:000 a year ago: reservo in notes and coin, £30,133,000, against £34,745,000, last year; the proportion of ...

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  41. U-BOAT SUNK.

    A United States warship fired three shots at a submarine in European waters. The third shell lifted the end of the U boat from the water adn sank her. There were no ...

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  42. RUSSIA.

    A German official messaga says:—We leached the moulh of the Don, and have occupied Rostov. ...

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  43. WATERSIDE WORKERS' CLAIMS.

    The healing was lesumed before Mr. Justice Higgins in the Arbitration Court of the plaint of the Waterside Workers' Federation against the Commonwealth Steamship ...

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  44. DANGERS IN HOME WATERS.

    The lot of the commander and crew of a British submarine is far from pleasant. Apart from the ordinary inconveniences necessarily attached to life on board an under-water ...

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  45. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN.

    Lieut Hay, an Australian, While flying off the Scottish const, came down in the sea, and was drowned. Lieutenant Burton, an Australian, was killed ...

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  46. STATE INCOME TAX.

    The N.S.W. State Commissioners of Taxation intimate that on Tuesday next the income tax assessment notices in respect of 1917 income will be issued, and that this tax may be paid ...

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  47. GENERAL CABLES.

    The High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. A. Fisher) entertained at lunch to-day Dr. Fethcraton and Mr. J. G. Manifold, M.P. for Corangamite, Victoria. ...

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  48. PACIFICIST ACTIVITIES.

    Mr Bonar Law, when asked in the House of Commons to account for the decrensed subscriptions for war bo[?]s, said he was informed they were partly due to the [?]actificist attempts ...

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  49. AUSTRALIAN WHISKY.

    The Licensed Victuallers Association has decided to place an Australian malt whisky on the market, which win be retailed at 6d a nobbler. The present rotail price of whisky ...

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