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  2. THE WAR SITUATION.

    The Papal Nuncios at Vienna and Berlin Slave informed Pope Benedict that there is nothing at present to encourage the prospect of an early peace. Messages ...

    Article : 298 words
  3. AGREEMENT AT STURT:

    After deliberations which extended over three lours the district committees of the Liberals and "Nationalists" at Sturt on Wednesday night agreed to a joint ticket ...

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  4. A PEARL OF GREAT PRICE.

    What is claimed by connoisseurs to be the finest drop-shaped pearl yet raised in Australian waters was recently found on the north-west coast, and is now being ...

    Article : 137 words
  5. Who Will Serve the King?

    The State Recruiting Committee writers:—The recruiting figures for the Commonwealth for the week ended January 13 show a slight improvement of 17 over the ...

    Article : 359 words
  6. BOLSHEVIK DECREES.

    The Petrograd correspondent of The Daily News telegraphs that the Constituent Assembly has been fixed to meet on Friday, when the anti-Bolshevik majority ...

    Article : 141 words
  7. THE PEACE ISSUE.

    Herr Dernburg (a former Colonial Minister at Berlin), in an address delivered it Frankfort-on-Main, has bitterly attacked the Pan-Germans and ridiculed ...

    Article : 218 words
  8. AN ITALIAN SUCCESS

    Gen. Haig reported this afternoon:—We repulsed a strong raid north-east of Armentieres. We made a raid north of Lens, bombed dugouts, and took prisoners. ...

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  9. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    Mr. Norman M. L. Eddington, who is a Vice-President of the Cheer-up Society, has received from the military authorities an intimation that [?] son George. who was previously reported as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 100 words
  10. Socialists' Pitiful Extremity

    A Russian wireless "Appeal to all" says:—"Immediate help is necessary. Our army is perishing from famine, and provisioning has ceased. Several regiments ...

    Article : 98 words
  11. Cambrai No Surprise.

    The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr Bonar Law), speaking in the House on Tuesday, said the War Cabinet, after ...

    Article : 157 words
  12. VICTORIAN COAL CONTRACT.

    The Premier (Mr. Holman) made available to-night portion of the statement of the case concerning the coal contract which he lad forwarded to the Victorian ...

    Article : 259 words
  13. RECRUTTING.

    Capt. F. T. Bruce (Organizing Secretary of the State Recruiting Committee) has prepared the annual report of the organisation for 1917. The document dates that ...

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  14. Straight Talk to Russians.

    At the Russo-German peace conference it Brest Litovsk, Herr Hoffmann, a German delegate, pointed out that the Russian delegation demanded rights of ...

    Article : 95 words
  15. ARREST OF ROUMANIAN LEGATION.

    The arrest of the Roumanian Legation at Petrograd by the Bolsheviks is supposed to be a reprisal for the arrest of Maximalist agitators at Jassy, the ...

    Article : 37 words
  16. DEMOS, THE TYRANT.

    The professors and teaching staffs at the Petrograd University and other colleges and schools have published a protest against the tyranny of the Bolsheviks in ...

    Article : 44 words
  17. General Items.

    Mr. "Sammy" Loon, whose service as collector on behalf of patriotic funds are well known, states that the total receipts of the above fund (of which he was the originator in February ...

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  18. GENERAL CABLES.

    There are 73 widows and 200 orphans as a result of the explosion in the Halmer End colliery, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stffordshire. ...

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  19. Position of the Cossacks.

    The Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen newspaper Politiken says that GenKaledin has requested the Ukraine Republic delegates at the Brest Litovsk Peace ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. From Italy to France.

    M. Marcel Hutin states that the report has been confirmed that most of the German divisions on the Italian front have been transferred to the French front. ...

    Article : 42 words
  21. British Labour's War Aims.

    The Trade Union Congress and Labour Party have seat messages to the Russian people, stating:—By breaking off negotiations Russia will risk the suppression of ...

    Article : 217 words
  22. WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE REFORM.

    During the debate in committee in the House of Lords on Tuesday upon the Representation of the People Bill, Lord Ha[?]fax moved an amendment demanding ...

    Article : 106 words
  23. A Bedroom Bombardment.

    The bombardment of Yarmouth on Monday night—the third bombardment of the port during the war—lasted six minutes, and it was wonderful that there was so ...

    Article : 177 words
  24. Militarists Winning Out.

    Messages from Berlin indicate that the Military Party have gained the upper hand. It is semi-officially announced that there will be no change in the official decisions on ...

    Article : 121 words
  25. STATE PROBLEMS.

    The conference of Treasurers from the various States will be opened in Melbourne to-morrow in the committee room of the Legislative Council, at 3 p.m. The ...

    Article : 410 words
  26. CHEER-UP SOCIETY AND RECRUITING

    A new departure ia connection with the recruiting movement was inaugurated in the Cheer-up Hut on Wednesday at noon. The soldiers from Mischam Camp who were detailed with ...

    Article : 304 words
  27. THE SOCIALISTIC VERSION.

    Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Socialist leader. who recently resigned from the War Cabinet, is about to publish a bork, entitled "The Aims of Labour." In it he ...

    Article : 139 words
  28. PROPAGANDA PER 'PLANE.

    Allied aeroplanes flew over large areas of Belgium and dropped copies of President Wilson's speech. A thousand of the pamphlets were dropped at Liege. ...

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  29. BRITISH IN ITALY.

    A British-Italian official message says:—Our aeroplanes during the post week have destroyed six enemy 'planes and driven down others uncontrollable. The Italians ...

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  30. CAILLAUX ARREST.

    Le Matin states that the arrest of M. Caillaux was the result of enquiries by the United States Government at Buenos Ayres. These investigations disclosed a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 214 words
  31. The Iron Cross Spurned.

    One thousand three hundred returned German soldiers who had been awarded the Iron Cross have returned that decoration to the Ministry of War at Berlin, in. ...

    Article : 62 words
  32. NON-FERROUS METALS BILL.

    In the committee debate on the Non-Ferrous Metals Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the President of the Board of Trade .(Sir Albert Stanley) ...

    Article : 67 words
  33. MORE TRADE, LESS TONNAGE.

    An interesting statement was made to-day by Engineer Rear-Admiral Clarkson (Chairman of the Commonwealth Shipping Boards) when questioned in regard to the ...

    Article : 244 words
  34. Italian Prisoners Under Fire

    The Germans are employing Italian prisoners of war in defensive works in Flanders, under harsh condition, and within artillery range. ...

    Article : 31 words
  35. SOLDIERS' TECHNICAL TRAINING.

    Replying to-day to the statement to the Premier of Victoria that proposals had been made by the Commonwealth for the State Government to assume the ...

    Article : 158 words
  36. The German Colonies.

    The New York Globe, in an editorial article, says that the captured colonies should not be returned to Germany in the peace settlement, because the Berlin ...

    Article : 76 words
  37. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 words
  38. IN PALESTINE.

    A Palestine official message says:—Despite the unfavourable weather our aircraft bombed the Jenin aerodrome and the Maan Station on the Hedjaz Railway, with ...

    Article : 76 words
  39. YEAR'S WOOL IMPORTS.

    The imports of wool into the United Kingdom during the year 1917 totalled 625,627,984 1b., compared with 618,916,683 1b. in the previous year. The value of ...

    Article : 47 words
  40. MANPOWER.

    The speech of the Minister for National Service (Sir Auckland Geddes), in the Commons, lasted for one and a half hours. It was a masterly survey of British resources ...

    Article : 307 words
  41. THE PRICE FOR WHEAT.

    Regarding the guarantee of 4/ a bush [?] given on this season's crop by the Commonwealth and the wheat producing States, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. ...

    Article : 101 words
  42. U-BOATS NEAR CANARIES.

    The Dutch steamer Atlas de Royal has been torpedoed near to Port Cabras in the Canary Islands. Twenty-nine of the crew were saved. Twenty sailors who were ...

    Article : 46 words
  43. AVIATORS' INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE.

    Some confusion has arisen from an official announcement by the Defence Department of an amendment of conditions under which commissions are granted in ...

    Article : 114 words
  44. ZINC AND WARTIME TAX.

    Considerable feeling continues to be exhibited in mining circles in Tasmania over the inclusion of mining (especially tin-mining) among the taxable businesses ...

    Article : 201 words
  45. INVALID SOLDIERS' COMFORTS.

    During the past two months 5,476 cases of Red Cross goods have been dispatched to England and Egypt from the central depot. The Federal Government says the ...

    Article : 122 words
  46. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    —From The Register, Thursday, Jan. 16, 1863.—The salvors of the Jetty Hotel, Glenelg—12 in number—have been munificently rewarded by the South Australian Issue [?] Company for saving ...

    Article : 61 words
  47. SUBMARINE BOMBARDED YARMOUTH.

    It is believed that it was a submarine which bombarded Yarmouth. Star shells gave the first warning of the attack. Most of the sheila fell in the streets. Few people were abroad. ...

    Article : 38 words
  48. Advertising

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    Advertising : 854 words
  49. Compromising Documents.

    M. Caillaux was in bed when the police arrived, and he insisted on taking a bath and shaving, Madame Caillaux meanwhile entertaining the detectives. Caillaux ...

    Article : 316 words
  50. Worker Profiteers.

    Mr. G. N. Barnes, .M.P., speaking at Glasgow, said the war lad scarcely begun when profiteering started; but it was not all on one side. The workmen's demand ...

    Article : 79 words
  51. ELECTRICITY STUDENT'S "PLANT."

    Sydney Ewing, a young man, was charged at the City Court to-day with having been in unlawful possession of three dry cells, the property of the Victorian ...

    Article : 123 words
  52. British Food Control.

    The Food Controller (Lord Rhondda) has ordered hundreds of prosecutions of food hoarders, based on enquiries into deliveries of goods by large stores in London ...

    Article : 99 words
  53. BUNNY AND THE BOY SCOUTS.

    The Rabbits and Game Committee are encouraging Boy Scouts to trap rabbits wherever possible, and to assist the farmers to destroy vermin. ...

    Article : 32 words
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