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  2. LATE WAR NEWS.

    A naval communique states:- A squadron of German destroyers bombarded Dunkirk for 10 minutes on the night of the 25th inst. While sailing past ...

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  3. THE GOVERNOR.

    The citizens of Sydney bade farewell to the Governor at a banquet held at the Town Hall last night, prior to Sir Gerald Strickland's departure from New South Wales. The ...

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  4. SLAUGHTER

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Halg, reporting late on Wednesday night, stated: We slightly advanced our line to-day south of the Scarpe River, where two German-field ...

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  5. WHAT RUSSIA WANTS

    The United States Ambassador in Russia, Mr. Francis, reports that all the Russians need to defeat Germany is a plentiful supply of money, munitions, and railway ...

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  6. AMERICANS SINK A SUBMARINE.

    Advices from London state that the captain of the armed American steamer Mongolia (13,600 tons), reports that on the 19th instant he fired at a submarine, which was ...

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  7. FIFTY-FIVE SHIPS SUNK.

    Forty large British ships and 15 small ones were sunk by the enemy last week. The largest number of big ships previously sunk in one week was 19, in the week ...

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  8. BRITISH ATTACK IN MACEDONIA.

    It is some considerable time since we have heard of anything other than minor developments on the allied front in Macedonia. This inactivity has been particularly ...

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  9. BRITISH FRONT.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Halg, in his midday report on Thursday, states:- The enemy last evening endeavoured to re-attack our new positions in the ...

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  10. IS AUSTRIA WEARY?

    The London correspondent of the "New York Times" learns from a "specially wellinformed source" that there is ground for believing that Austria is seeking an ...

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  11. STIRRING CHANNEL FIGHT.

    The Press Burean publishes details of the destroyer action in the Channel reported on Saturday last. The number of G[?]rman destroyers engaged was six, not ...

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  12. ITALIAN SHIPPING.

    An Italian naval communique announces that the shipping movements and losses for the week ended April 22 were as follows:—Arrivals 385, sailings 425; sunk, ...

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  13. EARL KILLED IN ACTION.

    The Earl of Suffolk has been killed in action in Mesopotamia. [Henry Molyneux Paget Howard was the nineteenth Earl of Suffolk, and was 40 years ...

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  14. RUSSIA'S DEMANDS.

    A Moscow despatch states that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Millukoff, in the course of an interview, said that Russia had not received any official offer ...

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  15. RATIONING NECESSARY.

    Speaking in the House of Lords, the Food Controller, Lord Devonport, said that the weekly consumption of bread must be reduced to 41b per head. He was ...

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  16. WAR NOTES.

    The position of the armies on the Western front has undergone no important alteration, according to the official reports, and interest is still centred upon now tactics of the ...

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  17. GLASSBLOWERS' STRIKE.

    With reference to Mr. Thomas Ross's remarks in Wednesday's issue on the strike at the Waterloo glassworks, Mr. H. D. Thompson, secretary of the Glass Bottle Workers' ...

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  18. SWEDISH SOCIALISTS.

    A Copenhagen telegram says that 20,000 participated in the Socialist demonstration at Malmoe (Sweden), when resolutions were carried demanding a treaty with ...

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  19. SPAIN BEING RUINED.

    The "Petit Parisien" publishes an interview with Count Romanones, who recently resigned his post as Premier of Spain as a result of his advocating that ...

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  20. FURY OF FIGHTING.

    Correspondents at the front report that the village of Gavrelle (north-east of Arras) has been the centre of the fiercest fighting. It commands the road stoping ...

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  21. CONSCRIPTION.

    When speaking at an election meeting in the Benall shire hall this evening, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) set forth in plainer words than he has done before the attitude ...

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  22. HUNGER IN SWEDEN.

    A Copenhagen message states that strikes and hunger demonstrations continue in many Swedish towns, and that the military took part in several. ...

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  23. THE MANAGER'S CASE.

    Mr. Thomas Ross, manager of the Australian Glass Manufacturing Company's works in Sydney, stated yesterday that he had received a telegram from the secretary of the ...

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  24. SERIOUS SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.

    The Admiralty's announcement of the losses sustained hy British merchant ships during the week ended on Sunday last is far from reassuring. It certainly proves the accuracy ...

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  25. NORTH OF BAGDAD.

    An official message from Mesopotamia says: Besides the rolling stock already enumerated, our captures at Istiibulat (on the Tigris, 60 miles north of Bagdad), ...

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  26. TURMOIL IN ARGENTINE.

    A report from Buenos Ayres says that conflicts between peace demonstrators and the pro-war party necessitated police interference. ...

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  27. BATTLE'S EBB AND FLOW

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, telegraphing from the British headquarters in France on Wednesday evening says: The battle eastward of Arras between the Scarpe and the ...

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  28. GERMAN TALK OF PEACE.

    A telegram from Amsterdam says that the German newspapers disclose a chaotic political situation. While the army leaders are boasting of ...

    Article : 531 words
  29. IN THE BLACK SEA.

    An official Russian communique reports that a Russian cruiser destroyed the harbour works at Kerasand, a Turkish Black Sea port. A torpedoer destroyed three ...

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  30. TUNNEL WORKS COLLAPSE.

    While the men were working on the face of No. 4 tunnel yesterday, more earth fell. The men escaped. It is stated that the southern end of No. 3 tunnel is expected to collapse ...

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  31. LAON CATHEDRAL.

    Mr. Bonar Law stated in the House of Commons that the Government could not adopt the suggestion to threaten to make reprisals on Cologue Cathedral if Laon ...

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  32. BRITISH ADVANCE IN MACEDONIA.

    A British official message from Salonica states: After three days bombardment we attacked on Wednesday night on a twoand-a-half miles front between the ...

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  33. SMELTING INDUSTRY.

    Commenting to-day upon the cable message published this morning that a company called the National Smelting Company had been formed in Great Britain to take over smelting ...

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  34. UNION WHITE LIST.

    In response to a request from the Food Trades Council, the Meat Industry Employees' Union has decided to prepare a "White list" of those master butchers who employ only ...

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  35. HONOURS WON BY SOLDIERS.

    The following decorations have been awarded Australian soldiers:- Distinguished Service Order: Major H. A. Crowther (Infantry). ...

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  36. THE DESTROYER FIGHT.

    The detailed account issued by the Press Bureau of the destroyer action fought in the Channel off Dover on Friday night last more than confirms the impression which the ...

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  37. RAILWAY DISPUTES.

    It is probable that the unionists in the railway service will accept for the time being at any rate, the departmental board proposed by the Ministers, if they do not succeed in ...

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  38. BRITISH WHEAT PRODUCTION.

    The second reading of the Corn Production Bill, which is designed to stimulate the growing of wheat in Britain, was carried in the House of Commons by 288 votes to 27. The ...

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  39. MILITARY CROSS.

    News has been received that Captain W. J. Y. Guilfoyle, R.F.C., only son of the late W. R. Guilfoyle, Director of Melbourne Botanic Gardens, and Mrs. Guilfoyle, England, has ...

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  40. ALLIES AND GREECE

    The Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that the Entente Powers have arrived at a unanimous agreement regarding Greece. Important events are ...

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  41. CLERK SENTENCED.

    Thomas Silsby, clerk in the Mental Hospitals Department, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for forgery. The defalcations totalled £2870 8s, of which £2500 has ...

    Article : 37 words
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