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  2. WAR CHARITIES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The sum of £50,000,000 was subscribed to war charities during the first two years of the war, including the Dominions and colonies. This total includes £20,000,000 ...

    Article : 156 words
  3. FOOD AND LABOR.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Associated Chambers of Agriculture passed a resolution that there would be a disastrous shortage of wheat and other essential foods if farms were further ...

    Article : 379 words
  4. HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons there were lively discussions on man power, food prices, and the Channel fight, and they resulted in a record of 247 questions being ...

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  5. BROKEN PLEDGES.

    LONDON. Wednesday.--The Marina was torpedoed during a gale. No warning was given. The American Consul at Cork reports that six Americans were lost, and two were injured. ...

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  6. SUBMARINE WAR.

    Owing to the staking of the steamer Marina and the loss of six Americans who were on board, President Wilson has ordered that full inquiries be made to ascertain whether Germany has broken her pledges. The situation ...

    Article : 167 words
  7. MAJORITY FOR N0--80,874.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 words
  8. POST-WAR TRADE.

    LONDON. Wednesday.—The Empire Producers' Association tendered a farewelliuncheon to Mr. Horace Young, Australian delegate. Mr. Massey, Prime Minister of New ...

    Article : 142 words
  9. ABSENTEE VOTES.

    In all probability, the final result of the referendum will be made known within a week--that, at least, is the opinion of electoral officers in view of the progress made with ...

    Article : 271 words
  10. GERMANY'S NEED OF MEN.

    BERNE, Wednesday.--There are signs that the German munition factories are badly in need of men. German agents are travelling through Switzerland trying to induce Swiss ...

    Article : 60 words
  11. ARTILLERY.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--General Sir Douglas Haig reports:--"There was a considerable shelling around Stuff and Schwaben Redoubts and Regina ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. RUSSIAN AID.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Roumanian official circles in London are of opinion that the worst is ever, and that the full pressure of Russian help will be felt in a few days. ...

    Article : 321 words
  13. FEDERAL LABOR PARTY.

    At a meeting of members of the New South Wales section of the Federal Labor Party, held in the Commonwealth Offices yesterday, it was decided that the party should be convened to ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. KAISER'S CONFERENCE.

    NEW YORK, "Wednesday.--The Berlin correspondent of the New York "American" says that there is much speculation concerning the Kaiser's conference with Dr. von ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. RECRUITING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 words
  16. MR. CATTS AND RECRUITING.

    Sir,--Mr. Catts must be blessed with an exceptionally short memory--even for a politician--if he can say that he never assured the people:--(1) That reinforcements were not ...

    Article : 316 words
  17. PROBING FOR PEACE.

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.--What is interpreted as another German peace feeler has been cabled to the New York "World" from Berlin. The cable states that Professor ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. MEN WHO FELL.

    Sergeant STRATFORD.--News of the death of Sergeant Joseph Stratford has been received in Lismore. In June, 1915, he was first reported wounded at Gallipoli, and then missing. ...

    Article : 338 words
  19. PREJUDICIAL TO RECRUITING.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. Arnold Lupton, ex-Liberal M.P. for Steaford Division, Lincoinshire, has been summoned under the Defence of the Realm Act for publishing pamphlets ...

    Article : 157 words
  20. FLANDERS FRONT.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--General Sir Douglas Haig reports:--"We bombarded the enemy's lines in the neighborhood of Hohenzollern Redoubt and La ...

    Article : 33 words
  21. MR. HUGHES IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mr. Hughes returned to Melbourne to-day, but he is not disposed just new to discuss the result of the poll. He takes up the attitude that the result ...

    Article : 270 words
  22. ALLIES AND GREECE.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, recommended a postponement of the question as to whether Britain had ...

    Article : 432 words
  23. GERMAN MUNITIONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the creation of a German Ministry of Munitions, under Major-General Groener, who ...

    Article : 50 words
  24. DEPOSED LABOR LEADER.

    HOBART, Wednesday.--In the Assembly to-day Mr. Earic announced that at a meeting of the State Parliamentary Labor party that morning a motion had been carried declaring ...

    Article : 192 words
  25. MORE MEN WANTED.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--The army authorities are increasingly insistent on the necessity for more men for winter training and renewed operations in the spring. The military demand ...

    Article : 321 words
  26. CHERNA SALIENT.

    PARIS, Wednesday.--A French communique, states:--"The Servians are progressing in the Lerna salient. ...

    Article : 86 words
  27. PRISONERS' TREATMENT.

    AMSTERDAM, Wednesday.--A number or Russian officers have been placed in special camps for severe treatment, as a reprisal for the alleged ill-treatment of German prisoners in ...

    Article : 86 words
  28. CHANNEL RAID.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that six British drifters were lost in the Channel fight. The raiders possessed the ...

    Article : 188 words
  29. A £400,000 LOAN.

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--It is understood that the Commonwealth Bank is the principal underwriter of a loan of £ 400,000 which is being offered by the Broken Bill Proprietary, ...

    Article : 186 words
  30. P.L.L. AND EXPULSIONS.

    The secretary of the Political Labor League (Mr. P. C. Evans) said yesterday, in reference to a paragraph in these columns, that no "official of the P.L.L. executive but himself was e[?]titled ...

    Article : 330 words
  31. KILLED IN ACTION.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--Second Lieutenant Adrian Balfour (London Regiment), late of Sydney, and Lieutenant Rev. Arthur Walker (of the Manchester Regiment), son of Rev. ...

    Article : 38 words
  32. SYDNEY'S WATER SUPPLY.

    The Joint committee of the Northern Suburbs--Strathfield to Hornsby--has decided to secure signatures to a "monster" petition to the Premier asking that provisions be made for an ...

    Article : 416 words
  33. EASTERN AREA.

    PETROGRAD, Wednesday.--A Russian communique announces:-- "In the direction of Lutsk, south of Svinluchi, we captured trenches and repulsed a ...

    Article : 76 words
  34. AMERICAN BANKS.

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.--A return of the United States banks shows that resources have increased by 25 per cent. In the last three years. ...

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  35. HOW THE AUSTRALIANS FOUGHT AT MOUQUET FARM.

    "On the same day on which the British took Gulliemont and Leuze Wood, and reached Ginchy; on the same day on which the French pushed their line almost to Combles; at the same ...

    Article : 310 words
  36. ROBBERY AT ST. LEONARDS.

    During the absence of the inmates yesterday afternoon thieves broke into Mr. Frank Marshall's home in Albany Street, St. Leonards, and secured money and jewellery to the total value ...

    Article : 115 words
  37. MERCHANT SUBMARINES.

    NEW LONDON (Connecticut), Wednesday.--A German merchant submarine--the Deutschland--has arrived from Germany. She is in charge of Captain Koenig, who piloted the first ...

    Article : 125 words
  38. MESOPOTAMIA.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Lords, Lord Derby, Under-Secretary for War, made a statement regarding the position in Mesopotamia. He said that conditions had improved ...

    Article : 138 words
  39. SUSPENDING PUBLIC WORKS.

    HOBART, Wednesday, --In the Assembly yesterday, the Minister for Lands, in bringing down the public works proposals, amounting to £[?]6,000, saint that it was proposal to stop ...

    Article : 66 words
  40. CASUALTIES.

    LONDON, Wednesday.--October's casualty lists for the army aggregated 4366 officers and 101,340 men, including approximately 1050 of[?]cers and 19,865 men killed and died. There ...

    Article : 36 words
  41. MR. WEBSTER AND THE MOVEMENT.

    Mr. Webster, Postmaster-General, said yesterday that, having broken no pledge or violat[?] any platform to which he had promised to abide, the attitude taken up towards him by ...

    Article : 206 words
  42. GREEK NATIONAL ARMY.

    ATHENS, Wednesday.--A regiment favorable to King Constantine attempted to stop another infantry regiment going into this interior of Salonika to join the National army. ...

    Article : 49 words
  43. HAIL DAMAGES RAILWAY.

    KALGOORLlE, Wednesday.--As a result of heavy hailstorms on Sunday, about four miles of the line on the trans-Australian railway, at a point 300 miles from Kalgoorlie, were ...

    Article : 43 words
  44. ZEPPELIN SHED BOMBED.

    GENEVA, Wednesday.--A traveller reports that Mil[?] bombed Zep[?] near [?] ...

    Article : 22 words
  45. PERSIA.

    PETROGRAD. Wednesday.--A communique states:--"In the direction of Hamadan, Persia, we captured two villages." ...

    Article : 17 words
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