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  4. MINES AND MINERALS

    The Australian metal trade has collapsed because the technical knowledge required to carry on the process of manufacture it only possessed by Germans ...

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  5. THE WHEAT SEIZURE

    Further consideration is bring given to the wheat problem by the Commonwealth Government. On Wednesday a deputation from the Victorian Flour Millers' ...

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  6. CURRENT SPORT

    Country sportsmen are always puzzled over the interpretation put upon the term "unregistered race meeting," and the following definition of an unregistered ...

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  7. AUSTRALIA'S SHARE

    The policy of the Commonwealth Government, in regard to the supply of further armed forces to assist the Allies, is to continue recruiting steadily and to ...

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  8. THE WAR FROM DAY TO DAY

    The war session of the French Parliament, which was opened on Wednesday, aroused extraordinary interest, rivaling that of the momentous meeting of ...

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  9. BATTLE OF NIEUPORT

    When the Allies attacked Nieuport, the French troops took up a position at the most dangerous point, where they had to cross five bridges commanded by the ...

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  10. HEROIC ASSAULT

    The town of Vermelles, which was occupied by the Germans, was regarded by the Allies as of great strategical importance, and strenuous efforts were made to ...

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  11. THE ALLIES' ATTACK

    The offensive movement by the Allies in the district of Arras, Bethune and Lille was preceded by a fierce artillery duel. Near Arras the Germans tried to destroy ...

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  12. GERMANY'S CLUMSY LIES.

    M. Viviani, the French Premier, delivered an address that routed the members to a high pitch of enthusiasm. "There is only one policy." he said, "the ...

    Article : 155 words
  13. HOUSES AS TORCHES.

    The recent fight went on tenaciously, from house to house, and from farmyard to farmyard; it was the custom for the Germans to set fire to a building to serve ...

    Article : 98 words
  14. THE CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION.

    "It will not do," said Mr. Hughes, "to assume that the States have acted ultra vires their powers, but, as the matter is one of great urgency, the constitutional ...

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  15. SIXTY TO ONE.

    Simultaneously with the offensive at Nieuport the Allies cleared the Germans from the region of Bethune. The British troops distinguished themselves, and ...

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  16. AVIATOR BLOWN TO PIECES.

    A serious mishap occurred near the aviators' base on Monday. M, Deschamps, a leading Belgian airman, on returning after a night, landed too ...

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  17. CLEARING THE COAST.

    British warships have heavily bombarded the German positions at Heyst and Zeebrugge thus supporting a determined effort by the allied troops to clear ...

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  18. CEMENT-LINED TRENCHES.

    The Chateau of Vermelles, with its extensive grounds, was captured on December 1. The Germans had there constructed trenches six feet deep and lined ...

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  19. THE PLIGHT OF LILLE.

    Furious lighting is taking place at Lille where the Allies are gradually driving back the enemy through mud and morasses. The plight of the populace of ...

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  20. THE BASIS OF PEACE.

    "Faithful to the treaty of September 4th, where she engaged her honor, that is to say her life. France, in true accord with her Allies, will not lay down arms ...

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  21. HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING.

    Then the French charged through the gap, and when the morning party entered there was sanguinary hand-to-hand fighting. ...

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  22. GOOD WORK BY THE FLEET.

    In their advance along the coast from Nieuport, the Allies cleared a strong network of fortifications and many rows of trenches. ...

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  23. A NEW GOLDFIELD.

    News of the discovery of a great new goldfield north of Seward, Alaska, in United Stales territory, was brought to the Canadian Government recently by ...

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  24. REBUILDING THE RUINS.

    Referring to the German invasion of Belgium and France, M. Viviani said that the Government solemnly undertook to rebuild the ruins caused by it. This ...

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  25. A FRENCH ARMY ORDER.

    A Berlin wireless message states that an army order signed by Central Joffre, which was found upon a French officer, declares: "The enemy for three months ...

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  26. UNLIMITED RECRUITING.

    There is no limit now to the numbers that are to be accepted for active service. So far, however, at the tropical force if concerned, there are sufficient applicants ...

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  27. TOOWOOMBA RACES.

    At the summer meeting of the Toowoomba (Q.) Pony and Galloway Race Club, held on Saturday last nearly every race was attended by a mishap to one or ...

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  28. A FIGHT ON THE CANAL BANK.

    A small number of Frenchmen crossed Passchendaele Canal at night. Using a barge as a bridge, they crawled up the bank and bayoneted the surprised ...

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  29. Sword-Waving Germans

    There were extraordinary scenes in New York on Friday evening at a pro-German meeting, which was attended by 3,000 Germans that have recently formed ...

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  30. INDIANS RESISTLESS CHARGE.

    The Germans by a sudden effort broke through the Allies' advanced lines at Richebourg, but then found themselves confronted by a swollen stream, from the ...

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  31. The Promise of Spring

    Germany is making herculean efforts to give a crushing blow to the Allies when Spring comes in, or to perish in the attempt. The whole of the nation's ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  32. TEACHER SOLDIERS.

    The N.S.W. Education Department appears to be averse—unpatriotically averse—to keeping open the positions of teachers that go to the war. The N.S.W. ...

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  33. MR. HALL'S OPINION.

    The Acting Premier of N.S.W., Mr. Hall, yesterday made a statement concerning the constitutional aspect of the Wheat Acquisition Act. He said: "Each section ...

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  34. Belgium's Fate

    An important document intended for General von der Goltz, the military governor of Brussels was intercepted by British agents early in September, and has ...

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  35. INSPIRED BY SONG.

    "While the fight at Nieuport was in progress the British and Belgian troops made a furious and irresistible attack upon the German positions near ...

    Article : 77 words
  36. RACING IN VICTORIA.

    The Werribee Jockey Club held its inaugural meeting at the Epsom (Vic.) course on Wednesday in the presence of a large crowd of spectators, The First ...

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  37. INTERCESSION DAY

    The Primate of Australia (Archbishop Wright) has appointed the first Sunday in January next as a day of intercession for the arms of the Allies. Special ...

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  38. WANTED: A MINING BOOM.

    "One of the most important needs of the Northern Territory at the present time is a good boom in gold mining." So says Judge Bevan, who returned from ...

    Article : 156 words
  39. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS.

    The first German newspaper to refer to Australian troops in its columns was the "Kreuzzietung." Some weeks ago this badly informed organ of Prussian ...

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  40. A.J.C. INQUIRY.

    The stipendiary stewards of the A.J.C. concluded, on Wednesday, the inquiry into the running of Coal Air in the Highweight Handicap, run on Saturday last at ...

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  41. MINING PROSPECTORS.

    The N.S.W. Premier has a report from the Department of Mines respecting a suggestion that the State's mining laws are too stringent to encourage ...

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  42. N.S.W. WHEAT CROP SEIZED.

    The N.S.W. Government went a step further on Thursday and issued a [?]clamation seizing, all the wheat in New South Wales, amounting, approximately ...

    Article : 119 words
  43. INTERSTATE CRICKET.

    The selectors of the South Australian Cricket Association, Messrs. Travels Desmarures, and Mayne, have chosen the team to make the trip to the eastern ...

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  44. DETAINED IN GERMANY.

    Mr. Peter Links, of Cowfa (N.S.W.), and late of Dubbo, accompanied by his wife and Mr. M. Links, of Nyngan, and ex-Mayor of that town, early in the year ...

    Article : 61 words
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