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  2. STATE PARLIAMENT. MR. WATT TO ADDEESS ASSEMBLY.

    Soon after proceedings were commenced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the Premier (Mr. Holman) announced that the Government had invited the Acting ...

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  3. LATE WAR NEWS DISASTROUS DEFEAT.

    According to a Paris message, the Press assumes that Austria will be unable to avert a disastrous defeat by Italy. Her losses are enormous. ...

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  4. CARRY ON.

    The Empire Producers' Organisation entertained Mr. Massey (Premier of New Zealand) in the Connaught Rooms at luncheon yesterday. ...

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  5. MR. HUGHES'S MESSAGE.

    The Lord Mayor presided at a luncheon tendered by the Empire League to Mr. W. M. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia) and Mr. Joseph Cook (Minister ...

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  6. WEST FRONT A NEW OFFENSIVE

    The Germans have begun a new offensive of the Relms front. The attack on Relms, which was intended to capture the town, has been ...

    Article : 452 words
  7. AUSTRIANS IN CRITICAL POSITION THE PIAVE SWOLLEN

    The "Messagero" (Rome) states that heavy rains during the last few days have rendered the Plave practically uncrossable. The Austrians find it almost impossible to ...

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  8. TWENTY-ONE WARSHIPS

    It is stated that 21 German torpedoboats, besides several destroyers and submarines, are hemmed in at Zeebrugge. In the House of Commons, Mr. J. I. ...

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  9. WAR NOTES. ATTACK AGAINST REIMS SALIENT.

    The German attack on Relms, referred to in the French communique this morning, has proved ineffective, and has, therefore made nc[?] alteration in the front there. The ...

    Article : 298 words
  10. U-BOAT ATTACKS.

    The "New York World" says that three submarine attacks, which were made against one convoy of American transports going to France, were frustrated by naval vessels. A ...

    Article : 163 words
  11. WESTERN FRONT.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs says that the rain and mud are likely to hamper the German offensive. The Americans are coming in [?]u vast numbers, and are billeted in districts ...

    Article : 62 words
  12. SUBMARINES.

    German submarines are still robbing the crows of ships attacked, and turning the victims adrift in open boats. Recently a British steamer was torpodoed without warning, a ...

    Article : 224 words
  13. RUSSIA.

    Advices have reached Copenhagen that the counter-revolutionaries in Russia have overthrown Bolshevik rule in Western Siberia after severe fighting, capturing Omsk, Samara, ...

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  14. AUSTRIAN POSITION OF THE PIAVE.

    The confidence which has been exhibited in Allied countries regarding the present situation in italy would seem to be justified according to the news of the Austrian offensive ...

    Article : 406 words
  15. AUSTRIA'S NAVAL LOSS.

    A Rome message states that Admiral Delbuono, in the course of an interview, said he was convinced a second Austrian dreadnought was torpedoed during the recent ...

    Article : 69 words
  16. UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENTS.

    The Royal Colonial Institute has received encouraging replies from British universities to the proposal to found endowments for Empire subjects. It was suggested that every ...

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  17. STRENGTH OF COMBATANTS.

    The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" says: Senator Berenger declares that the Allies are not appreciably inferior in numerical strength. They have a total of ...

    Article : 63 words
  18. GENERAL CABLES.

    A Washington message says it is probable that Polish, Bohemian, and Jugo-Slav contingents will be trained in the United States for the Western battlefront. ...

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  19. AUSTRIA'S BREAD RATION.

    Reports have reached Amsterdam that the Austrian Food Minister explains the bread ration has been halved because no further grain supplies can be obtained until the ...

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  20. WINE SALES.

    The wine sales on behalf of the Red Cross were a remarkable success, largely owing to the King's contributions. The sales at the Wool Exchange occupied a week. ...

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  21. CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

    When brought before the Marylebone Police Court, Mrs. Stuart, who was a witness in the Billing case, admitted the charge of bigamy, stating that she believed Bray was dead, but ...

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  22. AMERICA'S GRAND SPLASH.

    A Washington message dates that the emergency fleet corporation will celebrate July 4, by "the grandest splash." Mr. Hurley (Shipping Controller) says that shipyards on ...

    Article : 63 words
  23. MACHINE-GUNS.

    In the House of Commons, Mr. J. I. Macpherson (Vice-President of the Army Council) said that after making trials, the testing committee had placed the Lewis machine gun first, ...

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  24. FATAL FIRE.

    Between 12.30 and 1 o'clock this morning a fire occurred in a second-hand shop in Sussex-street, off Liverpool-street, occupied by Charles H[?]mmelferb, his wife, and four ...

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  25. CLAIMS REGARDING PRISONERS.

    Most people in reading the news received from the Italian front recently will no doubt be struck by the fact that if the Austrian offensive has been a failure it is remarkable ...

    Article : 360 words
  26. EX-LORD MAYOR CHARGED.

    The hearing of the charge against Sir Joseph Jones (ex-Lord Mayor of sheffield) and a man named Vernon, exployed in the munitions department, of conspiring to give ...

    Article : 276 words
  27. THE BRITISH CABINET.

    In tho House of Lords, Viscount Midleton called attention to the desirability of limiting the duties of the War Cabinet to matters immediately relating to the war, and ...

    Article : 132 words
  28. THE BRITISH CABINET.

    Lord Curzon, speaking in the House of Lords, denied that chaos existed owing to the Cabinet system of devolution. There were many permanent committees, including ...

    Article : 107 words
  29. BRITISH EFFORT.

    Lord Beaverbrook (Minister of Information), speaking at the opening of the Overseas Press Centre, said the Ministry wanted the Press to realise the full extent of the ...

    Article : 127 words
  30. REPATRIATED SOLDIERS.

    Private John Bolton, of Paddington, Sydney, who enlisted in Melbourne, and has been repatriated, considers that his treatment in Germany was harsh. He was captured at ...

    Article : 167 words
  31. SHORTAGE OF BREAD.

    A Zurich message says that owing to the reduction in the bread ration many workers refuse to work. An almost general strike is anticipated. The situation is ...

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  32. AMERICAN OFFICIAL NEWS.

    The following American official news by wireless is supplied by the American Consul:— The Mayor of San Francisco has named a ...

    Article : 322 words
  33. ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND.

    Since the naval raids on Zoebrugge and Ostend the Allied airmen have lost few opportunities of increasing the difficulties which the enemy has experienced in making use of ...

    Article : 380 words
  34. DANGEROUS PRISONERS.

    The notorious Russian prisoner, John Feldman, and his associate in crime, Edward O'Halloran, attempted to escape from Fremantle Goal. Both are serving a ...

    Article : 119 words
  35. OVERSEA PRESS CENTRE.

    Lord Beaverbrook (Minister of Information) has opened an Oversea Press Centre, so as to enable correspondents of Imperial, Allied, and neutral newspapers to come into ...

    Article : 268 words
  36. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    Viscount Grey has issued a noteworthy pamphlet advocating a League of Nations, and outlining the conditions essential to make the league a success. ...

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  37. ALEXANDRA DAY.

    Queen Alexandra, in a letter thanking the public for their efforts on Alexandra Day, specially referred to the celebrations in Australia and New Zealand, where the day ...

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  38. DEATH OF MR. W. A. SMITH.

    Mr. W. A. Smith, one of the directors of one of the oldest established machinery merchants in Australia—Messrs, H. P. Gregory and Co., 74 Clarence-street, Sydney, and son of the ...

    Article : 91 words
  39. SOLDIERS AS AGRICULTURISTS

    General Richardson, in presenting medals to New Zealand signallers in Hertfordshire, said the New Zealand forces were doing far more agricultural work than any troops in ...

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  40. LATE PRIVATE BARTON.

    Private Brian Templer Harton, formerly grazier, of Murrungundy, near Wellington, New South Wales, but more recently of the 6th Light Horse Regiment, A.I.F., was killed in ...

    Article : 82 words
  41. PAPER SHORTAGE.

    A deputation from a Press congress in Pretoria this morning requested the Minister for the interior to induce the British Government to grant certificates for 800 tons of ...

    Article : 55 words
  42. GENERAL CABLES.

    Despite the urgent necesssity for more coal, the miners on all the fields are agitating for a six-hours day, and the payment of six days' wages for five days' work. ...

    Article : 108 words
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