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  2. STATE PARLIAMENT.

    After an adjournment of four weeks, for the purposes of the recruiting campaign, the session of the Legislative Assembly was resumed yesterday afternoon. The sitting was devoted ...

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  3. LATE WAR NEWS. OFFENSIVE RENEWED

    The Allies have renewed the offensive east of Chaulnes. The Germans are evacuating the Olse River trenches west of Bailly. ...

    Article : 35 words
  4. AUSTRALIA'S DUTY.

    Mr. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia) entertained the Australian Press delegates at dinner at the Savoy Hotel. In welcoming them Mr. Hughes said they came to Britain ...

    Article : 617 words
  5. RUSSIA.

    The British Foreign Office learns that Mr. R. Lockhart, British Agent in Moscow, and Mr. Wordropo, British Consul, have been released. ...

    Article : 355 words
  6. TAKING OF PROYART.

    The "Morning Post's" correspondent at headquarters writes: The Australians on Saturday night tried to advance between the Somme and the Amiens road, with a view to ...

    Article : 106 words
  7. ZEPPELIN DOWNED.

    The Admiralty report: Our light forces and the Royal Naval aircraft reconnoitred the West Frisian coast on Sunday morning. They were heavily attacked by German aircraft. ...

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  8. ALLIED PROGRESS GAINS ON BOTH WINGS

    The Germans are violently resisting the Allied advance, and heavy fighting is in progress, particularly between Roye and the Somme. On the left wing the British advanced along the ...

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  9. BRITISH IMPROVE POSITIONS.

    Sir Douglas Haig, in his noon report of Tuesday, stated: We further improved our positions northward of Roye-road and the north bunk of the Somme, capturing ...

    Article : 71 words
  10. MONTDIDIER SACKED BY FOE.

    A Paris message says the Germans before evacuating Montdidier left it little more than a mass of wreckage. The Palais de Justice was devastated, and the ancient tapestries have ...

    Article : 46 words
  11. GERMANS IMPRESSED.

    Amsterdam advices state that German military critics consider that the FrancoBritish attack has been brought to a standstill. They characterise the success of ...

    Article : 51 words
  12. RUSSIA.

    It is reported the Germans intend to advance on Petrograd. ...

    Article : 15 words
  13. THE OFFICIAL REPORTS.

    Sir Douglas Haig reporting at noon on Monday stated: The enemy during Sunday evening re-attacked our positions south of Lihons, but was repulsed. ...

    Article : 517 words
  14. BRITISH AIR RAIDS.

    The Air Ministry reports: On Sunday, in addition to the bombing already reported, our air men bombed the railway triangle at Metz. We attacked on the night of the llth-12th two ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK.

    The Admiralty announces: A British destroyer was seriously dumaged in a collision and was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on the 6th inst. Two officers and ...

    Article : 39 words
  16. ALBANIA.

    An Italian official message states:β€”In Albania we obliged the enemy to evacuate the Jagodina bridgehead and pass to the right bank of the river. ...

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  17. NORWEGIAN STEAMER SUNK.

    The Norwegian steamer Sommerstadt has been torpedoed off Fire Island. The crew were rescued. ...

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  18. WAR NOTES. ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SOMME.

    Although the later communiques announce gains at several points along the front between the Ancre and the Oise, there are furthere signs that the enemy has succeeded ...

    Article : 347 words
  19. SHIPBUILDING.

    Mr. Justice Higgins, President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, yesterday continued consideration of the reference by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers seeking ...

    Article : 752 words
  20. COAL SHORTAGE.

    It is understood that the coal situation in Britain is more serious than is generally realised. The Government proposes to lay the facts before the country. It is admitted that ...

    Article : 81 words
  21. ANZAC'S FEAT.

    Private Newman, aged 21, who was born in Balmain, Sydney, has arrived in England from Archangel, via Canada, after amazing experiences. ...

    Article : 409 words
  22. THE WARILDA.

    A survivor of the torpedoed hospital ship Warilda states the captain behaved heroically, and went down with his ship. All those in the ward which the torpedo demolished were ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. VIOLENT BATTLE IN PROGRESS.

    The Australian Press learns that a violent battle is proceeding between Bray and Villers le Roy. An American division is hotly engaged in the Bray sector. The Germans ...

    Article : 351 words
  24. ONE BIG UNION.

    The "one big union" scheme which was adopted by the Trades Union Congress has come in for a deal of criticism at the Trades Hall. The officers of many of the craft unions ...

    Article : 410 words
  25. AMERICAN OFFICIAL NEWS.

    The following official wireless news was received yesterday by the American ConsulGeneral, Sydney:β€” An official despatch from Switzerland ...

    Article : 252 words
  26. CHAULNES AND ROYE.

    Chaulnes and Roye, near the northern and southern sides of this sector on the centre of the Allied attacking front, are still strongly held by the enemy, and the earlier ...

    Article : 342 words
  27. AUSTRALIANS' RAPID ADVANCE.

    Telegraphing from the Australian front on Saturday, Mr. Gilmour stated: Again there is good news to be told regarding the Australians, who continue to advance swiftly into enemy ...

    Article : 789 words
  28. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Government of the United States has suppressed the sale of liquor at all railway stations and in trains for the period of the war. ...

    Article : 98 words
  29. SUBMARINES.

    A New York message states that German submarines sank a British steamer a hundred miles east of Nantucket. The crew's fate is unknown. ...

    Article : 113 words
  30. CONTROL OF INDUSTRIES.

    At a meeting under the auspices of the Synod Committee on social problems on Monday night, at the Chapter House, an address was delivered by the Rev. G. V. Portus, ...

    Article : 264 words
  31. STRUGGLE FOR LASSIGNY MASSIF.

    The French, on the right, have also made slight progress at places, the capture of Gury probably being the most important, of their later achievements. Sir Douglas Haig states ...

    Article : 328 words
  32. RAIDER WOLFF'S VICTIMS.

    Captain R. D. Trudgett, of the steamer Winslow, writing to his brother, in Mt. Lawley, from Karlsruhe, Germany, on March 14 last, gives interesting facts about the ...

    Article : 248 words
  33. MOUNTAIN MYSTERY.

    It is reported as certain that the human remains discovered near the Cataract Falls on Sunday afternoon are not those of David Joel who disappeared in April last. ...

    Article : 273 words
  34. MUSTARD GAS.

    A New York message states that a U-boat used mustard gas against a coastguard station on the South Carolina coast. Six of the coastguards were overcome. The U-boat poured ...

    Article : 125 words
  35. CANADIANS' PART.

    A message from Ottawa states that a Canadian correspondent explains how the Canadians took over secretly a section of the Australian front south of the railway at ...

    Article : 77 words
  36. PROMOTIONS.

    News bas been received by Colonel G. H. Holland, V.D., that his oldest son. Major A. C. Selwyn Holland, who has been on active service for over three years, has been ...

    Article : 144 words
  37. CRITICAL STAGE FOR GERMANS.

    The "New York Times" in its editorial columns says a critical stage for the Germans has been reached on the West front, because they are utterly unable to throw in fresh ...

    Article : 97 words
  38. LATE PRIVATE E. HUNT.

    Mr. J. C. Hunt, M.L.A., has received information through the Defence Department that his son, Private E. Hunt, has been killed in France. Private Hunt enlisted in July last ...

    Article : 98 words
  39. AUSTRALIA HOUSE.

    At a meeting of the Letterpress Machinist Union at the Trades Hall yesterday, the following motion was carried:β€”"That this meeting enters its emphatic protest against the ...

    Article : 50 words
  40. FIRST AMERICAN ARMY.

    A Paris message says the formation of the first American army in France is officially announced. General Pershing will command it in the field, and will retain his post of ...

    Article : 36 words
  41. ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

    The engineers' strike continued to-day without any signs of an immediate extension or a settlement. ...

    Article : 23 words
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