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  2. UPPER HUNTER.

    Although one small return, comprising less than 50 votes altogether, has still to be received, the issue is beyond doubt in the Upper Hunter by-election, polling for which took ...

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  3. WAR NOTES.

    The result of the military operations reported from the Western front during the weekend may be summed up as a series of minor Allied successes gained around the salient ...

    Article : 304 words
  4. LATE WAR NEWS.

    Sir Douglas Haig, reporting on Saturday night, stated: We raided trenches southward of Arras, inflicting casualties. The French carried out a successful minor ...

    Article : 130 words
  5. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    A message dated June 5 states:—For some time the Australians opposite the German positions at Morris have constantly harried the enemy by raids day and night, ...

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  6. IMMEDIATE DANGER OVER.

    The correspondent of the Australian Press Association learns that the enemy's progress for the time being has been chocked. The immediate danger is over, but until it is ...

    Article : 494 words
  7. SUBMARINES.

    Altogether 14 ships have been sunk off the American coast, totalling 20,000 tons. A new feature is the sinking of neutral vessel, the Norwegian steamer Eidsvold (not Gibbs), of ...

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  8. ALLIES GAIN GROUND

    A French communique, issued on Friday afternoon, stated: North of Montdidier and west of Noyon, we carried out several successful coups-de-main, and took ...

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  9. THE AMERICANS.

    The correspondent of the United Press on the American front, says the result of America's attacks on the Marne was the stoppage of the German rush. The Americans ...

    Article : 99 words
  10. ITALIAN FRONT.

    An Italian official message states: We entered trenches fronting Mont di Valbella, and took 50 prisoners; also six machine guns. The French, by a surprise attack, captured ...

    Article : 127 words
  11. DECLINE IN SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.

    The announcement made by the French Marine Department regarding the submarine campaign is encouraging, and suggests that the curves of tonnage losses, shipping ...

    Article : 355 words
  12. MENACE GROWS LESS.

    A report from Paris says that the French Marino Department announces that the tonnage destroyed by enemy action in the first five months of 1918 was half that destroyed ...

    Article : 119 words
  13. WILL WIN THROUGH.

    Mr. Lloyd George, responding to the toast of "Success to the Allied Arms" at the Printers' Pension Association's dinner, said he had just returned from France, where he had ...

    Article : 186 words
  14. JAPAN LOYAL.

    The correspondent of the United Press at Tokio, denying a rumour that Japan l8 seeking a post-bellum pact with Germany, states that prominent Japanese carried the ...

    Article : 102 words
  15. KONINGIN REGENTES.

    An Amsterdam message states that the Konlngin-Regentes sank 15 miles from Leman Bank. Sir George Cave and other members of the British delegation to the Hague, are ...

    Article : 159 words
  16. THE BRITISH FRONT.

    Mr. Percival Phillips, on Thursday night telegraphed: Enemy raids constitute the sole activity on the British front. All have bee lamentable failures, the Australians being the ...

    Article : 130 words
  17. CHINA AND JAPAN.

    A Tokio message says Major-General Ugaki, who negotiated the agreement between China and Japan, states that it is not limited to defence, and its scope is not confined to the ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. MR. HOLMAN'S ANALYSIS.

    "It is not at all an unsatisfactory result," said the Premier (Mr. Holman) /last night. "Compared with the figures of the last election, the majority shows a marked diminution, ...

    Article : 328 words
  19. HEROIC SELF-SACRIFICE.

    The Albert Gold Medal has been awarded to Lieutenant Thorner. He was examining hand grenades in a dugout in France, when one began to fizz. Realising that there was no ...

    Article : 73 words
  20. DIFFICULTIES OF U-BOATS.

    Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, informed us early in November last that, since the beginning of the war, between 40 and 50 per cent, of enemy submarines operating in ...

    Article : 342 words
  21. CHAOTIC RUSSIA.

    News from Russia shows that the position continues to be characterised by the utmost uncertainty and disorder. Petrograd correspondents are silent. Nothing is known ...

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  22. ENEMY'S HEAVY AIR LOSSES.

    It is reliably stated that British aircraft during May brought down 398 German aeroplanes and drove down 100. Guns brought down 20 enemy machines, and 128 British ...

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  23. MR. W. M. HUGHES.

    The newspapers are featuring the arrival of Mr. W. M. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia), and the probable influence of his speeches on Imperial affairs. ...

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  24. BELGIANS STARVED TO DEATH

    According to Amsterdam advices, the "Echo Beige" says a Belgian who escaped from Mallnes states that 10 Belgians were slowly starved to death because they refused to work ...

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  25. KONINGIN REGENTES.

    The captain and others on the Koningin Regentes are convinced that she was torpedoed. The carpenter, who was on dock, states that he saw an object approaching, and ...

    Article : 91 words
  26. BRITAIN'S FOOD.

    In the House of Commons on Friday Mr. J. R. Clynes (Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Control Department), in the course of a statement on the food situation, said that Britain ...

    Article : 269 words
  27. AMERICAN CELEBRATIONS.

    There is much satisfaction in American circles over King George's promise to participate in the American celebrations in London on July 4. His Majesty will attend a ...

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  28. THE MADSEN GUN.

    Lord Beresford, in the House of Lords, drew attention to the capabilities of the Madsen gun, the invention of a Dane, which was offered to the British Government, but refused, ...

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  29. THE U-BOATS.

    A wireless message from a patrol boat states that a tank steamer was sunk on Friday 100 miles off Cape Henlopen (at the south-west of the entrance to Delaware Bay). ...

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  30. MR. STOREY DISAPPOINTED.

    "I am, of course, intensely disappointed," said Mr. John Storey, leader of the State Labour party, last night. "A week ago I was convinced we were going to win right out. ...

    Article : 358 words
  31. THE PEACE OFFENSIVE.

    Recent advices received from Germany by way of neutral countries indicate an attempt on the part of the German Press to renew the peace offensive. This in itself will not cause ...

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  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The P. and O. Company have purchased the whole of the dry docks and workshops in Falmouth. They are extending them and forming an important base. ...

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  33. THE AMERICANS.

    War exports are insisting on the far-reaching significance of the appearance of American forces in the battle of the Marne. The Supreme Allied War Council, envisaging the ...

    Article : 294 words
  34. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    The Press Bureau states that it is expected that meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet and the Imperial Conference will begin in the next few days. The majority of the ...

    Article : 37 words
  35. GENERAL CABLES.

    Lieutenant J. S. Denton and Lieutenant W. H. Denton, twins, and well-known Northamptonshire cricketers, are reported missing. The third brother was wounded in 1917, and ...

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  36. ICELAND AND CONSCRIPTION.

    The Anti-Conscription Conference at Dublin has issued a statement warning their countrymen against false confidence in the belief that conscription has ended. Conscription has ...

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  37. UNREST IN AUSTRIA.

    The Central News Agency states' that people arriving in Switzerland from Vienna declare that an impression prevails in Vienna that Austria is likely to undergo Russia's ...

    Article : 96 words
  38. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.

    On the Stock Exchange to-day Broken Hill shares were quoted b 72/, s 73/; Mount Lyell, b 27/, s 28/; Boulder, b 11/, s 11/6; Ivanhoe, b 33/9, s 36/3. ...

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  39. "FIGHTING LIKE TIGERS."

    The following official message from Washington is made available by the American Consul:—American marines in the first big land drive oversea scored a remarkable ...

    Article : 229 words
  40. A.L.P. CONFERENCE.

    At last the debate in the conference of the New South Wales section of the Australian Labour party's war aims has concluded, and so far as any public announcement is concerned ...

    Article : 261 words
  41. THE NEW MEMBER.

    The new member for the Upper Hunter, who is a farmer and grazier, was born in the district he has been selected to represent. He is a native of Rouchel, where his people, ...

    Article : 219 words
  42. THEY DIED FIGHTING.

    Colonel Cripps, commanding the Buckinghamshire Hussars in Palestine, in a letter to Lord Burnham, who is honorary colonel of the regiment, contradicts the suggestion made ...

    Article : 73 words
  43. LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

    Mr. Bonar Law, answering questions in the House of Commons, said that considerable misunderstanding had arisen in regard to the land grant proposals for Irish soldiers. He ...

    Article : 53 words
  44. COMMODITIES AND FOODSTUFFS.

    Orders were published in the Commonwealth Gazette to-day declaring paper bags, paper boards, strawboards, manufactured wool, horseshoes, broom millet, and linseed oil to ...

    Article : 47 words
  45. FIGHT IN THE AIR.

    Five British aeroplanes fought seven Germans over the North Sea. The Germans retired, losing one machine, which fell into the sea in flames. ...

    Article : 30 words
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