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  2. CENSURE MOTION.

    The debate on the no-confidcnce motion, notice of which was given yesterday by the loader of the Opposition, Mr. Tudor, was opened this morning in the House of ...

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  3. LATE WAR NEWS.

    An Amsterdam report says President Wilson's message was mutilated or suppressed by many German newspapers. The Cologne "Volkszeitung" states:—In the interests of ...

    Article : 186 words
  4. SHROUDED IN SNOW.

    Sir. Philip, Gibbs telegraphs: Despite Wednesday night's thaw, the battlefields, after another heavy blizzard, are still tinder a deep shroud. It is strangely and ...

    Article : 182 words
  5. WAR NOTES.

    The cabled extract from the "Daily Express regarding the recent Cambrai offensive suggests that the paper has knowledge of the facts adduced at the recent inquiry into the ...

    Article : 555 words
  6. THE U-BOATS

    In connection with last week's sinkings by submarines it is pointed out in autuoritative circles that it is unfair to take two or three weeks' sinkings as a basis of ...

    Article : 231 words
  7. RUSSIA.

    It is reported in New York that Russian and Bulgaria have signed a sepaprate peace. The Swiss paper "Der Bund (Berne) states that a separate peace has been ...

    Article : 229 words
  8. POSITION IN RUSSIA.

    A despatch from Petrograd says an agreement has been reached between the Bolshevik and Ukrainian delegates at Brest Litovsk. The independence of the Ukraine wag recognised, ...

    Article : 119 words
  9. HEAVY RAIN.

    Heavy rain has fallen in New South Wales, and with the exception of the trans-Darling districts, where it has been rather scattered, a general rainfall bas been recorded. ...

    Article : 285 words
  10. AIR FIGHTING.

    A wireless German off[?] message states: The enemy's ancraft losses in December were 9 balloons anti 119 aeroplanes, of which 47 fel[?] in our line ...

    Article : 40 words
  11. GERMAN MUTINEERS.

    The "New York World's" Petrograd correspondent interviewed deserting German officers, who confirm the story of the mutiny of 25,000 German soldiers. The mutineers ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. CAMBRAI SET-BACK.

    The "Daily Express" understands that no generals or other officers have been sent ho[?] in consequence of the German counterattack at Cambrai on November 30. The ...

    Article : 113 words
  13. BRITAIN'S WAR AIMS.

    Mr. A. J. Balfour delivered a speech last evening on Britain's var aims. "There has," Mr. Balfour said, "been no essential modification in the Allies' war aims. ...

    Article : 328 words
  14. WAR AIMS.

    The United Press Agency in Washington learns authoritatively that President Wilson's reference to free trade is not intended to impose the freetrade doctrine, but to advocate ...

    Article : 387 words
  15. MESOPOTAMIA.

    A despatch by the late General Maude, dated October 15, has been gazetted. It deals with the operations in April, which ended" by driving back two enemy army ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. TRAINING AMERICA'S ARMY.

    The statements made by Mr. Baker, United States Secretary for War, regarding the growth of America's army will receive more serious consideration than some of the ...

    Article : 384 words
  17. AMERICA'S ARMY.

    Advices from Washington state that Mr. Baker (Secretary for War) told the United States Senate that the military had provided for a United States Army of 110,856 officers ...

    Article : 216 words
  18. RAIN IN QUEENSLAND.

    Special advices at 10.30 a.m state that the monsoonal disturbance has made definite progress since yesterday morning, and, according to latest reports, occupies a position on ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. ITALIAN RECOVERY.

    Official advices received in Washington from Rome stated that the rejuvenated Italians, with renewed spirit, are taking the offensive, and have advanced a short-distance. ...

    Article : 26 words
  20. MURDER CASE.

    A remarkable development occurred in a murder trial at the Old Balley, in which Arthur Destamer, soldier, was charged with the murder of Captain Tighe. The latter was ...

    Article : 125 words
  21. STATION REPORTS.

    Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., have received the following telegrams reporting rain:- From Warbreccan station, Stonehenge, Queensland, dated Jan. 5: "Rainfall, Warbreccan, Jan. 1, 171 ...

    Article : 277 words
  22. WOOL DISTRIBUTION.

    A distribution was held in London, of Australian wool at prices fixed under the new schedule for civilian uses. There were 8944 bales catalogued, of which 5730 were from ...

    Article : 80 words
  23. CANADA THERE TO THE DEATH.

    A Washington report says that the Duke of Devonshire (Governor-General of Canada), in the course of a speech, said: "Canada realises that this is a struggle to the death, ...

    Article : 82 words
  24. CROWN PRINCE'S BELIEF.

    An Amsterdam message says that a committee representing German labourers who desire peace, tolegraphod to the German Emperor, the Crown Prince, ard Marshal Von ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. COAL AGREEMENT.

    Yesterday morning a special meeting of the State Cabinet was held to consider the position created by the refusal of the Victorian Ministry to conclude the agreement for the ...

    Article : 127 words
  26. POST-WAR TRADE.

    Mr. J. M. Robertson, M.P., in the course of a speech, said that whatever views people night hold regarding freetrade, it was obvious we could not trade with the enemy as ...

    Article : 137 words
  27. DEMAND FOR RAW MATERIAL.

    The message from Copenhagen, referring to the unemployment in factories consequent upon the lack of raw material, serves to remind us that this is going to be one of the ...

    Article : 459 words
  28. NATIONALISATION OF MINES

    At to-day's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, reference was made to the proposal to nationalise "the coal mines of this State, and the following, motion was carried ...

    Article : 262 words
  29. WHEAT FROM AMERICA.

    America proposes to export 90,000,000 bushels of wheat to meet the shortage of the Allies, and is most rigidly limiting home consumption. ...

    Article : 27 words
  30. VOTES FOR WOMEN.

    The House of Lords carried the proposal to extend the franchise to women by. 134 votes to 65. Lord Finlay said the proposal to ...

    Article : 218 words
  31. GERMAN DYE SECRETS.

    Mr. Rowe, the expert at the Manchester School of Technology, who tested the German aniline dyes in Switzerland, in an interview, said the recipes number about ninety. It ...

    Article : 66 words
  32. A NEWCASTLE RESOLUTION.

    Members of the council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce made adverse comment at the meeting of that body to-day on the proposed contract for Victoria to take the ...

    Article : 124 words
  33. VOTES FOR WOMEN.

    Miss Christabel Pankhurst says that she is overjoyed by the fact that women's hopes are being realised after patient walting and peaceful warfare. They were determined to use ...

    Article : 61 words
  34. GERMAN COLONIES.

    The conference of the British Workers' League has inaugurated a German Lost Colonies Committee, which opposes the handing buck of any colonies to Germany. The league ...

    Article : 177 words
  35. MERCANTILE MARINE.

    Mr. Archibald Hurd calls attention to the failure to maintain the strength of the mercantile marine. Intensive shipbuilding was neglected in 1915 and 1916, and the errors ...

    Article : 54 words
  36. VIEWS OF MINERS' FEDERATION.

    Mr. A. Lewis, treasurer of the Colliery Employees' Federation, speaking to-day on behalf of the executive officers, said that the action of the Victorian Government in regard ...

    Article : 101 words
  37. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The executive of the Women's Liberal Federation has protested against the policy of Lord Rothemere (President of the Air Council) in regard to air reprisals upon German ...

    Article : 190 words
  38. FINLAND'S INDEPENDENCE.

    A Copenhagen message says that Denmark and Norway have acknowledged Finland's independence. ...

    Article : 15 words
  39. ADVANCE IN WAGES.

    The Ministry of Labour, in connection with the recent advance of 12[?] per cent. to plain time workers in shipbuilding and munition[?] trades, agrees to extend it to time workers not ...

    Article : 55 words
  40. VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.

    Eighteen Victoria Crosses have been awarded the recipients, including Private Henry James Nicholas, a New Zealander, for conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in an ...

    Article : 362 words
  41. "COOEE!"

    The following came message has been received by the Prime Minister from the officer commanding the Australian Wireless Section in Mesopotamia: ...

    Article : 71 words
  42. FIRE IN HUNTER-STREET.

    While passing the premises of C. Price, till lately occupied by J. E. Chinnery, in Hunterstreet, at 4 o'clock this morning, Constable Thorn noticed smoke issuing, and summoned ...

    Article : 74 words
  43. DISTRESS IN DENMARK.

    Copenhagen advices state that over 3000 abourers are idle. Factories have been [?]ed owing to the lack of raw materials, and industry is threatened with a complete ...

    Article : 42 words
  44. QUEENSLAND'S TIMELY GIFT.

    Seven hundred necessitous boarding-housekeepers in Ramsgate and Broadstairs are sharing Queensland's oppoitune gift of sugar, cornflour, and tinned beef. ...

    Article : 23 words
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