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  2. PETERSHAM.

    There would appear to be very little [?] hood of any by-election for the Petersham seat in the State Parliament, despite persistent rumours to that effect during the past ...

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  3. WAR NOTES.

    Sir Douglas Haig's announcement that the capture of Bullecourt has been completed will be read in Australia with mingled feelings of. pleasure and relief. The fact that this ...

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  4. LATE WAR NEWS.

    The Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that it appears that only some dramatic stroke, stumped with the vigarous personality of one man. can ...

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  5. HOME RULE SCHEME.

    The Government's new Home Rule Proposals (which include an Irish Parliament, to sit In Dublin; the exclusion of the six Ulster counties; the creation of a Council ...

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  6. CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

    It is reported from Petrograd that in response to the proposals of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council, the Government (which now includes members of the ...

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  7. ITALY'S OFFENSIVE.

    The Italians made further important progress on the third day of the battle. Many prisoners were taken. The Austrians are using new and better guns. Mauy Austrian ...

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  8. U.S.A. DESTROYERS

    The flotilla of American destroyers which is to reinforce the British and French navies in European waters has arrived at Queenstown, to which port they escorted ...

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  9. BULLECOURT

    Field-Marshal sir Douglas Haig, reporting late on Thursday night, stated: We completed the capture of Bullecourt today, and took sixty prisoners. ...

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  10. ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

    There is little change in the position of the engineers' strike. A committee of strikers interviewed the executive of the Amalgamated Engineers with a view to ...

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  11. STRONG AUSTRIAN RESISTANCE.

    An unofficial Roma message states that the Austrians are using new and better guns, and that many troops have' been moved to the Isonzo from the Russian front. This is no ...

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  12. ENEMY TRADE.

    A big German industrial paper, the "Rueiniseb Weslaelische Zeitung." has published an article showing a further spread of the scare regarding trade after the war. which ...

    Article : 140 words
  13. TO BUILD WHEAT SHIPS.

    Any scheme which will assist the transportation of Australian wheat to the other side of the world is of the utmost importance in the present crisis. It is therefore gratifying to ...

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  14. GERMAN FIENDS.

    Mr. Penfield, lately United States Ambassador to Austria, who has returned to New York, says he was most deeply impressed by a tour of Northern France. ...

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  15. CHINA AND WAR.

    Official advices received in Washington state that the Chinese Government has telegraphed to the Chinese Governors urging the advisability of a declaration of ...

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  16. CONTROL OF FOOD.

    The British Food Controllor, Lord Devonport, will shortly invite the local authorities to organise food distribution and control. ...

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  17. ENGINEERS', STRIKE.

    The adjournment of the House of Commons was moved by Mr. W. C. Anderson (Labour), in order to dircet attention to the Government's failure to settle the engineers' strike. ...

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  18. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

    Letters from British prisoners, have been published showing that they have been forced to work on the Russian front under fire. ...

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  19. MACEDONIA.

    A British official message from Salonica says:—We repulsed with heavy losses two counter-attacks on the Kjupri-Struma front, capturing 96 prisoners. ...

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  20. THE FRENCH COMMAND.

    A Paris message states that, in conse [?] of changes in the military commanders, the Senate is to sit in secret to consider M. Bierre's interpellation ...

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  21. PRIVY COUNCIL.

    The Privy Council, in the case Weisbach Light Company versus the Commonwealth Government, refused leave to appeal. The petitioners urged a prerogative, ...

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  22. DISTRESS IN AUSTRIA.

    'The united States late Ambassador to Austria, Mr. F. Courland Penfield, who has returned, when interviewed by the "New York Times" said that the distress in ...

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  23. M. MILIUKOFF.

    Although the decision of the Russian Government to ask M. Millukoff, the ex-Foreign Minister, to return as Minister for Public instruction appears to have been arrived at in ...

    Article : 307 words
  24. BRITISH ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.

    Sir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade), speaking in the House of Commons warned householders, particularly Londoners, that coal rationing would be ...

    Article : 165 words
  25. AMERICAN ARMY.

    A Washington message says that the Selective Draft Bill, under which 1,600,000 men may be called up for military service, is ready for President Wilson's signature, ...

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  26. ROADS PROBLEM.

    A conference, convened by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, was held on Wednesday in regard to the roads problem. Representatives were present from the Chamber of Commerce. ...

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  27. RAJAH OF SARAWAK DEAD.

    The death is announced of the Rajah of Sarawak, Sir Charles Johnson Brooke, G.C.M.G., aged 88 years. In 1842 a wandering soldier. James Brooke, ...

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  28. TRADE CORPORATION.

    Sir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade), speaking in the House of Commons, emphasised the importance of the Trade Corporation. The leading banks were ...

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  29. KING ALBERT WITH AUSTRALIANS.

    King Albert, of Belgium, toured the Western front, and visited Thiepval and Bapaume, where he met an Australian guard of honour. He was entertained by ...

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  30. IMPERIAL. CONFERENECE ANNUALLY.

    Mr. Lloyd George has announced in the House of Commons an important decision of the imperial War Cabinet-namely, that its meetings should be held annually. The ...

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  31. GERMAN POLITICS.

    The "New York Times" correspondent at The Hague quotes the Berlin daily paper "Die Post" as affording revelations of Germany's intention to divide Alsace and ...

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  32. ALLIES' WAR AIMS.

    A message from Washington says the State Department has unofficially received a re-statement of the Allies' war aims from Lord Robert Cecil (British ...

    Article : 203 words
  33. CONSTANTINE AND CARSON.

    If we were absolutely sure that King Constantine actually gave expression to the prophetic views attributed to him in this morning's cabled message from Athens we might ...

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  34. LATE MR. JOHN DENNIS.

    The late Mr. John Dennis, whose death occurred by falling from a moving tram recently, had been for five years a teacher in the Leichhardt Junior Technical school, and at the ...

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  35. THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.

    In emphasising yesterday before a deputation the point that the present is an unfavourable period at which to tap at the Treasury door for assistance, the Minister for Local ...

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  36. MILITARY MEDAL.

    Mrs. G. Alken, of Hazeldean, Tennyson-road. Gladesville, has received official information that her late brother, Lance-Corporal Alexander Kennedy, has been awarded the ...

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  37. WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEES.

    As the result of the efforts of the Win-the-War League in New South Wales, and the recruiting committees in the other States, a large number of war savings groups are ...

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  38. PRIME MINISTER'S COMMENTS.

    Referring to the above cable message tonight, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said: —"while it is impobsible to prodict the precise form which the imperial relations now ...

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  39. GREEK KING'S HOPE.

    It is reported from Athens that King Constantine, conversing with an American, said that Germany's use of submarines would force the Allies to accept peace ...

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  40. REINSTATEMENT OF OFFICERS.

    The question of reinstating to their former rank in the A.I.F. officers who, on their return from active service abroad, have been discharged as medically unfit, to engaging the ...

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  41. 'ANTi-SUBMARINE SUCCESS.

    A message from Christiania states that an improvement in the shipping shares in the Norwegian [?] is regarded as a proof of the success of anti-submarine ...

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