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  2. RECRUITING.

    Sixty-eight men volunteered at Victoria Barracks yesterday, and 43 were accepted. Yesterday at noon Sergeants Durand and Saunders addressed the tramway employees ...

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  3. LIVING WAGE.

    Yesterday Mr. Justice Heydon delivered the judgment ot the Industrial Arbitration Court on its inquiry into the cost of living and the minimum wage, and in doing so, ...

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  4. ITALIAN FRONT.

    An Italian official message states: We repulsed an attack on the Carso and captured 100 prisoners. Our artillery shelled the railway station at Santa Lucia and ...

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  5. THE BALKANS.

    A French official message says: The French, between the 13th and 15th, captured the villages of Petka, Palmish, Shugovo, and Matnitza, at the foot of the ...

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  6. EAST FRONT.

    A communique issued in Petrograd on Thursday evening stated: There is no change on the European or Cancasian fronts. ...

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  7. THE SOMME.

    The British have taken short lengths of trenches west and south-west of Guillemont, west of High Wood, ...

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  8. IN OTHER STATES.

    To-day's recruiting figures were:—Volunteered, 55; accepted, 30. BRISBANE, Friday. Twenty-seven recruits were accepted in ...

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  9. DEVASTATION.

    Herr von Weigand, the Berlin correspondent of the "New York World," says there is appalling devastation and desolation for miles behind the German lines on ...

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  10. CABINET MINISTER ON SERVICE.

    The Premier (Mr. Wilson) announces that the Honorary Minister (Dr. Saw), who leaves for the front shortly, will remain a member of the Cabinet. ...

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  11. CHEERING UP THE AUSTRIANS.

    Enemy reports contain the only news of lighting on the Southern Russian front this morning, and it is difficult to say how much of this may be accepted as containing even ...

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  12. CONSCRIPTION.

    Under the auspices of the Anti-conseription League, a public meeting was held at the Town Hall, North Fremantle, last night. The [?]all was well filled, the gathering including a ...

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  13. EAST AFRICA.

    The British forces under General S[?] in German East Africa, advancing on the 15th from Nguru Mountains, overcame slight opposition and reached the junction ...

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  14. AMMUNITION EXPLODES.

    A German prisoner gives details of the result of the British aeroplane raid on the railway station at Saint Quentin at the end of July, which occurred while two ...

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  15. GERMAN HONOUR.

    A White Book which has been issued by the United States Government shows that nine German officers and sallors have escaped from interned warships and have ...

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  16. CAPTURED SUBMARINE.

    Passengers by the Cunard liner Alaunia say that they sighted a captured German submarine lashed to a British cruiser being taken to Deal, England. ...

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  17. GERMAN EAST AFRICA.

    The speed with which General Smuts is pushing the campaign in German East Africa to a successful conclusion is shown by the report published this morning. The capture ...

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  18. THE WOUNDED.

    A number of sick and wounded soldiers are expected to disembark in Sydney on Monday morning. Motor cars, numbering from 75 to 151 inclusive, on the Red Cross register, are ...

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  19. SWEDISH IMPORTS.

    The Government is prohibiting, all exports to Sweden unless the importers give a guarantee that the goods will not be re-exported. ...

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  20. THE BRITISH FRONT.

    General Sir Douglas Haig at noon on Thursday reported: Last night, in conjunction with the French advance at Maurepas, we advanced our line west and south-west ...

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  21. GERMANS HELP AUSTRIA

    The Budapest correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that seven German divisions are now co-operating with the Austrian armies south of Volhynia, under ...

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  22. SUBMARINE REPORTED.

    The crew of an incoming liner report that they saw a submarine on Saturday off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland travelling in a north-easterly direction. ...

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  23. AUSTRALIAN TIMBER.

    The Governor-General during an interesting address on re-afterestation which was delivered before the members of the Timber Merchants' Association last night, said he ...

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  24. POLAND.

    A Petrograd message states that a definitive Russian pronouncement in regard to Poland's future is expected daily. The censorship has been relaxed to permit ...

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  25. GERMAN INVENTIONS.

    A message from Petrograd says that the Germans are now using a new, invisible gas. The only warping it gives is a sickly, sweet smell, and it causes ...

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  26. THE CENSORSHIP.

    The British Embassy emphatically denies that the censorship is being used to obtain secrets to aid the English merchants. ...

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  27. WAR NOTES.

    General Haig's report of the fighting in which the French and British joined on Wednesday shows that our lines have been drawn closer in towards Gu[?]emont. The ...

    Article : 364 words
  28. GRAIN ELEVATORS.

    In the House of Assembly the Commissioner of Public Works, Mr. Jackson, gave notice of his intention to move on Tuesday next: "That this House hereby sanctions the carrying out ...

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  29. TAXI CAB TRAGEDY.

    Motor tracks, leading to a canal in Gloucester, induced the police to drag the canal. They discovered a taxi-cab, and the body of an Australian soldier, named ...

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  30. MANLY HOSPITAL.

    As Chief Secretary and Minister for Public Health, Mr. Black yesterday made available the full text of Dr. Paton's (Director-General of Public Health) report on the conduct of ...

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  31. C.M.G.

    For distinguished services on the field, the Order of Companion of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) has been conferred upon the following Australian ...

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  32. ENEMY SUBJECTS.

    A mass meeting of members of the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Miners' Union was held in the Bouldar Town Hall yesterday to consider what action should to taken. The ...

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  33. ECONOMIC PRESSURE.

    Saturday's papers will officially announce that Italy forbids Italians to trade with subjects of enemy States or their allies, and with persons or bodies established ...

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  34. COUNT ANDRASSY.

    A Rome message says:—According to the "Stampa" (Turin), Count Andrassy demands certain guarantees before he consents to succeed Baron Stephan Burian as ...

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  35. MR. LLOYD GEORGE.

    Mr. Lloyd George (Minister for War), in an address at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod, said that Britain's honour was not dead, her might was not broken, her ...

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  36. ACTIVITY OF SALONICA FORCE.

    It is still a little early in the day to try end arrive at an opinion regarding the real significance of the Allied activities in the region north of Salonica. Two important ...

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  37. GERMAN BRAGGARTS.

    The famous German publicist, Maximilian Harden, in the article in "Zukunft," which was suppressed, says: A German says Germany's worst enemles ...

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  38. PRIVATE C. HEDLEY.

    The late No. 670, Private. C. Hedley, 12th Battalion, recorded no one as his next-of-kin. He was born at Bathurst, followed the occupation of a miner, and the next-of-kin ...

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  39. NORWEGIAN STEAMER.

    An explosive machine wrecked the engines of the Norwegian liner Haakon (1640 tons), which was proceeding to pick up cargo for England. Germans are ...

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  40. INSPECTION OF TROOPS.

    The District Commandant, Brigadier-General Ramaciotti, V.D., held an inspection of troops on the square, Victoria Barracks, yesterday afternoon. ...

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  41. GIFT OF AN AEROPLANE.

    At a meeting, presided over by the Deputy Mayor (Mr. T. C. H. Matthews) at the Council-chambers yesterday, it was determined to inaugurate a movement for the purpose of ...

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  42. FRENCH GUNS.

    The manufacture of machine guns in France was 136½ times greater in July than in August, 1914. The output of the "seventy-five" guns is now 27 times ...

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  43. LIFE OF PARLIAMENT.

    The House of Commons further considered the bill to prolong the present Parliament. There was some adverse criticism upon unduly extending the period, ...

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  44. SOUTHERN SECTOR.

    Mr. Philip Gibbs, writing from the British Headquarters in France to the London "Daily Chronicle," reports: White the Pleardy is absorbing attention our ...

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  45. SHEARERS' TROUBLES.

    All hands who signed on to start shearing at Afton Downs on Wedneaday left the station the same day owing to the Fedeial Company not acceding to their demands for a ...

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  46. SWITZERLAND.

    A Berne wireless message states that commercial negotiations between Germany and Switzerland have been resumed. The Germans appear anxious to reach an ...

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  47. LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

    Over 2,000,000 signatures have been obtained in six weeks to a memorial urging the Government to prohibit the liquor traffic during the war and for six months ...

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  48. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE SITE.

    The Sydney Chamber of Commerce is protesting against the Government taking land adjoining Circular Quay for the purpose of erecting a new Government printing ...

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  49. ROLL OF HONOUR.

    Milan advices state that Lieutenant Sinigaglia, the last winner of the Diamond Sculls, was killed on the Carso. ...

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  50. DAMAGING ENEMY STATIONS.

    Neither the Italians nor the Russians appear to have made any further advances on their respective fronts. The artillery and aeroplanes were responsible for the principal ...

    Article : 242 words
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