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  2. FOR HOSPITALS.

    For one first time since the movement was inaugurated "Hospital Saturday" was held this year on a Friday. Saturday is no longer the "collecting day" that it used to be—the ...

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  3. LATE WAR NEWS.

    The "National Tidende" states that a shipbroker at Malmoe, Sweden, who has business relations with German Bal[?]e ports, has received a sensational report ...

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  4. EAST AFRICA.

    General Smuts reports:—The enemy, after being driven out of the Kondoa Irangl area (145 miless south-west of Moshl and 70 miles from the Dar-es-Salaam railway) ...

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  5. MR. ASQUITH.

    There was much excitement in the House of Commons this evening. Nationalists and Ulstermen assembled in full force, particularly as there were reports that ...

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  6. AUSTRALASIANS.

    Though London is nccustoined to the Anzaez, It is n novelty to see thom in full kit fresh from the trenches, with mudenked puttees. Some arrive at Victoria ...

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  7. ITALIANS CAPTURE TRENCHES.

    A German attack westward of Vaux (east of the Meuse) was repulsed with the bayonet and hand ...

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  8. RECRUITING.

    At Victoria Barracks yesterday 134 men volunteered, and of these 89 were accepted. Brigadier-General Ramacclotti, District Commandant, inspected details in camp at ...

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  9. BRITISH AIR DEFENCE

    The Parliamentary correspondent of the "Dally Telegraph" states that, the Government has decided to create an Air. Ministry, and that Lord Curzon will be appointed ...

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  10. WAR NOTES.

    The Financial Secretary to the Admiralty has stated in the House of Commons that 37 British and 22 neutral unarmed merchantmen, which had not attempted to escape, had ...

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  11. WITH A CAMEL CORPS.

    Private J. Duckworth, formerly of Singleton, who fought in the Gallipoll campagin, writes as follows from El Solum Egypt:—"I have joined the Asutralian Camel Corps, and ...

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  12. AUSTRIAN IMPOSTOR.

    Annn Schmitt, a naturalised Austrian, was charged at South Melbourne Courts to-day, with having, by fraudulent representations, obtained artifical flowers from Gertrude ...

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  13. WESTEEN FRONT.

    A communique states:—We demolished a German trench over a length of 300 metres south-eastward of Tahure (Champagne). A German attack westward of ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. EIGHT-HOURS BILL.

    The new Eight-hours Hill is being much discusssed in local mingin circles, and in some quarters is looked upon with suspicion. A delegate meeting was held yesterday to ...

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  15. IN OTHER STATES.

    There were 128 volunteers in Victoria today, and 79 were accepted. BRISBANE, Friday. In Queensland to-day 31 men were accepted ...

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  16. CABLE TO MR. ASQUITH.

    The following cable was yesterday forwarded to Mr. Asquith by Dr. C. W. MacCarthy, chairman New South Wales Home Rule executive:— ...

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  17. THE ITALIANS.

    A communique states: Alpini, after a vigorous assault, captured strongly-fortified trenches and redoubts on the summit of Mount Cukla and slopes east of Mount ...

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  18. ALL BRITONS.

    "I noticed in yesterday's issue of the 'Herald' that it is reported that Senator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, states that all Englishmen resident in the Commonwealth ...

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  19. THE BIG CHEQUE.

    There was an interesting ceremony at the office of the Inspector-General of Police in the morning, when the Governor handed over to Mr. Denison Miller, vice-chairman of the ...

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  20. UBMARKINES.

    Mr. T. J. Macnamara, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, stated in the House of Commons that 37 British and 22 neutral unarmed merchantmen, which had not ...

    Article : 198 words
  21. AUSTRIA'S FOOD.

    The Italian ship Buenos Ayres, which arrived last night from Monte Video, was at [?]me, Austria, when was broke out. She was detaine there for some months, as the Adriatic ...

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  22. THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH.

    We have to receive with a certain reserve the report of Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg's speech concerning the submarine campaign, as cabled this monring. The speech was made ...

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  23. CAPTURED RUSSIANS

    A communique states: During the fighting west of Ashkalin the Turks surrounded and made prisoners of a detachment of reservists. The latter, under the ...

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  24. REJECTED VOLUNTEERS.

    A meeting is to be held at the Protestant Hall, Castlereagh-street, on May 22, for the purpose of forming a rejected volunteers' association. ...

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  25. THE REICHSTAG.

    Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Imperlal Chancellor, speaking during a secret debate in the Relchstag on May 7 in reply to the American Note, admitted ...

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  26. NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

    The following causlaties are reported:—Died of wounds: Rifleman Henry Cross. Dangerously ill: Sergeant Leonanrd Lennan. Dangerously wounded: Sergenant George Aldridge. Private ...

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  27. ROLL OF HONOUR.

    At the Liverpool Prosbylerian Church a Roll of Honour was unveiled by Mrs. P FalConer-Mackenzie, Casula, to the memory of church adherents who have enlisted. The ...

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  28. MR. HUGHES.

    The Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Hughes) was busy all day at the metal conference. There are prospects of a satisfactory arrangement being arrived ...

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  29. GOVERNMENT'S £4000.

    Some time after midday, the Government donation of £400O was handled in, and raised the barometer considerably. This money was given as a special gift by the ...

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  30. AUSTRALIAN CAMEL CORPS.

    Orders have been Issued from headquarters, Melbourne, for the organisation of a camel corps. The corps will be raised from Australian troops. Each Australian infantry ...

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  31. DAY BAKING.

    A meeting attended by 40 operative bakers was held last night to discuss the day baking question. A motion was submitted in favour of the abolition of night work, but an ...

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  32. OVER-ESTIMATING THE SUBMARINE.

    We are told the Chancellor declared that a great error had been committed in overstating the value of submarines against England's navy, and that it was no longer ...

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  33. KILLED IN ACTION.

    Major J. H. Hope, of the Highland Light Infantry, who was aide-de-camp to Lord Carmichael (then Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael) when Governor of Victoria in ...

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  34. BANKING AT TOWN HALL.

    The Town Hall was converted into a bug[?] banking chamber for the occasion. [?] Sutherden, chief accountant of the Ban[?] New South Wales, was in charge of ab[?] ...

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  35. ROCKS HILL ROAD.

    Work is to proceed at once on a deviation to avoid the steep and dangerous Rocks Hill on the Bathurst-Orange road, which is well known to all western motorists. ...

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  36. MENANGLE CAMP.

    The District Commandant, Brigadler-General Ramaclotti, visited and inspected the Light Horse camp at Menangle on Thursday. The commandant stated that a fine billlord-room ...

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  37. A FINE T[?]

    When the counting finishe [?] the night some time after 11 o'clock it. [?]me evident that the £20,000 which the committee set out to raise would be very nearly realised. The ...

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  38. STATE HELP.

    The New South Wales Recrulting Committee had before it recently a memorandum from the Premier, in which an expression of its opinion on the question of financing it was ...

    Article : 261 words
  39. HAMBURG.

    A great lire at the Hamburg docks destroyed two large, warehouses and three steamers. ...

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  40. EMPIRE DAY.

    In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Asquith said the Governmnet was causing the Union Jack to be flown from public buildings on Empire Day (May 24), and he hoped ...

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  41. SOLDIERS AND POLICE.

    It has been reported to Distiict Headquarters that at a meeting recently hold soldiers in uniform removed from the meeting certain persons who had been interjecting. ...

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  42. LIFE INSURANCE CLAIMS.

    It is estimated that British, colonical, and American life companies have paid £7,000,000 in respect of death claims arising from the war. ...

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  43. MUST HAVE MUSKETRY

    An order has been issued from Headquarters that at least three days before the departure of each transport from any port in New South Wales, a return for all units ...

    Article : 116 words
  44. CONSCRIPTION.

    The Miners' Federation curd vote shows that 583,000 to 135,000 are opposed to conscription. The Federation unanimously protested ...

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  45. MERCHANT SHIPPING.

    Arrivals.—At London, R.M.S. Orontes (left Sydney March 25); at Liverpool. Agapenor, s (left Sydney March [?]: at San Francisco, Salvator, 4-mstd sch (left ...

    Article : 68 words
  46. TEN YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

    Michael Crowley, 68, who was found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife at North Melbourne, was, in the Criminal Court to-day, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. ...

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  47. THE MINERS AND CONSCRIPTION.

    The Miners' Federation card vote shows nearly a five-to-one majority against conscription. If this huge union is determined to stand by such an opinion it will create a ...

    Article : 342 words
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