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  2. SYDNEY TATTERSALL'S RAGES. CUP WON BY POITREL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,676 words
  3. NEW YEAR HOME-COMING.

    New Year's Day, 1918, will, doubtless, ever have a place in the memories of the 169 soldiers who yesterday returned to Brisbane from the Front. They were all ...

    Article : 1,139 words
  4. THE MASSACRE OF THE FRUIT TREES.

    If a master has in his employ a lowcaste fellow of no merit, whom he discovers in his worthlessness and dism[?]sses from his service, it will perchance happen ...

    Article : 1,521 words
  5. MOTORS AND MOTORISTS.

    TO CORRESPONDENTS.—When sending in queries please give the fullest possible particulors of the fault or faults. The valu[?] of the answer depends upon the accuracy and amplitude ...

    Article : 1,101 words
  6. FIGHTING NEAR CAMBRAI.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports As a result of successful counter-attacks we regained the more important parts of the positions on the Welsh Ridge, taking ...

    Article : 186 words
  7. BREAKING UP THE RUSSIAS. CIVIL WAR AND PRUSSIANISM BUSILY AT WORK.

    Reports of the proceedings at the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference disclose the bearing of the Prussian design to capture the western provinces of Russia for Germany. The proposal is that each province shall choose for itself by popular voice its ...

    Article : 92 words
  8. TURKS AGAIN DEFEATED.

    An official report from Palestine states: We occupied Beitin (the ancient Bethel), situated 10 miles north of Jerusalem, and El Balua, a mile to the ...

    Article : 225 words
  9. TOOWOOMBA RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 568 words
  10. RUSSIA'S BID FOR PEACE.

    The "Daily Chronicle" says it is now evident what the Germans mean by the term "without annexations." The negotiations show that they expect to retain Poland, ...

    Article : 217 words
  11. THE FRENCH FRONT.

    A French communique states: There is lively artillery activity in the Champagne region, along the heights, on the right bank of the Meuse, and in the Bezonvaux ...

    Article : 82 words
  12. SOCIALISTS REFUSED PASSPORTS

    M. Clemenceau, Premier of France, received a delegation of Socialists, including M. Thomas. He refused a request to grant passports to the Socialists for ...

    Article : 134 words
  13. ALLIES EXCHANGING VIEWS.

    The "Daily Chronicle" states that it is recognised in Government circles that the peace proposals at Brest-Litovsk constitute a new fact, of which official ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. SUCCESS IN ITALY,

    An Italian official message states: After intense, gun fire in the Monte Tomba sector, the French stormed positions between Osteriadi, Monte Fenera, and ...

    Article : 151 words
  15. FOREIGN ARMIES ACTIVE.

    The Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the Swedish armies have concentrated on the Finnish frontier, and it is daily expected that ...

    Article : 180 words
  16. BRITAIN'S MAN POWER.

    Sir Auckland Geddes (in charge of the military side of National Service), in commenting on the negotiations of the Trade Union leaders regarding Great ...

    Article : 53 words
  17. INTERVIEW WITH M. TROTSKY.

    Mr. Ransome, the "Daily News" correspondent at Petrograd, has interviewed M. Trotsky (Minister for Foreign Affairs) at the Solay Institute, and ...

    Article : 641 words
  18. BRITAIN'S WEALTH.

    The nine months' revenue of Great Britain totals £400,650,303. Of this sum the Customs contributed £63,110,000; excise, £28,204,000; property, ...

    Article : 50 words
  19. A TRUSTY ALLY.

    In the course of a speech at the annual Highland Society's luncheon to-day, the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Shimizu, said: "The outlook on this, the ...

    Article : 263 words
  20. THE TOWNSVILLE MEETING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 332 words
  21. SOUTHERN SIBERIA.

    Reports from Southern Siberia state that civil war is growing rapidly There was eight days' continuous fighting in Irkutsk, the civilians and Cossacks ...

    Article : 167 words
  22. "CARRY ON TO VICTORY."

    The following message has been received from President Poincare:—"France and the Allies face with unshakable firmness the task they have sworn to accomplish to ...

    Article : 378 words
  23. AN EYE FOR AN EYE.

    Sir,—Germany prospers amain, and is she not (according to the accepted idea) justified in her claim, "Gott mit Uns"? Would not the Allies raise their voices in ...

    Article : 653 words
  24. ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY.

    The story of the married life of General Pershing, commanding the first division of America's regulars now in France, contains a strong clement of ...

    Article : 336 words
  25. IMPORTANT COSSACK VICTORY.

    Advices from Hapa[?]anda state that the Ukrainian Cossacks have heavily defeated the Bolsheviks on the south-western front, taking 400 prisoners and capturing ...

    Article : 87 words
  26. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    "Motor," Ipswich, writes; I have built up a twin cylinder engine by cutting a Ford cylinder in halves and using the two front cylinders. I am using all ...

    Article : 498 words
  27. ARE CONSCRIPTS SLAVES?

    Sir,—At a local function recently one of the speakers declared that "a conscript is a slave." This is a stock argument of the "Antis," who draw from ...

    Article : 243 words
  28. GERMANS STARVING PRISONERS

    A man named Fontane, who was one of a crew captured by the German raider Moewe, has returned to America. He says that he saw starving men in German prison ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. SUBMARINE WARFARE.

    The Admiralty announces that the mine-sweeping sloop Arbutus was torpedoed send then foundered in severe weather. The commander and another ...

    Article : 50 words
  30. SCOTLAND'S GLORY.

    Responding to the toast of his health at the annual Highland Society luncheon to-day, his Excellency the Governor-General said:—"Scotland is a land which, ...

    Article : 123 words
  31. LOSS OF DESTROYERS.

    Naval experts express the opinion that the three destroyers which were recently sunk on the dutch coast ran into a minefield laid by a submarine minelayer. ...

    Article : 73 words
  32. FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN BRITAIN.

    Newspapers of prominence approve of a memorandum issued by Lord Rhondda (Food Controller) to the local food committees outlining a model scheme for the ...

    Article : 149 words
  33. SYDNEY, OR THE BUSH?

    Sir,—The above two-up school phrase is no doubt well known to Mr. Coyne, the present Minister for Railways. Well, we once had a rail service here that took ...

    Article : 194 words
  34. SHIPBUILDING.

    There is some criticism in the Canadian Prees at Mr. Hughes's announcement that he has received by mail the Australian government's allotment of contracts for ...

    Article : 76 words
  35. PATRIOTIC WAR WORK.

    A meeting of the Wondi Patriotic League will be held at the City Buildings, first floor, to-morrow evening, at 7.30 o'clock. A full attendance is desired. ...

    Article : 31 words
  36. GERMANY FEELS THE PINCH.

    Herr Maximilian Harden, editor of "Die Zukunft," addressing a meeting in Berlin, said that if the German military situation is good, the same cannot be ...

    Article : 53 words
  37. HONOUR FOR MARCONI.

    News from Rome states that M. Marconi, the discoverer of wireless telegraphy system, has been appointed High Commissioner for Italy at ...

    Article : 32 words
  38. ALLIES' CITY.

    Many novelties and all manner of entertainments are promised visitors to the Allies' City, in the Botanic Gardens, this afternoon and evening. ...

    Article : 25 words
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