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  2. AMERICA'S HELP.

    A resolution which was introduced in the Senate providing for on army total of 5,000,000 has been referred to the Military Affairs Committee. ...

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  3. HEROIC AIRMEN.

    The following honours have been awarded:— Lieutenant Jerrard, the Victoria Cross, for a wonderful series of air fights, ...

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  4. THE BRITISH RUSH METEREN POSTS. FRENCH SUCCESS NEAR LOGRE.

    Wednesday was another comparatively quiet day on the Western Front after the recent furious assaults. The British rushed posts In the Meteren sector south-west of Ypres, taking a number of prisoners, and the French Improved their position in ...

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  5. SUCCESS IN MESOPOTAMIA.

    A report from London states that the British are within 120 miles of Mosoul. They have captured 1200 Turks and many guns. ...

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  6. REPATRIATION.

    In the Senate to-day, senator Millen moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Repatriation Act. He explained at length the repatriation scheme, ...

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  7. MINE ON THE COAST,

    It was recently reported that the lookout of a vessel which had arrived in Sydney while on a voyage from an Eastern port had sighted an object resembling a ...

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  8. RECRUITING. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S CONFERENCE.

    The Trades and Labour Council of New South Wales discussed for several hours to-night the reports of delegates regarding the business of the Governor-General's ...

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  9. THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY.

    The South Australian Labour Party, at a meeting to-night, which was attended by 200 delegates, carried the following resolution: "That this meeting, recognising ...

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  10. MESSAGE FROM GENERAL FOCH.

    General Foch has cabled to Mr. Strong, governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, praising the valour of American troops, and urging ...

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  11. PERSONAL NOTES

    Mr. and Mrs. W. Hopp, of Musgravestreet, Paddington, received a communication from the military authorities with reference to the regrettable loss of their ...

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  12. MAKING THE DESERT SMILE.

    Mr. Edmund Candler, war correspondent with the British Forces in Mesopotamia, writing from Mesopotamia, says: Immediately after the capture of ...

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  13. CONSPIRACY AGAINST BRITAIN.

    Franz, Bopp, the former German ConsulGeneral, who was found guilty of conspiracy on American soil to stir up a revolution in the British Empire, has ...

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  14. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported at midday: We repulsed an attack on our post in the neighbourhood of St. Julien. We rushed enemy posts in the ...

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  15. APRIL'S BATTLES.

    The lull in the fighting enables correspondents to describe stirring incidents in April's battles. Mr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent of the "Daily ...

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  16. QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE.

    The Premier was asked yesterday if there had been any practical result of the Melbourne conference on recruiting so far as the Queensland Government ...

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  17. PALESTINE CAMPAIGN.

    An official message from Palestine reports: Early this morning our faces eastward of the Jordan attacked the enemy holding the footh[?]ls southward of Es ...

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  18. THE LIBERTY LOAN.

    A contingent of Australians—mostly veterans from Australia who are proceeding to France—is due to arrive here to help in the Liberty Loan campaign. ...

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  19. THE MAD KAISER.

    Advices from Berne state that the German imperial entourage is alarmed at the Kaiser's mental condition. He seems to be the victim of a remarkable ...

    Article : 89 words
  20. NEW SHIP CONSTRUCTION.

    The following American wireless news from Honolulu has been made available by the United States Consul:— Washington.—Incomplete reports to the ...

    Article : 303 words
  21. THE ITALIAN FRONT.

    An Italian official message states. The British made raids south-west of Canove and southward of Asiago, inflicting losses, There was reciprocal artillery firing at ...

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  22. RECRUITS IN BRISBANE.

    Six men offered at the Adelaide-street Drill Shed yesterday, three being declared fit. Those who offered were Cecil Henry Evans. Charles Alex. M'Intyre, and ...

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  23. MINOR NAVAL LOSSES.

    The Admiralty reports that the sloop Cowslip was torpedoed and sunk on April 25. Five officers and one man are missing, and it is presumed that they ...

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  24. GENERAL SITUATION FAVOURABLE.

    M. Clemenceau, the French Premier declared in the lobby that the general situation now clearly favoured the Allies. ...

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  25. RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

    A German official wireless message states: Finnish troops have captured Viborg. We have occupied Theodosia, in the Crimea. ...

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  26. COUNTRY VOLUNTEERS.

    Harry Oliver Fletcher (Warwick) and Cecil Robert Hopgood (Leager street. Toowoomba) were accepted at the Toowoomba recruiting centre to-day. ...

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  27. BLACK DAY FOR GERMANY.

    April 29 will be a black letter day in the German calendar. Some 130,000 Germans were flung into battle before the ominously named Mont Rouge. The ...

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  28. GERMANY'S CRACK AIRMAN.

    The "Kolnische Zeitung" repudiates the report that the Australians killed, after landing, Baron von Richthofen, the skilful German aviator, who claimed to ...

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  29. PROHIBITED ZONE.

    The Admiralty states that, owing to Germany's unrestricted and ruthless warfare by mines and submarines against all shipping, Britain notifies the ...

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  30. PUBLICITY FOR RECRUITS.

    The State Recruiting Committee announces that yesterday a recruit said he would have enlisted long before, only he was averse to having his name in the ...

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  31. CONSCRIPTION IN IRELAND.

    The Council of the Catholic Union of Great Britain has passed a resolution regretting that Irsh Catholic bishops have organised disobedience to the law, and ...

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  32. AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK.

    A French warship accidentally rammed and sunk the American steamer City of Athens in a dense fog off the coast of Delaware, 74 persons being drowned. ...

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  33. MARSHAL HAIG'S TRIBUTE.

    The Press Bureau states that FieldMarshal Haig has congratulated the Ninth Division on its great gallantry at Wytschaete and the Lys, and on many ...

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  34. ALLIES' LOSSES.

    The "Echo de Paris" states: Our losses since the beginning of the battle are not one-tenth those of the enemy. ...

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  35. ARRIVAL OF RECRUITING MINISTER.

    The Minister for Recruiting (Mr. R. B. Orchard) will arrive in Brisbane on Sunday night, and on Monday morning will commence his work in Queensland to ...

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  36. DUTCH SHIPPING.

    The British reply to the Netherlands' note concerning the requisitioning of shipping, in Allied ports regrets that the allegations published in the Netherlands ...

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  37. INDIA'S PART.

    The Indian Army secured 450,000 recruits last year. MAN POWER AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE. ...

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  38. ENEMY'S SEVERE REVERSES.

    Mr. Percival Phillips, the war correspondent of the "Daily Express," in continuing his report on the failure of the enemy assaults against the Flemish hills, ...

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  39. ENTHUSIASM IN TASMANIA.

    A crowded and enthusiastic recruiting meeting was held in the Hobart Town Hall this evening, at which all sections of the community were represented, ...

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  40. A.I.F. DEMOBILISATION.

    The Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce), in the Senate to-day, moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Defence Act, so as to provide for ...

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  41. GERMANY AND ANNEXATION.

    The Amsterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Express" says that the positon of Count von Hertling (German Chancellor) and his whole administration ...

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  42. FRENCH COMMUNIQUES.

    A French communique this afternoon stated: There was fairly violent artillery firing in the region of Villers-Bretonneux and on both banks of the Avre. ...

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  43. FUTURE OF THE BALKANS.

    Emperor Karl and his entire military staff, with Baron Burian, the Premier, and the diplomatic stuff, will proceed immediately to the German headquarters ...

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  44. GERMANY AND HOLLAND.

    It is not true to state that Holland has yielded to the German demand. Though the sand and gravel question has probably been settled in Germany's favour, the ...

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  45. HOME DEFENCE FORCES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 337 words
  46. THE CHURCH AND LABOUR.

    The Upper House of Convocation of Canterbury has passed a resolution calling on the Church to bring about a truer fellowship between all engaged in ...

    Article : 235 words
  47. UNION FREIGHTER SUNK.

    News has reached Sydney to the effect that the Union Steamship Co.'s steamer Wailhemo has been sunk in the Mediterrancan. It is understood that the ...

    Article : 68 words
  48. ESCAPED PRISONERS.

    Seventeen British prisoners who escaped from Germany have arrived in London. They include G. H. Reed, of Sydney, and P. G. Cooke, of Brisbane, ...

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  49. LETTER TO PRINCE SIXTE.

    A telegram from Vienna states that the anger of the German Court over the letter of Emperor Charles to Prince Sixte concerning France's just claims to ...

    Article : 82 words
  50. THE WAR LOAN.

    Arrangements are being completed in regard to the prize drawing in connection with the bond selling scheme just finished by Finney, Isles, and Co.; Ltd., and T. C. ...

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  51. CURTAILED TRAIN SERVICE.

    The curtailed train services operated from to-day. An Order in Council empowers the authorities to decline to issue or to cancel season or other tickets or ...

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  52. "COURIER" PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 words
  53. BRITAIN'S MILK SUPPLY.

    The "Star" understands that the distribution of milk throughout the country will be controlled by the State not only during the war period, but permanently. ...

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  54. MURDERER OF ARCHDUKE.

    Gabriel Prinzep, the murderer of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Serajevo, has died of tuberculosis in a fortress near Prague. ...

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  55. DOGS IN ENGLAND.

    The Government has appointed a committee to consider whether cereals should be used in the manufacture of dog biscuits, or whether the number of dogs in ...

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  56. ROCKHAMPTON INVESTMENTS.

    To-day a further sum of £5000 was subscribed to the War Loan, this bringing Rockhampton's total subscriptions to £376,075. ...

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  57. LARGEST WOODEN SHIP LAUNCHED.

    The Liverpool "Courier" reveals the fact that the biggest wooden vessel in the world, called the War Mystery, has been launched for the Cunard Company. She ...

    Article : 64 words
  58. PICTURES BY AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS.

    Two official Australian artists are represented in the Academy. H. S. Power has three large war pictures, two on the line, and James Quinn's portrait of ...

    Article : 53 words
  59. EMPTY GLASS BOTTLES.

    By a proclamation in the "Commonwealth Gazette" to-day export from Australia is prohibited of empty glass bottles, unless the consent in writing, of the ...

    Article : 38 words
  60. ANZAC DAY COLLECTIONS.

    Additional collections in connecticn with the Anzac Day celebrations have brought the total to £760/15/11½. A meeting of the executive will be held in the ...

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  61. ENEMY REPORT.

    A German official wireless message reports: We repulsed French assaults against Dranoutre. ...

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  62. FORTY MILLION BIBLES.

    The British' and Foreign Bible Society has distributed 40,000,000 Bibles during the war period. ...

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