Many electors were obliged to sacrifice their right to vote yesterday owing to their ignorance of the electoral law. Even in the enlightened suburb of St. Kilda, and in ...
Article : 200 wordsPolling for candidates for the Legislative Assembly passed oft' yesterday with comparative dullness. Since the decision of the Federal Government for the conscription ...
Article : 806 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Asquith. formerly Prime Minister, amid cheers, asked the following questions:— (1) What are the functions of the ...
Article : 1,084 wordsAn Italian official report states:— "An enemy surprise attack against our positions from Lake Ledro to Lake Garda completely failed, and the enemy was compelled to ...
Article : 619 wordsPetorgrad has been isolated since Tuesday afternoon, and wireless signals to the capital remain unanswered. Before Tuesday afternoon telegrams ...
Article : 307 wordsThe New York "World" lias received a despatch from Home stating that "the troops attesting the Italians include French Chasseurs, and the world-famous Anzacs, ...
Article : 160 wordsOn Wednesday evening Sir Douglas Haig reported:— "Since the capture of Passchendaele great artillery activity has been directed by the enemy against the village ...
Article : 409 wordsThe leader of the Labor party, Mr. G. A. Elmslie, who was returned unopposed three years ago, was challenged on this occasion by Mr. J. Baragwanath, who has been ...
Article : 480 wordsGeneral Sir E. H. Alleaby reports that the Turks. while attempting to take up a new position twelve miles northward of Askalon, were driven, after stiff fighting, ...
Article : 288 wordsVery little interest was taken in. the tringigular contest at Brunswick, and the electorate, being a stronghold of the Labor party, the result was regarded as a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 317 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New Turk "Times" reports:— "The United States has completed arrangements with European neutrals and Japan to ...
Article : 155 wordsAt a great meeting of Austrian Roman Catholics hold it Vienna a protest was made against a weak peace. A resolution was passed in favor of the annexation of all ...
Article : 143 wordsFollowing M. Painleve's speech on Tuesday the Chamber of Deputies discussed two interpellations. Deputy Ferry urged the fusion of the armies on the West front. ...
Article : 209 wordsWith the exception of the number of motor cars traversing the usually quiet thoroughfares of East Melbourne. there was little to show that an election was taking ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsSir A. C. Geddes, Minister of National Service, in a speech yesterday condemned the present system of recruiting, and said the parrot cries of "Young men first" ...
Article : 116 wordsThe German Petroleum Company has announced a dividend of 8 per cent, for the year ended July. It expects a dividend of 16 per cent, in 1918, owing to "the fact ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Admiralty reports that during the past week the shipping arrivals totalled 2125, and the sailings 2307. One vessel over and five under 1600 tons were sunk, ...
Article : 330 wordsThe political truce has gone- by the board. Some newspapers direct attention to the fact that Mr. Churchill was with Mr. Lloyd George in Paris. They declare ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsThe police at Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, made .1 raid on the I.W.W. Convention and arrested 200 delegates. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe election in the Brighton constituency was almost devoid of incident. Most people regarded the insult as a foregone conclusion, the retiring member, Mr. O. R. ...
Article : 867 wordsConsiderable public interest ivan manifested in the contest for the Essendon seat, and voting was extremely heavy. The campaign itself was keenly fought out between ...
Article : 892 wordsMr. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in replying yesterday to a combined Labor deputation which advocated conscriptions of wealth, said the State was ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Canadian Government has taken over control of the; meat packing houses and is confiscating half the profits in excess of 7 per cent. and the whole of the profits ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsThe Brazilian Government, replying to the Pope's peace proposal, maintains the rights of all nations on the basis of justice and equity. Germany's activities, it adds, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsThe British Admiralty, in denying the German Admiralty's allegation that a British destroyer >ras "hit- dining an engagement off the coast of Flanders, explains:— ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is understood that a complete agreement is impending: between the United States and European neutrals on the question of exports. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe King and Queen yesterday visited the New Zealand hospital at Walton. Sir Thomas Mackenzie and his daughter. Miss Mary Mackenzie, received their majesties, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe detectives have raided the offices of four pacifist organisations in London. A van wa required to remove the correspondence and samples of the propaganda ...
Article : 39 wordsMinisters who were present in the Tourists Bureau last night, where the results of the polling were posted, appeared considerably perturbed at the shape events ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Food Controller has fixed the maximum retail price of margarine retail price of margarine at 1/ per 1b., except in the case of oleomargarine, the maximum for which is 1/4. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsSir Edward Curson, in opening a soldiers' hostel at Westminster yesterday, predicted that the Government would shortly announce a further advance in the ...
Article : 80 wordsA steamer, without lights, under Admiralty orders, collided with another vessel in the Channel on Sunday and sank. Fourteen of the crew were drowned. The ...
Article : 50 wordsChina's protest against the Japanese-American agreement has been published. It points out that China has consistently respected the treaty rights of friendly ...
Article : 65 wordsAn East African official report states:— "Our Kilwa and Lindi forces have junctioned at Ndanda. The remnants of the principal enemy force have retreated to ...
Article : 55 wordsOfficial statistics of trade for the United Kingdom show that values for October last. when compared with those for the tenth month of 1916, reveal an increase of ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 16 Nov 1917, Page 7
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