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  2. FRENCH STRIKES.

    "The Times" Paris correspondent telegraphed on Saturday that 40 per cent. of the gas workers had responded to the order to strike. The gasometers and coal ...

    Article : 251 words
  3. COTTON GROWING.

    Mr. Hunter, Queensland Agent-General, told Lancashire importers there were fifty million acres of cheap land in Queensland suitable for cotton, whereof samples had ...

    Article : 259 words
  4. INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS.

    Representatives of affiliated unions, acting in conjunction with the Central Executive of the Australian Labor party, met in the Trades Hall to-day to consider ...

    Article : 249 words
  5. BOLSHEVISTS' DUPLICITY.

    Reuter's Paris correspondent telegraphs that M. Patek, the Polish Foreign Minister, on being interviewed, declared that the Bolshevists were preparing to invade ...

    Article : 83 words
  6. CARRANZA ESCAPES.

    By closely clipping his beard and moustache, President Carranza, disguising himself, made a literally hairbreadth escape last Saturday. ...

    Article : 148 words
  7. OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.

    A bulletin of outrages committed in Ireland yesterday, as supplied by Dublin Castle, shows, that eighteen further police barracks and five income tax offices were ...

    Article : 67 words
  8. ROWING.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 367 words
  9. SINN FEIN INFLUENCE OVER CHILDREN.

    The "Globe" says that educated Sin[?] Fein girls who are working as domestics in loyalist families are teaching the [?]ren anti-English sentiments. The parents are shocked at the toddlers' curses and threats. ...

    Article : 44 words
  10. ZEPPELINS CROSS POLAND.

    Seven Zeppelins appeared over Warsaw on the 9th inst., proceeding in an easterly direction. This is regarded as a violation of the Versailles Treaty. There seems to ...

    Article : 62 words
  11. CARRANZA'S FORCES DEFEATED.

    A Vera Cruz message states that the Carranza forces suffered several hundred casualties in heavy fighting. The revolutionary leaders claim that their troops ...

    Article : 48 words
  12. ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE ORDER.

    There are indications of an important movement to restore order in Ireland. Lord French had an audience with the King to-day, and he will see Mr. Lloyd ...

    Article : 197 words
  13. A POLISH PROTEST.

    Seven Zeppelins flew easterly last Sunday in group formation. They are believed to be carrying German officers to the Bolsheviks. The Poles contend this ...

    Article : 92 words
  14. APPOINTING A PRESIDENT.

    Huerta has called an extraordinary National Congress at Mexico City for May 24 to select a successor to Carranza. Huerta has forwarded a statement of his ...

    Article : 85 words
  15. GENERAL CABLES.

    Butter will not be rationed after May 30. ...

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  16. CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER.

    Mr. Hunter conferred with Manchester cotton merchants to ascertain the minimum inducement which Lancashire spinners would offer for growing raw ...

    Article : 43 words
  17. HOLIDAYS FOR PRINCE'S VISIT.

    The Rubber Workers Union held a mass meeting at the Trades Hall and claimed the right to work Unless they were paid for holidays during the Prince's visit. ...

    Article : 41 words
  18. THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

    The Zionist organisation has entrusted Mr. Israel Cohen with the mission to the Jewish communities overseas to explain the significance of the Peace Conference 's ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. BOLSHEVISM: A GHASTLY FAILURE.

    Colonel Ryan, Red Cross Commissioner for North Russia and the Baltic States, who has returned from a surreptitious visit into Russia, states that Russia ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.

    While a strong effort is being made to provide work for unemployed married men in the city, the Minister for Works is also taking active steps to put the ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. NEWS OF THE WORLD

    A lone bandit held up express messengers on an Illinois central train and obtained £100,000. Subsequently he was trapped and killed, and the money was ...

    Article : 42 words
  22. CARRANZA'S ESCAPE CONFIRMED.

    General Obregon sent a message to-day to the revolutionary agents at El Paso to the effect that President Carranza escaped from the rebels, who attacked him at ...

    Article : 159 words
  23. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    Ernest Barry arrived this morning by the Orsova, and was given a fine welcome by the sculling fraternity, one of the first to greet the champion being Alf. Felton. ...

    Article : 187 words
  24. MR. WATT WELCOMED.

    The "Observer," in a leader welcoming Mr. Watt, says that such visit are too infrequent. Lord Milner's suggestion of a standing Consultative Committee ...

    Article : 246 words
  25. FINDING WORK FOR BAKERS.

    The operative bakers proposed with a view to reducing the number of unemployed, that the hours of work should be reduced from 48 to something which would ...

    Article : 47 words
  26. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE.

    The House of Commons by 61 to 8 carried the second reading of a Bill prohibiting the importation of plumage of birds except ostriches, ciderducks, birds ...

    Article : 43 words
  27. REEF OF GOLD.

    Excavators at Jerusalem have reported that they struck a gold reef. ...

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  28. BRUSILOFF AT MOSCOW.

    "The Times" Paris correspondent telegraphed on Saturday that there was a rumor that the Moscow silence was due to the fact that General Brusiloff, who was ...

    Article : 58 words
  29. MELBOURNE PRINTERS STRIKE.

    At a conference between the master printers and employees in Melbourne yesterday, the latter expressed their willingness to accept £418 a week, but the ...

    Article : 73 words
  30. TRAWLER BLOWN UP.

    The Grimsby trawler Uvularia was blown up, and ten lives were lost. It is believed she hauled up a mine. ...

    Article : 29 words
  31. AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

    Mr. C. A. McCurdy, Minister for Food, in a statement in regard to the glut of meat imported from Australasia, explained that this was due to the rapid diminution ...

    Article : 169 words
  32. FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES.

    Despatches reaching the State Department indicate that fierce lighting continues between Carranza supporters and the rebels along the Vera Cruz railway. ...

    Article : 36 words
  33. FINLAND ANXIOUS FOR PEACE.

    Reuter's Helsingfors correspondent telegraphed on Saturday that the Foreign Minister, M. Holsti, has sent a message to T[?]tcherin stating that Finland is ...

    Article : 43 words
  34. ACCIDENT ON A DESTROYER.

    The Rob Roy, a destroyer, was carrying out battle practice at Sandown when a boiler exploded. Five of the stokers were seriously injured. ...

    Article : 49 words
  35. ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

    This afternoon, when Archbishop Mannix was leaving to catch the Sydney express, ten thousand school children lined Collins street and sang, "Come Back to ...

    Article : 59 words
  36. "BEASTLY SELFISH."

    General Booth on being interviewed, stated he liked Australia, but Australians were such a beastly selfish lot. He wanted to bring people here from the Old Country; ...

    Article : 174 words
  37. PEACE TREATY.

    By a vote of 43 to 38 the Senate adopted the Knox resolution, declaring that the war had ended, and repealing the war-time legislation. ...

    Article : 50 words
  38. "DEAD FUNNY!"

    Conversing with a Digger outside St. Paul's, he said:--"Dead funny. This morning, on the way to the House of Commons, I got past ...

    Article : 201 words
  39. CASUALTIES.

    There was a serious explosion of petrol on board the ferry steamer Success, in Port Adelaide. The vessel was beached in a badly damaged condition. William ...

    Article : 63 words
  40. BEETHOVEN'S ANNIVERSARY.

    The Beethoven 150th anniversary celebration at Bonn was successful. The Wagner festival at Bayreuth has been postponed indefinitely owing to the ...

    Article : 39 words
  41. "WE WILL KEEP YOU IN AUSTRALIA!''

    There was an extraordinary demonstration in Melbourne yesterday afternoon when Archbishop Mannix was leaving Melbourne to catch the train for Sydney. ...

    Article : 191 words
  42. PRESIDENT'S RIGHT OF VETO

    There is hardly any question but that President Wilson will veto the Knox resolution, and to-day's vote would be in sufficient to pass the resolution again over ...

    Article : 40 words
  43. UNITED STATES NAVY.

    Mr. Daniels declared that Admiral Sims charge that the Navy Department prolonged the war four months and was responsible for half a million lives, sounded ...

    Article : 54 words
  44. ENTOMBED IN A STRONGROOM.

    A man and a woman were accidentally entombed by the closing of a strongroom door in London which had not been closed for twenty years. The couple were fed by ...

    Article : 92 words
  45. WOMAN KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAM.

    Mrs. Laura Reynolds, of Gladesville, had her arms and legs broken and her scalp injured last night owing to having been knocked down by a tram. Her condition ...

    Article : 42 words
  46. EVACUATION OF FRENCH TROOPS.

    "The Times", Paris correspondent telegraphed on Saturday that, acting on the reports of General Nollett, Marshal Foch has instructed General Degeutte to ...

    Article : 126 words
  47. TENNIS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 257 words
  48. POLICE CAR COLLIDES WITH TRAM.

    A police motor-ear collided with a tram in Regent street this morning. The police car was smashed, and Constable Sweeting and a prisoner and a State child were ...

    Article : 46 words
  49. MONSTER WARSHIP.

    Mr. Charles Schwab says the world's greatest sea-fighting machine, a thousand feet long, and ten miles faster than the Lusitania, is under construction. Its ...

    Article : 51 words
  50. "THE SPEAKER IS INFALLIBLE."

    Mr. W. Brace, in the House of Commons, questioned the Speaker's ruling, which he maintained was Wrong. He asked what redress he had, and the ...

    Article : 48 words
  51. AUSTRALIAN WOOL.

    Mr. Goldfinch, in an interview with the United Service, said Mr. Hughes project was sympathetically regarded, but it was absolutely impossible for the Imperial ...

    Article : 301 words
  52. A PREMATURE EXPLOSION.

    Owing to the premature explosion of a blasting charge at the Federal brickworks at Alexandria yesterday afternoon, two men were hurled into a pit eighty feet ...

    Article : 97 words
  53. "HELLO, WALLY!"

    Commemoration Day was celebrated today in the customary fashion by a procession of undergraduates through the streets of the city. After the procession, ...

    Article : 234 words
  54. TAX ON WAR WEALTH.

    The report of the Select, Committee on the tax of war wealth increases says that, after a close examination of the conflicting testimony, the Committee concluded ...

    Article : 238 words
  55. AN APPEAL FOR THE NEEDY.

    Queen Alexandra and the Duke of Connaught are appealing to the public for the Red Cross and post-war objects for war prisoners, cripples, children, and the ...

    Article : 39 words
  56. THE INDEMNITY TO FRANCE.

    M. Millerand has assented to a definite but unnamed sum from Germany conditionally. The principal condition is that France is to receive payment on account. ...

    Article : 80 words
  57. USES FOR WIRELESS.

    A committee of experts from Marconi's factory gave a demonstration of wireless fire-calls, and a useful country apparatus which could be installed in a tree or hung ...

    Article : 41 words
  58. A FATAL BLOW.

    Daring an altercation at Waverley last night, Sydney Hayes, 30, fell as the result of receiving a blow, and struck his head on the pavement. He was taken to ...

    Article : 65 words
  59. THEFT OF BONDS

    Nielsy Arnstein, the [?]alleged master mind of the bond thefts of a million sterling from Wall street brokers, has surrendered.. Arnstein met his actress wife, ...

    Article : 128 words
  60. IMPERIAL MOTOR TRANSPORT COMPANY.

    The Imperial Motor Transport Council has been formed to develop fuel supplies and shipments, aud to co-operate with other bodies. The president is Prince ...

    Article : 43 words
  61. "A SHAMEFUL SCRAMBLE."

    The ''Register'' describes the increase in the Federal Parliamentarians' salaries as a shockingly, shameful, and unpatriotic scramble. ...

    Article : 59 words
  62. PRINCE OF WALES.

    The Labor Conference carried a resolution: "That in view of the excessive cost of living, etc., the extravagant expenditure of public money on the occasion of the ...

    Article : 56 words
  63. PAPER SHORTAGE.

    Reuter's Berlin correspondent telegraphed on Wednesday that at a meeting of German newspaper publishers at Leipsic the chairman. Herr F[?]er, said that ...

    Article : 68 words
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