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  2. COAL FOR NORWAY.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Great Britain has prohibited the export of coal to Norway. The British Legation at Christiania explains that this step is due to the unsatisfactory ...

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  3. CHARGES AGAINST NORWEGIAN.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Oscar Neilsen, a native of Norway, was remanded at the Police Court on a charge of having made statements likely to cause disaffection to his Majesty ...

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  4. THE BALKANS.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- A German official statement reads : -- The Archduke Josef repulsed with heavy losses strong attacks against Mount Faltascan. He stormed ...

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  5. HUMILIATING GERMAN CONTROL.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The Germans fined the Burgomaster of Antwerp personally ten thousand marks for refusing to provide lists of people for deportation. ...

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  6. LABOR AFFAIRS.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- A number of colliers are at anchor in the Harbor, waiting to put out gas coal from Newcastle, but no coalies have put in appearance at, Mortlake since ...

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  7. PEACE PROPOSALS.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The bulk of the German press has fallen into line and is now rallying the public to the utmost efforts. A typical comment is from the "Rhenische ...

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  8. SUBMARINE STRIFE.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- There is anxiety in New York in respect of the overdue steamer Georgic. Another liner, the Voltaire, is about to be given up for lost. Probably the ...

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  9. HUNGARIAN PREMIER'S FALL IMMINENT.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- An Italian semiofficial message declares that Count Tisza's fall in Hungary is imminent. The Emperor Charles gave an audience to the Opposition ...

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  10. TRAWLING INDUSTRY.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The Chief Secretary hints at the possibility of the trawling industry being stopped on account of the attitude of the Master Engineers' Association, which ...

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  11. SHIPPING ACTIVITY.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Lloyd's annual report of which the Premier received a copy, states there is now being built under, the inspection of Lloyd's a larger amount of ...

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  12. TOWNS CAPTURED.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- A German official message says that Macin and Jiyita have been captured. ...

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  13. INTERNED CIVILIANS.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The Anglo-German agreement for the repatriation of all interned civilians over 45 years of age has now been completed. The agreement applies to the ...

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  14. FIVE THOUSAND MEN IDLE.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- It is reported that there are 5000 unemployed men in Sydney, due mainly, to the closing down of many public works and private works, also to inability ...

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  15. AERIAL ACTIVITY.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- A German wireless, message alleges that President Wilson is protesting against British airmen bombarding Drama station before the departure ...

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  16. VICTORY, LIBERATION, AND REPARATION.

    PARIS, Wednesday. -- In reply to a message from the King of Rumania thanking Fiance for supporting Rumania, M. Poincare says he is firmly convinced that 1917 ...

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  17. FAREWELL TO PROMINENT C. E. WORKER.

    The Lismore Church of Christ C. E. Society, and a few friends of Mr. E. L. Rugendyke, met on Friday last to bid him God speed on the eve of his departure for camp. ...

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  18. DEBATE IN AMERICAN SENATE.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- In the American Senate the debate on the subject of support for the President's Note was on party lines. Senator Lodge caused a real stir when he ...

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  19. A STRIKE ENDED.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The slaughtermen's strike at Riverstone is over and the men will resume work to-night. Some of the terms have been agreed to, whilst others have yet ...

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  20. AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- An Austrian official message says : -- The Austro-Germans expelled the enemy from Miera, north-westward of Milcoy. They repulsed strong ...

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  21. A NEUTRAL'S REPORT.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The "Times" correspondent at Amsterda[?] says that a neutral resident of Kiel states that the food disturbances are not serious. The workmen at the ...

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  22. BRITISH MERCHANTMEN.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The British Admiralty has issued a warning that the German Wireless Press is using imaginary comments in British newspapers in order to cast ...

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  23. THE OBSTACLE IN THE WAY.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The secretary of the Federated Masters' Engineering Association denies the Chief Secretary's statement that he is the obstacle in the way of a settlement . ...

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  24. HOPEFUL NEW YEAR WIRES.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Hopeful New Year wires were exchanged between all the Expeditionary Forces. ...

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  25. RUSSIAN REVIEW OF OPERATIONS.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- A Russian official message says : -- The enemy in the Zalagor region entered a trench, but were ejected. The enemy on the Moldavian ...

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  26. PUBLIC WORKS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- It is considered likely in political circles that the Government will relieve Norton Griffiths of the responsibility of carrying out any further ...

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  27. THE BREAD SUPPLY.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The food controller is considering the question of making illegal the selling of bread baked less than twelve hours thus saving waste of new bread and ...

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  28. THE GERMANS' NEXT MOVE.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Parliaments of enemy countries have arranged a conference to be held in Berlin on the 19th inst. The ...

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  29. SUGAR REFINERY EMPLOYEES.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- Owing to trouble among the employees of the sugar refinery at Glanville refining operations have ceased. The Company has notified that deliveries ...

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  30. IN EGYPT.

    BY LONDON Wednesday. -- General Sir D. Haig has telegraphed General Murray congratulations on his great success at El Arish. General Murray replied: -- "The troops are ...

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  31. IN GREECE.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Reuter's Athens correspondent says, the situation is one of the utmost uncertainty.- The King is finding difficulty in replying to the Allied demands ...

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  32. OFFICIAL OPINION.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- It is known that the officers of both the Works Department and the Railway Department hold the opinion that the respective Departments can do the ...

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  33. AUSTRALASIA.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- The State Recruiting Committee has approved of the proposal to form a "Win the War" League. Each member, will be provided with a ...

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  34. CENTRAL POWERS' TERMS.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The "Frankfurter Zeitung " says that Count Andrassy has announced that the Central Powers' peace terms have been communicated to President ...

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  35. ALLIES' THREAT OBJECTED TO.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The "Times" Athens correspondent says that King Constantine in audience with all the ex-Premiers announced that the Government strongly ...

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  36. IN FRANCE.

    LONDON, Wednesday: -- A French communique reports liveliest artillery operations, north and south of the Somme, in the regions of Rouveroy and Verdun, round Morthomme, ...

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  37. THEATRE EMPLOYEES.

    SYDNEY, Thursday: -- Owing to alleged violation of union principles and unfair treatment of employees by theatre proprietors strike of threatened ...

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  38. SOLDIERS' LETTERS.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- Mr. J. G. Wilson, a well-known postal union official, states that if the depredations were on scale as indicated by the finding of the parcel of mail ...

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  39. DEFENCE OF THE DOBRUDJA.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- The capture of Macin virtually ends the defence of the Dobrudja. The Russians having evacuated the rest of that territory had held on to ...

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  40. ALLIES' REPLY.

    LONDON, Wednesday. --- Reuter's correspondent states that the Allies' reply to President Wilson is still being drafted, whereas the reply to Germany was purposely ...

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  41. THE ROYALIST PAPERS.

    LONDON, Weduesday. -- The Greek League of Reservists is attempting to excite feeling against the Entente by services of thanksgiving in the provincial towns of old ...

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  42. AMERICA AND MEXICO.

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday. -- The situation with Mexico is rapidly assuming a graver aspect. General Carranza has finally refused to resume conferences with, Amerca until the ...

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  43. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The statement that Mr. Hughes is giving consideration to the creation of a national organisation which could effectively assist returned soldiers ...

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  44. AUSTRALIANS IN THE FIGHT.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The newest Australian division engaded in a successful raid, winning two military crosses, otherwise, fighting has not been severe, the casualties being ...

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  45. WAVERLEY MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Proceedings arising out of the recent developments in the Waverley Council commenced at Paddington Police Court to-day, when Leslie Lamrock, John ...

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  46. PEACE INTRIGUE.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- M. Caillaux telegraphs to the "Times" from Naples denying the Rome correspondent's statement as to his peace intrigue and challenging justification. ...

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  47. ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Sir D. Haig reports that enemy artillery has been very active in the neighborhood of Souchez and in southern part of the Ypres salient. ...

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  48. A HEAVY FINE.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- William Barton, a commission agent, was fined £50, in default six months' imprisonment, on a charge of being the keeper of a betting room at Eldon ...

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  49. COLLECTIVE BURYING.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Representatives of the Australian Natives' Association waited upon Mr. Fisher and protested against the practice of burying as many as ...

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  50. THE ALLIES' NOTE.

    PIRAEUS, Thursday. -- Everything points to the Greek Government's acceptance of the Allies' Note with, the usual mental reservation that Greece is severely feeling the ...

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  51. THE USUAL CANNONADE

    LONDON, Thursday. -- A Paris communique says : -- There is nothing to report except the usual cannonade on different parts of the front. ...

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  52. "HUMILIATING GERMAN CONTROL."

    BERNE, Thursday. -- It is reported at Zurich from official circles in Vienna that the Emperor Carl is preparing to free the army from the humiliating German control. Count ...

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  53. THE WOOL PURCHASE.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The work of appraising the wool purchase by the Imperial Government was continued to-day, when two more catalogues were submitted. These ...

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  54. EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

    ROME, Wednesday. -- A violent earthquake occurred in the district of Abruzzi. Much damage was done, especially at Vezzano, Pescina and Ajello. ...

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  55. THE BRITISH FRONT.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- Reuter's correspondent at headquarters says the British front in the West is now nearly 100 miles, where on are massed about two million troops. ...

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  56. RUSSIA BREATHES FREER.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Reuter's Petrograd correspodent states that three bullet wounds were found on Rasputin's body -- in the head, chest, and side. It was no ...

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  57. PRICE OF CHEESE.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- An inquiry was held to-day by the Commonwealth Price Commissioner respecting an application that white cheese should be exempt from the ...

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  58. TO BE DISCUSSED AT PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Mr. Hughes stated this afternoon that the whole subject of distress among returned soldiers would begone into at the Premiers' Conference ...

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  59. THE KAISER.

    LONDON, Wednesday -- Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent says that replying in the Reichstag to the President's New Year congratulations the Kaiser remarked: -- "I am ...

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  60. RAILWAY COLLISION.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- It is reported that four persons were killed and 25 injured in a collision between a tram of holiday-makers and a light engine between Edinburgh and ...

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  61. INDIAN APPROVAL.

    DELHI, Thursday. -- The press and public opinion unanimously applaud the Allies' reply to Germany. ...

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  62. PEACE THROUGH THE SWORD.

    AMSTERDAM, Thursday. --- The "Frankfurter Zeitung " accuses the Allies of declining a peace conference from fear of being compelled to disclose the real war aims of the ...

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  63. MINE LAYING.

    AMSTERDAM, Thursday. -- The Dutch papers scout the German accusations that the British are laying mines. They point out that no sane person would believe Britain ...

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  64. THE STATE QUARRIES.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The quarry masters have complained to the Minister for Works of unfair competition from the State quarries. The Minister, in reply, said a large amount of ...

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  65. RECRUITING.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Professor Macintyre says his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some cases advantage of the recruiting meetings has been taken by a few ...

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  66. SUMMER HILL SHOOTING CASE.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Miss McLeod, one of the victims of the Summer Hill shooting affray, died late last night. The other victim (Taylor) is in a critical condition. ...

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  67. A MESSAGE TO LABOR.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- Sir D. Haig m a letter to Ben Tillet said : -- "Tell labor that the best Christmas present they can make to their comrades in the field is to do nothing ...

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  68. IF PEACE WERE CONCLUDED.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent reports that the "Frankfurter Zeitung" says.: -- "If peace were concluded to-day the Entente must renounce all plans ...

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  69. EXPORT OF COLORED MARGARINE.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The Australian Butter Committee made representations to Mr. Fisher for the removal of the prohibition on the export, of colored margarine as it Would ...

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  70. THE DUTCH FLEET.

    AMSTERDAM, Thursday. -- The Dutch papers, commenting on the naval estimates, say they show that no increase in the Dutch fleet is possible for some years. ...

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  71. AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The N.S.W. Commercial Commissioner in the East reports that the Australian exports to and imports from Japan for ten months of 1916 constitute a record, ...

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  72. POLAND.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- It is stated that Von Bessler, the Governor-General of Poland, warned the Poles that the German promise of independence does not mean that ...

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  73. AGENT-GENERALSHIP.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The Chief Secretary, referring to the Agent-Generalship, states that no appointment has yet been made. In Siberia the cold is getting so intense ...

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  74. KING OF HEDJAZ.

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- The Grand Sheriff of Mecca has been notified that his assumption of the title of King of Hedjaz has been definitely recognised by Britain, France, and ...

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  75. ENTICED INTO GERMAN CONSULATE.

    LONDON, Thursday. -- A report from Tangier states that a native employee at the British Consulate at Tetuan was enticed into the German Consulate and murdered. ...

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  76. A PLOT FAILS.

    PARIS, Wednesday. -- "Le Journal", reveals a plot to assassinate M. Miliukoff, President of the Russian Duma. A man who was entrusted by the "Black Hundred" to carry ...

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  77. LABORITES AND RECRUITING.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- At the Labor Council to-night Mr. Judd, Municipal employees' delegate, charged the President (Mr. Cahill) with having accused the P.L.L. executive of ...

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  78. STREET COLLECTIONS.

    SYDNEY, Thursday. -- The Cabinet's decision to prohibit in future all street collections excepting those carried out and recognised before the war will apply to the whole ...

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  79. ZEPPELINS DESTROYED.

    COPENHAGEN, Thursday. -- Two Zeppelins were destroyed by a fire in a shed at Tondern (Schleswig). The fire was due to a short circuit. ...

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