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  2. HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK.

    The Admiralty announces that the British hospital ship Rewa was torpedoed and sunk in the Bristol Channel at midnight on January 4. She was coming from Gibraltar. ...

    Article : 624 words
  3. ALL MINISTERS RETURN

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--All the rumors and caucuses and conferences, all the hesitations and delays and finessing, are at an end. The old Federal Ministry has been revived, and ...

    Article : 1,392 words
  4. WOMEN'S FRANCHISE.

    Lord Loreburn, in the House of Lords, on the Representation of the People Bill, moved to exclude the franchise for women, urging that it was not in the interests of the Stale or of ...

    Article : 149 words
  5. THE ADMIRALTY.

    The Admiralty announces:-- "Mr. Arthur Francis Pease has been appointed Second Civil Lord of the Admiralty. This is a now appointment to deal with ...

    Article : 517 words
  6. WAR AIMS.

    The King has sent the following message to President Wilson:--Sincerest New Year's good wishes for your welfare and America's prosperity, ...

    Article : 1,180 words
  7. CLAMOR FOR PEACE

    The New York "World's"' Rerun correspondent Interviewed a prominent, neutral who had returned after several mouths spent in Germany. He says that the food situation is a tragedy. Only the richest are able to stave off the pangs of hunger. Dogs are seldom seen, all having been eaten. Disentry rages. ...

    Article : 402 words
  8. BACK FROM GERMANY.

    Men repatriated from Germany are overjoyed to see the Red Cross visitors and receive news from Australia. The men's health is generally fairly good. Evidently the worst ...

    Article : 283 words
  9. IN PARLIAMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--As soon as the House of Representatives reassembled at 4.30, Mr. Hughes rose and read a short statement, in the course of which he said that as the ...

    Article : 940 words
  10. THE SOVIETS.

    The Zurich correspondent of the Echo de Paris" writes:--"The Soviet and all the Socialist groups in Petrograd have issued a proclamation against the Bolsheviks' separate peace, ...

    Article : 568 words
  11. CENTRAL POWERS.

    According to a message from Rome, the Stuttgart "Tageblatt" stains that there have been grave divergencies between the Austrian and German delegates at Brest-Litovsk. ...

    Article : 350 words
  12. COURAGE REWARDED.

    Lieut. W.H. Geake, of Sydney, has received the Order Of Membership of the British Empire and Alfred Salenger, also of Sydney, the Medal of the British Empire, for courage and ...

    Article : 247 words
  13. AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

    Australian meat importers waited upon Mr. Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner, and lodged a similar protest to that made by the New Zealand Agents' Association to Sir Thomas ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. MILITARY CROSS BAR WINNERS.

    The following are the details of the exploits of officers who in September last, were awarded bars to their military crosses:--Lieutenant L.T. GWYTHER (Australian ...

    Article : 199 words
  15. U BOATS' TOLL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 393 words
  16. HEROES DECORATED.

    The King decorated at Buckingham Palace 280 officers, men, and nurses, including Lance-Corporal Walter Peeler, an Australian, who was awarded the Victoria Cross. ...

    Article : 106 words
  17. NORTH OF YPRES.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:--The enemy yesterday evening entered two of our advanced posts nothward of the Ypres-Staden railway. Our counter-attack ejected ...

    Article : 332 words
  18. THE WAR SITUATION.

    A high military authority, in his periodical statement on the war situation, says:-- "Winter has set her bunds on all fronts. Heavy rain has stopped work In Mesopotamia. ...

    Article : 221 words
  19. WILL DYSON'S EXHIBITION.

    Queen Alexandra, yesterday Inspected Will Dyson's exhibition of pictures of battle scenes. ...

    Article : 17 words
  20. LONDON WAR CHEST CLUB'S WORK.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 words
  21. UNAUTHORISED PLEDGES

    Mr. G.R. M'Donald, M.L.A., writes:--The action of the Governor-General in recalling Mr. Hughes, or commissioning him to form another administration may have been ...

    Article : 540 words
  22. RECONSTRUCTION.

    An official statement issued by the Treasury Announces:-- "The Minister for Reconstruction has appointed a committee of thirteen to consider ...

    Article : 85 words
  23. MAN WHO WAS FIRED AT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Following the shooting affray in the city last night, when, in trying to arrest, two persons whom they suspected of having broken into a tailor's shop in ...

    Article : 99 words
  24. EGYPTIAN OILFIELDS.

    The Government mission to the Red Sea coast to inspect oilfields has returned. The mission reports the discovery of several now springs, promising a plentiful supply easy ...

    Article : 43 words
  25. ARABIA.

    A Palestine official message reports renewed Arab activity on the Hedjaz railway, northward of Mann (connecting the Palestine system with Arabia). The Arabs have carried out ...

    Article : 44 words
  26. BUTTER FOR PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 words
  27. WOMAN'S RIGHTS IN U.S.A.

    Mr. M'Adoo. U.S.A. Treasurer, and Mr. Danieis, Secretary for the Navy, announce themselves in favor of womanhood suffrage. It is expected that Congress will pass a measure ...

    Article : 57 words
  28. THE "AGE'S" VIEW.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The "Age" will say to-morrow:--"It is not to be assumed that tho course adopted by the Governor-General was the only way out of the Federal crisis. ...

    Article : 275 words
  29. LABOR SHORT EN CANADA.

    A message from Ottawa announce that the Government is planning to conscript all alien unskilled labor for work on farms and in mines and other necessary national industries, owing ...

    Article : 48 words
  30. MUSEUMS NOT NEEDED.

    Lord Cnrzon, in the House of Lords, announced, on behalf of the Government, that it had been found unnecessary to make over the British natural history museums. ...

    Article : 62 words
  31. ALLENBY RESTING.

    General Sir Edmund Allenby, Commander-in-Chief in Palestine, has returned to Cairo for a brief rest. ...

    Article : 20 words
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