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  2. THIS MORNING'S CABLES.

    The publication in Paris and London of the official summary of the League of Nations covenant is attracting attention. The re-drafting admittedly is clearer than the original, notably ...

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  3. COAL POSITION.

    Both the employers and the employees is the coal-mining industry are at a standstill because of the determination of the State Government to appoint a Royal Commission of ...

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  4. DISTURBED EGYPT.

    There is uneasiness in political circles in London. Some of the latest messages from Egypt indicate that the ...

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  5. THE TERMS.

    Apart from Pious generalities the new draft of the League of Nations covenant does not attract favorable comment. The "Dally Chronicle:"--The new provision ...

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  6. MASKS DECLARED USELESS.

    "Isolation is the only method by which pneumonic influenza can he fought. Masks are useless. Inoculation as a prophylactic is a failure." ...

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  7. GREAT ORGANISATION.

    To-day the Administrative Committee brought into being by the necessity for systematically dealing With the afflictions arising out of the present epidemic--enters upon its ...

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  8. LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

    Mr. Clarke, Victorian Minister for Railways and Water Supply come over to Sydney yesterday to interview Now South Wales Ministers with respect to proposed border railways to ...

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  9. VOLUNTARY WORKERS.

    A great and enthusiastic voluntary effort, by Which many a returned soldier or his widow has been returned from the pressure of want set up as a householder, seems, by all ...

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  10. GERMAN INTERESTS.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily News" Buys that the utmost confusion continues throughout Germany, although the strike troubles appear momentarily less ...

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  11. VICTORIAN SUPPLIES.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Victorian Railway Commissioners stated to-day that they had arranged to obtain 1500 tons of coal daily from New South Wales. This would enable the tram ...

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  12. SERVIA IN REVOLT.

    Budapest reports state that a revolution bus broken out in Servia. The troops are fraternising with the Hungarian Red Guards. ...

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  13. VICTORIAN HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The influenzal Revisory committee has recommended to the Government the complete reoganisation of the Health Department, and the abolition of the ...

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  14. BAVARIA.

    It is reported from Berlin that Government troops with heavy artillery, are enclosing upon Munich. Berne advices report that the rioters in ...

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  15. THE 25 PER CENT. INCREASE.

    WOLLONGONG, Thursday.--There was much comment here yesterday on the decision of the Southern Miners' Delegate Board to pross for the 25 per cent. increase originally asked for. ...

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  16. REACTIONARIES GAINING STRENGTH.

    The "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent says that the reactionary anit-Bolshevik movement in Havaria is strengthening the Hoffmann Government at Bamberg, and has ...

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  17. OVER THE ATLANTIC.

    The prospects of the trans-Atiantic night are exciting the keenest interest, fostered by the Air Ministry's elaborate arrangements, including a distinctive wireless signal for each ...

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  18. TRAM MEN'S GRIEVANCES.

    There is considerable dissatisfaction in some sections of the tramway service with regard to the rates of pay. Substantial increases in wages, it is stated, are being received by those ...

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  19. NORTHERN VIEW.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--There appears to be no doubt that the conference agreement 88 will be accepted by a very substantial majority of the lodges of the Northern district. ...

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  20. BOLSHEVIKS CLAIM SUCCESSES.

    A Russian Bolshevik wireless message claims the rapture of Simferopol and Eupatoria (in the Crimea), and considerable military booty; also the capture of Adessa with thousands of ...

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  21. A MELBOURNE VIEW.

    A Sydney man who has just returned from Melbourne says that the most striking thing down south is the amusement over the anti-influenza campaign in New South Wales. ...

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  22. MOSQUITO AS CARRIER.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The theory has been raised in an authoritative quarter here that on account of the humidity of the atmosphere in Sydney, the consequent ...

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  23. EGYPT CALM.

    General Allenby is handling the situation with such tact that a recrudescence of serious trouble is improbable. The murder of five of the British troops on ...

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  24. MS.P. RAILWAY PASSES.

    The "Daily Chronicle" says it is pronoun, that the Government will provide members of the House of Commons with free railway passes between their constituencies and ...

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  25. URANGELINE STATION.

    CULCAIRN, Thursday.--Mr. Ashford, Minister for Lands, during his tour of this district, stated that within a month the Closer Settlement Advisory Board would make an ...

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  26. AUSTRALIANS RETURNING.

    General Birdwood and Admiral Thursby addressed 1100 Australians aboard the Suffolk and 1000 aboard the Commonwealth. They paid a tribute to the Australians' magnificent ...

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  27. MAKING PEACE.

    Messages from London give a summary of the speech delivered yesterday by Mr. Lloyd George in the House of Commons. "The situation," said the Prime ...

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  28. ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

    There is much betting over the Atlantic flight. One sportsman laid 5 to 1 against Hawker in considerable amounts: also 8 to 1 against Raynham. ...

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  29. THE MODERN BLUEBEARD.

    The police suspect that Landon who was arrested and accused of having murdered a number of women, made away with 11 women in his villa at Gambais, on the borders of ...

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  30. FARMERS AND POLITICS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The rift, in the political co-operation of the Nationalist Federation and the. Farmers' Union in Victoria, which remitted in the loss of the Corangamite ...

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  31. AIRMEN RETURN.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Six pilots from pilots Cook provided an aerial escort for a transport, bringing their brother airmen up the bay from quarantine to-day. The men ...

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  32. A LENGTHY DUEL.

    It is reported from Rome that Marquis Centurione and Count Maestretti fought a duel with swords for 43 minutes in Genoa. They were not wounded, but, becoming exhausted, ...

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  33. RUSSIAN POLICY.

    A message from London states that it is believed that the Allies have doubled on a definite Russian policy. A Paris despatch says that the Allies have ...

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  34. POST-OFFICE EMPLOYEES.

    The general secretary of the Australian Labor Party Hinted yesterday that there was lunch discontent amongst employees in the Sydney General Post Office. Many were ...

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  35. ELLEN TERRY RE-APPEARS.

    Ellen Terry, despite her 71 years, was wonderful as the nurse in "Romeo and Juliet." She was almost word-perfect, and the Lyrie Theatre by storm on Saturday night. ...

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  36. VICTORIAN TRAIN SMASH.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Yesterday an incoming stock train from Pyramid Hill ran into the rear of a stationary goods-train at Sunbury station. The impact was violent. The ...

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  37. SOLDIERS' MAIL.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday--The Commandant of the Australian imperial Force Headquarters, London in a telegram to the Acting-Minister for Defence (Senator Russell) points out that at ...

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  38. MRS. HUGHES.

    Mrs. William Hughes accompanied General Birdwood to Plymouth to bid farewell to the Australians returning by the Suffolk, Commonwealth, and Castalia. They met with a ...

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  39. GENERAL CARLES.

    The Press Bureau announces that, at the imperial Government's request. Viscount Buxton will continue as Governer-General of South Africa until June, 1920. ...

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  40. EASTER FOR SOLDIERS.

    Patriotic persons who are really grateful that there is no war this Easter are invited to show their gratitude in a practical manner. The Voluntary Workers' Association needs ...

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  41. AGRICULTURAL WORKERS.

    A conference of delegates from 2000 branches of the Agricultural Workers' Union missed a resolution that the minimum wage should be 50s for a six days' week of 44 hours, and also ...

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  42. TYPHUS RAGING IN POLAND.

    Typhus is exacting a terrible toll throughout Poland. There are 10,000 deaths weekly, and it is feared that cholera and dysentery will follow in the summer, unless better ...

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  43. HARD TASK FOR RED CROSS.

    The Red Cross Congress at Cannes has decided to institute a world-wide crusade among old and young with a view of creating a healthy conscience. ...

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