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  2. THE SAMOAN TROUBLE.

    LONDON, Aug. 17.—Amplifying the draft of the report published in June, the report of the Mandates Commission concerning the administration of the Samoan ...

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  3. SOUTHERN CROSS FLYERS.

    Although it became known on Saturday that the landing ground at the Maylands aerodrome was too boggy to allow the Southern Cross to take off, several ...

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  4. THE WORLD'S WHEAT.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—Discussing the wheat position the "Corn Trade News" says:— "The weakness of the international ...

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  5. OPIUM SMUGGLING.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—The British Government has placed upon the agenda for the forthcoming Council meeting of the League of Nations a proposal for the ...

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  6. CHINA.

    SHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—An economic war against Japan is advocated and is likely to eventuate in Manchuria, for the purpose of weakening Japan's position there. ...

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  7. AIR "WAR" OVER LONDON.

    LONDON, Aug. 17.—An official communique relating to the air "war" over London states:—"The manoeuvres comprised 57 daylight raids, nine of which ...

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  8. TROPICAL STORM.

    PORT AU PRINCE (Haiti), Aug. 18.—It is estimated that 200 persons are dead and 10,000 homeless and that many villages have been wined out as the result of a ...

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  9. OUTLAWING WAR.

    PARIS, Aug. 17.—It has been announced from Berlin that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Dr. Stresemann) has definitely accepted an invitation to sign the ...

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  10. WHOLESALE BOOTLEGGING

    NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—The Memphis (Tennessee) police have discovered a bootlegging headquarters on an greater scale than anything hitherto known in America. ...

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  11. RECEPTION AT FREMANTLE.

    "We have been received everywhere in a remarkable manner, and what I told Charlie Ulm about the hospitality of West Australians has been more than justified. ...

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  12. 'PLANE CATCHES FIRE.

    LONDON, Aug. 17.—A Fairey "Fox" aeroplane caught fire when landing at Andover after the manoeuvres last night. The machine was destroyed, but the ...

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  13. COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE.

    At the National communications conference held at Nanking yesterday, it was resolved that the contracts with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, ...

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  14. RELIC OF SOVIET WAR.

    MOSCOW, Aug. 18.—It is announced that 43 bodies have been recovered from the British submarine L55, which was sunk in Capor Bay on June 4, 1919, during ...

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  15. MIGRATION OUTLOOK.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—Dean Inge, replying to Australian protests in the "Evening Standard" concerning his article dealing with migration to Australia which was ...

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  16. AVIATION.

    LONDON, Aug. 17.—Capt. Hubert Broad has beaten the world's endurance record for light aeroplanes. He went up last evening and landed at Stag Lane ...

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  17. TAILTEANN GAMES.

    DUBLIN, Aug. 18.—The Tailteann games were continued to-day. Watson's display in the final of the 100 metres hurdles, despite the fact that he had not ...

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  18. EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 10.—Enthusiastic scenes were witnessed at Darling Harbour on Saturday morning, when delegates to the Eucharistic Congress arrived in Sydney by ...

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  19. CAPTAIN COOK.

    HONOLULU, Aug. 18.—The ceremonies in commemoration of Captain Cook's first landing on the Hawaiian Islands were shifted to-day to Kealakekua Bay, where ...

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  20. CHINESE AMBITIONS.

    SHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—Nationalist China plans to build a modern navy aggregating 600,000 tons within ten years, as part of the programme of national ...

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  21. ARRANGING FOR BURIAL.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—The Admiralty, through the Norwegian Government, has asked the Soviet Government to grant permission for a British warship to convey ...

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  22. ROYAL TOMBS DESECRATED.

    SHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—Further startling evidence of the desecration of the tombs of the Manchu royal families outside PeKing has been furnished by the ...

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  23. ALLEGED ALIEN PREFERENCE.

    LONDON, Aug. 17.—In the course of a letter to the "Evening standard" Senator McLachlan says:—"On the strength of a letter from on itinerant French journalist ...

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  24. AMERICA TO SWEDEN.

    OTTAWA, Aug. 18.—A message from Cochrane (Ontario) states, that Messrs. Bert Hassell (pilot) and Parker (navigator), who are attempting a three-stop ...

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  25. AN HISTORIC RELIC.

    LONDON, Aug: 18.—The "Observer" reveals that a leather-covered sea chest studded with brass nails, which Captatin Cook used on his voyages to the Antipodes ...

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  26. ADMIRALTY NOTIFICATION.

    LONDON, Aug. 19.—A sister of Petty Officer Herbert Crook, who served in the L55, said that the Admiralty in 1919 merely notified that the submarine was overdue ...

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  27. WOMEN'S INFLUENCE.

    HONOLULU, Aug. 17.—The Government Section of the Women's Pacific Conference, in which the Australian and New Zealand delegates participated prominently, ...

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  28. THE DEAN CHALLENGED.

    LONDON, Aug. 17.—Mr. L. H. Pike (secretary of the Queensland Agent-General's office), in representing the Agent-General. (Mr. John Huxham) at a ...

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  29. COMMUNIST METHODS.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—The Government publishes an intercepted letter from M. N. Roy, an Indian Communist, living in Berlin, to his agents in India. He states:— ...

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  30. HERO WORSHIP.

    Perhaps there are no prouder boys now in this State than Eric and Ralph Peters, and no more ardent admirers of Squadron Leader Kingsford Smith. These two ...

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  31. AIR FORCE COLLISION.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—When two Royal Air Force machines collided in the air near Gigby (Lincolnshire) yesterday the pilot of the first plane and the observer of ...

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  32. 3,500 FARMS SCHEME

    SOUTHERN CROSS, Aug. 18.—According to those in authority at Forrestania in connection with the development of the 3,500 farms scheme, the organisation is ...

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  33. ADELAIDE OPPOSITION.

    ADELAIDE, Aug. 19.—Vigorous opposition to the proposal to hold a Eucharistic procession through the streets of Sydney was voiced at a Protestant rally in the ...

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  34. BRITISH FLYING BOATS.

    BRISBANE, Aug. 19.—The four British Supermarine Napier flying boats under command of Captain Cave-Brown-Cave left Brisbane River early yesterday morning in ...

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  35. THE COMMUNITY SPIRIT.

    "It is easy to criticise migration schemes, but it is difficult to suggest better. I do not Know of anyone who has got bey the fringe of the subject," stated Mr. L. W. ...

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  36. PRE-HISTORIC REMAINS.

    SHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—Wonderful discoveries are reported by Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the Fourth American Mongolian expedition which returned to ...

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  37. CONDITION OF GROUND.

    About four inches of water covered the landing ground at the Maylands aerodrome yesterday and on Saturday, conditions were little better. On Saturday one ...

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  38. AIR MARSHAL'S MOVEMENTS.

    BRISBANE, Aug. 18.—Piloted by Flight Lieutenant Briggs, a Napier supermarine flying boat, carrying Air Marshal Sir John Salmond reached Brisbane this afternoon ...

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  39. BROADCASTING.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 19.—The fact that the present restricted grant of the Federal Government would have to be applied to purely utilitarian research by the Radio ...

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  40. SESSIONS CONCLUDED.

    HONOLULU, Aug. 18.—The sessions of the Women's Pacific Conference were concluded to-day after adopting a number of resolutions of a general nature in ...

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  41. New Settlers.

    The following new settlers are expected to arrive at Fremantle by the Orama to-morrow:—Nominated: Bevan, Mrs. Margt. G. and family; Court. Sydney: Cowton, Arthur F.: Creasey. ...

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  42. EXPRESS IN COLLISION.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—The North Western express between Cambridge and Kingscross collided to-day with a motor lorry loaded with cement at a level crossing at ...

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  43. HARVESTING IN CANADA.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—In connection with the scheme under which 10,000 unemployed were to be assisted to go to Canada for harvest work, many of the men who had ...

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  44. CIRCLING AUSTRALIA.

    KELLERBERRIN, Aug. 17.—At a well attended public meeting here to-night, the Federal Treasurer (Dr. Page) outlined recent developments in aviation. ...

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  45. MUNICIPAL BRIBERY.

    TOKIO, Aug. 18.—Judicial investigations which were made during the week into a municipal bribery scandal have culminated in startling developments, evidence having ...

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  46. SCENE AT MINERS' MEETING.

    LONDON, Aug. 17.—William Allen, secretary of the Lanarkshire Miners' Union, who was ejected from an executive meeting on July 18. Sought entrance to-day to ...

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  47. BUTTER PRODUCTION.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 18.—According to Mr. E. Schmitt, of the New Zealand Department of Industry and Commerce, who is making a week-end visit to Canberra, ...

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  48. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

    LONDON, Aug. 17.—Experiments will shortly be made by engineers of the British Broadcasting Corporation, in association with the engineers of the National ...

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  49. NETTING MOTOR BANDITS.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—The "Sunday Dispatch" says:—"A steel octopus capable of catching a motor car in its web of wire chains and flexible tentacles is the lastest ...

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  50. AMERICA AND EGYPT.

    LONDON, Aug. 18.—The Washington correspondent of "The Times" says: "The silence of the Secretary of State (Mr. F. B. Kellogg) concerning the proposed ...

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  51. SYDNEY STREET NUISANCES.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 16.—More than 60 women formed a deputation to-day to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell), and urged a vigorous campaign to keep a certain ...

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  52. BURGLAR ELUDES POLICEMAN.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 18.—Although five shots were fired after him by a pursuing constable, a burglar, who was surprised in the clubhouse of the Randwick Bowling Club ...

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  53. COMMONWEALTH LOAN

    CANBERRA, Aug. 18.—The Commonwealth War Conversion Loan is to be definitely closed on Wednesday next. After the close of business on that day, the ...

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  54. HARES POISONED.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 19.—Within the past few dais a number of hares, the property of the Liverpool Coursing Club, have been Poisoned. The animals were being trained ...

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  55. EMPIRE CABLE SERVICES.

    WINNIPEG, Aug. 18.—Once a Labour Government returned to power, it would do everything possible to place the control of the Empire cable services back in ...

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  56. FALLEN TURKS.

    CONSTANTLNIOPLE, Aug. 17.—A memorial to the Turkish soldiers will be erected at Gallipoli on the sit of the bitterest fighting. A mission has been sent to ...

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