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  2. THE WAR.

    It is reported that the Germans have begun a terrific bombardment along most of the British front. A special correspondent of the United ...

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  3. AN AMERICAN RAID.

    American troops raided German troops near Toul (about 20 miles south-east of St. Mihiel), and the combatants engaged in hand-to-hand fighting. ...

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  4. THE WAR AT SEA.

    The British Admiralty authorities reported yesterday:—"Two British and three French destroyers, off Dunkirk, between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning engaged some ...

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  5. MILITARY HONOURS.

    The following decorations have been awarded:—Bar to the Military Medal.—Sergeant J. D. McLeod. of the Auckland Rifles. ...

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  6. THE METROPOLITAN CHARITIES.

    The official opening of the Oriental Carnival in aid of the Metropolitan Charities takes place at 8 p.m. on Monday next. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. H. P. Cole ...

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  7. FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY.

    Some time ago the Minister for Woods and Forests in Western Australia (Mr. R. T. Robinson) urged upon the Federal authorities the advisability of the erection of a ...

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  8. FREMANTLE PRISON.

    Rumours were current yesterday with reference to the intentions of those in authority with regard to matters affecting the Fremantle Gaol. The escapes from the ...

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  9. DEFENCE ADMINISTRATION.

    Messrs. T. Bretnell and A. E. Barton, advisory accountants to the Royal Commission on Naval and Defence Administration, have furnished to the chairman a reply to ...

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  10. THE KAISER'S MESSAGE.

    The Kaiser, in a message to the Rhenish Provincial Council, said: "We are at a decisive moment of the war, and one of the greatest in German history." The ...

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  11. NATIONALISING RAILWAYS.

    Mr. Lloyd George (the Prime Minister), replying to a deputation from the Trade Union Congress in favour of the nationalisation of the British railways, canals, and ...

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  12. ANOTHER PEACE KITE.

    It has been ascertained from Roman Catholic sources that semi-official negotiations are now being conducted between Germany and the Entente, and that ...

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  13. THE FOOD PROBLEM.

    The Government has taken over a sausage factory in London, in order to produce attractive foods from by-products of the slaughter houses. The directors include ...

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  14. BEGINNING OF A GREAT OFFENSIVE

    Mr. Percival Phillips, the special correspondent of the London "Daily Express," says:—"The attack is apparently the beginning of a great offensive. I have no doubt ...

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  15. EMPIRE TRADE MARK.

    A Commercial Committee of the House of Commons has negatived unanimously the proposal of the British Empire League to have an Empire trade mark. ...

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  16. THE HUN RAIDER WOLF.

    Major J. W. Flood (of Australia) lectured last night in Norfolk House, London, on the voyage of the German raider Wolf. Sir Charles G. Wade (the Agent-General for ...

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  17. GERMANY'S COLONIES.

    The Empire Resources Development Committee has sent to Mr. Lloyd-George a resolution expressing the hope that the German colonies will not be returned, ...

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  18. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BY-ELECTION.

    The by-election to fill the vacancy in the representation of the Metropolitan Province in the Legislative Council caused by the resignation of Mr. Harry Boan will be held ...

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  19. WAR CASUALTIES.

    Captain McVicker-Smyth has received word that his son Alan has recovered from his wound and returned to the Western front. A cable message has been received by Mr. ...

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  20. REPRISALS ADVOCATED.

    A number of petitions are being circulated in the provincial towns asking the Government to place German prisoners of war on British vessels. ...

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  21. RUSSIA.

    M. Tohitcherin, the Commissary for Foreign Affairs, denies the rumour that a German commission is controlling the denationalisation of the banks. The Soviet ...

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  22. A COUNTRYMAN ROBBED.

    On Thursday John Gerke, a resident of a northern town, who is stying at an Adelaide hotel, withdrew £121 from a bank in the city to purchase a business. He ...

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  23. WAR IN THE AIR.

    News received from Basle concerning Monday's British raid on Mannheim shows that enormous damage was done. Many houses in several parts of the town ...

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  24. SHIPBUILDING QUESTION.

    The newspapers regard the latest speech of Sir Eric Geddes (the First Lord of the Admiralty) as reassuring rather than disquietening, but they complain of omissions ...

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  25. THE SILVER CHAIN.

    Following is a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Silver Chain Nursing League for the year ended February 28 1918, also a statement of receipts and ...

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  26. FEDERAL MINISTERS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Glynn), and the Postmaster-General (Mr. Webster) will leave Melbourne for Sydney ...

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  27. THE FEBRUARY LIST.

    The British [?]cial Press Bureau reported yesterday:—"Exclusive of raids in Germany, the British and Australian airmen on the Western front dropped, in ...

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  28. STATEMENT BY MR. BONAR LAW.

    In the House of Commons last night Mr. Bonar Law announced that a German infantry attack had been launched that morning from the Scarpe to the Oise (a ...

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  29. NEW ROUMANIAN CABINET.

    M. Al. Marghilomun has been appointed Premier of Roumania. It is reported that the new Cabinet is strongly pro-German. [M. Marghilomum was Minister for ...

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  30. OUTSIDE OF THE WAR ZONE.

    The Pope has instructed the Papal Nuncio in Vienna to ask the Emperor Karl to take the initiative in a movement to stop the bombing of open towns outside ...

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  31. THE PRICE OF MEAT.

    The inquiry into the price of meat was continued to-day by the chairman of the Interstate Commission (Mr. A. B. Piddington) and Mr S. Mills, acting Commissioner. ...

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  32. OSTEND BOMBARDED.

    The British Admiralty authorities reported on Thursday night:—"Some British monitors bombarded Ostend successfully this afternoon. A naval air squadron ...

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  33. JAPAN WARNS CHINA.

    The Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that Japan has warned China to terminate internal strife, and assist Japan in meeting ...

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  34. AVIATION BASE ABANDONED.

    Lord Rothermere, the Air Minister, was cross-questioned sharply in the House of Lords last evening and admitted that the Government had spent £420,000 ...

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  35. ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

    The annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce was concluded to-day. The following motions were agreed to:—"That this conference protsts against ...

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  36. DUTCH SHIPPING.

    It is not clear whether the Dutch Parliament's acceptance of the Allies' ultimatum merely referred to its approval of the Foreign Minister's statement. Holland's ...

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  37. POLAND.

    The Germano-Polish agreement has reached Germany. It renounces all annexations and allows to Poland autonomy and the power to constitute her own army. ...

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  38. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

    The following official despatches have been made available:— London, March 21 (12.45 p.m.).—"The enemy opened a heavy bombardment ...

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  39. HELIGOLAND BOMBARDED.

    A number of British seaplanes have bombarded Heliogland. ...

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  40. FEDERATED ENGINE DRIVERS.

    The annual conference of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association of Australia was concluded at Hobart yesterday. Mr. Miley (Hobart) was installed ...

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  41. RUSSIAN FLEET ESCAPES.

    The State Department notifies that the American Consul in Moscow has telegraphed the information that the Russian Odessa fleet has escaped towards ...

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  42. BRITISH NIGHT FLIERS AT WORK.

    Field-Marshal Haig issued the following despatch this morning:—"The weather yesterday hindered flying operations. Our night fliers dropped about three hundred ...

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  43. A GERMAN REPORT.

    The British Admiralty authorities intercepted yesterday the following wireless German official message:—"We have captured the town of Kherson, in the Ukraine." ...

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  44. COMMONWEALTH.

    The Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Donad Mackinnon) stated to-day that he proposed to remodel the existing recruiting organisations with a view to giving ...

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  45. JEWELLERS' CONFERENCE.

    At the fourth conference of the Federated Retail Jewellers' Association at Hobart to-day Mr. Butterfield (Hobart), the president, proposed that wholesale manufacturers ...

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  46. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS.

    Following the Revolutionary Socialists repudiation of the Brest Litovsk peace treaty, several leaders have gone south to organise a guerilla warfare against the ...

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  47. THE TREASURER AND MR. SMITH, M.L.A.

    "In discussing the Treasury Estimates," the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. James Gardiner) remarked to a "West Australian" reporter yesterday, "the member for North Perth ...

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  48. VICTORIAN RAILWAYS.

    Startling allegations regarding the extent of the pillaging in the railway service and the existence of an organised gang of thieves engaged in depredations ...

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  49. GENERAL ITEMS.

    In the Senate yesterday Senator Robert L. Owen (Democrat) urged that a League of Nations should be established to isolate Germany commercially for five years unless ...

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  50. MINE EMPLOYEES' CLAIMS.

    The speaking to the minutes of the award in the matter of the Federated Mining Employees' Association and another v. the Edna May Gold Mining Co and ...

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  51. SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISTS.

    In the House of Assembly yesterday General Hertzog, the leader of the Nationalist Party, questioned the Premier (General Botha) concerning the statements which had ...

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  52. A BANK ROBBERY.

    In connection with the sensational theft of bank notes from a customer at the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank recently, Vincent Cook (30), a labourer, was ...

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  53. ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

    The protest made by loyal citizens on Thursday against the unadulterated treason" of Dr. Mannix and the manifestations of the Sinn Fein, was considered by the ...

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  54. THE PALESTINE ADVANCE.

    It is reported that the British have captured three additional towns in Palestine. ...

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  55. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The operations of the 51st Battalion Trench Comforts Fund (Cottesloe-Claremont branch) have been continuously carried on, and at the end of December last ...

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  56. FIRE ON A SCHOONER.

    A fire broke out early this monring of an American schooner from which lumber is being discharged in the Victoria Dock. When the alarm was given the fire had a ...

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  57. SOLDIERS ON OYSTER LEASES.

    Since the beginning of February the oyster lessees around Port Stephens have collected and consigned to the soldier lessees at Manning River 200 bags of immature ...

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  58. BOOKMAKERS FINED.

    As the result of a raid late this afternoon by the police on Record Chambers, Castlereagh-street, nine men, including four of Sydney's well-known bookmakers, ...

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  59. EAST AFRICAN ADVANCE.

    The following official report has been received from the British headquarters in East Africa:—"We are in contact with a strong enemy force near Medoboma. in the ...

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  60. RAILWAY GUARD CONVICTED.

    A verdict of guilty was returned to-day in the case of the railway guard. John James Cadley, charged with having, together with another person, stolen £748. ...

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  61. BRITISH NEWS.

    The Government is making inquiries in the House of Commons as to whether a scheme of Federal Home Rule for England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales would be ...

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  62. GERMANS ARRESTED.

    Four residents of German descent, H. A. Paesch, John Wenke, E. Wenke, and E S. Hopner, of Walla Walla, were arrested by the police, acting under ...

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  63. SOME FIERCE FIGHTING.

    The special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) telegraphs:—"Picked storm troops were hurled against the British right flank in thick waves, ...

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  65. A BELGIAN SENTENCED.

    The "Echo Belge" reports that a German tribunal has sentenced M. Capelle, Belgian Director of Foreign Affairs, to 15 years' imprisonment. ...

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  66. RETURNED SOLDIERS' COMPLAINTS

    The Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League has opened an investigation branch to deal with the complaints of members regarding pay, pensions, or ...

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