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  2. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

    A representative of the Australian Press Association interviewed a high naval authority regarding the reorganisation of the naval defences of the Empire. The ...

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  3. IRELAND.

    An official memorandum reviews the recrudescence of crime in County Clare since January. It describes a determined attack which was made on July 20 on the police ...

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  4. BRITAIN.

    In the House of Commons to-day the Home Secretary (Mr. E. Shortt) announced that the Government was admitting German business men to Britain if the ...

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  5. INFLUENZA.

    During the week-end 44 fresh cases of influenza were reported to the Health Department. Of these 22 were notified on Saturday, the distribution of the cases being ...

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  6. AMERICA AND MEXICO.

    The United States Government has addressed a note of warning to Mexico urging the need of a redical change of policy regarding the treatment of American ...

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  7. THE FAR EAST.

    Among the passengers on the steamer Nikko Maru, which arrived at Pinkenba from Japan on Saturday, was Lientenant C Clarke, M.C., son of Mr. Clarke, ...

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  8. RESPONSIBILITY OF NATIONHOOD.

    A smoke social in celebration of "Association Day" was held at the Commercial Travellers' Club on Saturday night. The president (Mr. F. T. Knox) presided, and ...

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  9. RUSSIA.

    On August 13 four British aeroplanes bombed Kronstadt heavily. Extensive fires broke out within the fortress, and great destruction has been reported. ...

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  10. INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

    The Liverpool Labour leadens, representing all trades, have unanimously decided to demand the reinstatement of the police strikers, otherwise there will be a general ...

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  11. REPLY FROM MEXICO.

    A message from Mexico City states that the Mexican Government, replying to the United States' Note, takes exception to the tone of menace employed. It points out ...

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  12. FUTURE TRADE POLICY.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) on Monday will make a statement in the House of Commons regarding future trade policy, and the general position of the ...

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  13. FOREIGN MONEY.

    In the House of Commons to-day the Home Secretary (Mr. E. Shortt) said that Sylvia Pankhurst had admitted receiving £280 from Zachariasson for the support of ...

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  14. FINLAND.

    In consequence of General Mannerheim's refusal to retain the supreme command of the Finnish army, Fremur, Castren, and some of his other colleagues have resigned ...

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  15. REFRIGERATED STEAMERS.

    Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. W. C. Bridgman (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) said that a refrigerated steamer which had been ...

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  16. THE POSITION REVIEWED.

    In view of the greatly increased numbers of cases of influenza, and the deaths which have been recorded, the Commissioner of Public Health (Dr. Atkinson) was ...

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  17. ARMS AND MUNITIONS.

    The United States has prohibited the further exportation of arms and munitions to Mexico. ...

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  18. ADVANCE ON PETROGRAD.

    A London message says that a decisive advance on Petrograd is pending. ...

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  19. TROUBLE IN NEW YORK.

    The operating employees on the New York subway and elevated lines have decided to strike on August 17 because the traction companies refuse to give their ...

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  20. SOLDIERS OR SPECULATORS.

    At the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on Saturday Mr. Nicholas, a returned soltier member of the association, obtained leave to bring ...

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  21. RAID BY THE POLICE.

    Two hundred police and military raided a mansion at Glandore, County Cork, arrested four Sinn Feiners, seized a quantity of arms and ammunition, and Sinn Fein ...

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  22. PLOT AGAINST CARRANZA.

    A message from New Orleans states that the arrest of three officers of the Mexican army has revealed a plot to overthrow the Carranza Government in Mexico. ...

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  23. BRITISH EXPENDITURE.

    A White Paper shows that since the armistice the British expenditure on naval and military operations in Russia has been £70,000,000 including £43,315,000 in ...

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  24. PROFITEERING BILL.

    The Profiteering Bill was read the third time in the House of Commons to-day. ...

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  25. THE WINNIPEG STRIKE.

    The Immigration authorities have ordered the deportation from Vancouver of a number of Winnipeg Russians who are accused of attempting to overthrow the ...

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  26. HUNGARY.

    The Roumanian reply to the Entente is reported to be conciliatory. It protests against the Allied Council's charge that Roumania is desirous of separating herself ...

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  27. AGREEMENT WITH PERSIA.

    According to a London message, an Anglo-Persian agreement has been signed, by which British influence will be predominant in Persia. ...

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  28. THE WALLS OF DERRY.

    The authorities anticipating grave disorders in Londonderry, the military proclaimed a Nationalist and Sinn Fein Lady Day demonstration, including a procession ...

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  29. JAPAN'S MESSAGE.

    The Tokio correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that he has learned authoritatively that the Government of Japan has informed Admiral Koltchak that it is ...

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  30. IMPORTANT STATEMENT.

    The Agent-General for Western Australia (Mr. J. D. Connolly) entertained at luncheon Senator Pearce, Generals Hobbs, Monash, and Rosenthal, Colonel Wisdom, ...

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  31. TROUBLE IN GERMANY.

    New and serious labour troubles have broken out in Germany. The electricians' strike in Upper Silesia has led to a gradual deadlock, and a general strike is ...

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  32. NEARING THE END.

    Messages received from Helsingfors (Finland) say that the reported establishment of a Socialist Coalition Government in Petrograd is regarded as an indication that ...

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  33. AN ANXIOUS DAY.

    There was an anxious day at London-derry. River processions nearly came into conflict, but the police drew cordons. The Sinn Feiners have hoisted an effigy of Sir ...

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  34. ARCHDUKE JOSEPH'S AIMS.

    A representative of the "Corriere della Sera" interviewed the Archduke Joseph, the head of the new Hungarian Government, at Budapest. He said that he ...

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  35. SENSIBLE ENGINEERS.

    Meetings of the Trade Union of Engineers in the Manchester district, who are over thirty thousand strong there, have resolved to relinquish the agitation for reduced ...

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  36. CELLULOSE COMPANY.

    The final report of the committee of inquiry into matters affecting the British Cellulose Company says that the Government departmets which granted concessions ...

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  37. AMERICA.

    In order to prevent further delays the Senate Foreign Relations' Committee has decided to hold a conference with President Wilson with the object of securing ...

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  38. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

    A message received by the goldfields branch of the A.W.U., from the Port Augusta branch, says that the following resolution was carried by the latter branch on ...

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  39. UNREST INCREASING.

    Unrest is increasing in Ireland. A particularly brutal episode cocurred at Glennistymon, where a boy of 16 was murdered while reading by the fireside, in his ...

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  40. A BY-ELECTION.

    The Unionists have selected Mr. F. Fisher, a New Zealander, as their candidate in connection with the by-election for the Widnes division caused by the ...

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  41. A CABINET FORMED.

    M. Lociezi has formed a Cabinet, which includes Count Julius Andrassy and three Socialists. ...

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  42. PARLIAMENTARY SCENE.

    During a sitting of the House of Representatives, Mr. Thos. L. Blanton (Democrat, Texas) accused a fellow Democrat, Mr. Rufus Hardy (Texas) of being a "rubber ...

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  43. AVIATION.

    Two further entries have been made for the flight from Britain to Australia. Captain C. E. Howell, D.S.O. M.C., a Sydney, ite, who served in the Royal Air Force, will ...

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  44. ALLIED MISSIONS IN BUDAPEST.

    The Supreme Council here has instructed the Allied Missions in Budapest to observe a guarded attitude towards the Archduke Joseph's Government, the Council being ...

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  45. WAR HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA.

    Writing the war history of Australia will be a much more formidable task than was supposed in 1914, when Mr. C. E. W. Bean was appointed sole war ...

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  46. TRAFFIC CONGESTION.

    The Government is utilising 2,000 military lorries as auxiliaries to relieve the traffic congestion. The whole of the kingdom has been divided into districts, and ...

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  47. THE WOODLINES DISPUTE.

    Work will be resumed underground in the Ivanhoe mine at 12 o'clock to-night. A start will be made on the Lake View Start on Monday morning, on the Golden ...

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  48. EXPORT OF LEAD CONCENTRATES.

    The importance attached to the effort which is now being made to induce the Federal Government to lift the embarge upon the export of lead concentrates from ...

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  49. DAYLIGHT SAVING.

    President Wilson has vetoed the Daylight Saving Abolition Bill. [A Washington message of July 14 stated:—The House of Representatives failed to ...

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  50. A VALUABLE RAM.

    A Lincoln ram has been sold for 1,600 guineas. The previous record was 1,450 guineas. ...

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  51. WHOLESALE MASSAGRE.

    The Bolshevik leaders confess that they planned a kind of St. Bartholomew's massacre for August 7, when the police and other officers who were suspected of ...

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  52. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Royal Commission which has been inquring into the Caporetto disaster says that it was due above all to General Count Cadorna's infallible absolutism and ...

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  53. A SHOOTING AFFRAY.

    Gunner Goodson died yesterday in the No. 1 London General Hospital. Private Perry is recovering. [A London message of July 24 said:—A ...

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  54. LATE MR. CARNEGIE.

    A message from Lenox, Massachusetts, states that the funeral of the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie was a simple affair, there being no pall-bearers and no sermon. ...

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  55. LORD JELLICOE.

    The following letter was sent by the Governor-General to Lord Jellicoe, previously to the Admiral's departure for New Zealand:—"Sydney, August 16, 1919. My Dear ...

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  56. GERMANY.

    It is announced that British troops have arrived in Dantzig, en route for Poland. German opposition to the occupation of the disputed territory has weakened and ...

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  57. COMMERCIAL AEROPLANES.

    Major-General Seely, Under-Secretary of State for Air, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Government was holding competitions for commercial types of ...

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  58. LUXEMBOURG.

    Serious disturbances took place recently in Luxembourg when 20,000 people attacked the Duchess's palaces and Parliament buildings. Ostensibly the demonstration ...

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  59. NEW JAPANESE MINISTER.

    The San Francisco correspondent of the New York "Times" says that according to despatches received" from Tokio, K. Isiderera, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in ...

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  60. AUSTRALIAN KILLED.

    Lieutenant H. S. Morris, of the Royal Air Force, an Australian who was formerly private secretary to the Governor of Fiji, was killed while flying to Marlow, ...

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  61. FREMANTLE.

    The Chief Health Inspector (Mr. Thos. Smith) stated that during the week-end two cases were removed to the Fremantle Public Hospital from Congdon-street North ...

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  62. VALUE OF THE MARK.

    The German mark continues to fall in value and 85 marks are now offered for one pound sterling. The fall is partly due to the reduction of the British army in ...

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  63. A PLOUGHING CAMPAIGN.

    Lord Lee of Fareham, the new Minister for Agriculture, anticipates being able to inaugurate an active ploughing campaign in order to increase the supply of home-grown ...

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  64. INTERNEE'S DIVORCE.

    A divorce suit, in which the principals are well known in business circles in Melbourne, was heard in the Divorce Court before Mr. Justice Hood to-day, when Frank Wallach, ...

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  65. COMMONWEALTH POWERS.

    Mr. Sampson, M.H.R., speaking in Charlton, referred to the overlapping of Federal and State legislative activities, and said that it was time for the people to ...

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  66. THE ROE STREET SHOOTING.

    Starting with very scanty information to work upon regarding the identity of the men concerned in the shooting of the two women in Roe-street in the early hours on ...

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  67. GERMAN PEACE TREATY.

    The Belgian Chamber of Representatives has adopted unanimously the German Peace Treaty. ...

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  68. NEW IMMIGRATION MEASURE.

    The Immigration Act Amendment Bill, introduced in the House of Representatives to-day, amends the definition of a "prohibited immigrant," so as to include any ...

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  69. THE KALGOORLIE AFFRAY.

    In consequence of the decision of the Returned Soldiers' Association to take no further action against Italians before Tuesday afternoon, the town was quiet on ...

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  70. THE PALATINATE.

    Marshal Foch has dismissed von Winterstein, the Governor of the Palatinate (Bavaria), replacing him by von Klingensberg. The German Government demands von ...

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  71. AUSTRAIAN PEACE TREATY.

    It is expected that the Austrian Peace Treaty will be signed within ten days. ...

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  72. NEW STEAMSHIP LINE.

    A German wireless message states that a German company has established a regular steamship line to the Levant. The first steamer will leave Hamburg for ...

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  73. AFGHAN CAMPAIGN.

    Fighting still continues on the frontier with irreconciliable tribes. The Mahsuds and Waziris descend from the hills for occasional raids on our lines, and it is ...

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  74. SUGAR PRICES.

    The State Prices Regulation Commission, which recently ordered a reduction in the price of sugar from 4d. to 3½d, per pound in the metropolitan area, has forwarded a ...

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  75. THE RECENT DEPORTATION.

    The following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Social Democratic League this afternoon:—"That an emphatic protest be recorded against the illegal ...

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  76. SWAZILAND.

    With reference to reports to the effect that the Government proposes to bring in a Bill during the special session of Parliament for the incorporation of Swaziland in ...

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  77. THE PEACE LOAN.

    Last week the bulk of the preliminary work facing the local Peace Loan Committee (headed by the Mayor of Perth, Mr. W. F. Lathlain) was completed, and a ...

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  78. THE LAW COURTS.

    Nisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 3 Court, before the Chief Justice:—In the matter of the trusts of the will of Somerville Bouinois Davis, late of York, medical ...

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  79. ADELAIDE BURGLARS FOILED.

    A determined effort was made late on Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, to blow open a safe in the new Adelaide premises of the South Australian ...

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  80. A TUG SUNK.

    The steamer Melusia, from Rabaul, was berthing at the Federal wharf in Darling Harbour yesterday afternoon when the tug Stirling, which was straightening her ...

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  81. TASMANIA.

    Up to to-night there have been four deaths in Hobart from pneumonic influenza, and twenty-seven patients have been taken to the isolation hospital. The ...

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  82. VICTORIAN SOLDIERS' LEAGUE.

    With the view of improving the organisation and management of the Victorian branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League. It is proposed to form a ...

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  83. IN MEMORIAM BADGE.

    An in memoriam badge for mothers or wives or nearest female relations of Australian soldiers who have died on active service will, it is officially stated, be ...

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