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  2. SCOUTS' JAMBOREE.

    LONDON, Aug. 4.—Twenty thousand Scouts and 10,000 visitors participated at Arrowe Park, in a memorable service of thanksgiving for the success of the Scout ...

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  3. ARMED BANDITS.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Amazing audacity was displayed by two masked bandits, who seized and bound a butcher in his shop in Redfern, to-night. After secreting ...

    Article : 616 words
  4. TREATY WITH EGYPT.

    CAIRO, Aug. 4.—The Prime Minister of Egypt (Mahmoud Pasha) has telegraphed from London an appeal to the Egyptian people announcing that after long and ...

    Article : 250 words
  5. BELGIAN TRAGEDY.

    OSTEND (Belgium), Aug. 4.—The pleasure boat Knocke, when entering the harbour to-day collided close to the pier and cut in halves the motor boat Joseph ...

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  6. THE GRAF ZEPPELIN.

    NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—The Graf Zeppelin landed at Lakehurst at 8.52 o'clock to-night after a trans-Atlantic flight of approximately 5,330 miles in 95 hours 23 ...

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  7. SENSATIONAL ARREST.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Secret investigations by leading detectives of the Criminal Investigation Branch culminated in a sensational arrest to-night. A body has been ...

    Article : 341 words
  8. RUSSIAN RELATIONS.

    RIGA, Aug. 4.—The Bolshevik authorities are staging demonstrations of protest throughout Russia against the hitch in the negotiations in London, which were ...

    Article : 180 words
  9. TIMBER STRIKE.

    SYDNEY, Aug 5.—The collapse of the timber workers' strike is believed to be imminent. Many union officials are of the opinion that a continuance of the dispute ...

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  10. EMPIRE PRESS UNION

    The quinquennial conference of the Empire Press Union will be held in London next year. At this gathering representatives of the leading newspapers in all parts ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 242 words
  11. COAL DISPUTE.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—Owing to the stoppage of supplies of New South Wales coal and restrictions placed upon the supply of Wonthaggi coal by the Victorian ...

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  12. SLY GROG SELLING.

    BRIDGETOWN, Aug. 5.—Interesting evidence was given when the State Licences Reduction Board sat at Bridgetown on August 1 to hear evidence ...

    Article : 442 words
  13. REPARATIONS.

    LONDON, Aug. 5.—The departure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. P. Snowden), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Henderson), and the ...

    Article : 141 words
  14. BRITISH LABOURITES.

    LONDON, Aug .—"I can think of nobody benefiting by the Labour Government except two reprieved murderers," said Mr. J. Maxton, extremist member of ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. RIVAL SEAMEN.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—A warning has been issued to the Seamen's Union of Australasia by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Latham) that, in the event of ...

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  16. FALLEN SOLDIERS.

    ARRAS (France), August 4.—The Whole British Empire was represented at Arras to-day when the British Secretary of State for War (Mr T. Shaw), speaking in ...

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  17. COMMISSION'S INQUIRY.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—During the inquiry by the Royal Commission on the coal industry into the accounts of the Newcastle Wallsend Co., Ltd.. discussion arose upon ...

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  18. UNIFICATION.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—The Acting-Premier (Mr. Buttenshaw) said last night that he was absolutely opposed to unification, which was advocated by the Minister for ...

    Article : 353 words
  19. SMOKE AT SEA.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Nothing was heard to-day by the Navigation Department that could be connected with the report received yesterday from the Danish motor ...

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  20. TERRORISM IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—Almost the full strength of the Criminal Investigation Department and the plainclothes police is being used in the search for the armed ...

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  21. VISIT TO BATTLEFIELDS.

    LONDON, July 5.—Eleven hundred ex-service men and their wives left Victoria Station last night to visit the battlefields. The fifteenth war anniversary was a ...

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  22. SOLDIER SETTLERS.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 5.—"The areas granted to soldier settlers in the various States are too small to enable the settlers to make a living upon them." This ...

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  23. Insect Poison and Boot Polish.

    BRISBANE, Aug. 5.—Some startling statements made by Inspector O'Hara, of Rockhampton, in the Mount Morgan Police Court on Friday last, during the ...

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  24. ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—The engineers employed by Hadfields (Australia) Ltd., at Alexandria have decided to continue their strike for a 40-hour week for men engaged ...

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  25. POTATO SUPPLIES.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Tasmanian potatoes slumped £4 a ton in Sussex-street to-day. Browells are now selling at £18 and Whiteskins at £17. Recent famine prices ...

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  26. ADELAIDE INCIDENT.

    ADELAIDE, Aug. 5—Mr. W. L. Brennan, of Eton-street, Colonel Light Gardens, was going home last night at 8 o'clock when a man called' out: "Stop, or I will ...

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  27. INDIAN JUTE WORKERS

    CALCUTTA, Aug. 5.—A complete stoppage of the Bengal jute mills is threatened, due to Communist agitators, whose influence has thrown idle 120,000 men. Nine ...

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  28. AUSTRALIA'S WOOL REVENUE.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—Senator Guthrie, at a meeting of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce to-day, said that he regretted to have to state that the decline ...

    Article : 232 words
  29. BRITISH EMPIRE.

    LONDON, Aug. 4.—Referring to the necessity for disarmament in a speech at the Independent Labour Party's conference to-day. Mr. J. Maxton, an extremist ...

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  30. DAIRY PRODUCE.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—Financial statements submitted at the fourth annual meeting of the Dairy Produce Export Control Board held in Melbourne ...

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  31. FALSE REPORT TO POLICE.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Having read of armed robberies, and tired of their uneventful life, three Enfield boys invented a story in which they figured as the victims of ...

    Article : 121 words
  32. ALSATIAN DOGS.

    WELLINGTON, Aug. 5.—Severe losses have been inflicted on sheepowners in the Styx, district of Canterbury lately, it is stated through depredations of Alsatian ...

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  33. MOTOR TRADE COMPETITION.

    BERLIN, Aug. 4.—On the basis of the first six months' figures, it is believed, that Germany's production of motor cycles for 1929 will be 190,000. eclipsing ...

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  34. BATHERS DROWNED.

    CALCUTTA, Aug. 5.—Three men and a woman were drowned when bathing at Juhu, a Bombay seaside resort, to-day. The victims were prominent Parsecs, ...

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  35. FALSTAFF MODERNISED.

    LONDON, Aug. 4.—A modern clothes version of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," with Mr. Oscar Asche as Falstaff, in a morning coat, and smoking a cigar. ...

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  36. SANITARY SITE.

    The Perth City Council was expected to discuss yesterday, a motion by Cr. Simper for the rescission of the motion it carried recently to transfer the sanitary depot ...

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  37. MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING.

    TOKIO, Aug. 5.—Chang Sung-chang, a former war lord of Shantung, together with his private secretory, have been charged with wilful killing in ...

    Article : 125 words
  38. FRUIT BARROWS.

    BRISBANE, Aug. 5.—The question of fruit barrows in city streets formed the subject of a deputation from the City Council to the Home Secretary to-day. ...

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  39. EXPLOSION IN MINE.

    TOKIO, Aug. 5.—As a result of an explosion 83 miners were trapped in the Hokkaido coal mine to-day. Four were subsequently, rescued. ...

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  40. A MOUNTAIN GRAVE.

    CANBERRA, Aug. 5.—On the summit of Mount Stromboli, 2,568 feet above sea level, the remains of the late Dr. W. G. Duffield were buried this afternoon within ...

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  41. ARRESTED UNIONISTS.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—There were many unoccupied seats in the Town Hall to-night when a mass meeting was held to protest against the arrest of the seven union ...

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  42. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—The Navy Office, the Postal Department, and Amalgamated Wireless (Aust.), Ltd., will cooperate with Sir "Douglas Mawson's ...

    Article : 147 words
  43. CRASH ON CHURCH ROOF.

    LONDON, Aug. 4.—A blazing bomber aeroplane attached to the Territorial Flying Squadron crashed on the roof of St. Mary's Mission Church at Castle ...

    Article : 68 words
  44. PEER'S DEATH.

    LONDON, August 4.—Mystery surrounds the death of Lord Loughborough this morning. He fell from a window in a west-end house at 2 a.m., and died at ...

    Article : 211 words
  45. MILLIONAIRE'S SUICIDE.

    BERLIN, August 4.—A sensation, has been, caused by Dr. Edward Simon, a millionaire textile magnate committing suicide in his palatial home in the Victoria ...

    Article : 65 words
  46. EAST COAST STEAM SERVICE.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—When the motor ship Manunda is transferred to the Western trade, which will take place in the near future, the weekly sailings from Melbourne ...

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  47. FEAR OF INCENDIARISM.

    WELLINGTON, Aug. 5.—Owing to the leaf that the meendiarists who have caused so much damage in Christchurch in the last few weeks may pay the aerodrome ...

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  48. RUN OVER BY TRAIN.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 5.—William Gladstone Hawkbridge (51), of Dulwich Hill, committed suicide to-night by throwing himself under a train at the Dulwich Hill ...

    Article : 38 words
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