Unemployment, owing to lack of raw materials, caused serious syndicalist rioting. The crowd stormed the exchange, injuring the brokers ...
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Advertising : 231 wordsThe two escaped Australians, Pitts and Choatc, had many thrilling experiences. Pitts said Choate was responsible for the arrangements to ...
Article : 277 wordsThe question of the disposal of next year's sugar crop has been receiving the attention of those concerned for some time. Mr. Lennon, Minister for ...
Article : 133 wordsIn the Commons, moving the Address-in-Reply, Brigadier General Lowther expressed the army's deep appreciation of the King's frequent ...
Article : 412 wordsThe State Cabinet crisis ended this afternoon. Ministers conferred for about an hour, and at the conclusion of the meeting Mr. Holman made the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe King opened Parliament, accompanied by the Queen and attended by the Prince of Wales, Australians, New Zealanders, and troops ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Kaiser in a speech at Hamburg declared: We wish to live in peace with our neighbors but a German victory must first be ...
Article : 98 wordsGeneral Haig reports: The Australians. raiding last night south-east of Messines made prisoner 37 and took three machine guns and mortars. We ...
Article : 94 wordsThe coasting steamer Nelson arrived at Maryborough at 9.30 to-night from Townsville. Capt. Rosendahl, who is in charge, stated the vessel met ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Gibbs says a recent Australian raid near Warneton was a very fierce affair. The bombardment which followed was violent and resistless, and ...
Article : 121 wordsA daring robbery was carried out this afternoon at the Pitt Street branch of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank. Shortly after two ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Press Bureau states the Government has authorised the Zionist Commission to proceed to Palestine with a view of repatriating the Jews ...
Article : 58 wordsThe King's speech stated: It is our duty to prosecute the war with all vigor, confidence of ultimate triumph. The struggle has reached ...
Article : 166 wordsA French communique states that an attempted coup de main in the Juvincourt region was stopped by our fire. The Germans on the right of ...
Article : 54 wordsA shocking railway accident resulting in the instantaneous death of two men and critical injuries to a third, occurred at Bathurst loco, yards ...
Article : 92 wordsIt is the intention of the Minister for Defence to place before the Cabinet at an early date a scheme for improving voluntary recruiting. He ...
Article : 150 wordsHenry Pollak, a solicitor formerly. associated with Gokhale in championing the Indians in South Africa, gave a lecture to the East India ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the destroyed Boxer was sunk in the channel on the night of the 8th inst. as the result of a collision. One man ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Harbor Board and shipping companies have arranged to pay the cost of victualling the naval guard at the jetty wharves in the following ...
Article : 53 wordsFinal consideration was given to-day by the City Council to the offer of the Balmain Council to sell the colliery to the Council for £200,000. It had ...
Article : 76 wordsAnother daring daylight robbery occurred, to-day, this time at the General Post Office. This morning a clerk at the stamp counter was ...
Article : 139 wordsA Bill has been introduced into the Senate providing for permanent and univerasl military training. ...
Article : 21 wordsA French communique speaks of recohnoitring raids on both sides, successful French raids on the outskirts of Bouconville, north of the Ailette, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Kaiser's astounding speech in favor of a pan-German peace with annexations, which would enable the German Empire to influence the ...
Article : 136 wordsAn extensive bush-fire, devastating more than 100,000 acres of grass, occurred yesterday near Mortlake in the western district, beginning as the ...
Article : 65 wordsOfficial advices state that the Arabs, operating between Mecca and Medina, destroyed 3000 rails of the Bejaz railway and captured a number of Turks ...
Article : 34 wordsEarly this morning John Thompson, newsagent; of Balmain, suspecting burglars had entered his shop, proceeded to make investigations. ...
Article : 107 wordsA French communique reports reciprocal artillery activity in Champagne. and on the right bank of the Meuse and in the Vosges. We downed ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the Commons in the course of a debate, Mr. Pringle asked if Gen. Robertson had been dismissed or had resigned. Mr. Bonar Law replied ...
Article : 31 wordsReferring to rumors of unrest among the rainers of the west coast, Mr. Sample, representative of the miners' federation, said the miners ...
Article : 100 wordsSunday, Feb. 17, St. John's, Cairns, 7.30 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 7.30 p.m. All Saints, Gordonvale, evensong 7.30 p.m. The Bishop of North ...
Article : 40 wordsThe anticipations that the Bowser Ministry would encounter trouble early, in its career seem likely to be realised. for in the lobbies at the State ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Percival Phillips says information extracted from prisoners reveals that the German infantry is being trained in musketry at many new ...
Article : 69 wordsTwo German aeroplanes flying near Ghent encountered a small allied squadron. They were surrounded, discontinued the fight, and ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. Percival Phillips says it is cleat spring-like weather and the ground is drying steadily, yet our front is unnaturally calm. This ostentatious ...
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Advertising : 150 wordsAn Italian communique says: Our artillery decimated remarkable forces advanced by the enemy on the southern slopes of San Sorosso and ...
Article : 66 wordsA tar spreader and sander has been given a trial at North Melbourne and did all claimed for it by the designer. The spreader consists essentially of a ...
Article : 168 wordsThe "New York Times" says President Wilson's address should convince. the German people that the military authorities is the sole ...
Article : 105 wordsThe death of a farmer-named Jas Curran, aged 33, single, occurred at Wagga in unusual circumstances. Curran had promised to wait for a friend ...
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Advertising : 29 wordsIf you have trouble in getting rid of your cold you may know that you are not treating it properly. There is no reason why a cold should hang ...
Article : 78 wordsThe newspapers consider Trotsky's demobilisation of the army does not unalter the military situation. as Russia has long since been broken; but ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Fri 15 Feb 1918, Page 5
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