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  2. COAL INDUSTRY.

    In the course of a statement setting [?] the reasons why the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) convened the recent coal conference, Rear Admiral Sir William ...

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  3. PEACE CONGRESS.

    The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily News," telegraphing on Tuesday night, said that the British official view of the Peace Conference prospects was ...

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  4. TO FIGHT BOLSHEVIKS.

    Finnish newspapers received in Stockholm report that enormous quantities of food and arms are arriving at Helsingfors (capital of Finland), in anticipation of war ...

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  5. EX-KAISER TO BE TRIED.

    The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" announces that the Council of Four (Great Britain, France, American, and Italy) has decided that the ex-Kaiser will ...

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  6. HUNGARY'S POSITION.

    Copenhagen learns that Lieut-General Smuts, the Allied delegate to Hungary, has left Budapest, after having negotiated with Belakun, Soviet Commissary of Foreign ...

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  7. GUARDING BERLIN.

    Berlin advices are that the Ebert Government on Tuesday had 70,000 troops in the capital in readiness for eventnalities. A general strike was declared at ...

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  8. COST OF PRODUCTION.

    After inquiring into dairying industry conditions, the Interstate Commission reported that the general effect of the evidence was disquieting. The commissioners ...

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  9. PROHIBITION ISSUE.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—The latest official returns give probition a majority of 12,616. It is interesting to note that Auckland, ...

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  10. Ex-Crown Prince Injured.

    The ex-Crown Prince, while motor-cycling at Wieringen, in Holland, where he is in exile, lost control of his machine, and crashed into a hedge with great speed, ...

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  11. SETON TRAGEDY.

    The trial concluded at the Old Bailey in London on Wednesday of Lieut-Colonel Rutherford, who was charged with the murder of Major Miles Seton, of the Australian ...

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  12. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

    Mr. Frederick Handley Page, managing director of the Handley Page Co. Ltd., the well-known makers of aeroplanes, states, in a press interview, that the machine ...

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  13. Revolution in Bavaria.

    The Bavarian revolution has extended to Augsburg and Nurumburg. It is officially announced that the Government consists of nine representatives of the people, who are ...

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  14. German Colonies.

    Lord Leverhulme, the chairman of Lever Bros. Ltd., who have important interests in the Pacific, in an address at the Royal Colonial Institute on Wednesday, said that ...

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  15. A Petrograd Horror.

    Deaths in Petrograd in December reached 83,000, and in January 120,000. Starvation caused 16,000 deaths. Mixed meat is selling at 160/ per lb. It ...

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  16. MR. RYAN IN LONDON.

    The Premier of Queensland (Mr. Ryan) on Wednesday interviewed the committee of the London Stock Exchange regarding the Brisbane trams legislation. He ...

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  17. Financing Siberia.

    The Tokio correspondent of the "New York Herald," on the authority of a Japanese news agency, reports that British and American bankers have lent £20,000,000 to ...

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  18. COMMONWEALTH ARSENAL.

    There is a strong probability that the Commonwealth will not after all have to bear the expense of erecting and maintaining a huge arsenal at Tuggeranong. Mr. ...

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  19. Suffering Serbians.

    Mr. William Ward, the international secretary of the Brotherhood movement, has returned to London from Serbin. He states that 240,000 Serbs are destitute. Orphans ...

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  20. Oranges and Coal.

    An Anglo-Spanish agreement is being prepared. It is expected to have the result of improved rates of exchange. Great Britain will agree to unlimited importation of ...

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  21. MONROE DOCTRINE.

    It is reported by the Paris correspondent of the United Press Association of American that the League of Nations Commission has adopted a new section in the covenant ...

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  22. Use for Poison Gas.

    The Bolshevik Department of Agriculture in Russia has ordered a poison gas equipment for the destruction of pernicious insects, notably locusts. The experiments ...

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  23. SUMMARY OF EARLIER NEWS.

    The House of Lords has passed the second reading of the Service Bill. Lord Curzon, leader of the House, pointed out that the war was not yet over. ...

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  24. Clearing Up Ruins in France.

    Several thousand German prisoners are clearing up the ruined towns in Northern France. ...

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  25. Emigration to Dominions.

    The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies (Lieut-Colonel Amery) announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday that the British Government would, after ...

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  26. THE RHINE FRONTIER.

    According to the "Morning Post's" Paris correspondent, Marshal Foch and Generals Petain and Joffre have furnished a report, demanding the military occupation of the ...

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  27. GENERAL CABLES.

    The Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board (Major Waldorf Astor), in the House of Commons on Wednesday, accepted thu principle of a motion in favour ...

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  28. POLITICALI ASPECT.

    Surprise is expressed by dairymen that a Ministry that professes to stand for the encouragement of production should countenance the placing of additional ...

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  29. Aliens in Britain.

    A new Aliens Bill, passed by the House of Commons, will operate for two years, and will continue the Aliens Restriction Act of 1914. It empowers the authorities ...

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  30. Dark Outlook for Enver Pasha

    The Constantinople correspondent of the "New York Herald" has interviewed the Sultan, who indicated that he is determined to arrest and punish the men responsible ...

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  31. Sir David Beatty.

    Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty. when taking farewell on Monday of the ship's company of the Queen Elizabeth, which was the flagship of the Grand Fleet, ...

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  32. FRANCE'S TERMS.

    The Paris press is becoming increasingly insistent on securing France's full demands. The "Matin," in a leading article published on Wednesday, declares:— ...

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  33. Allenby's Rule in Egypt.

    It is announced officially in London that General Sir Edmund Allenby, who was appointed special High Commissioner for Egypt and the Soudan when the native ...

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  34. Why We Lost Bulgaria.

    In regard to the criticism of the failure of the Alies' diplomacy in 1915 to enlist Bulgaria on the side of the Allies, the publication in Paris of a secret treaty between ...

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  35. Food for Germany.

    The Supreme Economic Council, sitting in Paris, states that the delivery of German shipping is proceeding satisfactorily. Eightyfour vessels have been handed over, of an ...

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  36. H.M.A.S. Sydney Coming.

    H.M.A.S. Sydney sailed from Portsmouth on Wednesday with six J[?] submarines. The Commonwealth Naval Minister (Sir Joseph Cook) bade farewell to the officers and men ...

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  37. CONFECTIONERY.

    Sir,—The deputation of confectionery manufacturers, by their own statements, prove that the present duty is "adequate." One says he has spent £150,000 in new plant ...

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  38. Boer Mission to Paris.

    The party of Boers from South Africa, who wish to set up a republic, arrived in New York on March 31 on route to Paris to attend the Peace Conference. The party ...

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  39. TELEPHONE SERVICE.

    Replying yesterday to the comments in "The Argus" on the suggestion that a departmental inquiry should be held into compalnts made by the officers of the ...

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  40. GERMAN INDEMNITY.

    The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says that the drafting committee of the Peace Conference has completed the financial clauses, the provisions ...

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  41. European Cargo for Australia

    The British Shipping Conference is arranging for steamers to call at Antwerp to take cargo to Australasia as soon as sufficient is offering, thus filling the place of ...

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  42. Getting Back to Normal.

    Though social and sporting fixtures for the season in London are not expected to resume their pre-war gaiety, a great number of fashionable fixtures have been ...

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  43. Letters by Aerial Mail.

    Aviation companies in London are establishing a daily service for the delivery of letters between London and Paris for a half-crown fee. They guarantee delivery ...

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  44. ENEMY PROPERTY.

    In at least one case it has come under the notice of the authorities that a company trading in Germany is endeavouring to collect, through a neutral State, money due ...

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  45. Unemployment in Belgium.

    According to the Brussels correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," the number of unemployed in Belgium at the end of March was 850,000, and the total was ...

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  46. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—What a paradox it is to see Mr. Tudor and the union leaders in the confectionery trade helping the "bloated capitalists" to raise the price of sweets to the ...

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  47. Tobacco "War" Threatened.

    There is a possibility of a tobacco "war." An American syndicate is making a big effort to break the tobacco combine in ...

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  48. O.B.U. LOSING GROUND.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The One Big Union scheme is meeting with increasing opposition in trade union circles. The latest organisation to denounce the scheme is the ...

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  49. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Perhaps it is waste of time endeavouring to concentrate the attention of the public of Melbourne on the inefficiency of the telephone service. There was a time ...

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  50. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES

    As the 4.32 down train to Dand[?] was travelling between Murrumbeena and Oakleigh yesterday afternoon, the driver of the engine. A[?]dan Sutton, suddenly colla[?]d, and the train was taken on to ...

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  51. Celibacy of Priests.

    The Rev. Father Bernard Vaughan, of London, doubts the accuracy of the report that 350 priests at Naples voted for the abolition of celibacy. There was, he said, ...

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  52. Germany's Population.

    Germany's population, which before the war was 68,000,000, is now 65,000,000. During war time the deaths of civilians was 5½ millions, and of soldiers 1? millions. Of ...

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  53. Last of the Vindictive.

    It has been found that the back H.M.S. Vindictive, which took part successfully in the raid on Zeebrugge, and was afterwards sunk at Ostend, after having been filled ...

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  54. TRAVEL VIA AMERICA.

    Some time ago it was announced that the American authorities had directed that no more permits would be issued to people to travel from Great Britain to Australia ...

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  55. WATERLESS IRRIGATION WORKS

    SHEPPARTON, Friday.—Mr. Cattanach (chairman) and Mr. Dethridge, of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, attended a meeting of blockholders ...

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  56. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    The articles of the League or Nations covenant have been rearranged, and many textual alterations have been made to strengthen and simplify them. ...

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  57. SOLDIERS AND POLICE.

    An attempt by several returned soldiers to rescue one of their number who had been arrested by the military police caused a great commotion near the Town Hall ...

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  58. 44 Hours Week for Builders.

    A Johannesburg message states that there is a prospect of a settlement of the longstanding builders' strike. At a conference of strikers and master builders the ...

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  59. FOREIGNERS AND RED FLAG.

    BRISBANE, Friday.—At a meeting of the Brisbane Industrial Council, several remarkable motions were agreed to. The council emphatically condemned the proposed, or ...

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  60. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Mr. Smith, vice-president of the Retail Confectioners' Association, stated, when interviewing the Minister for Customs, "that there was practically no ...

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  61. "TAYLOR SYSTEM" JUSTIFIED.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—In delivering a tentative judgment in the Industrial Court to-day on the application of the Railway and Tramway Officers' Associations for an ...

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  63. CARTER KILLED.

    PYRAMID HILL, Friday.—On Wednesday night a young man named Donald McDonald, son of Mr. J. R. McDonald, was returning to a farm at Sy[?] terre with a hay waggon, when he was accidentally ...

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  64. UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

    Supplementary Public Examinations.—February, 1919.—The following name was [?]tted from the list of candidates who have qualified for the school leaving certificate, published yesterday:—James ...

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