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  2. BROKEN HILL STRIKE

    The position regarding the strike came to a head this afternoon when a meeting of the Federated Enginedrivers' Association decided to fall into the with ...

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  3. THE RUSSIAN SITUATION

    In the House of Commons to-day Captain F. E. Guest, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, stated that the Bolsheviks, have adopted poison-gas as ...

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  4. TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT

    Hawker, the Australian aviator, who left St. John's, Newfcundland, on his trans-Atlantic flight yesterday afternoon, has been sighted 400 miles from ...

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  5. THE MARITIME STRIKE

    The Sydney seamen have decided to give 24 hours' notice of their intention to leave their ships. This decision will apply to inter-State and coastal vessels, ...

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  6. PEACE TREATY.

    The Rotterdam, correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," after summing up further evidence, predicts confidently that Germany will sign the Peace ...

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  7. MELROSE LIMESTONE WORKS STOPPED.

    At yesterday's meeting of the Mersey Marine Board a letter was received from the Broken Hill Proprietary Co., pointing out the diffienities they were ...

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  8. GENERAL DENIKIN'S SUCCESS.

    It is officially stated that General De[?]kin, one of the leaders of the Omsk anti-Bolshevik Government, is personally conducting the operations at ...

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  9. DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST POLES.

    Great unrest prevails in the East German districts, which the Peace Treaty assigns to Poland. Mass demonstrations indicate that all classes, including the ...

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  10. UNIONS SHORT OF FUNDS.

    The lack of money is likely to be a very great factor in bringing the trouble to an early end. There is a very interesting story to be told regarding this ...

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  11. PETROGRAD.

    It is reported that 30,000 people are dying of starvation each week in Petrograd. ...

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  12. THE ARBITRATION COURT.

    When the case in which the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades' Employees' Union is seeking increased wages and improved conditions from Messrs. G. H. ...

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  13. CONGESTION AT STANLEY.

    There is a congestion of produce at stanley because of so few bouts calling since the influenza [?] broke out on the maintand. Producers are feeling ...

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  14. COUNT RANTZAU.

    The Paris correspondent of the "New York Workd" says reports are current that the "Big Four"—Great Britain, France, America, and Italy— ...

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  15. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

    To-day there were 64 admissions to hospital, and 107 diseharges. There are now 1,077 patients in hospital, the lowest number for many weeks. Twenty ...

    Article : 68 words
  16. REIGN OF TERROR AT RIGA.

    The Bolsheviks are exercising a frightful reign fo terror in Rign. They are killing many people without sentence. The soldiers of the Red Army carry off ...

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  17. DUTCH SOCIALIST'S VIEWS.

    M. Troelstra (leader of the Dutch Socialists) sharply criticises the peace terms, which, he says, will be a calamity, not only to Germany, but to the ...

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  18. APPLE SHIPMENTS.

    The steamer Somerset has proceeded to Manchester to unload her cargo of apples. The Somerset loaded 70,243 cases of apples ...

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  19. NAVAL BATTLE IN BALTIC

    Five Bolshevik cruisers bombarded the Finnish coast yesterday. Three British light cruisers came up and sank one of the Bolshevik cruisers, almost the whole ...

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  20. 6,000 SEAMEN MAY BE INVOLVED.

    Another official stated that now that the Sydney branch bad decided to take part in the strike the trouble was likely to spread throughout the whole of ...

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  21. QUEENSLAND.

    Three further deaths from influenza occurred in the hospitals to-day. Fifty patients were discharged. from the Isolation Hospital to-day, but their ...

    Article : 179 words
  22. TERMS WILL PROMOTE FUTURE DISSENSION.

    With the exception of the "Telegraaf," the Dutch press unanimously condomns the peace terms. It does not waste sympathy on Germany, but ...

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  23. MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS.

    The Auditor-General's report on the Ministry of Munitions' expenditure for 1917-18 states that heavy expenditure was often incured without Treasury ...

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  24. POSITION OF OTHER UNIONS.

    Members of various maritime unions other than firemen and seamen are very much perturbed in consequence of the seamen's latest decision. It means ...

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  25. CLASH WITH LOYALISTS.

    Loyalist workers were to-day subjected to various acts of intimidation at the hands of the strikers, who went to the length of brutal[?]y assaulting several of ...

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  26. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    Lord Grey, formerly Foreign Secretary, in the course of an interview, sand he was delighted to find that the convenant of the League of Nations covered ...

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  27. GENERAL WAR NEWS

    Anglo-American war claims arising out of military operations have reached the American Liquidation Commission, which finds that's a balance of £7,000,00 ...

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  28. EFFECT ON THE COLLIERIES

    A representative of the colliery proprietors stated to-night that the effect of the strike would be that inter-State trade in coal would cease, and ...

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  29. ALL-NIGHT SEARCH.

    The Admiralty ordered many vessels to proceed to sea to assist in the search for Hawker, but without success up to 11 to-night. The search will proceed ...

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  30. THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

    Referring to-day to statements made at the meeting of returned soldiers, who are officers of the Public Service, held on Sunday afternoon, the Acting Public ...

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  31. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Two deaths were reported from influenza in the metropolis to-day, while there were 61 fresh admissions to the hospitals. Country deaths numbered ...

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  32. KOREA.

    The delegation from Korea has petitioned the Peace Conference claiming liberation from Japan, and the reconstruction of Korea as an independent ...

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  33. OUTWARD BOUND.

    Included in the list of outward bound transports issued to-day by the Commonwealth Shipping Board are the names of three new departures for ...

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  34. LORD FRENCH'S WAR STORY

    Lord French continues his narratives on the early days of the war in the "Daily Telegraph" to-day. He says: —"I impressed upon the War Office ...

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  35. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    There now are 82 patients in Adelaide Exhibition Isolation Hospital, five of whom are dangerously ill and 21 seriously. ...

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  36. DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE.

    There is much comment in the newspapers on Italy's exclusion from the new Defensive Afliance. The "Idea Nazionalo" regards it as "an attempt ...

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  37. VICTORIA

    The most significant incident of the day, in so far as the situation in Melbourne is concerned, accurred in connection with the loading of a small ...

    Article : 355 words
  38. RETURNING AUSTRALIANS.

    At Devonport to-day, Senator Pearce (Australian Minister of Defence) inspected the transports Soudan and Port Napier, on leaving for Australia with ...

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  39. VICTORIAN ORCHARDS.

    The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Oman) had the unique experience to-day of receiving a deputation which asked that the Government should put a tax ...

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  40. SOUTH AUSTRALIA STANDS OUT.

    The South Australian branch of the Federated Seamen's Union remains firm in its refusal to carry out instructions forwarded by the central executive to ...

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  41. AMERICAN SEAPLANE FLIGHT.

    The crew of the American seaplane No. 3, participating in the trans-Atlantic flight via the Azores, have been saved. ...

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  42. THE EX-KAISER.

    The Paris correspondent of the United Press Association states that Belgium refuses to prosecute the ex-Kaiser, and uncertainties regarding his trial are ...

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  43. THE DAIRY SCHOOL.

    The school of butter factory managers was continued at St. Andrew's school-room, Launceston, to-day. During the meeting an interesting and instructive ...

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  44. QUEENSLAND

    Though practically no official information can be secured in Brisbane from the local branch of the Federated Seamen's Union, it has been learned from other ...

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  45. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.

    In the Criminal Court to-day, John Percival Haines, formerly a member of the Australian Imperial Forces, but now a horse trainer, was charged with ...

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  46. AUSTRIAN TREATY.

    The Paris correspondent of the United Press Association, in outlining the terms of the Austro-Hungarian Peace Treaty, says:—Austria will be ...

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  47. KING'S COLOURS.

    A silk Union Jack, representing the King's colours, is to be presented by the Imperial War Office to each of the A.I.F. infantry and maching-gun ...

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  48. CIRCUIT OF BRITISH ISLES.

    A military Handley-Page aeroplane with a crew of nine, has made a record circuit of England, scotland, and Ireland in 30 hours' flying during four ...

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  49. AMERICAN DELEGATION IN IRELAND.

    The members of the Irish-American delegation in Ireland, accompanied by a priest and several Sinn Fein members of the House of Commons, attempted to ...

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  50. EFFECT ON TASMANIA.

    So far no advice has been received of any dislocation or interruption in the Tasmanian steamer service. The s.s. Wainui was timed to leave Melbourne ...

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  51. MELBOURNE ZOO ROBBERY.

    At the Carlton Police Court to-day, the story of the savage assault and robbery in which Mr. Le So[?]f, director of the Zoological Gardens, was the ...

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  52. AIR RACING BY WIRELESS.

    It is now possible, thanks indirectly to the ever-inventive Marconi, and more directly to two other Italians, Signori Bellini and Tosi, to make air ...

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  53. THE WATERSIDE WORKERS.

    The waterside workers have not yet joined the seamen in an overt strike, but it is generally anticipated that this action will be taken to-morrow, or on ...

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  54. GENERAL TELEGRAMS

    A meeting of members of the Australian Workers' Union was held at Gormanston last night to consider an offer by the Mt. Lyell Company to purchase ...

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  55. GERMAN SHIPS.

    In the House of Commons to-day, it was announced that Germany's ships surrendered to Great Britain up to May 9 were:—22 passenger ships of ...

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  56. ULSTER RAID.

    One hundred disguised men arrived in ten motor-cars and cycles at the late General Nugent's castle at Carlingford Lough, Ireland, last night. They ...

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  57. GERMANY.

    Government troops have occupied Leipzig (in Saxony), and hold all the principal buildings. Martial law has been proclaimed, and the Spartacuser ...

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  58. HORTICULTURAL SHOW.

    The autumn show of the Queenstwon Horticultural Society was opened this afternoon. The chief exhibits were chrysanthemums, of which there was a ...

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  59. BRITISH BUDGET.

    The Labour party has decided to move the rejection of the second reading of the Finance Bill, as a protest against its proposals and the continuance of ...

    Article : 49 words
  60. AMERICAN VICTORY LOAN.

    It is officially announced that more than 15,000,000 persons subscribed to the Victory War Loan, which closed on Saturday. The total subscription ...

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