Trade With the East Big Market Melbourne Committee's Suggestions
An Melbourne committee report urges expansion of Australia's export trade with the Near East, highlighting wool and canned fruits for Malays, Java and China. It opposes Australian trade commissioners but favors a commercial representative and export zones, plus an annual export trade committee to study overseas markets and aid exporters.
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Melbourne
Chamber of Manufactures
Australia
Near East
Java
China
Leper Returns After Three Weeks Liberty
Brisbane reports a female leper who escaped Peel Island lazaret for three weeks surrendered at Health headquarters. She described a brief, moneyed escape that included a visit to the Exhibition, then decided to return to Peel Island. Authorities seek the boarding house address for fumigation while she refused to name helpers or her liberty home. She traveled to the mainland by motor boat and was placed in custody before transport.
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Brisbane
Peel Island
Ioe
Cleveland
Health Department
Prio
Windows smashed as mobs attack convents in Ireland
London dispatch reports mobs at Portadown smashed windows and looted hops and tried to batter convent gates. Police from Belfast helped quell disturbances after telephone wires were cut and trees felled. A crowd at Lisburn fired on a shop and damaged another convent.
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Cable Service
London
Portadown
Belfast
Armagh
Lisburn
Line uprooted in retaliation at Coote Hill incident
A brief report notes a line uprooted in what is believed to be retaliation for a Republican outbreak at Coote Hill earlier in the event. It records tensions and retaliatory actions without graphic detail.
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Coote Hill
Conflicting Provocations Block Armagh Visit
London reports chaotic Caledonian demonstration as hundreds of Orvacemen in Orange Hall played tunes overnight while awaiting to go to Armagh. The Hibernians with a band gathered nearby but, on leaders and clergy advice, abandoned the visit amid police separation. Reprisals fears cancel trains from Louth Monaghan and rails disrupted by depredations.
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London
Armagh
Hibernians
Louth
Monaghan
Armagh Meeting Votes Sympathy for Pope and Unification
About 12 000 people and 80 at hand from Belfast Newry and East Tyrone gathered in Armagh. They passed resolutions in support of the Pope against Fascist oppression calling for a United Ireland and condemning Communism. Police intervened when the Hibernians, after entering a Protestant quarter, were met by a crowd. De Valera was set to address Monaghan amid continuing unrest.
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Armagh
Belfast
Newry
East Tyrone
Ireland
Nugent
Hibernian
Devalera
Monaghan
Enthusiastic Scot Mollison Sets New Aviation Record
Mollison flies from Stari Jane to Renfrew airfield in thick mist before 3,000 strong crowd at the Sevintick Flying Club luncheon. He plans to fly to Inverness then to Cape Town later, with his mother and friends present.
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London
Mollisom
Australia
England
Stari Jane
Renfrew Serodrome
Glasgow
Sevitick Flying Club
Mollison
Spanish Vicar General Arrest Sparks Nationwide stir
Madrid reports arrest of Doctor Keheguren Vicar Gerral of Vietora diocese in San Sebastian. He allegedly possessed a letter from Carslimal Segura urging sale of religious properties under the draft constitution for nationalization. The case causes national uproar across Spain.
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Madrid
Angus II
Keheguren
Gerral
Vietora
San Sebastian
Carslimal Segura
Spain
Prelates Protest Draft Constitution Dissent
Archbishops and bishops publish pastoral letters denouncing the draft constitution. They oppose mutual consent divorce, church state separation, and dissolution of religious orders as threats to moral life. They also oppose the abolition of the death penalty.
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Architacred
Trains Collide Near Perth Kill Driver Albert Brown
A collision near Perth killed Albert Brown, driver of one train, and injured crew and passengers on both trains. Brown leapt from the engine and was crushed by a truck. eight goods-train trucks derailed while the mixed train was undamaged. Delays lasted about eight hours.
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Perth
Albert Brown
Mt. Helana
Brown
Taylor
Sabine Economy Committee Seeks Detailed Proposals
London reports the Sabine Economy Committee adjourned with no delay in planning across the country. Snowden coordinates Treasury reports while preparatory work continues for a Cabinet approved theme likely to face Chamberlain and Samuel. Parliament to be summoned next month.
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London
Sabine Economy Committee
Pla
Treasury Peace Fonda
Mr. Snowden
Imelse
Rome
Surrey
Indian Situation Conference Delay Dispute Over Details
London reports the Viceroy and Gandhi dispute over the Indian Round Table approach. Gandhi declines attending the conference, citing constitutional future discussions as pivotal while the Viceroy’s August 14 telegraph urged participation. The episode touches on the Congress stance and the twin Gandhi agreement amid shifting leadership signals.
Jury to consider questions in Mungana case
Brisbane reports on the August 17 drafting of jury questions in the Mungana case. Defense objections were noted though not stated, with about 63 questions totaling roughly 2000 words. Mansfield argued there was no evidence of corrupt gifts or conspiracies in the December 1917 to January 1918 period.
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Brisbane
Mansfield
Macrossan
Philp
Obj
Reid
Goddard
McCormack
Hacker
Address for the Crown arguments before the jury
Mr McGill urged the jury to judge the Crown case fairly using common sense. He questioned why McCormack hid his interest in leases while a parliament Speaker and pressed for Theodore Korthen to testify. He contrasted alleged payments from Mum gana Mines Ltd with the absence of Goddard and Reid in court.
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Mr. Mansfield
God Ward
Reid
Hhe
McGill
Mr. McGill
Mansfeld
Rebat
McCormack
Girola
Lady Jane
Legislative Assembly
Mungana
Theodore
McOrmack
Mater
Mumgana Mines Ltd
Theodore Korthen
Anouns
Imi Veen
Peasants Shot Near Grumthal Amid Frontier Clash
The Mail's Warsaw correspondent reports that peasants attempting to flee to Poland were shot or captured after crossing the frontier. A woman witnessed her husband mortally wounded on the Soviet side and fled with children, only to be captured. Polish papers protest the shooting of fugitives after crossing.
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London
The
Mail
Warsaw
Salls
Siberia
Grumthal
Poland
Bota Wnards
Perth newspapers end strike after stormy union meeting
August 17 Perth reports a disorderly showdown as the Printing Industry Employees Union meeting ends after M Whitebread leaves. The union says the West Australian and Daily News will resume tonight and tomorrow on terms offering about a 20 percent wage cut and retrenchment for typesetters office staff and emergency hands.
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Perth
M. Whitebread
Forty Die as Holiday Week End Tragedy Strikes France
A French holiday weekend wrecks kill about forty people and leave many injured in widespread motor accidents. Police report and emergency services mobilize as the fatalities and injuries mount across multiple sites.
Kilburnie Dump Case in Trial Proceedings
Wellingto Coaty committed for trial on a charge connected to the Kilburnie dump death of Phyl Symons aged 17. The invest was adjourned to November 25 with proceedings expected to proceed in Manchester after amendments and awaiting court actions.
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Wellingto Coaty
Phyl Symons
Kilburnie
Manchester
Thieves Break Through Wall of Adelaide Warehouse
The morning discovery in Adelaide on August 17 reveals thieves battered 13 inch wall of W D Willy and Co Ltd warehouse, stole seeds worth 400, took spirits and pipes, and made a hole for a man to squeeze through. believed the work of an interstate gang fleeing in a maroon car.
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Adelaide
W. D. Willy
Wills (Ast) Ltd
Wi Waymi
Arlying
W. Layeuck
British Troops Move in Large War-Ready Maneuvers
London August 10 The first division of the expeditionary force is brought to war strength by borrowing units and moves tomorrow from Aldershot and Boreshore to bivouac areas between them. Columns from Aldershot march in four, Bordon in two brigades, with howitzers field guns and engineers leading. Motor transport ambulances and ammunition detachments bring up the rear as preparations for a five-route advance seven miles from the area proceed under war conditions.
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London
Somme
England
Aldershot
Boeschor
Bordon
Bordon Troops In Two Brigades. Tittle Muledrane
Frigade
Cohains
Hssars
Fidamen
Thehera Arry
State Cabinet Finances Considered
The cabinet met to review finances and hear Bates Fegert on the Premers and Leon Council meetings in Melourne. Premier A E Moore warned the financial position looked more serious after the discussion. No clear sign of a tax increase plan emerged.
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Brisbane
Bates Fegert
Premers
Leon Council
Melourne
A. E. Moore
Marnes
Gold Mining Developments Reported in Rockhampton
Rockhampton reports developments in local gold mining with plans to erect machinery valued at £1000 at Mt Cassidy for the M Cassidy Development Syndicate. A permit to prospect at Gogah Ko opens a new field of investigation while prior water works were sunk on the property to evaluate rock met indications.
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Rockhampton
Mt. Cassidy
M. Cassidy Development Syndicate
Gogah
European Winter Outlook Warns of Severe 100 Year Chill
Berlin August 16 Dr Bruening cites a bleak European winter prognosis. The Chancellor predicts mass unemployment in Germany and urges European nations to unite against looming economic and industrial strain. He calls for coordinated action to meet the shared financial burden.
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Berlin
Beeenink
Europe
Germany
Coramanisin
Faas Bie
Train derailment derails seven coaches with cars tumbling
A locomotive jumped the rails causing seven coaches to derail. Several cars rolled down a slope, injuring some passengers and blocking the line. Fire crews arrived to assess damage and clear the track.
Australia must foster individual effort to rebuild economy
Melbourne Aug 17. Federal Opposition Leader Lyons warns that public works alone cannot restore budget balance or prosperity. He calls for industries to self reform, end reliance on government aid, and for leaders to unite with employees to rebuild Australia’s future through cooperative effort.
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Melbourne
Lyons
Australia
Cheder
Bill to reduce state parliament seats next week
Brisbane report says a bill amending the Electoral Districts Act will cut Parliament from 72 to 62 members. After passage a Royal Commission will redraw seat distribution.
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Brisbane
Goverment
Victorian lease relief bill outlined for Cabinet review
A Victorian bill proposes lease reductions amid long-term leases. The minister plans a cabinet-backed draft to apply relief to lessees such as shopkeepers farmers and hoteliers with rents under reformed terms. It remains unclear if relief will be automatic or require petty sessions approval.
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Melbourne
Ran
Works
Petty ‘Sessions Court
Storms Halt English Yacht Race and Tragedy At Sea
Severe storms strike England as hail and heavy rain hinder the Schneider Cup race. One crew member, Colonel Hudson, swept overboard and drowned. the Maitenes the Second abandoned. A steamer and trawler faced ice. overall results are unclear with reports of the Darade possibly winning.
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London
Colonel Hudson
Maitenes
Buffalo fly seen as serious menace to cattle industry
Queensland Minister of Agriculture and officials dispute a pastoralist's view that the buffalo fly is not a major menace. Official reports from North Queensland and other regions show eye injuries and body sores in cattle, with stronger risks if the fly reaches the eastern coast, prompting calls for maximum protective measures for cattle and dairying industries.
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Brisbane
R. Philp
Queensland Cattle Growers’ Association
Minter For Agriculture
Walcker
Philp
West Astral
Queensland
Police and Gunmen Clash in Brooklyn Apartment Raid
An hour long battle between 10 police and six gunmen in a Brooklyn apartment ended with the arrest of six men and two girls. A girl who refused to give her name telephoned tips about the haul, saying she sought revenge on a man named Sangster after a jilting.
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New York
Brooklyn
Melbourne to introduce totalisator betting in Victoria
Melbourne officials announce a new totalisator betting system will operate in the province on Wednesday marking a long awaited reform. The machine will offer straight out win and place bets with uniform dividends and proceeds earmarked for charities.
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Melbourne
Mounee
Melbowne
Guversmical Yaneon
Totalisator
Enit
Westenen
Vie
Victoria
Stae
Waterside Case Brings Judge Beeby to Brisbane
Judge Beeby arrived in Brisbane for a Waterside case involving the Waterside Workers Federation and the Commonwealth Steamship Owners Association. Applications will be inspected tomorrow and on Wednesday, with a hearing expected to commence in a state court on Thursday.
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Brisbane
Beehy
Waterside Workers’ Federation
Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association
Thursdey
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