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THE COMMONWEALTH.

(By Cable.—Fttta Aißociation.—Copjrislit.) TROOPS FOR CEYLON. / MELBOURNE, January 18. Tlio" Defence Department is sending a staff, Provost Corps, and troops to Colombo, as /Australian soldiers on two occasions have caused considerable excitement there. • STRENGTH OF UNIONS. MELBOURNE, January JLB. The Commonwealth state that the membership of the unions in the Commonwealth has risen from 433,234 in 1912 to 564,187 in 1917. TO TALK TO SOLDIERS. • SYDNEY January 18.. The Soldiers' Shipping and Wharf - Labourers' Unions ate sending delegates to London to address the Australian, troops on Commonwealth in. ■dustrial', matters. / STATEMENT DISCREDITED. . SYDNEY, January 18. Doctor/Paton, head o£ the Health Department,- discredits statement that a liglithouse-keeper contracted pneumonic influenza, notwithstanding that he had been isolated for eight months. He declares it has been proved that,_a person must come into contact with a Sufferer before he can. contract the disease.

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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16425, 20 January 1919, Page 8

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141

THE COMMONWEALTH. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16425, 20 January 1919, Page 8

THE COMMONWEALTH. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16425, 20 January 1919, Page 8

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