INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 110, 3 February 1919, Page 5

INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA

V MAKING LITTLE HEADWAY IN NEW ; SOUTH WALES 912 CASES IN VICTORIA By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ _ _ . Sydney, February 1. Several suspicious cases or influfnfca are reported from the country. The Director-General of Health states ■ that the position is veTy satisfactoryPress Assn. (Rec. February 2, 5.5 j.m.) Sydney, 'February 2. Owing to the Government's stringent precautions the epidemic is making little headway. In New South Wales only four suspects were notified yesterday, whereas 140 new oases were reported in Victoria, where the total number of cases reaches '912. Three deaths were reported yesterday:—Press Assn. Melbourne, February 1. There are 167 new oases of influenzaPress Assn., ■ Adelaide, February 1. The Health authorities refuse to declare that-the cases discovered are (■suffering from pnoumonic influenza.—Pres3■Assn. ' WEST 'AUSTRALIAN BORDER CLOSED. -. ' 'Perth, February t. West Australia has closed the border, and is qua.Tantir.ir.sr 'all passengers -from •Bouth Australia,—Press Assn. ..'.-. 'CRISIS IN'GERMANY SPARTACISTS AT WILBELMSHAYEN COUNTER-STRIKE OF DOCTORS AND CHEMISTS. ■ 0y Telegraph— Vna Association- Copyriffht London, Januiwy''SO. , A feature of the 1 Spartacus:'trouble at Wilhelmshaven tea counter-strike of physicians and pharmacists, who have ■ refused-to work until the terror is ended. •-Aus.-N.Z.'Cable Assn. SPARTACiSTS DEFEATED SURRENDER-AT. 'WILHELMSHAVEN AND CUXHAVEN. . (Rec. February 2, 11.40 p.m.) London, January 30. A 'Copenhagen message states that the Spartacists at Cuxhaven and Wilhelms■haven have'siirrendered. A state of siege was declared 1 at Wilhelmshaven, and the Spartacists declared Wilhelmshaven an 'independent -republic on January 27, but ' the .people declared a general stake and | demanded the arrest of the Workmen, Soldiers, and Sailors' Councils. The Spartccists agreed to negotiate, but 'entered ' the Reichsbank and removed two million marks,to the barracks. Street -fighting followed, in' which the Spartacists were compelled to surrender.—Aus.-N.Z. Assn.'...'.-. •RESULT OF PMAN ELECTIONS .(Rec. February 2, 5.5 p.m.) Copenhagen,' januaty'Sl. , The Prussian elections resulted: Majority 'Socialists, '112; Catholics, 87; Democrats, 61; Consoi'vatiyes, 41; Independent ' Socialists'and the'Strosemahn Patty, formerly the National Liberals, 18; others, 7.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable .Assn. • FORCE TO OPPOSEToLISg INVASION (Rec. February 2, 5.5 p.m.) / : New York,' January 30. The United Press Berlin correspondent states that moTe than twenty thousand •volunteers have left for the Eastern front, in order to.oppose the Polish invasion, -which -is how the provinces of Brandenburg.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.