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A SIGN OF THE TIMES. GERMAN SOCIALIST'S APPOINT. MENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Mav 4, 12.10 p.m. AMSTERDAM, May 3. Herr Scheidemann, a Socialist, has been appointed president of the Reichstag Constitution Committee. LOSS OF THE BALLARAT. AN AMUSING STOR\ (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received May 4, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, May 3. An amusing story is told in connection with the sinking of the Ballarat. It is stated that the man was a stutterer who first saw the approaching torpedo, which struck, the ship before he could give the warning. WARDS OF THE STATE. ILLEGITIMATES IN GERMANY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 4, 8.40 a.m. NEW YORK, May 3.
Mr Ackermann, formerly the New York Tribune's correspondent at Berlin, quotes the Tageblatt as stating that 3,000,000 illegitimates have been born in Germany since the beginning of the war. He adds that the Government is encouraging procreation, and may legitimise them and make them wards of the State. FOR THE FRONT. A TAHITIAN CONTINGENT. Received May 4, 11.10 a.m. SYDNEY, May 4. The Governor-General has inspected a contingent of Tahitians en route for the front.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13475, 4 May 1917, Page 5
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