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SYDNEY, Aug 31: The movement of Australian troops from Australia to Japan on their way to Korea has begun with the departure from the Mascot airport of the first plane-load ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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CANBERRA, Aug. 31: The George Cross has been awarded posthumously to two New South Wales privates who died facing a fanatical uprising of Japanese prisoners-of-war at the Cowra p.o.w. camp ...
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Detectives investigating the murder of Grace and Kathleen Holmes, of Toukley (N.S.W.), arrested a fisherman, William Birtle (25), yesterday after having questioned him for 8½ hours. The girls' bodies had been found by searchers in a swamp at the largest of the Tuggerah lakes. The picturegram shows the accused being escorted yesterday into the Newcastle Police Court, where ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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TOKYO, Aug. 31: Outnumbered South Koreans have been forced back three miles near Uihung in the centre of the northern defence line, and into the salient the North Koreans yesterday rushed ...
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CANBERRA, Aug. 31: Federal Ministers have discussed appreciation of the Australian pound as one of several major ...
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LONDON, Aug. 3: The first six of 2,500 United Kingdom recruits sought by the Australian Army ...
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SYDNEY. Aug. 31: Heavily-manacled and surrounded by a strong police guard, William Birtle (25), a fisherman of Toukley. was charged in the Newcastle Police Court this morning with the murder ...
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The City Coroner (Mr. R. P. Rodriguez) will give his reserved finding this morning on the inquest concerning the deaths of 29 persons as a result of the crash of the airliner Amana near ...
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CAIRO, Aug. 31: Three British soldiers, all in their twenties, whose mothers were specially flown from England to ...
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