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  2. MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 words
  3. TIDES, SUN AND MOON

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 words
  4. LOCOMOTIVES STRANDED ON SHATTERED PIER IN BORNEO

    Victims of Invasion, the locomotives were left stranded on a shattered pier as the combined Australian 7th Division and Royal Netherlands Indies Army units swept through Balikpapan, Netherlands Borneo. (Netherlands Indies Information Service.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 73 words
  5. CARE OF BORNEO WOUNDED.

    Wounded Seventh Division A.I.P. soldiers being taken aboard tho hospital ship "Wanganella," at Balikpapan Bay, Netherlands Borneo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  6. JAP CITIES RAIDED DESPITE TYPHOONS

    NEW YORK, August 6.—The "Times"' Manila corre-spondent says that despite tumultuous weather, which kept the rest of General Kenney's Okinawa-based planes on the ground, two squadrons of Mitchells dared the elements and ...

    Article : 547 words
  7. Borneo Only First Lap In New R.A.A.F. Offensive

    BRISBANE, August 6.—Borneo is only a preliminary to further advances into enemy-occupied territory, and there will be a tightening of the air blockade of the N.E.I, and Malay Peninsula by R.A.A.F. fighting and bombing craft from Borneo airfields. These facts were stated by Air Vice-Marshal W. D. Bostock, C.B., O.B.E., Air Officer ...

    Article : 346 words
  8. Sloop Warrego Had Some "Hot Times"

    SYDNEY, August 6.—Attacked by Jap suicide planes and engaged at short range by shore batteries, the Australian sloop Warrego, which has returned to refit, packed her last eight months' duty with almost ...

    Article : 389 words
  9. RUSSIA GETS HALF GERMAN SPOILS

    LONDON, August 6.—Berlin newspapers to-day for the first time give detailed comment on the Potedam cummunique. The ...

    Article : 410 words
  10. AUSTRALIA'S BID AS PEACE LEADER

    NEW YORK, August 6.—Dr. Evatt, in a statement to the "Herald Tribune" on Australia's war effort and peace aims, said: "I want to emphasise ...

    Article : 145 words
  11. U.S. PACIFIC BASE REVEALED

    HONOLULU, August 6 (Special). To most news readers Ullthi means no more than Allinglapalap, another Pacific atoll. ...

    Article : 211 words
  12. GENERAL STEVENS' FORTITUDE

    MELBOURNE, August 6.—Major General H. Kobertson, who was on the plane which crashed into the sea near Lac a few days ago. to-day, paid ...

    Article : 114 words
  13. SAVING FRUITS FROM FROSTS

    CANBERRA, August 6.—A revolutionary method of fruit growing has been discovered in England. By spraying a secret chemical on ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. WRECKAGE OF LOST BOMBER FOUND

    SYDNEY, August 8.—The wreck-age of an B.A.A.F. Beaufort bomber, which disappeared two months ago, has been found in ...

    Article : 160 words
  15. 2000 RELEASES TO RAILWAYS

    MELBOURNE, August 6.—Consideration is being given to the allocation to railways of 2000 men from 10,000 men to be released from the ...

    Article : 176 words
  16. CONTROLS EASED ON IMPORTED GOODS

    CANBERRA, August 6.—A lone list of goods on which Import licensing restrictions have been either lifted or eased has been ...

    Article : 221 words
  17. U.S. DISCHARGES IN AUSTRALIA

    CANBERRA, August 6.—The Government have no objection to the discharge of American servicemen in Australia, provided they can fulfil ...

    Article : 109 words
  18. U.N.R.R.A. SIGNS OF GOING BROKE

    LONDON, August 6. (Special).— Russia staggered the already wobbly United Nations' Relief and Rehabilitation Administration last week ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. JAPS RAZE CITY OF KWEILIN

    NEW YORK, August 6.—The Office of War Information representative, David Chandler, reported from Kweilin that the Japs had sacked the once ...

    Article : 51 words
  20. SIR ISAAC ISAACS PASSES NINETY

    MELBOURNE, August 6.—Sir Isaac Isaacs celebrated his 90th. birthday to-day. He is Mill keen and alert. ...

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  21. Fleet Has Shopping Day In Japan's Home Waters

    NEW YORK, August 6.—The American Press correspondent, Al Dopking, aboard an escort carrier near Japan, says: "This is a shopping day for Admiral Halsey's fleet. 'Slave traders,' as these supply ships call themselves, are peddling their wares right in Japan's backyard." ...

    Article : 286 words
  22. CLONCURRY GIRL'S FATAL FALL

    CLONCURRY, August 6.—A gloom was cast over the town on Saturday evening when it was learned that Miss Berry McBryde, a 20-years-old school ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. OPTIMISM ON HOUSING PLAN

    CANBERRA, August 6.—Mr. Lazzarini auticipates no difficulty in getting the required number of men to undertake less congenial work such as ...

    Article : 88 words
  24. DENIAL OF BAN ON WELLS BOOK

    CANBERRA, August 6.—Customs officials said to-day that they had no knowledge or the alleged banning of any book written by H. G. Wells ...

    Article : 93 words
  25. GIANT WHALE SEEN OFF NORTH COAST

    CAIRNS, July 6.—Passengers and the pilot of an Australian National Airways aircraft, while flying between Cooktown and Cairns to-day, sighted ...

    Article : 105 words
  26. TRAVEL PRIORITY ABOLISHED

    MELBOURNE, August 6.—The rail travel priority system has been abolished, following a meeting of the War Railway Committee and the Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward), to-day. Mr. Weird said the Rail Transport Director (Mr. Howse) had recommended that the system he ended. The ...

    Article : 108 words
  27. RELEASE OF R.A.A.F. SURPLUS TRAINEES

    MELBOURNE, August 6.—To clear up any confusion and misunderstandings, Mr. Hollowsy announced to-day that all air crew trainees who had ...

    Article : 122 words
  28. FIREMEN SEEK A.W.U. HELP

    BRISBANE, August 6.—Following an industrial decision that the ballot was unauthorised, votes cast in the firemen's strike ballot hove not been ...

    Article : 67 words
  29. TALKS ON TANGIER POSTPONED

    LONDON, August 6.—The three Power conference on Tangier which should have begun in Paris to-morrow has been postponed until the ...

    Article : 60 words
  30. BELSEN CAMP HEAD MAKES CONFESSION

    LONDON, August 6.—The ex-com-mandant of the Belsen concentration camp, Josef Kramer, who is awaiting trial at Celle, signed a statement ...

    Article : 73 words
  31. MOVING GERMAN INDUSTRIES

    Representatives of S.H.A.E.F. and of the governments of Netherlands, Belgium and France, have come to an agreement in relation to the removing ...

    Article : 91 words
  32. DELAY IN FREE MEDICINE PLAN

    CANBERRA, August 6.—Although 16 months have elapsed since the Government's free medicine scheme was approved by Parliament, only four of ...

    Article : 60 words
  33. FRENCH BATTLESHIP ENDS ACTIVE SERVICE CAREER

    PARIS, August 6.—The 26,000-ton battleship Strasbourg, which, last week, was raised from the bottom of Toulon harbour, will not be re-armed. The chief private secretary to the Minister for Marine stated the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 77 words
  34. LEAVE PRIZE FOR LIVE GENERALS

    NEW YORK, August 6.—The American Press Manila correspondent says 45 days leave in the United States will be given to any soldier capturing alive ...

    Article : 81 words
  35. SECRET RADIO ATTACKS FRANCO

    LONDON, August 6.—An anti-Franco radio station operating from an unknown area to-day called on Spanish peasants to refuse to work ...

    Article : 87 words
  36. "RELIGIOUS CRANK" IS DIVORCE PLEA

    SYDNEY, August 6.—Music that was not church music—in fact, any form of amusement—was frowned upon by Alfred Matthew Agnew, 43. ...

    Article : 232 words
  37. MINOR WAR GOES ON IN CORNWALL

    LONDON, August 6 (Special).— King Henry III of England has been dead for nearly 700 years, but there are thousands of people along the ...

    Article : 211 words
  38. DUMMY SHIPS AS LUFTWAFFE BAIT

    LONDON, August 6.—It can now be revealed that for nearly two years the Royal Navy used a phantom fleet of wooden warships filled with ...

    Article : 175 words
  39. WAR FACTORIES NOT USEABLE

    SYDNEY, August 6.—Government factories, and particularly [?] have been built to provide munitions for war and it is unlikely they will ...

    Article : 115 words
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