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  2. ON WAR MISSION

    WITH HELLCAT FIGHTERS and Helldiver dive bombers lined up on her flight deck, a U.S. Navy Essex class aircraft carrier speeds across ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. VARIATION OF WAGE-PEGGING REGULATIONS

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Courts and other industrial authorities may now extend any time-off provision or stipulated period of ...

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  4. GUILLOTINE APPLIED TO BANKING BILL

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Commonwealth Government to-night applied the guillotine to the Commonwealth Bank Bill in the House of Representatives. The action was taken by the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) after the House had spent ...

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  5. HOBART MURDER TRIAL ALLEGED STATEMENTS TO POLICE ADMITTED AS EVIDENCE

    HOBART, Tuesday.—After legal argument in the Criminal Court to-day the Chief Justice (Sir John Morris) decided to admit as evidence statements allegedly made to the police by Harry Cleaver (24), ex-member of the A.I.F., who is charged with the murder of Mona Hazel Gladys Elliott, 24-yr.-old ...

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  6. SIX PROPOSALS FOR CAR MANUFACTURE

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Six different proposals for the manufacture of a wide variety of motor cars had been placed ...

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  7. REQUEST FOR NEW BASIC WAGE

    SYDNEY, Thursday, — The A.C.T.U. Congress to-day directed its officers to make representations to the Federal Government for ...

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  8. CONCESSIONS TO INDIA

    LONDON, Thursday. — The Viceroy of India (Field-Marshal Lord Wavell), broadcasting from New Delhi, announced that an order ...

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  9. FLOODS STILL SERIOUS IN N. S. WALES

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Windsor, Richmond and Kurrajong districts, on the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers, are now the most seriously-affected flood areas in N.S.W. Elsewhere the position is much easier ...

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  10. Five-Year Veterans "Flung Back Into Battle"

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — A demand that immediate orders be issued to the High Command prohibiting the sending of men with ...

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  11. Temporary Suspension Of Racing in Victoria?

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Because of the acute fodder position, racing may be suspended temporarily in Victoria. This possibility ...

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  12. "LORD HAW-HAW" TO BE TRIED SOON

    LONDON, Thursday. — Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, the Attorney-General, was asked in the House of Commons what action it was proposed to take in the case of ...

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  13. Five E.A.M. Militiamen Sentenced to Death

    LONDON, Thursday.—An Athens court has sentenced to death five E.A.M. militiamen convicted of executing 38 civilians in Athens last December. Two others ...

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  14. Sugar Strike Causes Dislocation

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Unless the sugar strike is settled and the men resume work immediately, the manufacture of confectionery, ...

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  15. More Ex-Prisoners Reach England

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Small parties of former A.I.E. prisoners of war were still arriving in England from Western Europe, the acting Minister ...

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  16. MAROONDAH SHOWS FORM ON TRACK

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  17. British Scientists For Russia.

    LONDON, Thursday.—A party of 30 British scientists, headed by Sir Robert Watson, a member of the Royal Society, and including the Astronomer Royal (Sir ...

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  18. SYRIANS WANT CONFERENCE

    DAMASCUS, Thursday. — President Kuwatly, at a press conference, revealed that the Syrian Government had requested Britain and America to call a ...

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  19. COLLISION WITH CRUISER

    LONDON, Thursday. — "I expected the Curacoa to alter her course to starboard, and keep clear until the Queen Mary had ...

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  20. PRODUCTION OF TANKS CRITICISED

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Commenting on a statement by Mr. White (Lib., Vic.) that the £7,500,000 spent on tank production in Australia could have been ...

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  21. ALLIED SHIPPING LOSSES

    LONDON, Thursday. — The Admiralty has announced that 4280 Allied merchantmen, totalling 19,720,000 cross tons, were lost by ...

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  22. EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED

    SYDNEY, Thursday. — Trapped in his cabin, the injured driver of the Riverina express which was derailed between Tahmoor and ...

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  23. Discussion on Re-establishment Bill

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — The majority of the persons on rein-statement committees should have rendered war service, said Senator ...

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  24. TRAITORS' ESTATES TO BE CONFISCATED

    LONDON, Thursday. — The Czechoslovak Prime Minister (Mr. Fierlinger) announced that estates belonging to Germans and Hungarians proved to have been ...

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  25. CRICKET VICTORY TEST TEAM

    LONDON, Thursday. — Carmody replaces Stanford in the Australian Victory Test team which will meet England at Sheffield on June 23. This ...

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  26. FACILITIES FOR BRITISH NAVY

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — Facilities for the British Navy in the Pacific costing £5,000,000 in materials alone are to be provided ...

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  27. DEANNA DURBIN MARRIES FILM PRODUCER

    LAS VEGAS, Thursday. — Deanna Durbin has wedded her film producer, Felix Jackson, who is 43 years of age. Jackson had been married three times ...

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  28. 26,000 TONS OF COAL LOST YESTERDAY

    SYDNEY, Thursday. — Only one of 24 mines on the South Maitland coalfield was working to-day, the remainder being idle because ...

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  29. PINE CASE TIMBER

    HOBART, Thursday. — Northern growers were anxious to continue importing pine timber for packing cases, but thought the duty should be ...

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  30. Stole 10,800 Packets of Cigarettes

    PERTH (W.A.), Thursday.—Forcing the lock of a railway truck at the Kalgoorlie railway station last night, thieves stole 10,800 packets of ...

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  31. MR. CHURCHILL RECALLS TRIP TO NORMANDY

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Prime Minister has sent the following personal message to the commanding officer of the destroyer H.M.S. Kelvin:— ...

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  32. ITALIAN WORKMEN FOR FAR EAST

    LONDON, Thursday. — The voluntary recruitment has begun of 15,000 Italian laborers, with 150 firemen and engineers, to work under contract to ...

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  33. 474 SERVICEMEN IN CIVIC GAOLS

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — A total of 474 members and ex-members of the forces are now in Australian civil gaols serving sentences imposed by ...

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  34. LATE NEWS

    LONDON, Thursday. — Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons that a meeting of the Big Three would take place before the ...

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  35. CRUSADE FOR RE-EDUCATION OF GERMANS

    LONDON, Thursday. — Through Allied psychological teams, with a staff numbering 1000, the Germans for the first time since the advent of ...

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  36. Nazi Inspector-General Captured

    LONDON, Thursday.—The inspectorgeneral of German concentration camps (S.S. General Walther Schmitt) has been arrested near Prague, says the ...

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  37. CLINGING DESPERATELY TO OUTPOST DEFENCES

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Defying the terrific air and artillery bombardment of their headquarters area, the Japanese on Tarakan yesterday clung desperately to their outpost defences and fought off infantry attacks. The Army said to-day that 23,000 lb. of bombs devastated the target area, but some ...

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  38. Overhaul of Service Establishments

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—A demand that the Government insist on the three services giving access to the newly-appointed ...

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  39. Post-War Potato Marketing Proposals

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—A conference of potatogrowers from all States will be called by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully), probably in September, to draft a Commonwealth-wide post-war marketing and stabilisation scheme for the potato industry. ...

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  40. IMPROVED SUPPLIES OF WOOLLEN GOODS

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — Because of improved supplies since last January, stocks of woollen goods were not moving as quickly as previously, and ...

    Article : 86 words
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