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  2. MILITIA RECRUITS TO A.I.F. IN YESTERDAY'S RALLY

    Highlights of the recruiting drive in the city yesterday were: A march of 338 officers and men from the Militia camps Ingleburn, Wallgrove and Narellan, who have volunteered for the A.I.F., and the handing over of lighted torches by members of the old A.I.F. to new A.I.F. troops. Left: Some of the 338 Militia officials and men arriving in Martin Place after their march from the railway. Right: Members of the old A.I.F. bearing torches which they handed to the new ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. CITY BLACKOUT

    Preparations were complete for an immediate blackout test of the whole metropolitan area if developments in the Pacific made ...

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  4. CHILD BONUS

    On Tuesday more than 160,000 New South Wales families will be entitled to collect child endowment under the ...

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  5. STRIKE ON MONDAY

    Leaders of important trad[?] unions with a total membership of 250,000, have instruted their members not to take part in the ...

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  6. NAZI SHIPS BLASTED

    LONDON, July 25. (A.A.P.)— Stratosphere bombing—by American Flying Fortresses using American bombs—was employed ...

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  7. AVIATION FUEL

    CANBERRA Friday.—The Minister for Supply, Senator McLeay, to night announced that Australia's stocks of ...

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  8. AIR INVASION TACTICS

    LONDON, July 25.—Though the lessons learned dining the German invasion of Crete by paratroops and air-borne troops ...

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  9. GERMAN TROOP MOVEMENTS

    WASHINGTON, July 25.— Conflicting repotts are being received regarding German troop movements in the ...

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  10. HUGE U.S. SHIP OUTLAY

    NEW YORK, July 25, A.A.P.). —A new outlay of 8,063,000,000 dollars (£A2,519,637,500) to purchase equipment for an army of ...

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  11. WAR SERVICE OBJECTORS

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Conscientious objectors will not be prosecuted in future if Army authorities are satisfied that ...

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  12. 15,000 WARDENS FOR CITY

    On Tuesday Sydney City Council will begin classes for training 14,000 wardens for air-raid precaution work covering all city buildings. ...

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  13. NEW HUNGER STRIKE

    When Horace Ratliff and Max Thomas resumed their hunger-strike yesterday. six days had elapsed since they broke a fast which had lasted ...

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  14. MILK DECISION NEXT WEEK

    Dairy farmers decided yesterday to continue to supply Sydney with milk until next Friday, when the Minister for Health, ...

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  15. MAN BURNT TO DEATH

    DUBBO Friday.—Two years after he had been threatened with being killed and his body burnt, if he informed on a ...

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  16. SCOUT PRESENTS CHEQUE

    LYN HENDERSON. 17-year-old Boy Scout, presenting a cheque for £50,000 to the Lord Mayor, Alderman Crick, on behalf of the voluntary workers ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. A.I.F. GARRISON AT CYPRUS

    NICOSIA (Cyprus), July 25.— One of the least publicised tasks of the A.I.F. in recent months has been to supplement during ...

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  18. PREMIER'S APPEAL

    The Premier, Mr. McKell, yesterday appealed to trade unionists to "refrain from action which would be injurious to the ...

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  19. BRITAIN LEARNS SECRETS

    LONDON, July 25.—Secrets of Germany's new fighter, the Messerschmitt 109F, were gained by the R.A.F. a fortnight ago, when ...

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  20. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO NEXT LOAN

    The Federal Treasurer, Mr. Fadden said yesterday that more than 2,000 advance subscriptions, amounting to about £2,250,000, had been received ...

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  21. U.S. LOAN ACCEPTED

    LONDON, July 25.—The House [?] Commons to-day passed in less than three hours a bill to accept the £325,000,000 loan from the United ...

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  22. "PENNY A WEEK" APPEAL

    Many trade unions have approved the "Penny a Week" donations to the Red Cross. Leading commercial and Industrial concerns in the State ...

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  23. CHARGE AGAINST SOLICITOR

    A police request that Harold Munro 41. solicitor,should be remanded for some weeks was opposed in the Central Court yesterday by Mr. Gordon ...

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  24. "FILTHY" MILK BAR REFRIGERATORS

    George Coumbis, occupier of a milk bar at 242 Elizabeth Street, city, was fined £5, with 8/ Court costs, in Central Summons Court yesterday, for ...

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  25. 200 RADIO MEN TO GO OVERSEAS

    MELBOURNE, Friday,—Two [?]undred R.A.A.F. radio-location recruits are being selected for service with the R.A.F. ...

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  26. RETURNED MAN DIES

    Private Ronald Gordon Lamb, 30 [?]on of the late Mr. E J Lamb and of Mrs Lamb. of Ithaca Flats, Elizaheth Bay. died last week in Sydney ...

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  27. NEWCASTLE PLANS

    NEWCASTLE. Friday.—The Northern Miners' Management Board to-day decided that the men from 65 mines which were idle to-day should be ...

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  28. R.A.F.'s GROWING MIGHT

    LONDON, July 25.—The use of Flying Fortresses against Brest was another illustration of the R.A.F.'s mounting strength. ...

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  29. NEW U.S. BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED

    The new United States battleship South Dakota sliding down the slipway at the shipyard where it was launched recently. It has a displacement of 35,000 tons, and will mount nine 16-inch guns as well as many smaller broadside and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  30. UPPER HOUSE VACANCY

    Mr. Arthur D. Bridges, of Bridges, Steele, and Watkins, Sydney, is a candidate for the vacancy in the Legislative Council caused by the death of ...

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  31. TWO ACQUITTED ON THEFT CHARGES

    Louis Ferris 35, carter, in the Quarter Sessions yesterday was acquitled of a charge of having stolen 6,001lb of brass, owned by Commercial Steels ...

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  32. AID PLEDGED TO DEMOCRACY

    Six thousand Christian Scientists from many countries at Boston on June 2 consecrated themselves to the defence of democracy as the best ...

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  33. COALMINERS ATTACKED

    CANBERRA. Friday.—The Minister for Supply Senator McLeay, said today that the time had arrived when extremists on the coalfields must be ...

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  34. HOTEL HOURS MOVE IN QUEENSLAND

    BRISBANE, Friday.—A move to alter liquor trading hours to 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. is expected when the State Parliament meets. Present hours ...

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  35. BARRISTER'S WAR PLEDGE

    BRISBANE, Friday.—Frederick Woolnough Paterson, barrister, and an alderman of Townsville City Council, who was,found guilty on Thursday of ...

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  36. FINGER-PRINTS BUREAU

    Since Sydney C.I.B. has been made the Centra) Bureau for Australia for the 400,000 finger prints taken by police in the various States, the work ...

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  37. MINISTER REGRETS PARTY MEETING

    The Minister for Information. Senator Foll, said yesterday that it was deplorable that the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, had been compelled ...

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  38. STRIKE BY WIVES

    The Housewives Association decided at its meeting yesterday that if men struck on Monday their wives should be urged to come out on strike as a ...

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  39. SOLICITOR'S SUICIDE

    Horace George Findlay Walker, 61, solicitor, of Cecil Street, Gordon, left a note on a seat near The Gap at Watson's Bay, before he fell from the ...

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  40. THE CALL-UP

    A call-up for employment is announecd in this issue. Details appear in the "Positions and Situations Vacant" columns on pages 18 and 19. ...

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