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  2. Dollar licences MORE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS

    CANBERRA, Wed—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced today that dollar goods import licences would be issued only for urgently needed commodities on a restricted basis until after the London economic ...

    Article : 470 words
  3. COMMONS TOLD BRITAIN DEFINITELY WILL NOT DEVALUE STERLING

    LONDON, Wed.—Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps) told the House of Commons today that the Government "has not the slightest intention of devaluing the £ sterling." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 512 words
  4. Riot Among Natives Prevented

    PORT MORESBY, Wed.—A European armed with a shotgun and five unarmed native police prevented a riot ...

    Article : 202 words
  5. ARCTIC CIRCLE HAS "HEATWAVE"

    OSLO, Wed.—The Arctic circle has a "heat wave." A refrigerator salesman could do business here, said Sheriff Balstad, of Spitsbergen, when opening the first phone link between Spitsbergen and Norway today. ...

    Article : 401 words
  6. GRENADE IN CROWD KILLS FOUR

    SINGAPORE, Wed. (A.A.P.Reuter).—Four were killed and 57 injured, four seriously, last night, when a hand grenade was thrown ...

    Article : 105 words
  7. LORD MAYOR WANTS ACTION ON CARAVANS

    A decision on the transfer of the caravan park from Cornelian Bay to Lambert Park should have been made by the Hobart City Council at ...

    Article : 148 words
  8. Power Cuts Paralyse Perth's Industries

    PERTH, Wed.—Cessation of electrical power for all but essential services has paralysed Perth's industry and disorganised transport. ...

    Article : 35 words
  9. FRENCH PLAN FOR GOLD PRICE RISE REJECTED

    PARIS, Wed. — The Secretary of the United States Treasury (Mr. Snyder) has rejected a French proposal for devaluation of the dollar by increasing the price of gold, it was reliably reported today. ...

    Article : 164 words
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  11. Liberal-Country Merger Opposed

    PERTH, Wed.—Delegates at the annual conference of the Country and Democratic League today voted against the organisation's ...

    Article : 68 words
  12. Britain's Dollar Loan Total

    LONDON, Wed. — Britain had borrowed 4,063,000,000 dol. (£1,354,000,000) from the United States since ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF POWER FOR TRAMS

    THE Tramways Department hopes that the whole of the conversion of power for Hobart's trams from alternating current to direct current soon will be done by automatically controlled rectifier stations. ...

    Article : 257 words
  14. Miners' Official Resigns

    SYDNEY, Wed. — "I believe the miners should settle the dispute by arbitration, and that in this way their log of claims would be ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. Guerillas Active In Syria

    CAIRO, Wed. (A.A.P.).—According to Arab Press reports, the semiFascist Syrian National Party has started guerilla warfare against the ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. MULTILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE

    MOSCOW, Wed. — A trade pact between Russia, Finland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia announced today was the first multilateral agreement concluded in the Soviet Union since the war. IT provides for a total of £30,000,000 ...

    Article : 205 words
  17. Funeral Pyres For Zoo Animals

    ROME, Wed. (A.A.P.). — Blazing funeral pyres were today consuming 102 of the Rome Zoo's wild animals—condemned to death to ...

    Article : 81 words
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