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  2. HOME DEFENCE POLICY

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Advisory War Council to-day scrapped its agenda and devoted almost its entire sitting to the discussion of Australia's home defence policy in the light of developments in the ...

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  3. CYRENE CAPTURED

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The advance of the British Imperial Army of the Nile continues with the capture of Cyrene, 50 miles to the west of Derna. The official communique from Cairo announcing this capture to-day ...

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  4. MUNITION MAKING

    BRISBANE, Wednesday. --The purchase of land near Rocklea, Brisbane, for a £1,000,000 ammunition factory, to employ 2500 workpeople, was ...

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  5. POSITION IN BULGARIA

    LONDON, Tuesday.--The Bulgarian Minister for Agriculture (M. Bagrianoff), a staunch pro-German, resigned to-day as the result, it is believed, of a quarrel with the Prime Minister (M. Filoff) over the ...

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  6. LORD LLOYD

    LONDON, Wednesday. -- It is announced that Lord Lloyd (Lord George Ambrose Lloyd, of Dolobran), Secretary of State for the Colonies and Leader ...

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  7. FLIGHT OF BOMBERS

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.--A flight of bombers will fly over the city and dip at the saluting base when a record number of around staff recruits for the ...

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  8. AUSTRALIAN WOMEN

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The War Cabinet late last night rejected a proposal that Australian women should go to the Middle East for ...

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  9. MAN DEAD

    BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Following an altercation at Coorparoo tonight regarding a horse given as security for a loan, a man was shot dead ...

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  10. DUTCH EAST INDIES

    LONDON, Tuesday.--A message received in Hong Kong from Tokio says that the Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Chuichi Chashi) ...

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  11. INJUNCTION GRANTED

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.--In a broadcast address to his people at Christmas, 1939, King George used certain words which attracted a great deal of ...

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  12. "BANJO" PATERSON

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- The death occurred to-day of Andrew Barton ("Banjo") Paterson, at the age of 77 years. He had been ill for the past ...

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  13. RAID ON DUSSELDORF

    LONDON, Wednesday. --British bombers last night mode a successful attack on Dusseldorf and the industrial areas surrounding ...

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  14. PRESIDENT OF CUBA

    HAVANA, Tuesday.--It has been reported from a reliable source that an anonymous telephone call to President Batista threatening to "set the Palace ...

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  15. STATE FINANCES

    BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- "The effect of increased Federal taxes on the State Government's revenue from taxation sources cannot be assessed ...

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  16. TOBACCO CROP

    CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- Virtual agreement on a new wartime marketing scheme for the Australian tobacco crop was reached at a conference of ...

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  17. NEXT OF KIN NORTHERN CYCLONE

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The War Cabinet's decision to place upon postmasters the task of conveying news of fatal A.I.F. casualties to the BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The cyclonic disturbance operating south of Willis Island has caused strong winds and heavy seas along the coast during ...

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  18. FREE ROUMANIANS

    LONDON, Tuesday.--M. Tilea, formerly Roumanian Minister in London, whom the Roumanian Cabinet deprived of his nationality, in a ...

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  19. NEWS IN BRIEF

    LONDON, Tuesday.--Commodore L. W. Murray, of the Royal Canadian Navy, has taken up the newly-created post of Commodore Commanding ...

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  20. SHEARER'S COOK

    CLONCURRY, Wednesday.--Duncan McIntyre Stewart, a shearers' cook, also known as William Stewart, was admitted to the Cloncurry District Hospital ...

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  21. DOLLAR EXCHANGE

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.--The realisation of Australian holdings of American securities, ordered to be sold by Australian owners to enable the ...

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  22. WAR EXPENDITURE

    LONDON, Tuesday.--A White Paper includes supplementary war expenditure estimates amounting to £600,000,000 for the year ended March 31. ...

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  23. WAR BABIES

    CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- Figures received from the State Governments by the Statistician's Department disclosed that war babies are beginning ...

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  24. MECHANICAL WIZARD

    BOSTON, Wednesday.--Lieut.-Colonel Paul French, in a radio address, said the United States Army had a mechanical ...

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  25. A.I.F. CASUALTIES

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The battle casualties in the A.I.F. announced so far total 715. In the list issued to-night five Victorian and six ...

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