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  2. BENGHAZI FALLS TO BRITISH ARMS: BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENT

    LONDON, Friday.--It is officially announced that Benghazi, the capital of Cyrenaica, the eastern portion of the Italian colony of Libya, has been captured. A message from Cairo says that the news that Benghazi had fallen came like a thunderbolt. Even military experts had assumed that owing to the nature of the country Benghazi ...

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  3. DISASTROUS DEFEAT

    LONDON, Thursday.--Desperately attempting to break the lines the Italians violently counter-attacked in the central sector yesterday, but suffered a disastrous defeat. According to the Greek Press ...

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  4. DRAMA OF VICHY

    LONDON, Friday. -- Among much comment, varying in reliability, on Marshal Petain's attempt to resist German machinations as personified ...

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  5. U.S. AID TO BRITAIN

    WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- The House of Representatives adopted the Foreign Affairs Committee's amendment, which means ...

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  6. NEW AMBASSADOR

    WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- Mr. John Gilbert Winant has been nominated by President Roosevelt as United States Ambassador to Britain in ...

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  7. CHUNGKING

    (From CLIVE TURNBULL, Special Representative of the Australian Associated Press in Japan.) HONG KONG, Thursday.-- ...

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  8. SKILLED LABOUR

    BRISBANE, Friday.--To take advantage of the growing demand for skilled workers in munitions and other defence jobs, Queensland youth is ...

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  9. STATE BASIC WAGE

    BRISBANE, Friday.--The Full Bench of the Arbitration Court to-day fixed March 17 for the hearing of claims for an increased basic wage. The ...

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  10. BIG BRITISH VOTES

    LONDON, Thursday.--The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) asked the House of Commons to agree to a supplementary vote of ...

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  11. LICENCES REVOKED

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The licences of the four broadcasting stations, including 4AT (Atherton, Queensland), which were put off the air recently by ...

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  12. "DARBY" MUNRO

    SYDNEY, Friday. -- The licence of "Darby" Munro, one of Sydney's leading jockeys, has been revoked by the Australian Jockey Club committee. ...

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  13. BUTTER AND CHEESE

    CANBERRA, Friday.--By an order published to-day the Federal Government has taken power to acquire compulsorily half the butter and half the ...

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  14. FEDERAL BASIC WAGE

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--By a unanimous decision the Full Arbitration Court held to-day that now was not the time to increase the basic wage. ...

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  15. PILOT'S DEATH

    BRISBANE, Friday.--"It is my opinion that the pilot flew towards Brisbane and entered a large cloud. The 'plane then apparently got out of ...

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  16. "FLYING FORTRESS"

    LOVELOCK (Nevada, United States of America), Friday.--An Army "flying fortress," loaded with secret equipment for research to reduce the hazard of ...

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  17. STRIKERS TO RETURN

    SYDNEY, Friday.--A mass meeting of strikers from the works of Bright Pty. Ltd., of White Bay, Sydney decided to-day to resume work on ...

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  18. WORK CEASES

    ADELAIDE, Friday. -- Work has ceased in all South Australian foundries since the stopwork meeting at the Adelaide Trades Hall to-day decided ...

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  19. CAR CHASSES IMPORTS

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The import quota of car chasses from North America has been cut by 85 per cent. and trucks by 45 per cent. The cuts ...

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  20. DUCHESS OF KENT

    SYDNEY, Friday.--To support Australia's Greek Day appeal, the Duchess of Kent will broadcast a special message to this country. ...

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  21. MILITIA TRAINING

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The present militia camp training period of 70 days is likely to be extended by two weeks. The change will take effect after the ...

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  22. SULPHATE OF AMMONIA

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- Only 47 per cent. of the normal requirements of sulphate of ammonia fertiliser is expected to be available this year, the ...

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  23. CATTLE FOR MARKET

    BRISBANE, Friday.--Cattlemen were advised to-day by the chairman of the Queensland Meat Industry Board (Mr. F. F. Sunners) to maintain a ...

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  24. TWELVE KILLED

    WINNIPEG, Thursday. -- Nine passengers and three of the crew were killed when a Trans-Canadian Airlines 'plane crashed near Armstrong ...

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  25. KING AND QUEEN

    LONDON, Friday.--Their Majesties the King and Queen spent four hours touring the badly bombed areas in Portsmouth. They went into several ...

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  26. NIGHT BOMBERS

    LONDON, Friday.--Since last June the Germans have lost over 140 night bombers in raids on Britain. The majority of these have fallen to ...

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  27. Ron. Richards Retires

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Stadiums Ltd. has declared vacant the Australian middleweight, light-heavyweight and heavyweight boxing titles held by Ron ...

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  28. Recent Delhi Conference

    LONDON, Thursday.--The secretary for India (Mr. L. C. Amery), replying to a Parliamentary question, announced that the Governments ...

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  29. Train Smash Inquiry on Monday

    BRISBANE, Friday. -- The inquiry into the Thallon mail train smash on the main Range near Toowoomba on the night of January 26, will commence ...

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  30. To Marry Airman's Widow

    LONDON, Friday.--The richest soldier in the army, Earl Inchcape, is to marry the widow of a Royal Air Force officer who was killed on active, ...

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  31. Pensions Rate To Be Raised

    MELBOURNE, Friday.--The rate of old-age and invalid pensions will be increased by 6d. a week as from April 31, following the rise in the cost of ...

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