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  2. NEW GERMAN ATTACK

    LONDON, Sunday.--All Germany's available forces on the Western Front have been flung into a fresh attack, which was launched at dawn to-day from the Argonne, said the French Military spokesman. It is estimated that Germany how has between 1,800,000 and 2,000,000 men engaged, apart from armoured divisions. It ...

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  3. COMMUNISTS

    BRISBANE, Sunday.--Banned from holding their meeting in the Domain this afternoon, Communist Party leaders went to the landing stage of the ...

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  4. BERLIN BOMBED

    LONDON, Saturday.--The French Admiralty reported that a squadron of French naval bombers raided factories in the ...

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  5. ITALY PREPARES

    LONDON, Saturday. -- Special measures are being taken throughout Italy to protect monuments and art treasures. The principal art galleries have ...

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  6. OVER BRITAIN

    LONDON, Sunday. -- Anti-aircraft guns in south-eastern towns went into action against two planes. A raid warning was not sounder. ...

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  7. ROYAL NAVY

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Admiralty states: "During the next few months the Royal Navy will receive a further large increase in strength comprising ...

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  8. EIGHTH DIVISION

    BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Lieutenant General V. A. H. Sturdee, of Sydney, has been appointed to command the Eighth Division A.I.F. He is the son of ...

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  9. DIED FROM BURNS

    LONDON, Sunday.--Oliver Gatty, a 32-year-old scientist, of Granchester, and Alfred Chessum (27, an engineer), both married men, died from burns ...

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  10. SENT TO GAOL

    PERTH, Saturday. -- Eric Oliver Knowles (40), fitter and turner, whose family was involved in a tragic episode in August, 1938, was to-day sentenced ...

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  11. ORAMA AND GLORIOUS

    LONDON, Sunday. -- The German High Command claims that German naval units have destroyed the British troop transport Orama (19,840 tons) ...

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  12. GERMANY SUFFERS

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Minister for Economic Warfare (Dr. -Hugh Dalton), in a broadcast, said already streaks of shortage were spreading ...

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  13. HELP FROM AMERICA

    NEW YORK, Saturday.--An Allied purchasing mission, advises a message from Washington, is attempting to obtain planes for war service which ...

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  14. FIVE TO DIE

    MARSEILLES, Saturday.--A French military tribunal has sentenced to death four men and one woman for espionage. Three men and one woman ...

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  15. SIR LANCELOT OLIPHANT

    LONDON, Sunday. -- The Berlin radio states that Sir Lancelot Oliphant (who was the British Ambassador to Brussels when that country was ...

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  16. FIRE AT KING'S CROSS

    SYDNEY, Sunday.--Mrs. Esme Gillmer (25) died in St. Vincent's Hospital to-day from burns received when a fire occurred in a three-storey ...

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  17. Two MM.P. Missing

    LONDON, Sunday.--Two members of Parliament, Sir Arnold Wilson, who has been serving as an air gunner, and Major Ronald Cartland, who is with ...

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  18. SPY UNMASKED

    LONDON, Saturday.--A man of foreign appearance wearing the uniform of a British officer, who crossed the Channel with a contingent of wounded, ...

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  19. Latest War News

    LONDON, Sunday. -- The Allied Commander-in-Chief, General Weygand, to-day issued the following message to the French armies:— "The German offensive, now launched on the ...

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  20. ARGENTINA

    BUENOS AIRES, Saturday. -- The Chamber has approved of the general provisions of the revised Presidential Emergency Bill, designed to maintain ...

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  21. ROMA MAN DIES

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  22. DUKE OF WINDSOR

    LONDON, Saturday.--The Duke of Windsor has informed Reuters that reports that he has relinquished his post as liaison officer between the French ...

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  23. MUNITION WORKS

    SYDNEY, Sunday.--In the munition annexe at Eveleigh workshop 88 men are now employed, but within the next few weeks 270 men will be engaged on ...

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  24. BEAUFORT BOMBERS

    SYDNEY, Saturday.--The Government will proceed with its intention to manufacture Beaufort bombers. "No reorganisation in aircraft factories," ...

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  25. JAPANESE OFFENSIVE

    HONG KONG, Saturday. -- In the ranges between Kingmen and Tangyang, in the lake-studded area enclosed by the Han and the Yangtse ...

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  26. SPORTING TELEGRAMS

    GYMPIE, Sunday. -- Securing the major share of the serum honours the Central and North Queensland Rugby League team defeated Wide ...

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  27. MONEY POURS IN

    LONDON, Saturday.--The evacuation of Dunkirk and the intensification of fighting in France is bringing thousands of small subscriptions in ...

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  28. THE R.A.A.F.

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  29. BRITISH CASUALTIES

    LONDON, Sunday. -- The eighth casualty list which was issued by the War Office to-day contained 220 names. It includes: Killed, one officer ...

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  30. HOME DEFENCE

    LONDON, Saturday.--Stating that the following appointments are consequent upon the increasing importance of home defence, which introduces an ...

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  31. 26th BATTALION

    BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Commenting to-night on the transfer of the 26th Militia Battalion from Miowera to Townsville, an officer at the Northern ...

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  32. CURRENCY AGREEMENT

    LONDON. Saturday.--The tripartite agreement between Britain. France and Belgium fixes the Belgian frane at 1761 to the £. which is the same as the ...

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  33. GENERAL POWNALL

    PARIS, Sunday.--A British Embassy communique says that Lieutenant- General H. R. Pownall has arrived in France and has conferred with General ...

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  34. BITING COLD

    PITTSWORTH, Sunday.--The weather was bitterly cold here yesterday. A strong westerly wind blew all day. A heavy white frost was experienced this ...

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  35. AGED WOMAN DIES

    BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Mrs. Ernie Corkling (81), who was injured in a rail crossing smash at Yeerongpilly last night died to-night. ...

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  36. THIRTY-FOUR SURVIVORS

    LONDON. Saturday. -- Thirty-four survivors of the Erik Frissel, which was sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic, have been landed in Scotland. ...

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