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  2. CRIPPLED PLANE.

    The remarkable landing of a crippled Liberator by parachute is described in a dispatch from an Allied bomber base in Italy. The Liberator ...

    Article : 184 words
  3. WOLFRAM TO AXIS.

    "Portugal was given a plain hint on the night of May 11 that unless she ceases the free flow of wolfram to Germany, Britain will have to ...

    Article : 157 words
  4. FRIGATE BEATS U-BOATS

    While successfully helping to escort a convoy in the North Atlantic recently. His Majesty's frigate Spey (Commander G. A. C. Ormsby, ...

    Article : 376 words
  5. OFFENSIVE IN ITALY.

    Reuter's correspondent with the Eighth Army says that General Alexander yesterday launched the long-awaited all-out effensive with ...

    Article : 728 words
  6. DISRUPTING RAIL SERVICES

    Within 24 hours late in the evening of May 11 British and American heavy bombers struck a bewildering succession of blows against German-held railway yards in occupied Europe, and at least 17 marshalling yards were smashed. It was the ...

    Article : 190 words
  7. POST-WAR SECURITY SYSTEM

    The Empire Prime Ministers to-day re-opened the discussion of methods of establishing a post-war world security system, with the result that consideration of Mr. Curtin's Empire Secretariat plan is again likely to be deferred. ...

    Article : 192 words
  8. OPPOSITION BY B.M.A.

    The connell of the British Medical Association issued a preliminary statement on nine major points of policy commenting on the ...

    Article : 471 words
  9. SERIOUS CHINESE LOSS.

    The American Associated Press correspondent states that an atmosphere of unconcealed concern has spread in China as reports told of ...

    Article : 403 words
  10. MARAUDERS KEPT BUSY.

    One hundred and fifty Marauder medium bombers struck military objectives in northern France. Hardly had the full impact of their bomb load ...

    Article : 611 words
  11. CONFERENCES MOOTED.

    A meeting of United Nations' leaders is likely to be preceded by conferences in London of high Allied officials, who will give the peace blue prints their ...

    Article : 271 words
  12. FULL TIME SECRETARY.

    As a preliminary to the publication of the new policy for the control of the Australian Mandated Territories, the Cabinet has placed the Department ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. WATER RESTRICTIONS

    A warning that severe restrictions on the use of water might have to be imposed this month was issued by the Lord Mayor (Alderman J. B. Chandler) ...

    Article : 116 words
  14. MEAT PROBLEMS.

    Because he holds that the special meat problems of Northern Queensland should be favourably appreciated by the central administration, the ...

    Article : 78 words
  15. VON PAPEN IN TURKEY.

    The American Associated Press correspondent at Istanbul says that the German Ambassador (von Papen) has returned, accompanied by his military ...

    Article : 104 words
  16. WAR WORKERS HOSTEL.

    The construction of the largest hostel for war workers in the Commonwealth is now nearing completion outside Brisbane. The building is estimated to ...

    Article : 91 words
  17. HOSPITAL UPKEEP.

    The abolition by the State Government of local authority precepts for hospital upkeep will not mean the imposition of a special hospital tox to ...

    Article : 92 words
  18. HOLDING C.C.C. MEN

    The general secretary of the Operative Painters and Decorators' Union (Mr. E. Hanson, junr.) has returned to Brisbane from an organising trip on ...

    Article : 220 words
  19. DAIRY SUBSIDY.

    Most leaders of the dairying industry considered that the Curtin Government's subsidy met reasonable requirements and provided a more ...

    Article : 259 words
  20. COST OF LIVING

    Commenting on the announcement by the British Government that it was proposed to allow the cost of living in England to rise by 5 per cent, through ...

    Article : 566 words
  21. ENGLISH COAL PRODUCTION.

    We have all heard of the epochmaking legislation recently enacted on the other side of the world, whereby Britain's coal mines become the ...

    Article : 741 words
  22. HOUSING SCHEME.

    While the production executive yesterday agreed that the immediate housing programme quota should be increased from 1215 homes now to ...

    Article : 230 words
  23. MAN POWER SHORTAGE

    Unless a number of efficient cane cutters were immediately granted temporary release from the Army, there is little hope that the northern mills will ...

    Article : 128 words
  24. ARMY RELEASES.

    The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. F. M. Forde) said to-day that 17,500 of the 20,000 special releases now have been discharged from the army. In addition, ...

    Article : 175 words
  25. PREMIER REPLIES.

    Replying to-day to Mr. Chandler's charges that Labour's election campaign was one of calculated and deliberate misrepresentation, the Premier ...

    Article : 172 words
  26. CROMWELL DIVORCE VOID.

    A message from Elizabeth (New Jersey), states that the Chancery Court declared Mrs. Doris Duke Cromwell's Reno divorce was null and void ...

    Article : 33 words
  27. TOBACCO LEAF.

    The Brisbane Tobacco Grading and Bulking Co Pty. Ltd. reports: Appraisement 68-4 of the first series was concluded yesterday and included all ...

    Article : 132 words
  28. PACIFIC AIR OFFENSIVE.

    A Pacific Fleet communique states: "On May 8 Liberators and Mitchells bombed Ponape Island, hitting the airfield. Moderate flak was encountered. ...

    Article : 68 words
  29. SWEDISH ORE LOST.

    The American Associated Press Stockholm correspondent, quoting reports from Kiruna, says that the new 10,000-ton German ship, Odin, carrying ...

    Article : 60 words
  30. CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.

    A writ claiming £50,000 damages, issued in the Supreme Court by Walter Thornton, an Adelaide journalist, was served on an officer of the Deputy ...

    Article : 79 words
  31. LIME SHORTAGE.

    Sugar mill owners are concerned at the prospective shortage of lime, essential in sugar manufacturing as a juice clarifying agent, said the secretary of ...

    Article : 177 words
  32. KNIFE BRAWLS.

    Pte. John Peter Phillips (19), Grafton-street, Woollahra, received a sixinch stab wound in the abdomen during a brawl between U.S. and Australian ...

    Article : 119 words
  33. STRIKING FORD WORKERS RESUME.

    A mass meeting of the striking employees of the Ford Company, voted to resume work. The decision followed the War Labour Board's refusal to act ...

    Article : 45 words
  34. RUSSIAN WAR LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED.

    The Moscow radio announced that the Third Russian State War Loan, fixed at 25,000,000,000 roubles, was over-subscribed by 3,000,000,000 roubles. ...

    Article : 36 words
  35. FIGHTING IN RUSSIA

    The Moscow communique states: "Our troops on May 11 on the bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester south-west from Tyraspo were ...

    Article : 83 words
  36. HELICOPTER FLIES INDOORS.

    A new type of helicopter dipped and circled under the Buffalo Drill Hall's 60ft, ceiling in what is claimed to be the first indoor helicopter flight in the ...

    Article : 42 words
  37. NO PASSENGER TRAINS IN FRANCE.

    The Vichy radio announced that all passenger trains will be cancelled from May 15. ...

    Article : 28 words
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