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CANBERRA DISASTER.
CANBERRA, Aug. 20.—The Minister for Air (Mr. Fadden) announced tonight that following the decision of the Government that an open inquiry would be ...
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RAPID ACTION IN OTTAWA.
OTTAWA, Aug. 19.—The Canadian Government indicated today that it was moving rapidly to give effect to the Canadian-American mutual defence ...
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FEDERAL ELECTION.
CANBERRA, Aug. 20.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) announced in the House of Representatives tonight that he would recommend the Governor-General ...
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SECURITY REGULATIONS.
CANBERRA, Aug. 20.—While both the Federal and Lang Labour Parties, contrary to expectations, combined in the House of Representatives today to ...
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JAPANESE FEELING.
LONDON, Aug. 19.—The Tokio correspondent of "The Times" says that, whatever its objects, the recent anti-British movement is losing force and ...
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AMERICAN DEFENCE.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved today the £5,000,000,000 dollar (£1,250,000,000 sterling) supplementary ...
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PRESIDENT URGES HASTE.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—President Roosevelt today telephoned to the heads of the State, War and Navy Departments from Hyde Park, his, home in New York ...
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U.S. PRESIDENCY.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The Chicago "Daily News," of which the principal proprietor is the Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Franklin Knox), supports in an ...
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JAPANESE INTERPRETATION.
TOKIO, Aug. 20.—The vernacular Press generally interprets the agreement between the United States and Canada for a joint Defence Council as a further ...
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SHANGHAI SECTOR.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The situation resulting from the withdrawal of the British troops from Shanghai has become even more complicated. The Japanese, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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AUSTRALASIAN EFFECT.
CANBERRA, Aug. 20.—The establishment of the joint United States and Canadian Defence Board had very interesting implications for Australia and ...
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SERVICE IN THE ABBEY.
LONDON, Aug. 20.—Westminster Abbey was crowded with Empire representatives today at the memorial service for the victims of the Canberra disaster. ...
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CANADIAN NAVY GROWS.
OTTAWA, Aug. 19.—The Naval Ministry announced today that it had placed orders for a fleet of motor torpedo-boats similar to the German E-boats. The ...
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A.I.F. IN PALESTINE.
GAZA, Aug. 19.—Asked whether he could give any indication as to what role was likely to be allotted to the A.I.F. If the Italians attacked Egypt in force, the ...
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FULL SUPPORT FOR BRITAIN.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—The president of the American Federation of Labour (Mr. William Green), speaking at Buffalo today, urged full American support for ...
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WOMAN KILLED.
When she was struck by the locomotive of a shunting train on a crossing in Stirling-highway, Leighton, about 4 p.m. yesterday, Mrs. Marie Rosa Gretchen ...
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U.S. SHIP'S VOYAGE.
LONDON, Aug. 19.—The United States Army transport American Legion (13,736 tons), which is homeward bound from Petsamo (Finland) with 897 American ...
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APPLES AND PEARS.
Mr. H. W. Soothill, who returned on Monday evening from a meeting of the Apple and Pear Marketing Committee which opened in Sydney on August 9. ...
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JAPANESE BA[?]ISTERS.
TOKIO, Aug. ?—Associations of Japanese barrier as have passed a resolution urging the Government to take steps for the immediate occupation of the ...
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SOUTHWARD POLICY.
TOKIO, Aug. 20.—After Cabinet discussions last night Ministers indicated that the Japanese Government was near an important decision in connection with ...
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IN THIS STATE.
The first hint, given several weeks ago, of a Federal election set into motion party machinery already prepared for the campaign in this State. There will ...
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SHANGHAI GUNMEN.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 19.—Gunmen today shot and seriously wounded a Chinese named Chang Han-uen, who is believed to be a high agent in the service of Wang ...
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TIMBER INDUSTRY.
"The first effect of the war on the Australian timber industry has been felt in a shortage of imported softwoods due to shipping difficulties, diversion of ...
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VICTORIAN LABOUR.
MELBOURNE, Aug. 20.—Apart from a few electorates for which candidates will be selected on Friday night the Victorian Labour Party has made all preparations ...
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INTERNEE ESCAPES.
MONTREAL, Aug. 20.—The police report that a powerful radio transmitting set has been found under the roof of one of the internment camps "somewhere ...
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DUTCH PRODUCE.
LONDON, Aug. 20.—The Minister for Economic Warfare (Dr. Hugh Dalton) stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that the R.A.F. was greatly ...
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ARMY LEADERSHIP.
With the rapid expansion of the Australian Army there is a need for additional and efficient leaders. To provide this need schools have been established ...
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MENZIES-STEVENS INTERVIEW.
CANBERRA, Aug. 20.—In the House of Representatives today, Mr. Gander (Lang Labour, N.S.W.) asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) to "clear up the ...
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CONSULAR OFFICIAL'S TRIP
LONDON, Aug. 20.—Thomas Spence, formerly British Vice-Consul at Stavanger, has arrived at Newcastle with his Norwegian wife and their three ...
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CONSUL OFFENDS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The Under- Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles) announced today that Germany was transferring Dr. Freidrich Reed, one of ...
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U.S. SHIP STOPPED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.—The American freighter Herman Frasch (4,494 tons) has wirelessed all United States naval and commercial stations the ...
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THE ISSUES AT STAKE.
LONDON, Aug. 19.—The Trinidad and Tobago Trades Union Council has forwarded to the Secretary for the Colonies (Lord Lloyd) the text of the following ...
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HONG KONG EVACUEES.
SYDNEY, Aug. 20.—Mrs. W. P. Thompson, whose husband is an officer in the Hong Kong Police Force, gave birth to a daughter on the evacuee ship ...
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PASTORAL RESEARCH TRUST
As a memorial to the late Mr. George Aitken, to whose efforts the Australian Pastoral Research Trust owed its inception, the members, at an extraordinary ...
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SOLDIER FRANCHISE.
CANBERRA, Aug. 20.—A Bill to franchise all members of the fighting forces overseas was introduced in the Senate to-day. This measure Is part of the ...
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QUEEN'S NEPHEW A PRISONER.
LONDON, Aug. 19.—The Queen's nephew, the Master of Elphinstone, who is heir to Lord Elphinstone, is a prisoner of war in Germany. He is aged 26 years. ...
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DRY CANTEENS IN N.Z.
AUCKLAND, Aug. 20.—The New Zealand Government has decided that there will be no wet canteen in Territorial camps. ...
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UGANDA'S WAR AND EFFORT.
LONDON, Aug. 19.—The Uganda war fund committee has sent a further £7.500 to Britain, bringing the total of its contribution since July 1 to the war effort to £39,000. ...
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