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  2. "COBBER" KAIN.

    In his new book (published by Angus and Robertson) the "Daily Mail" War Correspondent with the Royal Air Force in France (Noel Monks). who is a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. "ABJECT AND HUMILIATING."

    SYDNEY, Feb. 24.—"Mussolini is talking about what Germany is going to do. What an abject and humiliating confession of Italy's complete collapse are ...

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  4. "MAN OF THE HOUR"

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—The Australian Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) spent the week-end with the British Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill). He ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. A.I.F. IN MALAYA.

    SINGAPORE, Feb. 24.—I have just returned from a three-day tour of Australian camps in Malaya. I have driven past miles of rubber plantations, past ...

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  6. WAR FINANCE.

    Mr. Sinclair J. McGibbon, Commonwealth business and financial representative abroad on matters relating to the fighting services, will leave Perth for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. EMPIRE AIR SCHEME.

    Service conditions of wireless operator-air gunner trainees enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force under the Empire air training scheme are to be improved ...

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  8. LINKS OF EMPIRE.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—The political, journalistic and' public reaction to Mr. Churchill's apparent decision to choose as British High Commissioners in the ...

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  9. WOMAN'S DEATH.

    SYDNEY, Feb. 24.—Opposing the granting of bail to a man in the Newcastle Police Court today, the police said that they wished to protect him from ...

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  10. GERMAN OPERATIONS.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—A communique Issued in Berlin yesterday claimed that German bombers had severely damaged two additional large enemy ...

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  11. "LORD HAW-HAW'S" FATHER.

    LONDON. Feb. 24.—Michael Joyce, father of Germanys' notorious broadcaster on English programmes. William Joyce, internationally known ...

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  12. MEDITERRANEAN SWEEP.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—German dive- bombers again failed to smash a British convoy taking supplies through the Mediterranean, according to a report from a ...

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  13. QUEENSLAND PILOT KILLED.

    BRISBANE, Feb. 24.—Captain Alan Cameron, one of Australia's best-known commercial pilots, was killed in a Royal Air Force accident overseas during the ...

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  14. INDIAN MOSLEMS.

    NEW DELHI, Feb. 24.—Mr. Jinnah has been re-elected president of the Moslem League. The council of the league has carried ...

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  15. RUTHLESS NAZIS.

    LONDON, Feb. 23.—Noting that the standard of enemy conduct has changed since the appearance of Germany in Mediterranean warfare, the Admiralty ...

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  16. FURTHER CALL-UP THIS WEEK.

    A large number of personnel for the Royal Australian Air Force, consisting of air crew reservists, ground staff recruits and recruits for training as ...

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  17. AID FOR N.Z. TROOPS.

    AUCKLAND, Feb. 24.—The Anzac War Relief Fund, of New York, which has already greatly assisted New Zealand troops, is shipping next month 15 ...

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  18. SHORT-WAVE BROADCASTS.

    BRISBANE, Feb. 23.—Reports, which originated in Tokio, that French Indo- China troops, supported by British planes, were attacking Thailand were received by ...

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  19. THE WAR AT SEA.

    LONDON, Feb. 23.—The contribution which Canada could make to the Imperial war effort during the coming months of trial was outlined by the ...

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  20. A.I.F. LEADERS.

    Milestones in the rapid advance of General Sir Archibald Wavell's Army of the Nile across Cirenaica were the captures of Tobruk and Derna. Seen have discussing the impending action against Tobruk are Major-General I. G. Mackay and Brigadier Allen. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  21. CLASSES FOR MECHANICS.

    The second school for potential R.A.A.F. mechanics, conducted by the R.A.A.. Recruiting Drive Committee (W.A) by arrangement with the Shell ...

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  22. AIR RAID RELIEF.

    Seventeen contributions ranging from 2/ to £10 raised the Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of distress among bombed British civilians by £29/12/ to £34,789/17/5 ...

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  23. NEW FRENCH PARTY.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—The Berlin news agency stated today that the Rassemblment National Populaire, a political body formed in Paris early this month, had ...

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  24. TRADE WITH SOUTH RHODESIA

    CANBERRA, Feb. 24.—Negotiations are still in progress for completion of a trade agreement between Australia and Southern Rhodesia. Although ...

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  25. CHILD ENDOWMENT.

    Sir,—The carefree bachelor who trusted in the saying that "two can live as cheaply as one" may learn later in life that a family of six or eight has to ...

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  26. BUNBURY HOSPITAL.

    BUNBURY, Feb. 24.—Following on negotiations between Government officials and the Bunbury Municipal Council concerning the Bunbury hospital and the ...

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  27. GERMANS SHELL DOVER.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—Heavy gunfire shook the Straits of Dover shortly before daybreak, when German long-range guns shelled the Dover area for ...

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  28. ANOTHER TRAWLER SUNK.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—The Admiralty announces the loss of the trawler Ormonde. ...

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  29. BRITISH TROOPS' FAMILIES.

    CAPE TOWN, Feb. 21.—Thousands of wives and other members of the families of British troops fighting in the Middle East, including North Africa, will ...

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  30. AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.

    SINGAPORE, Feb. 23.—Thousands of A.R.P. pamphlets in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil are being issued throughout Malaya. The first explains ...

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  31. VALUE OF SEA POWER.

    MOSCOW, Feb. 23.—The Commissar for Marine (Admiral Kusnetzov), writing in "Pravda" on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the Red Navy, ...

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  32. FUNDS FOR WEAPONS.

    LONDON, Feb. 21.—Three towns- I Bridgewater, Newbury and Prestayn—between them had raised nearly £750,000 when their War Weapons Weeks closed. ...

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  33. MALTA RAIDERS DRIVEN OFF.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—Raiders flew over Malta on three occasions yesterday, but fighters and anti-aircraft guns drove them off and no damage was caused. ...

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  34. FALL OVER CLIFF.

    SYDNEY. Feb. 24.—The body of the woman found in a cleft of rock 40 feet below a track on Khyber Pass, nine miles from Wentworth Falls, was today ...

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  35. INDIES POLICY.

    BATAVIA, Feb. 23.—The Batavia "Daily News," discussing Singapore's strength, emphasises that the stronghold would be able to hold out against a ...

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  36. EUROPE'S FOOD SHORTAGES

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—Responsibility for the critical food shortages in Nazi-countries is attributed to Germany in a report prepared by economists ...

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  37. SIR WALTER CITRINE HOME.

    LONDON, Feb. 23.—Sir Walter Citrine (general secretary of the Trade Union Congress) returned today from the United States by clipper plane. ...

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  38. REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

    BIG BELL, Feb. 24.—Frank Roddy, aged about 53, had a remarkable escape from death or serious injury when working on night shift at the Big Bell mine ...

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  39. R.A.A.F. PLANE OVERTURNS.

    HOBART, Feb. 24.—While taxiing after landing in a paddock at Ross during a reconnaissance flight from Western Junction aerodrome today, an R.A.A.F. ...

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  40. HUSBAND AND WIFE GIVE ALL.

    LONDON, Feb. 22.—Mrs. Mollie Orton, the young wife of an Australian naval officer who lost his life at Narvik, was killed when a bomb hit a house in ...

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  41. R.S.L. DEFENCE CORPS.

    On Sunday morning, at Monger's Lake, the Subiaco, West Leederville-Wembley and Mt. Hawthorn-North Leederville units of the Returned Soldiers' League ...

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  42. TSARIST OFFICER FOUND DEAD.

    NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Michael Borislavsky (55), who was a colonel in the Tsarist army and an inventor of military devices in the War Department, was ...

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  43. DARK COLOURS FOR GERMANY.

    ZURICH. Feb. 24.—The German 'War Ministry has ordered newly-built houses, fiats, factories and barracks and renovations to be painted in dark colours to ...

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  44. FREE FRENCH FORCES.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—Sub-Lieutenant Saphir, in a speech yesterday on behalf of the Free French forces, said:—"At the end of 1940 the strength of the Free ...

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  46. BROTHER AND SISTER DROWNED.

    AUCKLAND. Feb. 24.—A brother and sister-Rita (6) and Mervyn Meikle (7) —were drowned near Mataura today. The children were bathing in a stream ...

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  47. AIR ACE PRESUMED KILLED.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—Flying-Officer L Clisby, of Glenelg (South Australia). who was reported missing last May., is now officially presumed to have been ...

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  48. WEYGAND AT DAKAR.

    LONDON, Feb. 24.—General Weygand the French Governor-General and commander-in-chief in North Africa, has arrived at Dakar (Senegal), after an ...

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