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  2. ELECTRONIC WONDERS.

    NEW YORK, Dec 26.—"Brig-General David Sarnoff (president of the Radio Corporation of America) commenting on radio ...

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  3. GREY CHRISTMAS.

    LONDON, Dec 26.—All Britain yesterday was concentrating on the enjoyment "trophies" won in the battle to procure traditional ...

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  4. LEVANT HITCH

    LONDON, Dec 26.—Reuters Paris correspondent reports that the Anglo-French talks in Beirut on the withdrawal of British and ...

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  5. HOLIDAY TRAGEDIES.

    NEW YORK, Dec 26.—The death toll for the nation's Christmas holiday weekend neared the 300 mark with more than half the ...

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  6. OCCUPIED JAPAN.

    NEW YORK, Dec 26.—The Washington bureau of the New York "Herald-Tribune" says: '"Responsible diplomatic sources ...

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  7. LORD KEYES DEAD.

    LONDON, Dec 26.—Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes, first leader of the British Commandos in the 1939-45 war and a distinguished ...

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  8. NEW GERMANY

    LONDON, Dec 26.—"With veteran Communists in key posts a programme of Sovietisation is being carried out in the Russian ...

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  9. INDONESIA.

    LONDON, Dec 26.—The Dutch Premier (Professor Schermerhorn) has arrived in London by air for discussions with British Cabinet ...

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  10. TWO TO HANG

    KWAJALEIN (Marshall Islands), Dec 26.—A United States Navy Court yesterday sentenced to death by hanging Rear-Admiral ...

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  11. POTENTIAL MIGRANTS.

    BATAVIA, Dec 26.—If Australia wants immigrants, there are plenty of Dutch and Eurasian families willing to leave Java and start ...

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  12. FRANC'S NEW RATE.

    PARIS, Dec 26.—It is announced officially that the French franc has been devalued to a new rate of 480 to the pound sterling and ...

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  13. USES OF COAL.

    LONDON, Dec 26.—"Britain's work in coal utilisation is the main theme of a big industrial programme," says the London Press ...

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  14. TROOPSHIP CONDITIONS

    LONDON, Dec 26.—Five hundred British troops walked off the liner Orion at Liverpool on Sunday in protest against inadequate ...

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  15. THEY SMILE AND BOW.

    TOKIO, Dec 25.—After more than three months in post-war Japan, meeting Japanese, questioning them and trying to probe. ...

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  16. GAS SUICIDE.

    WASHINGTON. Dec 26.—Representative Joseph Ervin (44), a Democrat from North Carolina, died in his gas-filled kitchen. The coroner ...

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  17. THE LATE LORD AND LADY KEYES.

    The late Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes photographed in Perth last March during their Empire tour. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. PRESIDENT'S PARDON.

    WASHINGTON, Dec 25.—President Truman has fully pardoned over 2,000 exconvicts who were paroled ...

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  19. MOSCOW TALKS.

    MOSCOW, Dec 26.—Yesterday's meeting of the British, American and Soviet Foreign Ministers broke up shortly ...

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  20. THE SHAH PREVAILS

    LONDON, Dec 26.—A dispatch from Teheran says that the Persian Minister of the Interior (Khali Fahlmi), who nearly precipitated a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  21. RATIONING OUTLOOK.

    MELBOURNE, Dec 26.—Prospects of an early end to rationing in Australia are not bright, according to the Minister for ...

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  22. FIRES IN TASMANIA

    HOBART. Dec 26.—With many districts already ravaged by the worst drought in history, Tasmania is sweltering in its fiercest heat ...

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  23. TRUMAN AT HOME.

    INDEPENDENCE (Missouri). Dec 26.—President Truman arrived on Christmas night after a hazardous wintry flight from Washington. ...

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  24. LONG TOW LIKELY

    BRISBANE, Dec 26.—Two highpowered Dutch tugs from Adelaide berthed in Brisbane today en route to Java. Tied up beside them is ...

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  25. HOPE FADES.

    BATAVIA, Dec 26.—There is practically no hope of finding alive any of the 350 Australian prisoners of war still ...

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  26. THE LAST HOME OF PHILIPPE PETAIN.

    The fort L'll Sainte Marguerite in Cannes Bay in the south of France where the former Marshal Petain is serving his sentence of life imprisonment commuted from death by General de Gaulle. Former prisoners here were the famous "Man in the Iron Mask" and Marshal ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  27. CHIANG'S SON.

    CHUNGKING, Dec 26.—The Chinese Press reports that Chiang Chung-Kuo the elder son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, ...

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  28. FAMINE IN JAVA.

    THE HAGUE. Dec 25.—The Lieut-Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies (Dr van Mook) announced yesterday that ...

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  29. MELBOURNE COOLER

    MELBOURNE. Dec 26.—Bringing relief from the Christmas heat wave, a cool change reached Melbourne late today and sent the ...

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  30. STEEL INDUSTRY.

    LONDON, Dec 26—British companies manufacturing steel tubes are preparing for a big export programme. Large-scale plans to ...

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  31. DRUG SMUGGLING.

    CAIRO, Dec 26.—A Jewish lieutenant, a corporal and a private and a British military driver have been tried and convicted of ...

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  32. TRANSPORT PLANES.

    NEW YORK, Dec 26.—The New York "Herald-Tribune" says that soldiers returning from India are loud in condemnation of deliberate ...

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  33. SAPPERS' TASK.

    MOSCOW, Dec 26.—The clearing of mines in Latvia has been completed. Engineers raised 2,000.000 mines and booby-traps which were ...

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  34. JEWS GET THROUGH.

    HAIFA, Dec 26.—It was learnt today that several hundred Jewish refugees from Europe recently landed ...

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  35. RELIEF IN ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Dec 26.—After oppressive heat on Christmas Day, a cool change came in at 2.15 am today. The maximum temperature ...

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  36. NEW AIRLINERS.

    SYDNEY, Dec 26.—Four Douglas Skymaster airliners, each capable of carrying 44 passengers will be available shortly on the interstate ...

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  37. TO WATCH ELECTIONS.

    WASHINGTON, Dec 25.—Government officials, reports the American Associated Press, said today that 600 Americans ...

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  38. TWO MEN DROWNED

    ADELAIDE, Dec 26.—When a flat-bottomed dinghy from which they were net-fishing overturned in a squall off Port Neill (west coast) ...

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  39. FATAL COLLISION.

    SYDNEY, Dec 26.—Digby Walter Gale (81), old-age pensioner, who lived at Adelong, was fatally inured in a collision between a motor car ...

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  40. CAFE RIOT.

    BATAVIA, Dec 26.—Several British troops have been arrested after a disturbance, in which paratroops were involved, in a Chinese ...

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  41. BERLIN KILLERS.

    BERLIN, Dec 26.—Russian and American military police are searching for the killers of two United States soldiers who were shot dead ...

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  42. ISLAND CHRISTMAS

    MOROTAI, Dec 25.—This first peacetime Christmas has been one of strange contrasts for Australian troops occupying the islands. This ...

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  43. SAFETY GLASS.

    LONDON, Dec 26.—The official London Press service gives details of the war performance of the Triplex Safety Glass Co. This ...

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  44. WORLD FINANCE.

    PARIS, Dec 26.—The Foreign Affairs Commission of the French Assembly voted today in favour of the ratification of the Bretton Woods ...

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  45. LAKE TRAGEDIES.

    SYDNEY. Dec 26.—Two persons were drowned during the Christmas holidays—a five-year-old boy in Narrabeen Lake, and a man aged ...

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  46. FORCE FOR JAPAN.

    MELBOURNE, Dec 26.—The composition of the British Commonwealth Force to occupy Japan will be: The Australian 34th ...

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  47. AN EMIR'S FANCIES.

    LOS ANGELES, Dec 25.—Princess Paresha, formerly Marcella Whiting, of Iowa, complained in the Divorce Court that her husband, Emir ...

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  48. TRAIN DISASTER.

    PARIS, Dec 26.—Nine passengers were burnt to death when a military train crashed into another in fog at Melun, east of Paris. This ...

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  49. GIFT TO POLAND.

    LONDON, Dec 26.—According to Warsaw radio the Ministry of Labour has announced that Britain is giving to Poland clothes and other articles ...

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  50. NEW RUSSIAN DRUG.

    MOSCOW, Dec 26.—The Russian Institute of Malaria and Medical Parasitology has developed a new drug, which it is calling ...

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  51. AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS.

    Except where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian ...

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