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  2. U.S. CONGRESS PASSES AID BILL.

    WASHINGTON, May 10.—The House of Representatives last night passed President Truman's Greek- Turkish Aid Bill by 287 votes to 107 after numerous opposition amendments had been rejected. ...

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  3. CLAIMS TO PACIFIC ISLANDS.

    NEW YORK, May 10.—The United States, Britain and New Zealand are disputing over the possession of at least 23 islands of ...

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  4. RUHR FOOD CRISIS.

    ESSEN, May 11.—The Ruhr's coal output was 750,000 tons below expectations last month, says the American Associated Press. ...

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  5. CHANGES IN JAPAN.

    TOKIO, May 11.—The four major political parties in Japan have unanimously agreed that the Social Democrat Party, which ...

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  6. GERMAN GENERALS' CRIMES.

    NUREMBERG, May 11.—General Telford Taylor, the Chief United States Prosecutor, has handed to the Nuremberg War Crimes ...

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  7. HARASSED CHINA.

    NANKING, May 11.—The Government yesterday claimed one of the China war's "most crushing victories" by the recapture of Laiwu, ...

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  8. PROPOSAL FOR FREE PALESTINE.

    LAKE SUCCESS, May 11.—The United States yesterday opposed Russia's proposal (made on Friday) that the Palestine Commission of Inquiry should submit to the General Assembly of U.N.O. in September a ...

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  9. PHONETICS.

    LONDON, May 11.—Mr. George Bernard Shaw has issued a manifesto addressed to the House of Commons, the ...

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  10. HORSE ENDANGERS AIRCRAFT.

    EL PASO (Texas), May 11. For two hours a crazed race-horse terrorised the crew of a four-engine cargo aircraft ...

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  11. REFUGEES LEAVE GENOA.

    GENOA, May 11.—Police have discovered evidence that Jewish refugees arriving at Genoa are embarking secretly at night on ships ...

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  12. WEAPONS TO WAGGONS.

    Welding torches ablaze in Britain's best-known war plant, the Woolwich Arsenal, London, where workers who were recently making guns now out eighty 16-ton all-steel railway waggons each week. The trucks are used to transport coal from the mines. Since August last year 2,076 waggons have been completed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. GUERILLA FORAYS.

    ATHENS, May 11.—The Ministry of Public Order has announced that a band of over 100 Communist guerillas attacked Hiefapetra, in ...

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  14. U.N.O. MISSION TO GREECE.

    GENEVA, May 11.—American sources said that the U.N.O. Balkan Investigation Commission, which will return to New York in June, ...

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  15. ARAB PRISONERS SURRENDER.

    JERUSALEM, May 11.—It is officially announced that the Palestine Government will not prosecute prisoners who escaped ...

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  16. NAVAL CHIEF ATTACKED.

    LONDON, May 11.—Capt. Julian Snow, a Government Whip, in a sensational attack on Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton said in a speech ...

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  17. U.S. ADVANCE TO PERSIA.

    TEHERAN, May 11.—A high diplomatic source said yesterday, the American Associated Press reports, that the United States has ...

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  18. TRANSJORDAN OIL.

    JERUSALEM, May 11.—It is authoritatively stated that Transjordan has granted the Petroleum Development Company exclusive ...

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  19. COMMON FRONT IN BRITAIN.

    LONDON, May 11.—The chairmen of the Conservative Party (Lord Woolton) and Liberal National Party (Lord Teviot) announce ...

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  20. BREAKDOWN IN INDONESIA.

    PONTIANAK (West Borneo), May 11.—What amounts to a breakdown in the economic negotiations between the Netherlands ...

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  21. NEW INDIAN PLAN.

    NEW DELHI, May 11.—The Viceroy (Viscount Mountbatten) has invited the Congress Party, the Moslem League and the Sikhs to ...

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  22. KESSELRING'S FATE.

    LONDON, May 11.—General Sir Oliver Leese, who succeeded Field Marshal Montgomery as leader of the Eighth Army in Italy and ...

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  23. POPULATION SURVEY.

    BERLIN, May 11.—The American Military Government, in a four- zone survey based on a simultaneous census which all four Powers ...

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  24. BOMBING BALLOONS.

    TOKIO, May 11.—Concrete sites from which the Japanese launched their bombing balloons across the Pacific in 1944 in an attempt to ...

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  25. NEW FILM; OLD STORY.

    MOSCOW, May 11.—The script of a new Russian film, "Battle of Stalingrad" shows Generalissimo Stalin as ...

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  26. SENATE SHOOTING.

    OKLAHOMA CITY, May 11.—County Judge C. Blinn yesterday found insane Representative Jimmie Scott, who shot Senator Tom ...

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  27. RETURN TO ENGLAND.

    LONDON, May 11.—Reuters special correspondent aboard H.MS. Vanguard reports that Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret steered the great battleship yesterday as she neared the end of the 6,000-miles voyage from South Africa. Princess Elizabeth turned the wheel when the ...

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  28. GERMAN INVENTIONS.

    LONDON, May 11.—Speaking in London, the President of the Board of Trade (Sir Stafford Cripps) referred to the big job done by British experts in making available to the world German techniques and scientific developments. Apart from public patents owned by ...

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  29. MADAGASCAR REVOLT.

    PARIS, May 11.—The French Cabinet has decided to dissolve the separatist "Madagascar Renovation Movement," which is a native ...

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  30. RENEWED TRADE PROSPECTS.

    BOSTON, May 11.—The "Christian Science Monitor's" correspondent, Albert Norman, in a dispatch from Sydney, says the ...

    Article : 160 words
  31. EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.

    ROME, May 11.—Reuters says that a violent earthquake shook southern Italy and Sicily today. Serious damage was caused and ...

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  32. 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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