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  2. GERMAN FOOD CRISIS.

    BERLIN May 13.—The leaders of all trade unions in Dusseldorf, after a stormy meeting yesterday, told the British occupation ...

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  3. ARABS' U.N.O. FIGHT ON PALESTINE.

    NEW YORK, May 12.—After a debate lasting all day the Political and Security Committee of U.N.O. today rejected, by 29 votes to 14, with ten abstentions and two absentees, five resolutions, all of which would have ...

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  4. WORLD TRADE PACTS.

    LONDON, May 13.—Mr. Richard Butler, M.P., chairman of the Conservative Party's industrial policy committee which produced the ...

    Article : 202 words
  5. TRIBUNAL PRESIDENT ANGRY.

    TOKIO, May 13.—Chief justice Sir William Webb, president of the War Crimes Tribunal, appealed from the Bench today to General ...

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  6. WAR DAMAGE.

    RANGOON, May 13.—For several weeks a war damage commission in Rangoon has been inquiring into the amount of British war losses ...

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  7. SCHACHT SENTENCED.

    STUTGART, May 13.—A German De-Nazification Court has sentenced Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who was Finance Minister and Governor ...

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  8. ROYAL FAMILY WELCOMED.

    LONDON, May 13.—Moving an address of welcome to the Royal Family, the Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) said in the House of ...

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  9. TRANSFER OF POWERS.

    LONDON, May 13.—The Plan which the Viceroy (Admiral Lord Mountbatten) will present to Indian political leaders at a meeting on ...

    Article : 219 words
  10. SEARCH FOR DIAMONDS.

    LONDON, May 13.—A hunt for smuggled diamonds is believed to be the reason for the withdrawal of permission for privileged citizens to ...

    Article : 155 words
  11. JERUSALEM MURDERS.

    JERUSALEM, May 13.—In the centre of Jerusalem two plainclothes policemen were fatally shot yesterday. Terrorists fired, after stalking ...

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  12. AUSTRALIAN PARTY.

    CANBERRA, May 13.—Dr. H. C. Coombs, leader of the Australian delegation to the Geneva Trade and Employment Conference, will ...

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  13. COMBINED SERVICES CONFERENCE AT CAMBERLEY.

    Field Marshal Viscount Montogomery (with pointer), watched by Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Brind. Air Marshal Sir James Robb and General Sir John Crocker (left to right, standingl, expounds his strategy in "Operation Spearhead" at one of the biggest combined staff conferences held since the war. Senior officers of all services are attending the conference which started at Camberley Staff College on ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. JAPANESE TREATY.

    WASHINGTON, May 12.—According to diplomatic authorities, says the American Associated Press, the Far Eastern Commission may ...

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  15. GRAIN PRICES MAY RISE.

    WASHINGTON, May 13.— Grave fears of a new inflationary boom in grain prices in the next few weeks was expressed here today by ...

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  16. SOVIET TRADE WITH U.K.

    LONDON, May 13.—Russia expressed a keen desire for a substantial expansion of the volume of trade with Great Britain during ...

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  17. FRENCH WAGES POLICY.

    PARIS, May 13.—A conference between the Prime Minister (M. Ramadier) and representatives of the Communist-dominated General ...

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  18. MURDER TRIAL ADJOURNED.

    BRISBANE, May 13.—When the trial of three young men on a murder charge was resumed at the Rockhampton Supreme Court this ...

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  19. REPARATIONS "SNIPING."

    TOKIO, May 13.—Sniping by both Russia and China at reparation lists, and fear of a possible scandal in allocating plants, have ...

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  20. POST OFFICE PLANS.

    CANBERRA, May 13.—Expenditure of £30,000,000 by the Postmaster-General's Department during the next three years to ...

    Article : 396 words
  21. PACIFIC ISLE OWNERSHIP.

    WASHINGTON, May 12.—The Supreme Court, by a five to four judgment, today rejected the United States Government's claim to ...

    Article : 166 words
  22. GERMAN P.O.W.'s MARRIAGE.

    LONDON, May 13.—Special investigators of the War Office have left London for Needham Market (Suffolk) to investigate the secret ...

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  23. DISLOYALTY CHARGE.

    WASHINGTON, May 12.—A former employee of the United States super-secret wartime Office of Strategic Services, Carl Aldo ...

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  24. LAND RESUMPTION IN BRITAIN.

    LONDON, May 13.—The House of Commons, at the report stage of the Town and Country Planning Bill, agreed that the new clause, ...

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  25. EGYPT'S APPEAL TO U.N.O.

    CAIRO, May 13.—The Egyptian Premier (Nokrashy Pasha) told the Chamber of Deputies yesterday that Egypt's appeal to U.N.O. on the ...

    Article : 153 words
  26. CANADA'S DILEMMA.

    TORONTO, May 12.—The old dilemma of Canada's position between the Old World and the New is again in the forefront of public discussion here. It is a false dilemma, but it is one way of saying that Canada is balanced between the American nations, of which she is one, ...

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  27. BLACK MARKET CHARGE.

    RANGOON, May 13.—Mr. U. Ba Pe, who has been charged with corruption and asked to resign from the Ministry of Commerce and ...

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  28. UNHAPPY WAR BRIDES.

    CANBERRA, May 13.—The Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) told Mr. Sheehan (Lab., N.S.W.) in the House of ...

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  29. CRIME FIGHTER.

    SIR HAROLD SCOTT. As Cheif Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Harold Scott is at the head of the war ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  30. CHICAGOANS READ OF MR. McKELL.

    CHICAGO, May 13.—Under the headlines "New Governor of Aussies digs up an ancestry" and "ex-boilermaker may even get a coat of arms," Col. McCormick's "Tribune" today publishes a dispatch from Quentin Pope, the paper's roving Pacific correspondent, from Melbourne. ...

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  31. YOUTH CONFESSES TO MURDER.

    LONDON, May 13.—"The feeling came over me," said Private Dennis Wood (19), confessing at Leeds Assizes that he attacked three ...

    Article : 173 words
  32. ITALIAN CABINET RESIGNS.

    ROME, May 13.—The Premier (Signor de Gasperi) announced the resignation of his Cabinet today, says the British United Press. Earlier ...

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  33. WHALE FACTORY SHIP AGROUND.

    LONDON, May 13.—The whale factory oil ship Balaena ran aground on the Shipwash Sands two hours after high tide. The lifeboat at ...

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  34. 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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