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  2. CHRISTMAS GOODWILL ABROAD

    Throughout the length and breadth of the State, in suburban home and country homestead, the tempo of Christmas festivities is nearing its climax. With few checks on good cheer, it promises to be a joyous Christmas. ...

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  3. "BIG TRADERS" IN FUTURES

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The Secretary of Agriculture (Mr. Anderson) yesterday issued a list of 771 so-called "big traders" in commodity ...

    Article : 206 words
  4. PANAMA CANAL DEFENCE

    PANAMA CITY, Dec. 23.—The Panama National Assembly rejected last night the agreement for leasing 13 military bases to the United States for the defence of the Panama Canal. The proposal included sites which the ...

    Article : 449 words
  5. "NOT A CIVIL WAR"

    NANKING, Dec. 23.—The two-year-old Nationalist-Communist struggle in China is not a civil war but a Communist-suppressing ...

    Article : 403 words
  6. ARMY INQUIRY IN EGYPT

    CAIRO, Dec. 23.—A secret inquiry into an alleged Egyptian Army plot against the Chief of Staff (General Brahim Attalah Pasha) and the ...

    Article : 158 words
  7. PERSIA SEEKS CABINET

    TEHERAN, Dec. 23.—The Shah has commissioned Dr. Ibrahim Hakimi, a former Prime Minister. to, form a Government. Dr. Hakimi, ...

    Article : 107 words
  8. PROBLEMS OF GERMANY

    BERLIN. Dec. 23.—The United States Military Governor (Lieut.-General Lucius Clay) announced yesterday, says Reuters, that the ...

    Article : 164 words
  9. REACTION IN AMERICA

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Government officials said today that the United States would continue to use the military bases in Panama for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 218 words
  10. OCEAN FLIGHT INQUIRY

    AUCKLAND, Dec. 23.—Bad weather was responsible for three of four factors which caused a Tasman Empire Airways flying-boat to get ...

    Article : 224 words
  11. JOURNALISTS ARRESTED

    NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Mr. Nicholas "Kyriazedes, the Greek newspaperman accredited to the United Nations Organisation, who is ...

    Article : 368 words
  12. MAPPING ANTARCTICA

    Two U.S. Navy ice-breakers have arrived in the Antarctic to resume the mapping initiated by the Byrd expedition in 1946. They are now heading for the Shackleton ice shelf on the coast of Queen Mary Land, after which their mapping work will take them to Little ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. MAJOR TEST FOR I.T.O.

    HAVANA, Dec. 23.—The conference of the International Trade Organisation will enter its first major test this week, as the showdown ...

    Article : 156 words
  14. MARSHAL FENG DEFIANT

    NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Branding Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as a dictator. Marshal Feng Yu-hsing, who is at present investigating water ...

    Article : 87 words
  15. GERMAN TRAIN SMASH

    FRANKFURT, Dec. 23.—German police say that 37 persons were killed, 98 seriously injured and 200 others hurt when two express trains ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. MISSION PLANE CRASHES

    SHANGHAI, Dec. 23.—The copilot was killed and ten missionaries were injured when a plane, carrying about 25 Roman Catholic ...

    Article : 247 words
  17. "BENEFICENT ACT"

    LONDON, Dec. 23.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Bevin) said yesterday, says Reuters, that the Marshall Plan had fired the imagination ...

    Article : 161 words
  18. AIRLINE'S BIG LOSS

    LONDON, Dec. 23.—The Stateowned British European Airways Corporation in its first eight months of working made a loss of ...

    Article : 227 words
  19. BRITAIN'S RECORD-BREAKING FLIGHT

    Squadron-Leader James Lomas, of the Royal Air Force, beside the Meteor jet fighter which he flew from Edinburgh to Bovingdon, Herts, on November 25, at an average speed of 627 miles on hour. He had the benefit of an 80-mile-an-hour rail-wind on his record-breaking flight, in which he covered 313 miles in 30 min. 25 sec. at a height of 25,000ft. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  20. JEW MIGRANT SHIP

    JERUSALEM, Dec. 23.—A British destroyer is reported to have intercepted a Jewish illegal immigrant ship, carrying 850 Jews ...

    Article : 192 words
  21. OPIUM ADDICTS' PETITION

    SINGAPORE, Dec. 23.—Yesterday 900 opium smokers petitioned the Governor of Singapore (Sir Franklin ...

    Article : 85 words
  22. HOT CHRISTMAS EXPECTED

    Temperatures will probably rise gradually during the next few days and it is expected that Christmas Day will be ...

    Article : 124 words
  23. DUTCH VICTIMS OF BOMBS

    BATAVIA, Dec. 23.—The second mystery bomb to explode in Batavia during the last ten days slightly injured two Netherlands soldiers ...

    Article : 124 words
  24. WRECKING PLAN DENIED

    LONDON, Dec. 23.—The general secretary of the Communist Party in Britain (Mr. Harry Pollitt) has denied the statement by the general ...

    Article : 142 words
  25. MUNITIONS FOR CHINA

    VANCOUVER, Dec. 23.—The steamer Waihemo, which cleared from here yesterday, may be the last ship out of port before the ...

    Article : 145 words
  26. SEEKING BALANCE

    VANCOUVER, Dec. 23.—The Australian Trade Commissioner (Mr. F. R. Gullick) said yesterday that he was confident that by this ...

    Article : 78 words
  27. BRITISH SHIPPING

    LONDON, Dec. 23.—Britain's wartime shipping losses of 8,000,000 gross tons have been made good in actual tonnage, writes the president ...

    Article : 54 words
  28. YUGOSLAV MONKS SENTENCED

    BELGRADE, Dec. 23.—According to the Yugoslav Newsagency, a Belgrade court has sentenced to 16 years' forced labour Father Albino ...

    Article : 66 words
  29. COMET SEEN AGAIN

    LONDON, Dec. 23.—The crew an R.A.F. Lancaster bomber saw Comet 1947 at an altitude of 18,000 ft. at 5.55 a.m. (G.M.T.) today, ...

    Article : 164 words
  30. RUSSO-NORWEGIAN AGREEMENT

    MOSCOW, Dec. 23.—The Tass Agency announces that an agreement for exchange of goods has been reached between the Soviet ...

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  31. TRIUMPHAL ARRIVAL

    LONDON, Dec. 23.—The New Zealand Government's four-masted barque Pamir berthed at Victoria Docks today after "a great voyage"— in the words of her skipper, Captain Collier. In her best day's sailing, north of the Azores, the Pamir covered 267 miles, he said, and she sailed. ...

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  32. "ABSURDLY BLIND" COURT

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—After 22 years in prison, an Italian immigrant is to be given a new trial on a charge of murder, to which a plea was made of which he was ignorant. The order for a new hearing of ...

    Article : 251 words
  33. ITALIAN REPUBLIC

    ROME, Dec. 23.—The Constituent Assembly approved today of the new Constitution, which lays the foundation of the Italian Republic. ...

    Article : 87 words
  34. PROMOTION

    Secretary of the Ukraine Communist Party since March, he had been appointed Deputy Chairman (equivalent of Deputy ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  35. MESSAGE FROM DR. EVATT

    CANBERRA, Dec. 23.—The Acting-Prime Minister (Dr. Evatt) tonight issued the following Christmas message: ...

    Article : 467 words
  36. CHANGES IN BIG AIRLINES

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Changes to be made in the Douglas DC6 as a result of safety studies will probably keep these aircraft ...

    Article : 88 words
  37. FASTER AIR SERVICES FROM BRITAIN

    LONDON. Dec. 23.—Speaking at a London exhibition yesterday, the Minister of Civil Aviation (Lord Nathan) said that the flying time ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. TYPHOON DAMAGE ON YAP ISLAND

    GUAM. Dec. 23.—The United States weather station on Guam reported today that a typhoon struck the island of Yap, administrative ...

    Article : 48 words
  39. AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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

    Article : 33 words
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