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  2. FESTIVE OBSERVANCE OF CHRISTMAS

    With a maximum temperature of 100deg., recorded at 3.10 p.m., Christmas Day, celebrated in traditional Australian style yesterday, was the hottest experienced by Perth residents since 1915. Morning church services were ...

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  3. PLAN FOR TRUCE IN INDONESIA

    BATAVIA, Dec. 25.—Details of its plan for achieving a speedy and effective truce in Indonesia by the creation of demilitarised zones have been released by the Security Council's Committee of Good Offices together with letters ...

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  4. OPERATION'S SEQUEL

    LONDON, Dec. 25—The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, comprising Viscount Simon and Lords Porter, Uthwatt, Du Parcq ...

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  5. THE KING'S MESSAGE

    LONDON, Dec. 25.—"It is in a spirit of thankfulness and hope that the Queen and I send our Christmas greetings to my peoples of the ...

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  6. NEW CONSTITUTION IN CHINA

    NANKING, Dec. 25.—While the civil war rages with undiminished ferocity and the Communist threat to Mukden (the capital of Manchuria) is reported as seriously intensified, the new Chinese Constitution came into ...

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  7. WORLD TRADE BARRIERS

    HAVANA, Dec. 25.—The United States yesterday warned the International Conference on Trade and Employment that America might ...

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  8. AWAITING REPORT'S PUBLICATION

    Lieut.-General A. E. Percival and his wife. General Percival commanded the British forces in Malaya in 1941-42. For three and a half years he was a prisoner of war in Japan. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. AUSTRALIAN MISSION

    SINGAPORE, Dec. 25.—Dr. Sjahrir, a former Indonesian Premier, has returned to Singapore by air from Australia after a ...

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  10. "GOVERNMENT" OF REBELS

    ATHENS, Dec. 25.—Government sources have reported, says Reuters, that a broadcast from General Markos's guerilla headquarters has ...

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  11. PANAMANIANS' HOSTILITY

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Referring to the Panamanian Assembly's unanimous rejection of the proposed United States agreement ...

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  12. LONDONERS' GAIETY

    LONDON, Dec. 25.—With a sort of desperate gaiety, Britons, in the midst of their austerity, seemed determined to make Christmas, 1947. ...

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  13. INDIA AND PAKISTAN TALKS FAIL

    NEW DELHI, Dec. 25.—After a conference lasting for over two hours, the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan again failed to reach agreement on Kashmir and a solution of that troubled province's problems is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. CANADIAN WAR MATERIAL

    VANCOUVER, Dec. 25.—The agents for the Panamanian freighter Colima said yesterday that the ship would not carry a cargo of ...

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  15. MUKDEN IN DANGER

    NANKING, Dec. 25.—The newly-appointed Governor of Hope[?] Province (General Chou Hsi-chuan) told the Press before' he left for ...

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  16. SPECIAL CLOTHES COUPONS

    MELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—The Director of Rationing (Mr. 5. B. Cumming) repeated today the warning that 1945-46 special ...

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  17. BETHLEHEM CONTRAST

    BETHLEHEM, Dec. 25.—Four thousand British soldiers armed with rifles and Sten-guns today thronged Bethlehem, the birthplace of the ...

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  18. THREE MORE DEATHS

    ADELAIDE, Dec. 25.—Three infantile paralysis patients have died during the past three days at North-field Infectious Disease Hospital. It ...

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  19. ACCIDENTS IN HOLIDAYS

    BRISBANE, Dec. 25.—At least four persons had been killed and 14 injured in holiday accidents in Queensland by tonight. ...

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  20. BOISTEROUS DAYS

    CANBERRA, Dec. 23.—All members of the Australian Antarctic expedition on Heard Island were well and looking forward to a "boisterous but exciting Christmas," according to messages received yesterday and released by the Acting-Prime Minister (Dr. Evatt). ...

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  21. BALANCE OF TRADE

    CANBERRA, Dec. 25.—Australia's gravest economic problems in the New Year will be to balance the drive for dollar exports against the ...

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  22. EFFECT OF U.S. INFLATION

    NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—When the frantic rush of Christmas shopping ended last night, Americans had spent 10 per cent more than the ...

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  23. PARTITION OF PALESTINE

    NEW YORK. Dec. 25.—The Lake Success correspondent of the "New York Post" says that American" military authorities, operating ...

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  24. PETROL USERS WARNED

    MELBOURNE, Dec 25.—It was' reported yesterday by the Department of Supply and Shipping that large quantities of forged petrol ...

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  25. WORLD DRIFT DEPLORED

    ROME, Dec. 25.—In his Christmas broadcast, the Pope said that the world was further than ever from true peace. He warned against ...

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  26. WHY SINGAPORE FELL

    LONDON. Dec. 25.—A forecast of what Lieut.-Gen. A. E. Percival. the British commander in Singapore at the time of its fall, is going to say in his report explaining the collapse of the fortress is given by a military correspondent of the "Daily Express.' with his own comments ...

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  27. PURCHASE OF PLANES

    MELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—Qantas Empire Airways has applied for permission to buy a fifth Constellation aircraft from America for its ...

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  28. ADRIFT IN SOUTH ATLANTIC

    NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Early this morning the American freighter John Owen (7,176 tons) reported that she was disabled and adrift in ...

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  29. AUSTRALIAN KILLED IN TOKIO

    TOKIO, Dec 25.—An Australian soldier was killed in Tokio on Tuesday night when be fell from a fail way platform and was struck by a ...

    Article : 55 words
  30. AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS

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

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