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  2. NO OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF JAPANESE LANDING IN N. GUINEA

    MELBOURNE, To-day, 1.30 a.m.—After a warning yesterday morning by the Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) that a Japanese landing in New Guinea might be expected later in the day, radio communication between Australia and Rabaul ceased at 4 p.m. Since then there has been a complete absence of official information from the territory ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. 1941-42 OUTLAY ON WAR MAY BE £250,000,000

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Commonwealth war expenditure for 1941-42 may reach £250,000,000, compared with the budget estimate of £221,000,000. This will involve the recasting of the Government's financial programme for the remainder of ...

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  4. SHIP TORPEDOED AND MACHINE GUNNED

    LONDON, Thursday. — The "Daily Mail" war correspondent, Mr. Graham Stanford, cabling from Horta (Azores) tells the story of a British ship in ...

    Article : 152 words
  5. Worst Winter For Years

    LONDON, Wednesday. — Europe is in the grip of the worst winter for years. The British press is permitted to refer only to the weather over the ...

    Article : 124 words
  6. Missing Darwin Soldiers Found

    DARWIN, Thursday. — Two soldiers who had been lost 30 miles from Darwin since Sunday were found to-day after extensive searches of 50 square miles by a ...

    Article : 71 words
  7. President Seeks Special Vote

    WASHINGTON, Thursday. — President Roosevelt has sent a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. Rayburn), ...

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  8. WAR DEBATE IN COMMONS

    LONDON, Thursday. — The "Daily Mail" says the forthcoming war debate in the House of Commons, with attention centring ...

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  9. BRAVE AUSTRALIAN SEAMAN

    LONDON, Thursday. — Ordinary Seaman [?]an Dennis Rhodes is the first Australian since the outbreak of war to win the Conspicuous ...

    Article : 166 words
  10. All Mines Expected to Be Working To-day

    SYDNEY, Thursday. — All, New South coal mines are expected to be working again to-morrow. To-day only three mines, involving 800 men, ...

    Article : 89 words
  11. Axis Reconnaissance in Libya

    LONDON, Thursday.—To-day's Cairo communique states that in the face of bad visibility yesterday the enemy, in three strong columns, disposing ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. JAPAN'S STRATEGY IN BURMA

    LONDON, Thursday.—The Rangoon Radio says the Japanese occupation of Tavoy, which, it is believed, was effected with 1000 ...

    Article : 246 words
  13. Chinese March 1000 Miles to Defence of Burma

    RANGOON, Thursday.—General Liu Kwan-loong, lender of the Chinese forces in Burma, conferred with the British High Command ...

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  14. MEN ON WAR JOBS URGED TO WORK ON MONDAY

    SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Federal Labor Minister (Mr. Ward) to-night appealed to all employers and employes doing war jobs not to stop work on Monday ...

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  15. Suicide Raid on Scharnhorst

    LONDON, Thursday. — The German battle-cruiser Scharnhorst was probably torpedoed during a dawn raid in which a single ...

    Article : 130 words
  16. Cities Should Be Blacked Out

    ADELAIDE, Thursday. — During his 40 minutes' stay in Adelaide on his way to Perth to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. ...

    Article : 88 words
  17. ELIGIBLE FOR SERVICE

    LONDON, Thursday.—The "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent at Hollywood says the fact that Britons in California are ...

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  18. U-BOATS BLUFFED BY MOTH PLANES EARLY IN THE WAR

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Wing Commander G. G. Barrett, addressing the Royal United Services Institution, revealed that in the early days of the ...

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  19. MOULDERS REFUSE TO WORK ON AUSTRALIA DAY

    SYDNEY, Thursday. — "It appears to be a question of who is going to have the last say — the Sydney branch of your union or the Government of Australia," ...

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  20. CALLING UP OF MARRIED MEN

    MELBOURNE, Thursday. — For security reasons, no official announcement will be made in advance by the Army authorities of the exact date on ...

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  21. Mass Arrests in South Africa

    CAPE TOWN, Wednesday. — Mass arrests followed the discovery of plots to sabotage gold mines and war industries. ...

    Article : 308 words
  22. Japan Claims Naval Supremacy

    TOKIO, Wednesday.—Speaking in the Diet, the Minister for the Navy (Admiral Shimada) asserted that the Japanese Navy now virtually ...

    Article : 147 words
  23. HUNGRY WOMEN DEMONSTRATE IN FRANCE

    BERNE (Switzerland), Wednesday. —Inhabitants of Sete, in the south of France, demonstrated yesterday against the food shortage. The demonstrators, ...

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  24. JAPANESE SOLDIERS WELL EQUIPPED

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Lieut. John Scofield, writing in the semi-official "Infantry Journal," described Japanese weapons as "almost poll ...

    Article : 93 words
  25. FRANCE SHORT OF RAW MATERIALS

    LONDON, Thursday. — The "Times" correspondent on the French frontier says a scarcity of electricity has ...

    Article : 86 words
  26. R.A.A.F. MEN KILLED IN CRASHES

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Flying-Officer Gordon Wilson Keig, of St. Kilda road, Melbourne, and Leading-Aircraftman James Baker Monfries, of South ...

    Article : 118 words
  27. EMDEN AND BREMEN MAIN R.A.F. TARGETS

    LONDON, Thursday. — R.A.F. bombers were over North-Webt Germany again last night, strong attacks being made on Emden and ...

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  28. May Be Allowed to Wear A.I.F. Relatives' Badge

    MBLBOUBNE, Thursday. — Requests that wives of members of the A.I.F. serving at Darwin should be allowed to wear the A.I.F. women ...

    Article : 86 words
  29. French Labor Leaders Shot By Germans

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The Kuibyshev Radio broadcast a message from Geneva that the Germans last Thursday executed two prominent French ...

    Article : 90 words
  30. HARVEST OF WAR PROFITS

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Naval Committee's report on defence contracts asserted that a considerable number of firms had ...

    Article : 169 words
  31. AXIS PROPAGANDA IN U.S.

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Dr. Martin Dies, chairman of the committee investigating un-American activities, disclosed that there was evidence that ...

    Article : 70 words
  32. Awards for Naval Men

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  33. President to Support C.I.O. Leader

    NEW YORK, Wednesday. — The New York "Times" says President Roosevelt conferred with the secretary and president of the Congress of Industrial ...

    Article : 133 words
  34. GREATER USE OF SCIENCE IN WAR EFFORT

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Examination of the scientific resources of Australia with a view to making greater use of science in the war effort would ...

    Article : 91 words
  35. Good Business for Dutch Cause

    BATAVIA, Thursday. — The former Netherlands War Minister, the Chief of Staff of the Netherlands Navy and several other officers have arrived in ...

    Article : 82 words
  36. British Officers Killed in Plane Crash

    ALGECIRAS (Spain), Wednesday.— A British four-enguied passenger 'plane crashed near Algeciras shortly after taking off from Gibraltar. Spanish ...

    Article : 71 words
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