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  2. W. A. A. A. F.'s RELAX ON BEACH

    Members of the W.A.A.A.F. relaxing on the sand at a Victorian beach during a spell off duty. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. LAE AND SALAMAUA MAIN ALLIED BOMB TARGETS

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday.—Lac and Salamaua, important Japanese supply bases in New Guinea, were the main targets for General MacArthur's bombers yesterday.*" Sweeping down as low as 75 feet, American Mitchells plas ...

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  4. OPPOSITION STILL DIVIDED ON MILITIA ISSUE

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Furthe on among Opposition members on the move in the Senate to amend the bill. M'Leay) proposes that, in the event ...

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  5. FURIOUS SEA-AIR BATTLES IN SOLOMONS

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The Navy has announced that 15 Japanese ships, including 12 destroyers, vere sunk or damaged, and two American warships, including the heavy cruiser Chicago, were lost in a week of furious sca-air fighting in the Solomons, beginning ...

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  6. OPERATION OF AIR SERVICES

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Ten companies operated commercial air services in Australia, said the Minister for Aircraft Production (Sen ...

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  7. Kharkov Milestone on Road to Allied Victory

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The capture of Kharkov by the Red Army was the greatest German reverse of the war, declared the Minister for the Army ...

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  8. £273,359,265 Spent On Soldiers

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Moving the second reading of the Repatriation Bill in the House of Representatives to-day, the Minister ...

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  9. PILOT PLAYED HIDE AND SEEK WITH ENEMY

    CAIRO, Tuesday.—After his Kittyhnwk had belly-Ianded on the Baree airfield, two days before the advancing 8th Anny reached that ...

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  10. Italy Talking of Compromise Peace

    STOCKHOLM, Wednesday.— The "Tidningeu 's" Rome correspondent pays that Signor Gayda, the Italian publicist, yesterday inade the first ...

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  11. MORTGAGE BANK BILL DEBATED

    CANBERRA, Wodiiesday—The bill to establish a mortgage department of the Commonwealth Bank was generally supported by the ...

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  12. New Shop-Lighting Restrictions

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—An order gazetted by the Controller of Electricity Supply (Mr. H. P. Moss) to-night prohibits the use of ...

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  13. "JEW DEALERS" LOSE LIVELIHOOD

    LONDON, Wednesday.—One of Germany's most profitable vocations "Jew dealing," is about to disappear, says "The Times" cor ...

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  14. CONFIRMED THAT ROMMEL WOUNDED

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The North American newspaper "Alliance" correspondent in Tunisia says it is confirmed that Ameri ...

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  15. New Ceiling Prices For Carrots

    CANBERRA, Wednesday—The Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland) to-day announced higher ceiling prices for carrots in all ...

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  16. North African Ship Losses Light

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The C.-in-C. Mediterranean Fleet (Admiral Cunningham) said at a press conference that Britain and America had lost less than ...

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  17. MOVE TO AMEND ELECTORAL ACT

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Permission for members of State Parliaments to contest Federal seats without first being compelled, as at present, to re ...

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  18. Big Convoy Reaches Malta

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The arrival of another big convoy of supplies for Malta was announced" to-day. One of the largest to reach tho is land since ...

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  19. Strikers Called Enemies of War Effort

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Men who held executive nnd administrative positions in a war organisation and went on strike over real or fancied griev ...

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  20. ROAD TRANSPORT CUT

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A denial that residents of Avoca, Fingal, Cornwall, Storey's Creek, Rossarden or St. Marys had been singled out for vic ...

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  21. A.C.F. Must Pay Excise

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) indicated to-day that there was no likelihood of the Government lifting the payment of ex ...

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  22. AIRMAN'S COURAGE REWARDED

    CANBERRA. Wednesday.—Aircraftman Ernest George Thompson, of Kew, Arictoria, has been awarded the British Empire Medal (Military) ...

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  23. French Warships Will Be Under Allied Orders

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) told the press that tho French warships which recently joined the United ...

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  24. Fight for Control of U.S. War Production

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—"I am fighting for my life against the demands of tho Army and Navy that the War Production Board he abolished," ...

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  25. GANDHI CONTRACTS CHILL.

    BOMBAY, Wednesday.— Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Congress leader, who is undergoing a fast, contracted a chill through insisting on spending most of ...

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  26. Ruse to Go on Active Service

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Pte. James Maurice Upton (20) told a district court-martial to-day a story of brotherly affection and a ruse ...

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  27. WORKS COUNCIL INQUIRY HAS COST £26,000

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Hearing of evidence at the Allied Works Council inquiry ended to-day after eight weeks' sitting, and counsel's addresses will ...

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  28. LAUNCESTON POWER FAILURE

    LAUNCESTON, Thursday.—Launceston was thrown into complete dailiness for about 25 minutes, early this morning when a break occurred in the ...

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  29. CARR OF WAR CRAVES

    CANBERRA, Wed.—Special units of the Army had been engaged for Borne time caring for Australian war graves in New Guinea, said the Minister for the ...

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  30. Big Increase in Britain's Civil Air Transnort

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Figures released By the British Overseas Airways Corporation show a heartening increase in British civil aviation in the past ...

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  31. CALLED TOUGH BRITISH SERGEANT DAPHNE

    Dictionaries are being used by Japanese troops in an endeavor to cause the death of British and Indian troops in Burma without much ...

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  32. RUBBER POSITION STATED TO BE DESPERATE

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The rubber position is described as desperate. Only tieven per cent of the commercial vans and trucks now on thc roads in Australia will be running at the end of his year, according to a calculation by Government experts. ...

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  33. PERMIT FOR WOMEN TO CLEAN RAILWAY CARS

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—When Judge Foster, chairman oF the Women's Employment Board, was asked to-day to permit women to clean the interior ...

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  34. WOMEN MAY BE EMPLOYED IN WINE CELLARS

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—For-, mal permission was given to-day by the Women's Employment Board to two Melbourne firms to employ women in ...

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  35. PRICE OF WHEAT IN U.S. HIGHEST SINCE 1928

    CHICAGO, Wednesday.—One carv load of wheat sold for 100 cents bushel to-day, the highest Bince 1928. Wheat futures reached 140 cents, and other ...

    Article : 67 words
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