AN AUSTRALIAN SOLIDER and native boy assist in the fight against malaria. Research is continually being carried out to determine the peculiarities of mosquitoes common to a certain area. The soldier is seen putting specimens taken from a puddle into a bottle—Department ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 796 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday — Eligibility of applicants, including women, to participate in soldier settlement schemes will be discussed at two conferences between the Commonwealth and State officials next month. They will attempt to clarify administrative details arising from the agreements recently adopted ...
Article : 340 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday — A correspondent in a despatch from a Pacific carrier says the lack of Japanese air interception is ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—During recent patrols in Far Eastern waters, British submarines operating with the East Indies Fleet have sunk 84 ...
Article : 178 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The miners on all N.S.W. fields to-day endorsed the recent policy of the central council of the Miners' Federation, accepting the ...
Article : 61 wordsOTTAWA, Sunday.—The Minister for Defence (General M'Naughton) says the troop movements which began during the Christmas holidays ...
Article : 489 wordsSYDNEY. Sunday — Three men who took an eng'ne and two trucks from the Moree railway yards early to-day to go for a joy ride ...
Article : 176 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday —A manpower shortage, believed to be a grave as any of the war, will confront Federal Cabinet's War Commitments Committee when it meets in Melbourne on Tuesday. The committee will embark on one of the most comprehensive ...
Article : 500 wordsThe weight of the Tactical Air Force yesterday was thrown into operations designed to flatten V-2 attacks on Britain, says Reuter's correspondent on the West. ...
Article : 445 wordsWarsaw, the first European capital to fall before Hitler's armies, has been freed after five years and four months of German occupation. ...
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Article : 167 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The Polish Prime Minister in London (M. Arciszeski), broadcasting to Poland, said: "As a Pole, as one of the leaders of the underground ...
Article : 260 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—The six representatives of British farming hope to have seem plain talking with Australian producers, and feel certain they ...
Article : 241 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — An air service between London and Sydney in 60 hours would begin very soon, said the Minister for Air ...
Article : 150 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Unnoticed by warders, two indeterminate sentence prisoners escaped from Beechworth Reformatory yesterday, ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday — Prefabricated houses for the "utterly homeless" which can be completed by "five carpenters in eight days" are ...
Article : 195 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — As the result of shooting incidents at South Lismore early yesterday. George Victor Lehmann (63), of South Lismore, is dead and Lindsay ...
Article : 96 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Judge Drake-Brockman is expected in Mel bourne to-morrow, and may call a compulsory conference of parties to the ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday — In spite of rescue efforts by Marist Brothers, trainees, and an Air Force man, a young university student was drowned when he ...
Article : 80 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin), who will resume active duties to-morrow, faces the most critical year of his ...
Article : 142 wordsADELAIDE. Sunday. — The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin) arrived in Adelaide yesterday after touring northern operational areas. He chose the ...
Article : 158 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.— Julius [?] Schafferius (79), or Plainland, has died leaving 106 descendants. He married twice, and had 23 children, of whom 18 ...
Article : 53 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Peter M[?]cahy, aged three years and eleven months, who pulled a jug of water over himself on Friday, died in the ...
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Article : 56 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The 1938 Ford V8 car belonging to the Chief Justice (Sir John Morris) which was stolen on Friday night from Wrest Point ...
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Article : 468 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — The Southern Cross, famous plane of the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, will be flown on Tuesday for the first time for more than 10 ...
Article : 141 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday —Four members of a family and a soldier still unidentified are dead in an outback station tragedy discovered at Woolobee, 50 miles from Miles, in western Queensland, yesterday. Bodies of the four persons murdered by the grazier on whose ...
Article : 245 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — R.A.A.F. Mustangs and Kittyhawks had a field day in a series of attacks on enemy rolling stock in Yugoslavia, states a ...
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Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — German troops on the Fifth Army front in Italy, wearing British battledress, made repeated attempts to infiltrate ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—The Broken Hill mining companies have received an independent report from Mr. J. R. Drydon, assistant engineer to ...
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