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    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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  3. JAPANESE FORCES DIVIDED ON LUZON

    LUZON, Sunday — With the Americans now holding the entire highway from Paniqui to Sison, a distance of 37 miles, Japanese forces in the north of Luzon have been cut off from those in the south. On the left flank of the American drive ...

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  4. ELIGIBILITY OF WOMEN AS SOLDIER SETTLERS

    CANBERRA, 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 ...

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  5. Mysterious Absence of Jap Air Interception

    NEW YORK, Sunday — A correspondent in a despatch from a Pacific carrier says the lack of Japanese air interception is ...

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  6. 84 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY BRITISH SUBMARINES

    LONDON, Sunday.—During recent patrols in Far Eastern waters, British submarines operating with the East Indies Fleet have sunk 84 ...

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  7. Miners Accept Government Policy

    SYDNEY, 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 ...

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  8. Call-Up For Canadian Services

    OTTAWA, Sunday.—The Minister for Defence (General M'Naughton) says the troop movements which began during the Christmas holidays ...

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  9. Took Engine And Railway Trucks

    SYDNEY. 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 ...

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  10. GRAVE SHORTAGE OF MANPOWER

    MELBOURNE, 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 ...

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  11. CONCENTRATED RAIDS ON V-BOMB SITES

    The 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. ...

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  12. WARSAW'S CHEQUERED HISTORY

    Warsaw, 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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  13. VALUE OF FAMILY ' LIFE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The problem of erosion is not restricted to soil. It extends to something even more vital—the family ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. Polish Appeal For Understanding With Soviet

    LONDON, Sunday.—The Polish Prime Minister in London (M. Arciszeski), broadcasting to Poland, said: "As a Pole, as one of the leaders of the underground ...

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  15. Farmers' Delegation Reaches Melbourne

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The six representatives of British farming hope to have seem plain talking with Australian producers, and feel certain they ...

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  16. 60-Hour Air Service Between London and Sydney

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — An air service between London and Sydney in 60 hours would begin very soon, said the Minister for Air ...

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  17. TWO MEN ESCAPE FROM REFORMATORY

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Unnoticed by warders, two indeterminate sentence prisoners escaped from Beechworth Reformatory yesterday, ...

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  18. PREFABRICATED HOUSES FOR N.S.W.

    SYDNEY, Sunday — Prefabricated houses for the "utterly homeless" which can be completed by "five carpenters in eight days" are ...

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  19. TWO MEN SHOT AT LISMORE

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — As the result of shooting incidents at South Lismore early yesterday. George Victor Lehmann (63), of South Lismore, is dead and Lindsay ...

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  20. TRAMWAY DISPUTE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Judge Drake-Brockman is expected in Mel bourne to-morrow, and may call a compulsory conference of parties to the ...

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  21. DROWNING FATALITIES

    SYDNEY, Sunday — In spite of rescue efforts by Marist Brothers, trainees, and an Air Force man, a young university student was drowned when he ...

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  22. Prime Minister Faces Critical Year

    CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin), who will resume active duties to-morrow, faces the most critical year of his ...

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  23. TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS FOR NAVAL MEN

    ADELAIDE. Sunday. — The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin) arrived in Adelaide yesterday after touring northern operational areas. He chose the ...

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  24. LEFT 106 DESCENDANTS

    BRISBANE, Sunday.— Julius [?] Schafferius (79), or Plainland, has died leaving 106 descendants. He married twice, and had 23 children, of whom 18 ...

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  25. CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH

    HOBART, 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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  26. DIED IN DENTIST'S CHAIR

    SYDNEY, Sunday — A dentist, a doctor, and ambulance officers tried unsuccessfully to revive a seven-year old girl who collapsed in a dentist's chair ...

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  27. JUDGE'S CAR STOLEN

    HOBART, 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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  28. C.P. CHARGES GOVERNMENT WITH MUDDLING

    SYDNEY, Sunday — The Australian Country Party conference decided yesterday to arrange a nation-wide mass meeting of growers "to place before them the actual position existing because of Federal Government muddling." The proposal to hold the meeting was made by the Victorian Premier ...

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  29. SOUTHERN CROSS TO FLY AGAIN

    CANBERRA, 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 ...

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  30. SHOCKING TRAGEDY ON OUTBACK STATION

    BRISBANE, 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 ...

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  31. Australian Airmen Have Field Day

    MELBOURNE, 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 ...

    Article : 237 words
  32. RESCUED FROM DROWNING

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Swept into deep water by a dangerous swirling current near Green Point, a rocky headland close to the Brighton Beach pier, six ...

    Article : 117 words
  33. LATE NEWS

    LONDON, Sunday. — German troops on the Fifth Army front in Italy, wearing British battledress, made repeated attempts to infiltrate ...

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  34. COSTLY WATER SCHEME FOR BROKEN HILL

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The Broken Hill mining companies have received an independent report from Mr. J. R. Drydon, assistant engineer to ...

    Article : 96 words
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