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  2. TOKIO REELING AFTER TWO-DAY BLITZ

    GUAM, SUNDAY.— ALTHOUGH NO DETAILED REPORTS HAVE YET BEEN RELEASED OF THE GREAT TWO-DAY ASSAULT ON TOKIO ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BY U.S. CARRIER PLANES, ADMIRAL NIMITZ HAS ANNOUNCED ...

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  3. MOPPING UP OF JAPS IS TOUGH JOB

    Messages from war correspondents again emphasise the difficulties met by Australian troops in clearing the Japanese from the ...

    Article : 77 words
  4. AUSTRALIA'S WAR EFFORT A MIRACLE: U.S. GENERAL'S TRIBUTE

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Delegates of overseas nations should learn the story of Australia's remarkable contribution to General MacArthur's Command, take it home and tell it and retell it to their people, Brigadier-General Paul Johnston declared in an ...

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    TAKING IT EASY IN BURMA. FLYING-OFFICER BOB BARCLAY, of Launceston, Tasmania, a navigator in a R.A.A.F. Mosquito squadron in Burma, sits on a 500 lb. bomb manicuring his nails with a Gurkha kukri.-Department of Air Photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. NATIONALISM COULD WRECK SECURITY PLAN

    LONDON. Sunday.—If a spirit of hostility to any plan for the organisation of peace triumphed because of an ingrained reluctance to limit ...

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  7. VIOLENT STORM IN WHYALLA

    ADELAIDE, Sunday. — Thousands of pounds' worth of damage was caused in 20 minutes by a violent storm in the Whyalla district ...

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  8. SYDNEY WATERFRONT TROUBLE CONTINUES

    SYDNEY, Sunday — Industrial trouble on the Sydney waterfront continues. Several ships were not worked by wharf laborers during the week-end ...

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  9. AMERICANS HOLD BATAAN: CAPTURE OF CORREGIDOR ASSUMED

    LUZON, Sunday.—With the seizure by American forces of Bataan Peninsula and successful landings on Corregidor Island, the entrance to Manila Bay is being cleared, and this great harbor, one of the finest in the Pacific, will soon be available to the Allied ...

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  10. GREATER SPENDING IN BRITAIN

    LONDON, Sunday. — Reverting the customary inverse relation between good news and prices, the stock market displayed firmness after the ...

    Article : 384 words
  11. Australia-Wide Hold-Up Demanded

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Federal executive of the Federated Union of Loco. Enginemen was asked to-day to authorise an Australia-wide ...

    Article : 146 words
  12. OPERATIONS ON BOUGAINVILLE

    TSIMBA (Bougainville), February 14 (delayed).—Alone the coastal track north of the Genga River the Australians have forged ahead ...

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  13. BATTLE FOR TRACK JUNCTIONS IN AITAPE SECTOR

    AITAPE (Northern N.G., delayed — More than half the casualties of the Japanese in Northern N.G., the Solomons and New Britain to ...

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  14. AIRMAN DRAGGED FROM BLAZING PLANE

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—A Dutch airman was dragged from his blazing plane after it had burst into flames in a forced landing at Muswellbrook early ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. General MacArthur's Rolls-Royce Recaptured

    MANILA, Sunday. — The Americans recaptured General MacArthur's Rolls-Royce in good condition and highly polished in ...

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  16. SMOKERS' HOPES UNLIKELY TO BE REALISED

    MELBOURNE, Sunday — Smokers' hopes that the 5 p.c. reduction in the quota of cigarettes and tobacco for civilians ...

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  17. JAPANESE BRUTALITY

    MANILA, Sunday.—"With fiendish yells, every Japanese soldier bared his bayonet and attacked defenceless men, women and ...

    Article : 388 words
  18. AWARDED BAR TO D.S.O.

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  19. Three Deaths Caused By Storms

    MELBOURNE, Sunday—Cloudbursts, hall and electrical storms in Victoria and N.S.W. at the?week-end caused three deaths, ...

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  20. Boy Drowned When Rowboat Blown To Sea

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—When a rowing-boat containing five children was Llown a mile out to sea at Rosebud shortly after noon to-day. one boy ...

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  21. LATE NEWS

    MOSCOW, Sunday — The most Important tank action on the eastern front is being fought out between the Hron and Nitra Rivers, ...

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  22. ARGENTINA MAY DECLARE WAR ON AXIS

    BUENOS AIRES, Sunday.—Two leading pro-Axis newspapers, "Cabildo" and "E. Pampero," have been suppressed by the police after complaints by foreign ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. Man And Wife Electrocuted

    SYDNEY, Sunday.— A man and his wife were electrocuted at Bexley, a south-western suburb, to-night, when they walked into electric wiles brought ...

    Article : 66 words
  24. Boy Tried To Hold Up Cafe Proprietress

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A boy aged 13 pulled a large revolver from the pocket of his short pants and attempted to hold up a city cafe proprietress ...

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  25. Wage-Pegging Regulations May Cause Disturbances

    CANBERRA, Sunday.—Further industrial disturbances are likely unless the Commonwealth Government modifies or suspends the recently-amended wage-pegging regulations, union officials believe. Their interpretation of the regulations is that union claims which were before the State Court and almost ...

    Article : 302 words
  26. £25,000 FOR RELATIVES OF V-BOMB VICTIMS

    LONDON, Sunday—A cheque for £25,000 was sent to the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in England by Lord Beaverbrook. writing from the Lord Privy ...

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  27. PUBLIC WILL NOT SEE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

    CANBERRA, Sunday.— Members of the public will not see the opening of the Federal Parliament next Wednesday by the Duke of Gloucester. Attendance will be by invitation only, and this list will be strictly policed. Owing to the small confines of the Senate Chamber where the opening ...

    Article : 231 words
  28. Killed When Horse Shied

    SYDNEY. Sunday.—At Terrigal this afternoon, Sheila Sheardown (21) was killed when her horse shied at a flash of lightning. A Royal Marine officer ...

    Article : 74 words
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