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  2. QUEEN WATCHES DAUGHTER

    [?]ER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH watches her daughter, Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor, learn motor transport ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. OVER 27½ SQUARE MILES OF TOKIO IN RUINS

    GUAM, Tuesday.—Tokio is swiftly and systematically being reduced to ruins, and it is estimated that before the latest big raid yesterday morning 27½ square miles of the capital had been reduced to rubble and ashes. This estimate is given by a ...

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  4. MEMBERSHIP OF T.P.O. NEARING 2500

    LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—Membership of the Tasmanian Producers' Organisation would probably reach 2500 before the end of June, the general president (Mr. T. G. Stancombe) told the central council at a meeting yesterday. ...

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  5. SMASHING VICTORY OVER JAPANESE AIR FORCE

    GUAM, Tuesday.—The Allies have scored a great air victory against the Japanese air force over the Ryukyu and Kyushu Islands, where ships and planes destroyed at least 365 enemy aircraft between April 12 and yesterday.A great number was damaged. American losses were light. A large force of ...

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  6. BRITAIN'S GREATEST AMERICAN FRIEND

    LONDON, Tuesday. — "In Franklin Roosevelt died the greatest American friend we have ever known, and the greatest champion ...

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  7. STILL HOPE FOR REICH, SAYS HITLER

    LONDON, Tuesday.—In an order of the day to the armies on the Eastern Front, Hitler tried to persuade them that there was still hope of averting ...

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  8. COST OF WAR PENSIONS

    CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The amount paid out annually in war pensions for this war is now almost half that expended per year ...

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  9. R.A.A.F. Boomerangs "Put It Over" the Japs

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—R.A. A.F. Boomerangs of the Northern Command played an important part in the recent surprise landing of ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. Liberal Party's Resignations

    SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The resignation of seven of the 21 members of the Liberal Party executive in Sydney has astonished and ...

    Article : 227 words
  11. Purchase of Tourist Office in Melbourne

    HOBART, Tuesday.—When the House of Assembly meets next Tuesday the Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) proposes to move the ...

    Article : 231 words
  12. Standardisation of Railways

    CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Sir Harold Clapp's report and recommendations on the standardisation of Australia's railway gauges, ...

    Article : 320 words
  13. HEAVY LAG IN LOAN SUBSCRIBERS

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Incomplete details available this evening of the £100,000,000 Third Victorn Loan applications lodged in ...

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  14. TWO TASMANIAN AIRMEN REPORTED MISSING

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Flying Officer H. J. Brock, of Hobart, and Flight Sergeant P. F. Sattler, of Claremont, are reported missing in air ...

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  15. S. Australian Membership of R.S.L.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday. — Till the end of last year, 15,109 South Australian servicemen from the present war had joined the R.S.L. in this State. This ...

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  16. Morale and Equipment of Troops

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Acting Minister for the Army (Senator Fraser), who visited New Guinea at the request of the Prime ...

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  17. EMU BAY RAILWAY CO.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Speaking at the annual meeting of the Emu Bay Railway Co. Ltd. to-day, the chairman (Sir Walter Mossy-Greene) ...

    Article : 177 words
  18. LONDON-SYDNEY IN 70 HOURS

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—First Lancastrian for the London-Sydney express air mail service reached Sydney at 10 a.m. to-day, in 58 ...

    Article : 221 words
  19. Reciprocal Lend-Lease to U.S. Forces

    CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said to-day that expenditure by Australia on reciprocal lend-lease to ...

    Article : 203 words
  20. MR. ROOSEVELT'S WILL

    WASHINGTON, Tuesday. — The late President Roosevelt's will, which is dated November 12, 1941, gives Mrs. Roosevelt the right to ...

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  21. PRESIDENT TRUMAN RECEIVES BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES

    WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—President Truman received Mr. R. A. Eden and Lord Halifax yesterday. Later Mr. Eden told the press: I naturally took a ...

    Article : 127 words
  22. Artificial Insemination

    CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Advocates of artificial insemination were reducing married women to the level of stud ewes, said Mr. Chambers, M.H.R.. ...

    Article : 82 words
  23. Checkup of Sydney Gunmen

    SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Practically every known Sydney gunman has been interviewed at the C.I.B, by detectives investigating Friday's £12,000 pay-roll ...

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  24. Sharp Clashes in All Theatres of Australian Operations

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—More sharp clashes have occurred in all theatres of Australian operations in the South-West Pacific area. The New Zealand and Australian air forces have maintained their poundings of enemy concentrations in support of our infantry. ...

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  25. JAP ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM PRISONERS' CAMP

    BARMERA (S A.), Tuesday.—Excavating a tunnel under a barbed wire enclosure and under ground patrolled hourly by sentries, Japanese made an elaborate attempt to escape from a South Australian camp. They were preparing to dig to the surface outside the camp when the ...

    Article : 327 words
  26. Dominion Meat for Britain

    SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Even if no ships were available immediately to take refrigerated Australian meat to London supplies could ...

    Article : 108 words
  27. LATE NEWS

    LONDON, Tuesday. — lt is now revealed that 1016 German planes were destroyed yesterday. This is about one-quarter of all the ...

    Article : 142 words
  28. BEER MAY BE WEAKER OR NON-EXISTENT

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Beer may be weaker or there may be none by the end of the year unless barley and malt supplies improve. Leading ...

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  29. FAMOUS AIRMAN TAKES OVER HOTEL

    SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Captain H. F. ("Jimmy") Broadbent, famous Australian airman, has taken over a hotel at Gundagai. His solo flight records ...

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