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  2. IMPORTANT SUCCESSES

    They have completed their major task in Tarakan, while the Allied air forces have hammered airfields, supply dumps and dispersal areas in Borneo proper. Over in Bougainville an important supply area has been ...

    Article : 373 words
  3. Jap. Weapons At Tarakan

    DIGGERS WERE PLEASED with their Jap. trophies captured on Tarakan. Above: Twin-barrel 20 mm. Jap. gun ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. TASMANIAN POTATO TARGET FOR 1945-46 CUT TO 76,000 ACRES

    HOBART Friday. — The Tasmanian potato target for the 1945-46 season has been fixed at 76,000 acres, a reduction of 9,000 acres compared with the 1944-45 season. Of this total 20,000 acres have been allocated to Bismarcks. ...

    Article : 312 words
  5. Pirate U-boats Still Operating in Baltic

    LONDON, Friday. — A special correspondent of the Copenhagen newspaper, "Politikerin," who is visiting Bornholm, says pirate ...

    Article : 65 words
  6. KILLED TWO JAPS AFTER BEING PIERCED BY SWORD

    LONDON, Friday, — The amazing feat of a corporal of the Indian Army is told in an announcement of the award of the fourth V.C. ...

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  7. ENEMY SUPPLY AREA CAPTURED

    BOUGAINVILLE, May 21. — Sudden switching of Matilda tanks to a road which the Japanese did not know existed resulted in ...

    Article : 256 words
  8. NEW CAMPAIGN STARS

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Members of the fighting services confined to the mainland would not generally be eligible for the award or a ...

    Article : 271 words
  9. German Destruction in Holland

    LONDON, Friday. — The Wi[?]ringerwaard area, in the north of Holland, which, was flooded by the Germans as a panic defence ...

    Article : 195 words
  10. TRIBUTE TO HEROES OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS

    LONDON, Friday. — At the Labor Party Conference at Blackpool the president (Miss Ellen Wilkinson) moved a resolution, which was carried in silence ...

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  11. AUSTRALIANS MEET KING AND QUEEN

    LONDON, Friday. — One hundred and fifty members of the A.I.F., who for the past few weeks have been toiling on Silesian coalfields or trooping ...

    Article : 518 words
  12. Arbitration Court to Be Kept Up to Date

    CANBERRA, Friday. —The Government's intention to keep the Arbitration Court up to date was declared in the House of Representatives to-day ...

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  13. BURMA CAMPAIGN ALLIES CAPTURE INLAND PORT

    LONDON, Friday. — To-day's S.E.A.C. communique says: "We have reached the important inland port of Bassein. Troops sailed up ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. ALLEGED TO HAVE STOLEN £6500

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Colin David Alexander Lindsay (56), of East Melbourne, former salaries section employe at the Maribyrnong explosives factory, ...

    Article : 298 words
  15. FULL BENEFITS FOR DE FACTO WIVES

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Interest of the Labor Caucus in the rights of servicemen and women was indicated by the fact that only five out of 49 deemed it necessary to be present when important aspects of the Re-Establishment and Employment Bill were being discussed, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition ...

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  16. ALL PRISONERS OF WAR WILL BE RETURNED

    CANBERRA, Friday.—All prisoners of war detained in Australia would be repatriated to their own country in accordance with the ...

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  17. Destroyer's Hectic Battle With Ja[?] Planes

    The gallant little destroyer Laffey took everything the Japanese could throw at her for two hours off Okinawa on April 16, says a correspondent. Six suicide ...

    Article : 360 words
  18. MINISTER DENIES FAULTY LIAISON

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Faulty liaison between the Australian Government and the British Ministry of Information in the supply of information ...

    Article : 124 words
  19. German Girls Want to Fraternise

    LONDON, Friday.—Nowhere in Europe are there huskier girls and young women than in northern Germany, and most of them behave as ...

    Article : 177 words
  20. DENIED AUSTRALIA DEMANDS EXECUTION OF [?]AP EMPEROR

    CANBERRA, Friday. — The acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said to-day there was not a vestige of truth in a London report that Australia had ...

    Article : 217 words
  21. Strike Appears to Have Been Averted

    BBISBANE, Friday.—As the result of intervention by the State Industrial Court, there now seems no likelihood of a strike by members of the ...

    Article : 91 words
  22. Government Control of Manufactures

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Tho regulations controlling new manufactures were attacked by Messrs. White (Lib., Vic.) and Holt (Lib., ...

    Article : 177 words
  23. SEAMAN SHOOTS OFFICER OF GUN CREW

    BRISBANE, Friday. — Early to-day, a soaman of a U.S. Liberty ship stole a gun from a sentry, and, going to the room of the officer in charge of the gun ...

    Article : 140 words
  24. MINISTER DENIES THAT HE ATTACKED JUDGES

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The story of the alleged attacks by the Minister for Labor (Mr. Holloway) on Arbitration Court judges at a meeting of the Trade Union ...

    Article : 149 words
  25. IMPRESSIVE EMPIRE DAY PAGEANT

    LONDON, Friday. — Men and women of the Empire services marched proudly in the pageant before Their Majesties and the Princesses in the Albert Hall last ...

    Article : 97 words
  26. Greeks Volunteer to Fight Japanese

    LONDON, Friday.—The Greek War Ministry has confirmed reports of the enlistment of Greek volunteers for the war against Japan. The Allies have ...

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  27. QUISLING TRIAL SOON

    SAN FRANCISCO, Friday.—Norwegian officials have disclosed that a court of three professional judges and four laymen will try Quisling when he faces ...

    Article : 139 words
  28. CONFERENCE MOTION SURPRISES MINISTER

    HOBART, Friday.—Surprise at a motion by the Glenorchy Council included in the agenda for the municipal conference at Hobart next week was expressed ...

    Article : 113 words
  29. War Gratuity Bill Introduced

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The War Gratuity Bill brought down in the House of Representatives to-day by the acting-Prime Minister (Mr. ...

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  30. Provision For Commonwealth Insurance Office

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The establishment of a Commonwealth Government insurance office is provided for in the Life Assurance Bill introduced into the House of Representatives to-day by the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley). He said in his second-reading speech that it was proposed to provide ...

    Article : 356 words
  31. Little Fear of Contracting Leprosy

    CANBERRA, Friday. — Australian soldiers were watched constantly for signs of leprosy, but there was little fear that any would ...

    Article : 173 words
  32. ALLEGED PILLAGING ON WHARVES

    SYDNEY, Friday. — Following allegations of pillaging, 120 soldiers working on Sydney wharves have been confined to barracks for seven days. ...

    Article : 153 words
  33. Price Control As Base For Post-War Planing

    CANBERRA, Friday.—With price control as a base for its post-war planning, the Commonwealth Government is expected to advance two propositions to the Premiers' conference in July or August with a view to giving price control some permanency. ...

    Article : 195 words
  34. LATE NEWS

    GUAM, Friday.—A strong force of Super Fortresses from the Marianas to-day dropped thousands of fire bombs on Tokio. No reports ...

    Article : 35 words
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