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  2. UNIFICATION OF RAILWAYS

    Commonwealth and State officials will confer in Canberra this week to discuss the plans of Sir Harold Clapp for the unification of railway gauges throughout Australia, The Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward) will preside. The above map shows how unification would take the gaps out of Australia's railway system. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. JAPS PAID DEARLY FOR DEFENCE OF WEWAK

    HEADQUARTERS 1st AUSTRALIAN ARMY, May 27.—The Japanese have paid dearly for their fanatical but unsuccessful defence of Wewak. In the battle, which was fought in the last two weeks, they lost more than 1000 counted dead, an unknown ...

    Article : 337 words
  4. NEW CHURCHILL CABINET ANNOUNCED. ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGUM

    LONDON, Sunday.—Mr. Churchill has announced the personnel of his new Cabinet. "The Times" comments that it is evidently not a "caretaker" administration, but a carefully balanced team, prepared to seek from the electorate the authority to ...

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  5. MATILDA TANKS DEMORALISE ENEMY IN BOUGAINVILLE

    BOUGAINVILLE, Sunday.—The sudden appearance of Matilda tanks right in the heart of enemy territory completely demoralised the Japanese forces defending the Buin road, in southern Bougainville. The Japs fled, leaving behind a large quantity of stores and equipment. Before the tanks came, ...

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  6. NEW ROCKET-FIRING SHIP

    HOUSTON (Texas), Sunday. —Navy of officials have announced that a highly secret rocket-firing ship will be ...

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  7. Japan Able to Wage Long War

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — The Federal Economic Administration announces that Japan is still cap. able of waging a long war, despite ...

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  8. All Davao's Airfields Captured

    MANILA, Saturday. — All six airfields that surround Davao, capital of Mindanao, are held by the U.S. forces. Capture of the last ...

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  9. German Plans Delivered to Japan

    LONDON, Sunday. — Turbine engines and plans of Germany's latest jet-propelled aircraft, were sent to Japan by submarine in ...

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  10. To Ferry Troops to U.S.

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — The U.S. Air Transport Command exnects that a plane every six minutes will cross the Atlantic when the ferrying of troops ...

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  11. Royal Family Not Planning to Visit Australia

    LONDON, Sunday. — Buckingham Palace authorities deny that plans are being made for a visit by the Royal Family to Australia. ...

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  12. Record Mission for Medium Bombers

    BOMBAY, Sunday. — Mitchell bombers of the Eastern Air Cammand on Wednesday flew what is believed to be the longest medium ...

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  13. Tramwoymen Accept Gratuity Plan

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The scheme of death and retirement gratutes and long-servce leave offered by the Tramways Board to ...

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  14. NO EVIDENCE THAT YUGOSLAVS HAVE KILLED ANYBODY

    LONDON, Sunday.—The Yugoslavs during the past three days have released 100 persons who had been arrested, including active adherents, of the Oppressed Italian ...

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  15. SUPER-FORTRESS IS POWERFUL WEAPON

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — The Boeing Aircraft Co. has disclosed that the Super-Fortresses of the type that raided Tokio on Friday have a top ...

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  16. NAZI ADMINISTRATOR CAPTURED

    LONDON, Sunday. — While attempt ing to hide his identity under the name of "Dr. Gibbs," Karl Frederik Griesenberg, Nazi administrator of all ...

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  17. Another Nazi Leader Commits Suicide

    LONDON, Sunday. — Field Marshal Ritter von Greim, who succeeded Goering as head of the Luftwaffe, committed suicide on ...

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  18. DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS P.O.W. PARCELS

    LONDON, Sunday. — The British. New Zealand, Canadian and American Red Cross Societies are giving S.H.A. E.E. more than 15,000,000 surplus ...

    Article : 77 words
  19. Hitler Should Have Stuck to Architecture

    LONDON, Sunday.—Hitler's sister, Paula, in an interview with the Allied occupation authorities, said she thought it a pity that her brother had not ...

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  20. War Losses in Ukraine

    MOSCOW, Sunday. — "Red Star" says the Russian Ukraine lost 7,000,000 civilians during the war, of whom 2,500,000 were killed, 1,500,000 reported ...

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  21. PARISIANS ACCLAIM MONTGOMERY

    PARIS, Sunday.—Parisians, drunk with joy and excitement, tumultuously acclaimed "Montee" in a record welcome. When an open car carrying ...

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  22. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FOLLOWS FATAL SMASH

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Five charges were preferred in the North Melbourne court yesterday against Michael Herlihy (38), of Taylor street. ...

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  23. Alternative to Raising Hadspen Bridge

    LAUNCESTON, Sunday. — A suggestion that instead of raising the Hadspen bridge above flood level the Government attend to the ...

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  24. PETAIN TO CALL AMERICAN WITNESSES

    PARIS, Sunday. — Marshal Petain's counsel has announced that the Marshal hopes to call as witnesses at his forthcoming trial Mr. Robert Murphy, ...

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  25. FRENCH AIRMAN ARRESTED

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. —The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Mr. Edgar Hoover) announced the arrest in a ...

    Article : 226 words
  26. Man Burned to Death in Retort

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Trapped inside a blazing oil hardening retort which he had been welding, a workman was burnt to death at the Balmain factory ...

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  27. German Sabotage Plot in Venezuela

    CARACAS, Sunday. — Dr. Fehres, chief of the Venezuelan secret service, disclosed that the German High Command plotted to sabotage Venezuela's ...

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  28. AUSTRALIA'S EXISTENCE DEPENDENT ON CLOSE EMPIRE CO-OPERATION

    LAUNCESTON, Sunday.—The existence of Australia and of all small nations depended upon mutual action in conjunction with other nations, and primarily in the case of Australia in even closer association and co-operation with other parts of the Empire, the Governor (Sir Ernest Clark) told last night's ...

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  29. GERMAN C-IN-C IN ITALY ARRESTED

    LONDON, Sunday.—Genernl von Vietinghoff, who succeeded Field-Marshal Kesselring as C.-in-C. of the German armies in Italy, together with six ...

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  30. LATE NEWS

    LONDON, Sunday. — Albert Forster, gauleiter of Danzig, has been captured in Hamburg, reports Reuter's correspondent with the ...

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  31. ROUND UP OF A.W.L. SERVICEMEN

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. yesterday nearly 1700 servicemen were interviewed and 25 arrests were made in a raid by four ...

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  32. Orderly Trek by 2,000,000 Germans

    LONDON, Sunday. — Thousands of German rifles aud pistols are being added daily to great piles along the Danish frontier, where ...

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  33. TOKEN DEMOBILISATION OF BRITISH NAVY

    LONDON, Sunday.—"There will be only token demobilisation of the Navy, beginning on June 18, consisting of Group 1 (about 6000 ...

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  34. ITALIAN SOCIALIST ARRESTED

    LONDON, Sunday.— Reuter's Rome correspondent says the Allied military police at Vercelli arrested Pietro Nen. ni, Socialist leader, for public speaking ...

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  35. King Leopold to Return to Brussels

    NEW YORK, Sunday. — The Brussels correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, L. S. B. Shapiro, says an absolutely unimpeachable ...

    Article : 95 words
  36. Another Horror Camp

    LONDON, Sunday.—Another horror camp has been discovered in northern Germany, says Luxembourg Radio, quoting a Norwegian Government announcement. ...

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