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  2. MPORTANT GAINS IN BOUGAINVILLE AND N. GUINEA

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—In some of the fiercest fighting in their campaigns, troops of the Australian Sixth and Third Divisions have recorder most important gains, both along the rugged, dominating heights behind Wewak, in New Guinea, and in the ...

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  3. Post For Judge Who Sentenced Hitler in 1924

    LONDON, Sunday. — A German judge, Martin Dreisser, who in 1924 sentenced Hitler to five years' detention in a fortress at Landsberg for ...

    Article : 61 words
  4. NEW ORGANISATION WILL OUTLAW AGGRESSION

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—The New World organisation, while not perfect, would be the beginning of an international organisation which would outlaw aggression and raise most of the people of the world to a decent standard of living, said the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. ...

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  5. MR.FORDE SIGNS HISTORIC DOCUMENT.

    To a background of the banners of 50 United Nations, Mr. Forde, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, signs the United Nations' Charter in San Francisco. This picture was taken on Wednesday. Mr, Forde said he "signed with thankfulness that so much agreement had been achieved..." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. Yacht Crippled Off West Africa

    LONDON. Sunday. — A terrible storm crippled an unknown yacht which last week was sighted by a Spanish mail-boat sailing down the ...

    Article : 156 words
  7. Orgy of Destruction

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. In an orgy of wanton destruction, vandals on Friday caused damage, estimated at more than £1000, in four homes in the ...

    Article : 270 words
  8. AWARDED D.S.O. FOR COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The award of the D.S.O. to Group Capt. Keith Parsons, D.F.C., for skill, courage and leadership, was ...

    Article : 204 words
  9. REPAIRING RAVAGES OF WAR IN EUROPE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday, — The livestock, programme of the United. Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is designed to ...

    Article : 445 words
  10. RECORD OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—"Such an offensive is planned against Japan as has never been seen in the world before." The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) told interviewers this when he arrived at the Mascot aerodrome yesterday from San Francisco. ...

    Article : 197 words
  11. Japanese Preparations Interrupted

    OKINAWA, Sunday. — The inva[?]ion of Okinawa on April 1 interrupted vast Japanest preparations for launching hundreds, possibly thousands of Baka bombs. The ...

    Article : 77 words
  12. JAP OIL REFINERY BOMBED

    GUAM, Sunday. — A medium force of Super-Fortresses attacked the Kudamatsu oil refinery at Fukuyama, at the south-western tip of Honshu, late ...

    Article : 255 words
  13. LIMIT ON NUMBER OF VISITING ARTISTS

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Drastic limits on the number of overseas artists permitted to appear in stage shows in Australia were agreed ou by the ...

    Article : 141 words
  14. INSURANCE CO. SETTLES UNUSUAL CLAIM

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — A Sydney insurance company has paid a damages claim by a man whose car was smashed by an aircraft carrier. It was the most unusual ...

    Article : 91 words
  15. ATTEMPT TO LYNCH COLLABRATOR

    LONDON, Sunday. — Two hundred French deportees repatriated from Germany gathered outside a courthouse in south-west France to ...

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  16. Pay-As-You-Go Taxation To Continue

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — The Federal Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) said yesterday that the first year of pay-as-you-go taxation had proved most successful. ...

    Article : 60 words
  17. WANT TO REMAIN IN GERMANY

    LONDON, Sunday. — A military Government survey estimates that up to 450,000 persons taken to Germany to work for the German war machine will remain ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. BORNEO OILFIELDS PRODUCING AGAIN

    GUAM, Sunday. — The Tarakan oilfields in Borneo resumed production on Friday. Australian forces on Tarakan have officially opened a pumping ...

    Article : 150 words
  19. Another Breakout From Grovelly Barracks

    BRISBANE, Sunday. — Only three of 22 soldiers under sentence who staged a mass break-out from the Grovelly detention barracks at ...

    Article : 163 words
  20. CHARGED WITH MURDER OF HIS WIFE

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — As he was discharged from hospital at Newcastle yesterday, Harold Preston (58), of Wyong, was arrested and charged with having ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. Communists Killed in Italian Clashes

    LONDON, Sunday.— The Italian Government has stated that five men, two of whom were Communiste, were killed in clashes with police in Bari Province, says ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. Venus de Milo Returned to Paris

    PARIS, Sunday. — The marble statue Venus de Milo has been returned to the Louvre after having been hidden for five years in Valencay Castle, on the Loire ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. RESCUED FROM LOST VALLEY

    HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea), Sunday.—Snatched aleft by a low-flying transport plane, a glider rescued an American girl W.A.C. and two ...

    Article : 369 words
  24. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE

    SYDNEY, Sunday — When John Quinn, (62), a night-shift worker, awakened at 10.30 a.m., his wife, (60), brought him a bedside cup of tea, hit him on the head ...

    Article : 107 words
  25. Pensions For Retiring M's.P.

    CANBEHBA, Sunday. — A contributory scheme for pensions to members of Parliament who retired or failed to gain re-election would be a sound move, ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. POLISH SERVICE PAY WILL CONTINUE

    LONDON, Sunday — Polish military authorities in London have stated that the 250,000 Polish service personnel in the British Jsles, Italy, Germany and ...

    Article : 132 words
  27. French Cabinet Approves of Capital Levy Plan

    PARIS Sunday. — The French Cabinet has approved, of the plan, of the Minister for Finance. (M. Pleven) for a capital levy providing for a 3 per cent. tax on all ...

    Article : 123 words
  28. EMPIRE FORERUNNER OF REGIONAL GROUPS

    OTTAWA, Sunday. — Before he left for England General Smuts said he believed the British Commonwealth, the first and greatest regional group in ...

    Article : 183 words
  29. Released Servicemen

    MELBOURNE. Sunday. — Most ot the 64,000 servicemen who will be released this year will be able to choose their own jobs. The ...

    Article : 303 words
  30. LEVANT CASUALTIES

    LONDON, Sunday. — Reuter's correspondent at Damascus says the Syrian Interior Ministry has announced that total casualties in the recent troubles in the ...

    Article : 34 words
  31. G.B.S. Supports Communist

    LONDON, Sunday. — Mr. G. B. Shaw in a letter supporting the vicechairman of the Communist Party, who is an election candidate for ...

    Article : 133 words
  32. NETHERLANDS FIGHTERS IN ACTION

    The Netherlands Press Agency "Aneta" war correspondent in the Pacific reports that Netherlands Indies fighters have been in action for some ...

    Article : 137 words
  33. SPORT IN BERLIN PREVENTED BY FOOD SHORTAGE

    LONDON, Sunday —The food shortage in Germany has prevented pleasure that it was hoped to organise for the British occupation forces in ...

    Article : 165 words
  34. GERMANS PRODUCING COAL IN FRANCE

    LONDON, Sunday.—Paris Radio says France has put 10,200 German war prisoners to work in coal mines. Although French production of coal has considerably ...

    Article : 126 words
  35. AUSTRALIA TO SEE GREAT DEAL OF CANADIAN NAVY

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — Australia would be seeing a great deal of the Royal Canadian Navy, said the High Commissioner for Canada (Mr. Justice J. C. Davis) in a broadcast on the ocasion of Canada's 78th anniversary when referring to the part 'Canada would play in the Pacific war. ...

    Article : 307 words
  36. LATE NEWS

    LONDON, Sunday. — Replying to Mr. Churchill, Mr. Attlee said in a speech to-day that Mr. Churchill complained about breaking comradeship in ...

    Article : 96 words
  37. Positive Action Is What People Need

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Positive action instead of constant announcements of reviews of restrictions and controls was what the people of ...

    Article : 107 words
  38. Murdered Mistress and Committed Suicide

    LONDON, Sunday. — Field-Marshal Montgomery's Headquarters have officially announced that General Keinzel, Chief of Staff to Field-Marshal von Busch, and the ...

    Article : 79 words
  39. U.S. CABINET CHANGES

    KANSAS CITY, Sunday. — The Presidential. Secretary (Mr. Ross) anounced that the nomination of Mr. Brnes as Secretary of State in succe[?] to Mr. ...

    Article : 79 words
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