CANBERRA, Thursday.—Joseph Benedict Chifley (aged 60) was to-day elected leader of Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, and will become Australia's 16th Prime Minister when he is sworn in to-morrow. He succeeds the late Mr. John Curtin. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,614 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — A steamer will be hired to take 600 N.S.W, farmers, their wives and. families on a world tour ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Over a wide area of the interior of New Guinea, Sixth Division troops are meeting resistance from eight separate Japanese groups. A banzai charge on one Australian out. post in the Wewak sector was beaten off, said the Army Department ...
Article : 237 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday,— Six thousand homes will be built in Victoria during "the financial year which began on July 1, 3000 by the ...
Article : 97 wordsKANDY, Thursday.—In heavy rain the Japanese are digging in at several points in the Sittang River bend between Nyaungkashe, 25 miles east-north-east of Pegu, and Myitkyo, the terminus of the Pegu-Sittang canal, 10 miles to the north. ...
Article : 323 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — At Bradford this morning the Australian Services eleven added 58 runs to their overnight total of 140, completing the ...
Article : 450 wordsCHICAGO, Thursday.— The American Medical Association journal reports the successful treatment of serious limb infections by ...
Article : 169 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.— Radio comedian Al Thomas was served with a notification from the Postmaster-General (Senator Cameron) to-day that he ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Cases of A.C.F. parcels in the holds of a ship now in Darling Harbor have been pillaged. The parcels came from South ...
Article : 83 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Although the Commonwealth Government has granted a passport to Mr. E. Thornton to attend the trade union congress in ...
Article : 116 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — By developing and strengthening their mutual relations, the Soviet Union and Australia could assist ...
Article : 128 wordsBRUSSELS, Thursday.—President Truman when he shortly arrives in Europe will, at his special request, have a guard of honor ...
Article : 241 wordsGUAM, Thursday.—The stench of starvation nauseated the American boarding party which intercepted a Japanese hospital ship off Wake ...
Article : 131 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Chan Boon Kait (63), a Chinese, seaman who had been under the delusion that 20 men were waiting downstairs to assault him, was found ...
Article : 65 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—Further representations for the release of doctors for Tasmania are to be made to the Prime Minister by the ...
Article : 135 wordsHOBART, Thursday.— The Minster for Health (Mr. Howroyd) said to-day that the suggestion by Dr. P. Rorney at the W.E.A. meeting at Hobart that ...
Article : 155 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — There were'fog, mist and rain throughout Victoria to-day, but temperatures were higher than in the past few days. ...
Article : 132 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.— Instructions have been issued by the military authorities that members of the Army who have completed ...
Article : 211 wordsLONDON, Thursday.— The shipping position has improved to such an extent since the European war ended that there is more cargo-carrying space ...
Article : 299 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursda.— For the first time for some years all air services between Tasmania and the mainland were cancelled to-day ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—In High Court Chambers to-day, Mr. Justice Rich prohibited temporarily a court-martial from continuing the trial of ex-Pt, ...
Article : 124 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Miners who had previously declared deputies "black" were in turn declared "black," and the Invincible colliery was idle again to-day. Three ...
Article : 60 wordsHOBART, Thursday. — A further effort to introduce Saturday morning closing throughout Tasmania is almost certain to be made by the State ...
Article : 103 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Additional ships have now been allocated by the Shipping Control Board to West Australia, where they are loading. The ...
Article : 74 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Personnel of the new Australian Wool Board will be gazetted in the next few days. The new board will "comprise three ...
Article : 113 wordsCANBEKBA, Thursday.—The Civil Aliens' Corps was being disbanded the Minister for Works (Mr. Lnzzarini) said to-day. This action was being ...
Article : 109 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—The AttorneyGeneral (Mr. M'Dumihl) said to-day it was not anticipated that the Tasmanian Police Force could be brought to ...
Article : 197 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The Govornor-Genernl, the Duke of Gloucester, has sent a message to the commander of the H.M.A.S. Australia, Capt. J. M. ...
Article : 70 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday. — Lord Gowrie, former Governor-General, and Sir Malcolm Barelay-Harvey, also a former governor of South Australia, are ...
Article : 66 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—'Chaotic conditions under which the whole meat-rationing scheme is breaking down are developing in the Victorian meat trade, according to leaders of the meat trade and meatcontrol officials. ...
Article : 201 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday. —At the monthly meeting of the executive committee of the Northern Section of the Red Cross Society it was reported the ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, Thursday. —Brussels Radio says a bill proposing a popular, secret vote on whether King Leopold should abdicate was this morning ...
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