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  2. MELBOURNE GIVES WILD WELCOME TO REPATRIATED PRISONERS

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Crowding the Port Melbourne foreshore and lining the route to Heidelbrg hospital more than 100,000 people yesterday gave a wild we[?]ome to almost 300 liberated Eighth Division veterans, who arived in the hospital ...

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  3. TASMANIA ONLY STATE TO FILL CLOTHING QUOTA

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The U.N.R.R.A. appeal throughout Australia for clothing ended yesterday. The target was 2200 tons, and to date ...

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  4. MORE CLOTHES REMOVED FROM COUPON SCALE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—About 35. minor clothing items will be removed from the coupon scale on Monday. This was announced by thc Director of Rationing (Mr. J. B. Cumming). The most important items to be released comprise: All hand-knitted yarns, ...

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    An SCR-547 radar set directs U.S. aircraft guns (not visible). Known as the "Mickey Mouse" because of the shape of its antennae, the SCR-547 measures electronically thc height of enemy planes for the information of anti-aircraft gunners.—(U.S. O.W.I.picture.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. Will Be Administrative Jobs in Borneo for Australians

    KUCHINB (Borneo).—Australians should have no difficulty in Retting administrative jobs with rubber companies in these islands. This ...

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  7. STILL REFUSE TO LOAD DUTCH SHIPS

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Waterside workers still refuse to work Dutch ships for the East Iudies, despite the Federal Government's undertaking to do all it could ...

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  8. BRITISH EXPRESS DERAILED

    LONDON, Sunday.—The express from Perth to London was derailed between Boxmoor and Tring shortlyafter 9 a.m. to-day. Four carriages ...

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  9. WOMAN'S ORDEAL IN HANDS OF JAPS

    DARWIN, Sunday.—The horror of 50 days' close imprisonment by the Japanese caused Mrs. H. E. Laurence (57), wife of a Malayan ...

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  10. FEW SHIPS TO TAKE JAPS HOME

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Some Australian troops may have to stay in the northern islands longer than was expected to guard surrendered JapaneseIn Tokio, General MacArthur has refused to allow the Japanese Government to use 260,000 tons of its own merchant shipping for repatriation ...

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  11. MAN KILLED AT, CANBERRA MAY BE TASMANLAN

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — With a fractured neck and [?]ull the body of an unknown man was found late today under the Commonwealth bridge ...

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  12. WANT TO SETTLE IN AUSTRALIA

    LONDON, Sunday.—More than 3000 mon and girls a week are now applying to Australia House for free passage to Australia under the ...

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  13. R.A.A.F. FORCE FOR JAPAN

    TORIO, Sunday. — The R.A.A.F, force to participate in the occupation of Japan would arrive in Tokio from Barnco within a month, said Air ...

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  14. VICTORIAN DEADLOCK GOVERNOR INVITES LABOR LEADER TO FORM MINISTRY

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The Premier (Mr. Dunstan) submitted the resignation of the Government to the Governor (Sir Winston Dugan) ...

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  15. PRISONERS' RETURN FIRST PRIORITY

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Return of Australian, prisoners of war from Japanese prison camps was taking priority over everything else, said the Minister for ...

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  16. FATE OF A.I.F. MEN IN MOUNTAINS OF HAINAN

    [?] KONG, Sunday.—Mystery surrounds [?] fate of a number of Australian [?] were in the mountains of Hainan [?] had not, been contacted ...

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  17. OCCUPATION FORCES LAND IN BATAVIA

    BATAVIA, Sunday. — British occupation forces have landed inBatavia and are talcing over from the Japanese. ...

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  18. U.S. TO DEVELOP OIL DEPOSITS UNDER THE SEA

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—A proclamation asserting Unitorl States jurisdiction over the oil resources of the continental shelf sub-waters ...

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  19. Women Spies Parachuted Behind Enemy Lines

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — The Office of Strategie services has disclosed that 20 women spies, mostly British and French, parachuted ...

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  20. P's.O.M. Name Otranto "Hell Ship Belsen"

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Bitter complaints about conditions in the liner Otranto during the voyage from Britain were made on arrival in Sydney ...

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  21. URGES BREAK WITH SPAIN AND ARGENTINA

    PARIS, Sunday.—The Democracies should break diplomatic relations with Argentina and Spain, declared the leader of the Russian delegation to the ...

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  22. INTERIM R.A.A.F. OF 40,000

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The R.A.A.F. will maintain an Air Force of 40,000 officers and men until the Government decides what ...

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  23. ll MORE MEN ARRIVE

    LAUNCESTON, Sunday. —Eleven former prisoners of war at Singapore, including three from the North-West Coast, arrived at Launceston yesterday ...

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  24. Tasmanians Recovered

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  25. Joyce's Appeal Against Sentence

    LONDON, Sunday.—William Joyce's solicitors on Friday gave notice of appeal against his conviction and death sentence for high treason. Joyce will ...

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  26. KEEPING COOKS BUSY

    LABUAN, Sunday.—The catcring for 1100 released prisoners of war and internees on Labuan Island is about equal to catering for 3000 ...

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  27. First P's.O.W. Back from Yokohama: Manila

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — First prisoners of war to arrive in Melbourne from Yokohama and Manila were on a train which reached ...

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  28. Passenger Ship on Fire

    CAIRO, Sunday. — The Empire Patrol (10,000 tons), which was repatriating Greek refugees from Abyssinia and East Africa, caught fire 60 miles ...

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  29. Partition of Palestine "Might Lead to Holy War"

    LONDON, Sunday. — Reuter's Damascus correspondent says that a meeting of Moslerm religious leaders, under that chairmanship of the Mufti, ...

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  30. PUTTING DOWN NAZISM

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.— The War Department has released a report, dated August 20, from General Eisenhower on the American zone, stating that ...

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  31. Napier Returns from Tokio Bay

    WELBOURNE Sunday.—First ship back to Melbourne from Tokio Bay, the Australian destroyer Napier, berthed at Williamstown on Saturday. Her ...

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  32. FORCED AUXILIARY FORCE IN JAPANESE CAMP

    DARWIN, Friday.—In August, 1942, an A.I.F. captain and Warrant Officer James Richards, an Englishman who enlisted in Sydney, formed an A.I.F. Auxiliary Force in a Japanese prison in Sandakan Area, British North Borneo. ...

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  33. Fervent Welcome to Allies in Dutch Borneo

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Chinese residents of Pontianak, in Dutch Borneo, were fervent in their greetings of the official ...

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  34. NEW ZEALAND TROOPS MAY GO TO JAPAN

    CASERTA, Sunday.—General Freyberg said to-day that 4000 troops of the New Zealand division stationed in Egypt and Italy might be used as a ...

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  35. LATE NEWS

    LONDON, Sunday.—It is estimated that at least 16 were killed in the Perth-London express derailment this morning. One soldier was extricated ...

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  36. Admiral Halsey W[?]shes to Retire

    NEW YORK, Sunday.—Admiral Hulsey has requested permission to retire from the U.S. Navy to make way fo[?] younger officers, according to a report from the ...

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