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    DEVASTATED BY AMERICAN BOMBING, Yokohama presents a dismal scenc today. This picture shows the ruined shopping area, where all but modern concrete and fireproof buildings were obliterated. —(Australian Official). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. EX-PRISONERS STRANDED IN MELBOURNE May Become Openly Rebellious

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The strike on the steamer Nairana is daily adding to the 600 servicemen already stranded in Melbourne. A sergeant and a private, spokesmen for the 400 army ...

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  4. KENTISH COUNCIL NOTICE OF MOTION TO ADOPT FREE MEDICAL SCHEME

    Members of the Kentish Council, at the usual meeting yesterday, were impressed with the free medical scheme as put before them by the Minister for Health (Mr. Howroyd). It was pointed out that it would mean an additional rate ot only ld in ...

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  5. ASKED TO DEFER INCREASES IN PETROL RATIONS

    SALISBURY, Tuesday.—The fuel controller in Southern Rhodesia stated that Britain had asked Rhodesia, in conjunction ...

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  6. Three Men Believed Drowned

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday—Three' men are believed to have been drowned after the 50-ft. sharkfishing cutter Thistle struck ...

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  7. YAMASHITA TO ANSWER FOR 57,000 MURDERS

    MANILA, Tuesday.—Japan's star, general, Tompyuki Yamashita, wilt have to answer for the brutal killing of 57,000 Allies, mainly Filipinos, when his trial is resumed here on October 29. The Americans who are trying him as a war criminal, ...

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  8. ENDEAVOR'S SECOND MERCY FLIGHT

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Governor-Goneral's aircraft Endevor, on its second mercy [?] with recovered prisonors of war from Singapore, was ...

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  9. More Released Prisoners Reach Liverpool

    LONDON, Tuesday—With the sirens of all ships sounding and crowds wildly cheering, the New Zealand liner Monowai, the second vessel carrying released ...

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  10. BOARD OF INQUIRY SET UP AT WEWAK

    RABAUL, Tuesday.—A board of inquiry has been set up at 6th Division H.Q. to investigate Jupanese war crimes in the Wewak area. It will also ...

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  11. Loan Lag Continues in Tasmania

    HOBART, Tuesday.—There was a slight improvement in the flow of applications for the Fourth Victory' Loan-to-day; but ...

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  12. More Cases of Infantile Paralysis in Victoria

    MELBOURNE,Tuesday. — Reports' of another six cases of intantile paralysis were received by the Health Department to-day.Five were from ...

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  13. SALVAGE COMMISSION INQUIRY SUGGESTED

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The appointment of a royal commision to inquire into the activities of the Salvage Commission—not the Disposals ...

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  14. Burnie Soldier's Hard Treatment

    LAUNCESTON, Tuesday—Survivor of concentrated ill-treatment by the Japanese, Pte. Fred. Senior, of Burnie, arrived in Launceston. ...

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  15. INDONESIANS TO STAY AT PATURA

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Sixty-five Indonesian Republicans who are being repatriated by the Commonwealth. Government left the Metropole Hotel ...

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  16. Appalling Conditions in Compound Alleged

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A horror surpassed only by that of German and Japanese prison camps existed in the quiet democratic ...

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  17. FURTHER DROP IN FOOD PRODUCTION

    CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The drought and the manpower shortage are reflected in Australia's total food production for the year ...

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  18. (JAP PAPER STILL OFFICIAL CURRENCY

    BATAVIA, Tuesday.— Japanese printed money is still the official currency of, the British troops here,. and great wads of these "phoney" ...

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  19. HURLED FROM BUILDING WITH CLOTHES ABLAZE

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— A maN was hurled from'a building with his clothes ablaze following a gas explosion which, wreeked the interior of a ...

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  20. INCREASE IN STATE REVENUE

    HOBART, Tuesday.— Revenue for the first quarter of the financial year shows an increase of £51,504 over that of the first, quarter of 1944-45. ...

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  21. BRUTALLY ATTACKED WITH IRON BARS

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Two masked men armed with iron bars brutally assaulted the assistant stationmaster and a porter at the Fairfield railway ...

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  22. Lord Mountbatten May Visit Australia

    CANBERRA, Tuesday —The C.-in-C S. E. Asia Command (Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten) has informed the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) that he ...

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  23. CANNOT ASSESS PEACE IN, MONEY TERMS

    MELBOURNE. Tuesday.— "We cannot mensure in terms of money all that peace moans to the people of Australia. They have been ...

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  24. EGG-LAYING'. COMPETITION

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  25. Japs Salvaging Brass For Australia

    KABAUL, Tuesday. — Japanese who once joyfully received large quantities of scrapiron from Australia are now salvaging and ...

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  26. D.S.M. FOR BLINDED AIRMAN

    BRISBANE, Tuesday. — A blinded airman, W/o D. N. Beattie, of Malanda, knew nothing of his D.S.M. award until he arrived here from ...

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  27. Victorian Premier Virtually Expelled From Liberal Party

    MELBOURNE. Tuesday. — The Premier (Mr. Macfarlan) and the five Liberal Party members of his Government who assisted to vote ...

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  28. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

    LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.-—Donald Dare Daniels and Donald Raymond Wright were charged in the Police Court to-day with having broken and ...

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  29. PREFABRICATED HOUSE INTERESTS AUTHORITIES

    MELBOURN, Tuesday.—The State Housing Commission decided to co-operate with the Federal Housing Department and Department of Aircraft ...

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  30. MAY STOP BUILDING BECAUSE OF GO-SLOW POLICY

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A hint that unless the go-slow policy in the building industry is discontinued by next Wednesday, building contractors may suspend work is contained in a resolution passed to-day by the Master Builders' Associaion. ...

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  31. JAP BRUTALITY CAUSED 490 AMPUTATIONS

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Because of Japanese brutality, 490 Australians Capturee at Singapore had had leg amputations, returning prisoners in the Highland Chieftain said to-day. Troops on crutches said they developed tropical ulcers from kicks and ...

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  32. FINED £15 FOR THEFT

    LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.— A fine of £15 was imposed by Mr. R. K. Green, P.M., in the Police Court to-day, on George Edward ...

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  33. LATE NEWS

    WIESBADEN, Tuesday.— When the Hadamar "murder factory" trial was resumed to-day, two veteran nurses testified that the ...

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