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  2. FIVE DEATHS IN VICTORIAN FLOODS

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Five persons are dead and hundreds homeless, thousands of carrle and sheep have been drowned and much damage has been caused in the Western Districts of Victoria by floods. Bridges are under water or washed away, and ...

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  3. AUSTRALIA'S NEW FIGHTER AIRCRAFT

    The "CA15," taking-off for its first test flight from the Fishermen's Bend runway of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. Designed and built by the staff of the CAC works, the plane is powered with a Rolls R[?]yce-Griffin 12 cylinder in line liquid cooled engine, which develops 2000 h.p. The Griffin is a development of the famous Merlin engine, which powered the Hurricanes ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. BUTCHERS STAND BY DECISION TO CLOSE

    Because some supplies have been held members of the N.W. Master Butchers' Association have decided to keep their shops open till Wednesday evening, but unless there is some solution at the State conference of butchers as Ross to-morrow, shops will be closed for the rest of the week. ...

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  5. RUSSIANS LEAVING EASTERN GERMANY

    LONDON, Sunday,— The Red Army is leaving Eastern Germany, says the "Observer's" Berlin correspondent. It is reliably ...

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  6. PLANS TO END DEADLOCK IN VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Agreement on proposals to end Victoria's meat deadlock immediately was reached to-day at a widely ...

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  7. CLOUDBURST AT AVOCA TRAIN WRECKED WHEN EMBANKMENT GIVES WAY: DRIVER KILLED

    LAUNCESTON, Sunday.—A goods train consisting of 20 trucks of coal and timber was wrecked and the engine-driver, Eric Britton (41), married, of Conara, was killed when a cloudburst undermined a 20 feet high embankment about six miles east of Avoca, on the ...

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  8. AIRLINER CRASH

    HOBART, Sunday.—The badlymutilated body of another victim of the recent airliner crash at 7-Mile Beach, near Cambridge ...

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  9. S. Africa to Claim Former German Territory

    CAPE TOWN, Sunday. — The Prime Minister (General Smuts) told the Union Assembly that at the next meeting of U.N.O. Sth. ...

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  10. THEATRES AIDING LOAN CAMPAIGN

    HOBART, Sunday.—A special feature of the Security Loan campaign is the support being accorded by picture theatres throughout Tasmania. All ...

    Article : 310 words
  11. NO BEER; MINERS THREATEN STRIKE

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) has been warned that an immediate strike of western miners is likely unless ...

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  12. DENIED AMERICANS MOVING BOOTY FROM JAPAN

    TOKIO, Sunday. — Major-General W. F. Marquat, in charge of headquarters' economic and scientific section, flatly denied Russian ...

    Article : 191 words
  13. FORMER' P.O.W. KILLED

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Jack Mitchell (22), of Canterbury who was a P.O.W. for three and a half years, was killed yesterday when the motor cycle he ...

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  14. SENTENCES OF JAP WAR CRIMINALS RIDICULOUS, SAYS GENERAL BENNETT

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Licut.General Gordon Bennett, former commander of the Eighth Division, A.I.F. was among hundreds of cx-servicemen and their organisations who protested at the week-end at the leniency shown to Japanese war criminals sentenced by a Darwin court martial on Friday. ...

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  15. WATERSIDERS MAY FACE EXPULSION FROM A.C.T.U.

    SYDNEY, Sunday—The refusal of the Waterside Workers' Federation to load Dutch mercy ships for the N.E.I, will result in the A.C. ...

    Article : 141 words
  16. AIR SERVICES INTERRUPTED

    LAUNCESTON. Sunday—Because of bad visibility at Wynyard, which prevented aircraft from landing, the 6.15 a.m. plane to the Coastal 'drome from ...

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  17. KEITEL HAD THANKLESS TASK

    NUREMBERG, Sunday. — Field Marshal Keitel and Colonel-General Jodi smiled when Goering, answering Keitel's counsel ...

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  18. Shark Alarms: Injuries Mar Surf Carnival

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Shark alarms and injuries in mountainous seas marred the programme when the Australian surf championships ...

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  19. ATTLEE'S SPEECH WELCOMED IN INDIA

    BOMBAY, Sunday. — The speech on India by the British Prime Minister (Mr. C. R. Attlee) in the House of Commons was splashed on yesterday's ...

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  20. Baptism of Daughter of Governor of S.A.

    ADELAIDE, Sunday, — In St, Peter's Cathedral this afternoon Bishop B. P. Robin baptised A[?]nabel Mary Adelaide Norrie, baby daughter of the ...

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  21. Catholic Priest Executed

    LONDON, Sunday.—A Roman Catholie priest, Father Deagau, was execu ted after a treason trial at Se[?]tari (Albania), according to reports reach ...

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  22. CANADIAN M.P. ARRAIGNED ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES

    MONTREAL, Sunday.—Frederick Rose (38), Labor Progressive member of parliament, was arraigned in the Montreal Court of Sessions charged with violation of the Official Secrets Act. Rose appeared before Judge Gustav Perroult. He did not plead, and was remanded till March 22 on bail of 10,000 ...

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  23. Yoizuki Report Reaches Prime Minister

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Members of the Commonwealth investigation Committee sent to Rabaul last Sunday to inspect the Japanese ship Yoizuki ...

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  24. 60 YEARS IN HOTEL

    LAUNCESTON, Sunday.—On March 16, 1886'— years ago.yesterday—the late Mr. Joseph Huston bought the Launceston Hotel from the late Mr. E. ...

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  25. GERMAN FARMER GAOLED FOR 25 YEARS

    AUGSBURG, Sunday. — A military court sentenced a local German farmer to 25 years' imprisonment for attacking, when drunk, an American soldier. ...

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  26. RUSSIANS PROMISED RATIONING RELIEF

    LONDON, Sunday. — Details of Russia's new five-year plan, broadcast by Moscow Radio, include a promise that rationing of bread, flour, cereals ...

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  27. MAJOR TRIALS NEXT MONTH

    DARWIN, Sunday. — Trials of major Japanese war criminals would begin in Tokio early in April, and would last until the ...

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  28. BIG THREE CAN ADJUST PHILOSOPHIES, SAYS BEVIN

    LONDON, Sun.—The three different philosophies of Britain, America and Russia would adjust themselves in time if the nations were patient and not dogmatic about them, declared the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Ernest Bevin), speaking at a dinner at Port Talbot. "If ...

    Article : 536 words
  29. Legalised Prostitution Abolished in France

    PARIS, Sunday. — The Government, following the example of Paris, has ordered the suppression of legalised prostitution throughout France. All ...

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  30. NEW AUSTRALIAN BOMBER SHOWS HER PACES

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Fifty thousand people at Fishermen's Bend aerodrome to-day saw the world's hardest hitting bomber ...

    Article : 241 words
  31. SCOTTISH YARDS BUILDING 200 SHIPS

    CANBERRA, Sunday. — The office of the High Commissioner for the U.K. revealed to-day that 29 shipyards in Scotland alone were now building, or ...

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  32. FORMER FRENCH OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH

    PARIS, Sunday. — Georges Dayras, former secretary-general to the Ministry of Justice in the Petain Government, has been sentenced to death and ...

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  33. INCITED GERMANS AGAINST U.S. AIRMEN

    LONDON, Sunday. — The former Berchtesgaden Nazi party-leader, Bernhard Stredele. has been sentenced to death by a military court at Ludwigs, ...

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  34. £25,000 FIRE AT SALE

    SALE, Sunday. — Damage estimated at £25,000 was caused when the general store of Jensen's Pty. Ltd. was destroyed to-day by the ...

    Article : 92 words
  35. LATE NEWS

    MOSCOW, Sunday. — The Western Ukraine Church Congress in Lwow has informed Generalissimo Stalin that after 350 years ...

    Article : 66 words
  36. Miners Want Referendum to Include Nationalisation

    SVDNEY, Sunday. — The Miners' Federation will ask the Federal Government to iuclude nationalisation of coal mining and other Heavy ...

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