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 ...
Article : 1,093 wordsThe "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]
Article : 76 wordsBecause 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. ...
Article : 527 wordsLONDON, Sunday,— The Red Army is leaving Eastern Germany, says the "Observer's" Berlin correspondent. It is reliably ...
Article : 188 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Agreement on proposals to end Victoria's meat deadlock immediately was reached to-day at a widely ...
Article : 168 wordsLAUNCESTON, 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 ...
Article : 949 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The badlymutilated body of another victim of the recent airliner crash at 7-Mile Beach, near Cambridge ...
Article : 141 wordsCAPE TOWN, Sunday. — The Prime Minister (General Smuts) told the Union Assembly that at the next meeting of U.N.O. Sth. ...
Article : 202 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—A special feature of the Security Loan campaign is the support being accorded by picture theatres throughout Tasmania. All ...
Article : 310 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) has been warned that an immediate strike of western miners is likely unless ...
Article : 58 wordsTOKIO, Sunday. — Major-General W. F. Marquat, in charge of headquarters' economic and scientific section, flatly denied Russian ...
Article : 191 wordsSYDNEY, 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 ...
Article : 41 wordsSYDNEY, 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. ...
Article : 472 wordsSYDNEY, 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 wordsLAUNCESTON. Sunday—Because of bad visibility at Wynyard, which prevented aircraft from landing, the 6.15 a.m. plane to the Coastal 'drome from ...
Article : 194 wordsNUREMBERG, Sunday. — Field Marshal Keitel and Colonel-General Jodi smiled when Goering, answering Keitel's counsel ...
Article : 376 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Shark alarms and injuries in mountainous seas marred the programme when the Australian surf championships ...
Article : 131 wordsBOMBAY, Sunday. — The speech on India by the British Prime Minister (Mr. C. R. Attlee) in the House of Commons was splashed on yesterday's ...
Article : 111 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday, — In St, Peter's Cathedral this afternoon Bishop B. P. Robin baptised A[?]nabel Mary Adelaide Norrie, baby daughter of the ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—A Roman Catholie priest, Father Deagau, was execu ted after a treason trial at Se[?]tari (Albania), according to reports reach ...
Article : 44 wordsMONTREAL, 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 ...
Article : 641 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Members of the Commonwealth investigation Committee sent to Rabaul last Sunday to inspect the Japanese ship Yoizuki ...
Article : 60 wordsLAUNCESTON, Sunday.—On March 16, 1886'— years ago.yesterday—the late Mr. Joseph Huston bought the Launceston Hotel from the late Mr. E. ...
Article : 135 wordsAUGSBURG, Sunday. — A military court sentenced a local German farmer to 25 years' imprisonment for attacking, when drunk, an American soldier. ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Details of Russia's new five-year plan, broadcast by Moscow Radio, include a promise that rationing of bread, flour, cereals ...
Article : 73 wordsDARWIN, Sunday. — Trials of major Japanese war criminals would begin in Tokio early in April, and would last until the ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, 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 wordsPARIS, Sunday. — The Government, following the example of Paris, has ordered the suppression of legalised prostitution throughout France. All ...
Article : 48 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Fifty thousand people at Fishermen's Bend aerodrome to-day saw the world's hardest hitting bomber ...
Article : 241 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — The office of the High Commissioner for the U.K. revealed to-day that 29 shipyards in Scotland alone were now building, or ...
Article : 62 wordsPARIS, Sunday. — Georges Dayras, former secretary-general to the Ministry of Justice in the Petain Government, has been sentenced to death and ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — The former Berchtesgaden Nazi party-leader, Bernhard Stredele. has been sentenced to death by a military court at Ludwigs, ...
Article : 71 wordsSALE, 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 wordsMOSCOW, Sunday. — The Western Ukraine Church Congress in Lwow has informed Generalissimo Stalin that after 350 years ...
Article : 66 wordsSVDNEY, Sunday. — The Miners' Federation will ask the Federal Government to iuclude nationalisation of coal mining and other Heavy ...
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