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  2. JAPAN LIKELY TO HAVE COALITION GOVERNMENT

    TOKIO, Sunday. — The "New York Times" correspondent says that with the counting of votes approaching completion and power to appoint the first peace-time elected Government securely in the hands of the Conservative Party, Japan will probably ...

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  3. IMPERATIVE TO OUR STANDING AMONG NATIONS THAT LOAN BE FILLED

    CANBERRA, Sunday.—It was imperative, in the interests of Australia as a nation and Australians as individuals, that the £70,000,000 Security Loan, closing on Tuesday, be filled, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said to-night. He pointed out that Dr. Evatt would soon lead the Australian delegation to ...

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  4. Jet Engine Experts' Resignation

    LONDON, Sunday. —Sixteen of Britain's top-rank jet engine experts have followed the lead of the jet engine inventor, Commonder ...

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  5. 70,000 JAPS TO LEAVE RABAUL IN MONTH

    RABAUL, Sunday.—Seventy thousand Japanese are expected to be shipped to Japan from here within the next 30 days. ...

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  6. Forced to Kill Prisoners, Nazi Claims

    DACHAU, Sunday.—The defence that hia refusal to kill prisoners would have meant his own imprisonment, and possibly his execution, was offered for Hans ...

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  7. FASTER-THAN-SOUND AIRCRAFT SOUGHT

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—Aa aircraft designed to exceed the speed of sound is being developed in California, says Associated Press. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. THREE KILLED IN PLANE CRASHES

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A member of the crew and a civilian were killed when a R.A.A.F. Liberator crashed into the sea 75 miles south of Mindanao, in the Philippines, on Tuesday morning. Eight survivors were picked up by the sloop H.M.S. Opossum. ...

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  9. 430,000 WORKMEN IDLE IN U.S.

    NEW YORK, Sunday. — Fuel shortages resulting from a strike of 400,000 American Federation of Labor mine workers, which is ...

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  10. CRITICISM OF TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — The Republican National Committee's "appraisal" of the first year of the Truman Administration states that the ...

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  11. U.S. AMBASSADOR TO PERSIA RETURNING

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The State Department announces that Mr. Wallace Murray, United States Ambassador to Persia, would return home this ...

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  12. LAST AUSTRALIAN V.C. WINNER RECEIVES MEDAL

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Pte. Frank John Partridge was preseuted with the Victoria Cross he won at Bougainville by the ...

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  13. War Brides Criticise Shipping Arrangements

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — English brides, many of them with small children, who arrived to-day in the Highland Princess, ...

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  14. YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL'S ALLEGATIONS

    LONDON, Sunday.—An allegation that men in a Yugoslav camp in the British zone in Germany were beaten until they withdrew ...

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  15. British Empire Flags Unfurled in Japan

    KURE, Sunday.—While the Himalayan band of an Indian Division played "God Save the King" flags of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and ...

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  16. THREE DEAD IN N.S.W. ACCIDENTS

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — Three men wereo killed and many injured in road accidents last night, Frederick Davis (50), grazier, of ...

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  17. Big Food Shipment Lost by Strike

    BRISBANE, Sunday. — Because wharf laborers, in Gympathy with meat strikers, boycotted the ship, the Wairangi will sail from ...

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  18. DEMANDS £1 RISE IN BASIC WAGE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Immediate introduction of a pound a week increase in the basic wage and a review by the Commonwealth Government of the ...

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  19. MR. MAKIN MAY RESIGN SEAT

    ADELAIDE, Sunday. — The State president of the A.L.P. (Mr. K. Bardolph, M.L.C.) has been advised by the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin)that ...

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  20. NATIONS HAVE "TOO MUCH SENSE TO FIGHT"

    NEW YORK, Sunday.—Mr. Henry Wallace, speaking at a Roosevelt memorial dinner, declared: "There is not going to be war ...

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  21. NORMAL MEAT SUPPLIES IN MELBOURNE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Normal meat supplies will be available from city and suburban butchers this week, Following the lifting of the acquisition ...

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  22. GREEK REGENT BLOCKING KING'S RETURN

    LONDON, Sunday.—There is ample evidence that the Royalists are restive on finding the Regent (Archbishop Damaskinos) still ...

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  23. Shropshire Ready to Pick Up Victory Contingent

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.— H.M.A.S. Shropshire berthed at Port Melbourne yesterday. She will leave for England on Thursday with the Australian ...

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  24. BRITISH INTEND TO STAY IN HONG KONG

    NEW YORK, Sunday. — The "Herald-Tribune's" Hong Kong correspondent says that everything the British are doing in that city ...

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  25. LEN SPRAGUE DISCUSSES STAWELL PROSPECTS

    That V. T. (Tom) Deane, a strongly fluicied candidate for the Stawell Gift on Easter Monday, is the outstanding runner engaged ...

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  26. Thrown from Cycle

    LAUNCESTON. Sunday. — Eric James Keefe (22), Brisbane street, Launceston, died in the Launceston General Hospital to-night, from injuries received when he ...

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  27. POSTMASTER FOUND SHOT

    MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Albert Ernest Kurting, postmaster, of Fitzroy, was found dead in his office late yesterday with a bullet wound in his head. ...

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  28. TWO KILLED IN MELBOURNE

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—While looking at his car, which had stalled at East Malvern yesterday, James Miller (59), of Glen Iris, was hit by ...

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  29. "LOAFED" ACROSS PACIFIC TO SET NEW RECORD

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Captain Fred. Patterson, skipper of the third A.N.A. skymaster, which arrived last night, did not know he ...

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  30. SAYS RUSSIA WOULD HELP PAKISTAN

    NEW DELHI, Sunday. — "If Pakiston (a separate Moslem state in India) were established, Russia would be only too willing to help ...

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  31. PALESTINE UNREST

    JERUSALEM, Sunday. — The strike of Jewish and Arab postal workers continued for the fifth day, and hundreds of sacks of unsorted ...

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  32. Eight Men Rescued From Sinking Ship

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—The 85-ton mo tor vessel Bellbird sank at Broken Bay Heads to-day after its crew of eight had worked for seven hours with ...

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  33. DEPARTMENT TO DEAL WITH FOOD GIFTS

    LONDON, Sunday. — A special department—the Overseas Gifts (Food) Allocation Centre—has been established to deal with the distribution of food ...

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  34. £432,954 DEFICIT FOR NINE MONTHS

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  35. AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE ZONE

    LONDON, Sunday.—The Dominion Prime Ministors' Conference is expected to take steps to restore Australia from the United States ...

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  36. SUNKEN SPANISH GALLEON AGAIN LOCATED

    MIAMI, Sunday. — Divers yesterday again located off Keywest the sunken Spanish galleon Santa Rosa, which, according to legend, sailed from Mexico in ...

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  37. NAVAL RATING GASSED

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Gassed by cyanide fumes, Mathew Ingram (27), an English naval rating, was found dead this morning in the messroom of ...

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  38. LINERS TO BE REBUILT

    NEW YOKK, Sunday. — The Matson Company has announced that the Mariposa, Monterey and Lurline will be completely rebuilt at a total cost of upwards ...

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  39. End of War With Siam

    BANGKOK, Sunday. — The chief officer of Dirch Jayana, the Siamest Foreign Minister, has signed a 15-point agreement ending the state of war ...

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  40. EXPECTS BIG POWER DEMANDS

    HOBART, Sunday.—The Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) anticipates that demands will grow to such an extent that as soon ns men are available it will be necessary to have two schemes in preparation at the same time so that the Government will be in a position to supply all the hydro-electric power needed to meet ...

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  41. U.S. RESTRICTING ARMY CALL-UPS

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — The House of Representatives voted 140 to 127 to prohibit induction of draftees between May 15 and October 15, after ...

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  42. Two More Japanese Sentenced to Death at Rabaul

    RABAUL, Sunday.—Two Japanese Army officers, Capt. Moriyuki Nakamura and Lieut. Shozo Fukuhar, were yesterday sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of two Indian prisoners of war at Nishi, near Rabaul, in November, 1944. ...

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  43. LATE NEWS

    TEHERAN, Sunday. — Describing certain foreign reports of a "big revolt" at Ispahan as ridiculous and fantastic, Prince Firouz ...

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  44. 81-Year-Old Father Proud of 20th Child

    BRISTOL (Virginia), Sunday. — An 81-year-old farmer, Enoch Dowell, has become a father for the 20th time. He declared: "I am just as proud as I was ...

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