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  2. BRITISH, US, AND AIF TROOPS IN JAVA

    "Thousands of English, Australian, and American soldiers are in Java at our side," said Lt.-Gen. ter Poorten, C-in-C NEI Army, in an invasion eve broadcast to Dutch, Indonesian, and Allied troops, in ...

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  3. STERN WARNING TO MOTORISTS

    After viewing traffic lighting in the brownout from various points with other traffic officers during the week, inspector Fowles, chief of the ...

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  4. PETROL 1d. DEARER TODAY

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Further increases in prices of petrol and power alcohol blends, and lighting and power kerosene will take effect from ...

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  5. 1942 VITAL IN SHIPPING CRISIS

    This year would be the most dangerous period in the shipping crisis, Mr. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of ...

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  6. DAILY DIGEST

    The Cockney conceives of England as three-parts covered by Greater London. Nowhere is more than a fourpenny bus ride from the ...

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  7. JUNIOR SCHOOL BOYS OF MGS

    at Wadhurst, which is to be vacated to enable Defence authorities to occupy the buildings, seemed unperturbed yesterday at the thought of leaving their present rooms and grounds. They will transfer to Grimwade House, MGS junior school in Caulfield. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. RELEASING MANPOWER FROM BANKS

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Rationalisation of banking business in country towns and in some suburbs for the purpose of releasing manpower for ...

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  9. A I F FOUGHT TO LAST AT SINGAPORE

    On his arrival at Pndang (Sumatra) Maj.-Gen. Gordon Bennett told Dutch officers that the Australians fought gallantly right to the ...

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  10. RANGOON BECOMES "GHOST CITY"

    Evacuation of Rangoon is now almost complete, and only the police, demolition squads, and some essential workers and army men remain. ...

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  11. WESLEY TO MOVE TO MALVERN

    As a result of several offers wide dispersal of Wesley College, portion of which has been taken over by Defence authorities, will be avoided. ...

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  12. CAR PARKING AT NIGHT

    Discussing night parking of cars, Cr. Frank Beaurepaire, Lord Mayor, said yesterday that, while he was a believer in "street reasonableness," ...

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  13. "JAVA'S POSITION IS SERIOUS"

    Netherlands authorities regard Java's position as serious, and make no secret of it, declaring that reinforcements in planes and ships alone ...

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  14. CONTROL OVER STOCK EXCHANGES

    CANBERRA, Friday. — Commenting on fears expressed by brokers that the Government's ban on speculation would cause the closing ...

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  15. FIREFIGHTERS NEEDED

    More firefighters and equipment for firefighting in Victoria were absolutely essential for the safety of people in danger areas, Mr. Dunstan, ...

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  16. 200 MERCHANTMEN CAPTURED NEAR SINGAPORE

    The Tokio newspaper Asahi Shimbun is credited by Berlin Radio with having stated that 200 Allied merchantmen were captured at ...

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  17. HALIFAX ON ALLIES' SUPREME TASK

    "If we are to beat Hitler and win peace we must not only understand the minds of our enemies, but endeavour to understand our friends," ...

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  18. MAN FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER

    SYDNEY, Friday. — After a retirement of 3 hours the jury in a murder trial found Cecil Raymond Ellem, 21, guilty of manslaughter. ...

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  19. FELL 1,000 FEET WITHOUT A PARACHUTE —AND SURVIVED

    RAF medical officers are still puzzling how 2 members of the RAF ever survived to tell the stones of how they had received their extreme ...

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  20. APPEALS UPHELD

    An appeal by Sydney Albert Labb, of Barkly st., Carlton against his conviction and sentence of one month's impilsonment for vagrancy ...

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  21. GEN. WAVELL HURT IN ESCAPE FROM SINGAPORE

    According to a Washington message, Mr. Stimson, U-S War Secretary, disclosed that just before Singapore fell, General Wavell ...

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  23. MAJ. C. J. A. MOSES ALSO ESCAPES

    Last night Mr. Forde, Army Minister, had received no word of Maj.-Gen. Bennett's escape from Singapore. ...

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  24. WOMEN GIVE LEAD IN TRENCH DIGGING

    If male volunteers cannot be recruited to dig slit trenches for airraid shelteis at Emily McPherson College of Domestic Econom, ...

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  25. EFFORT TO CURB EXCESSIVE DRINKING

    One of the problems confronting the Federal Government is whether some action should be taken to curb excessive drinking, which is said to ...

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  27. SIAMESE TWINS BORN IN NEW YORK

    Mrs. Carmine Picciotto gave birth yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital Staten Island to Siamese twindaughters, who are joined facing ...

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  28. GERMANS ARE TAKING EUROPE'S FOOD

    Allied Governments in London have issued a statement on the food position in Europe, revealing that starvation is due largely to ...

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  29. SECOND US AWARD FOR RAF FILM

    "Target for Tonight," the film made by the Ministry of Information, featuring a typical bombing raid on Germany, has won another ...

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  30. LIQUOR LAWS MAY BE CHANGED

    Consideiation is being given by the Department of War Organisation of Industry to the question of restrictions on the liquor industry. ...

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  31. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN RETURNING

    Fit.-Lts. A.C.H. Wearne, of Midlands Junction, WA; A. V Hodgkinson of Sydney; and G. R. Thurston, of Perth, who did the same cadet ...

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  32. MILK SUPPLIES FROZEN

    Following a statement that the Government had "frozen" all supplies of milk from Bacchus Marsh, which had previously been bought ...

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  33. NEW RESTRICTIONS LIKELY IN BRITAIN

    Evidence is already accumulating of a sterner war effort which Sir Stafford Cripps demanded and promised. A further drastic cut in ...

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  35. DRINK AND THE ARMY

    An appeal was made to members of the Methodist Conference yesterday by Rev. R. W. Macaulay, of Camberwell Presbyterian Church, ...

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  36. FULL AUTHORITY FOR WARDENS

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Full authority for air raid wardens, even to the point of arresting offenders, is favoured by Mr. Lazzarini, Home ...

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  37. US GAINS IN PHILIPPINES

    A Washington communique states that in a surprise thrust, Gen. MacArthur's troops on the Batan Penisular attacked sharply all along ...

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  38. PARLT. HOUSE BLACKED OUT

    Commenting on the fact that the NSW Parliament could only sit in daylight hours because Parliament House was not blacked out, ...

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  39. AGRICULTURAL LAND SALES

    CANBERRA, Friday. — In certain circumstances the sale of farming and pastoral lands would be exempted from the National Security ...

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  40. AID FOR PRISONERS IN JAPAN

    Through Geneva, Japan has given permission to the world's committee of the YMCA to extend its War Prisoners' Aid Service to prisoners ...

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  41. APPEAL TO BUILDERS

    The Building Trades Federation will appeal to members of affiliated unions to join ARP organisations in the arcas in which they live. Mr. ...

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  42. PREVENTING BUSH FIRES

    As a result of activities of the emergency committee dealing with rural fire prevention a great number of small towns which formerly had ...

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  43. ENFORCING SYDNEY'S BROWNOUT

    SYDNEY, Friday. — "If Mr. Lazzarini or anyone else thinks he can make a bettei job than I have done he can have a try," said Mr. ...

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  44. MacARTHUR FOR PRESIDENCY

    Herald-Tribune's Washington correspondent says that an increasing number of U-S citizens as well as newspapers and politicians, both ...

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  45. BRISBANE SHOW ABANDONED

    BRISBANE, Friday.—Because of the war the council of the Royal National Association has decided not to hold the Brisbane exhibition this ...

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  46. GRAZIER'S DEATH

    HEYFIELD, Friday. — William John Shaw, 52. grazier, was found dead at his home at Glenmaggie this afternoon. His wife found him ...

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