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DANGER NOT DIMINISHED IN NORTH
Warnings were issued yesterday by Mr Curtin, Prime Minister, and Mr Drakeford, Air Minister, that Australia, with the other Allied ...
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9 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED
At least 8 heavy Japanese bombers and one fighter were destroyed, and other aircraft were damaged, in a brilliant air raid on Rabaul on ...
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GRAFT ALLEGATION IN US SENATE
An allegation by Sen Bunker in the Senate yesterday that the agreement between Defence Plant Corporation and Basic Magnesium Inc. for the ...
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"WAR CAN BE WON ONLY BY ATTACKING"
In a forthright, realistic speech, which was greeted with prolonged applause, Dr Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs, ...
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DEFENDERS OF BATAN WORN DOWN
[?]nd of the defence of Batan Peninsula, in the Philippines, was described by Mr Stimson, US Secretary for War, who said a force of about ...
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AMERICAN OFFICERS WHO HAVE BEEN DECORATED
with the Distinguished Flying Cross for gallant action in the Far East, and who are now in Australia, photographed with Lt-Col J. K. Gowen, jun. They are Capt Frank W. Kurts (left), who visited Australia some years ago as an Olympic diver, and Capt Patrick W. McIntyre. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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DAILY DIGEST
Although our American friends speak very nearly the same language as ourselves, it is not quite the same language—as British visitors to their ...
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LEAGUE OPENS ON MAY 9
League football will begin on May 9. VFL delegates met last night to discuss developments, and almost unanimously found that there was ...
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WAR CORRESPONDENT ENTERTAINS HIS HOST:
Mr William Courtsn[?]y (left), British war correspondent and a noted aviation writer, showing bullets used by fighter planes to Cr F. Beaurepaire, Lord Mayor (right), and Maj-Gen Rush B. Lincoln, US Army Air ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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AMERICAN HOME FRONT NEWS
War Production Board has prohibited use of copper and restricted use of steel and zinc in manufacture of zippers, hooks and eyes, snap ...
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BRITAIN STILL HAS AMPLE DOLLARS
Britain still has ample dollar resources in USA, though the loss of Malaya has reduced the British balance of payments in USA by from ...
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AIR OFFENSIVE ON JAPS WILL GROW
"Planes and equipment are coming in everincreasing quantity, and, with the number in sight and those already in hand, a splendid ...
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NATIONAL SAVINGS BONDS
To encourage further saving in the national interest, the Federal Government will shortly issue a new form of security, to be termed ...
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OLDER MEN FOR LABOUR UNITS ONLY
Mr Forde, Army Minister, explained yesterday that before calling up men in the older age groups for military service it was intended to exhaust ...
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SQD-LDR K. TRUSCOTT AMONG RETURNING AIRMEN
Among the Australian airmen, veterans of the sky battles over Europe, who are at present in Canada on their way home to ...
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TWO DEMANDS ON USA FOR MAJOR ACTIVITY
Washington is seething with speculation as to the meaning of Gen Marshall's visit to London, according to Mark Sullivan, veteran ...
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GERMAN PRISONERS IN CANADA
Several hundred German prisoners of war, including airmen, sailors, and soldiers, arrived for internment in Canada. It was noticeable ...
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COMPETITIONS SUSPENDED
The committee of the South Street Society has decided to suspend the competitions for 1942, because of the urgent call for a complete war ...
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EGGS FOR ARMED FORCES
When a deputation of egg producers waited on Mr Hogan, Minister for Agriculture, yesterday, to protest against the suspension of ...
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OBITUARY
Mr Henry Pye, MLC, Honorary Minister in the Dunstan Government since its inception in 1935, died suddenly at his home in Swan Hill ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS NEARING CRISIS
Relations between France and Germany are nearlng a crisis, states Daily Express's correspondent on the French frontier. He adds that Vichy ...
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HEADLAMPS MUST HAVE METAL MASKS
When the order issued yesterday by Mr A. M. Duncan, Police Commissioner, that headlamps of all motor vehicles must be fitted with approved ...
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ENEMY ACTIVITY IN LIBYA ON BIGGER SCALE
Enemy activity in Libya yesterday was on a bigger scale than in the previous few days, states today's Cairo communique. An enemy ...
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SUNDAY SHOWS FOR TROOPS
The State Government as yet has given no indication of its attitude toward the proposal to open theatres on Sunday nights for the benefit of ...
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GLOOMY HOME LIFE LEADS TO GIRL'S SUICIDE
SYDNEY, Fri: Margaret Alexandria Cramp, 22, of Bellevue Hill, described as a brilliant university librarian, was found dead in front ...
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FRENCH GIRLS LOOK TO NEW FRANCE
On the walls of a Kensington mansion 190 French girls are drawing a map of a new France. They are members of the Free French ...
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MISSING ON HMAS PERTH
Tel C. B. E. Hughes, who is missing on HMAS Perth, is a son of Mr and Mrs E. E. Hughes, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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DEAF MUTE ACQUITTED
In Glasgow High Court a jury found a 37-year-old deaf mute, with the mentality of a child of 10, not guilty of murder. ...
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WAR SAVINGS SWEEPSTAKES PROPOSED
A Government-sponsored war savings sweepstake was advocated at an Edinburgh meeting of the War Savings Committee. A delegate ...
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5 MINES IDLE AGAIN
SYDNEY, Fri: It was estimated today that 20,000 tons of coal had been lost to production this week through miners' strikes. ...
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ARCHBISHOP-ELECT FAVOURS EXPERIMENT
As an experiment one picture theatre should be opened on Sunday night for the use of troops, Right Rev J. J. Booth, Archbishop-elect, ...
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PRINCE BERNHARD IN CANADA
Prince Bernhard arrived in Ottawa yesterday on a surprise visit to Princess Juliana and their 2 children, who have been in Canada for 2 ...
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REGULATIONS FOR INDUSTRY
Mr Curtin, Prime Minister, said yesterday that as the National Security (Mobilisation of Services and Property) Regulations had been ...
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MILITIA TO BE TAPPED FOR RAAF RECRUITS
In the drive to secure RAAF recruits, militia and universal trainee forces will soon be tapped, the Air Department announced yesterday. ...
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HOTEL TRADING HOURS
The fact that Tasmania had been able to reduce hotel trading hours from 12 to 7—permitting trading from noon to 2pm and from 5 to ...
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500 ON STRIKE AT NSW MUNITIONS FACTORY
SYDNEY, Fri: About 500 members of Amalgamated Engineering Union are on strike at a NSW munitions factory. Most of them are employed ...
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SENTENCE SUSPENDED
John Burgess, of York st, Moonee Ponds, machinist, appealed to Judge Foster in General Sessions yesterday against his conviction and ...
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