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  2. FIRES MENACE DERWENT VALLEY

    Tasmania sweltered again yesterday in a heat wave which has been responsible for the outbreak of many serious bush fires. The gravest danger is in the Derwent Valley, where raging fires menace several townships. Considerable damage has been ...

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  3. 3000 REFUGEES REACH BANGKOK

    BANGKOK, Wednesday. — Two British, troopships willi nearly 3000 Butch refugees, half of whom were children have arrived here from Java. ...

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  4. ATROCITIES THAT DEMAND OUSTING OF ALL GERMANS

    MARIANSKE LAZNE (Czechoslovakia),—In the presence of American officers commanding the 80th Division, the Czech Ministry of Information opened in this famous spa city, better known to most people under its German name of Maricnbad, an exhibition of German atrocities in Czechoslovakia. ...

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  5. R.A.A.F. MEN PLAN TOKYO MAIL RUN

    plotting the mail run to Tokyo, Flying Officer Bert Fotheringham (left), of Adelaide, briefs the crew of a RAAF courier aircralt at Morotai for their trip to Tokyo with mail and freight. Standing are. from left: Flight Lieutenant Colin MeKihbin, of Bathurst ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. PERSIAN MINISTER RESIGNS

    TEHERAN, Wednesday. — The Persian Minister for the Interior (Khali Fahimi), who nearly precipitated a Cabinet crisis last week by refusing too leave his ...

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  7. MODERN PHOENIX

    Tucked away in a side street in the great steel-producing city of Sheffield, in England, are small works that make steel files for ...

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  8. CLEARING DUNKIRK HARBOR OF MINES

    DUNKIRK, Wednesday.—At the request of the French authorities, who have neither divers nor diving-gear available a British naval ...

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  9. MAN DROWNED AT WEST BURNIE

    Getting into difficulties and not being a good swimmer, Edwin Patrick Humber (aged 39), boot ropairer, of Burnie, married, with a ...

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  10. STEELWORKERS MAY MEET ON SUNDAY TO CONSIDER RESUMPTION

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Steelworkers on strike at the Australian Iron and Steel Works, Port Kembla, wilt meet on Sunday to consider resumption of work if the Industrial Commission, has given its decision on the appeal of, D. Parker against his diwnissal on September 22. The hearing of Parker's ...

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  11. Capital City Ports Can Handle Big Liners

    MELBOURNE,Sunday. — Australian capital city ports will easily handle the new 29,000-ton liners to be built by the Orient and P. ...

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  12. Surprise Christmas Box For The Forces

    CANBERRA, Wednesday. — The visit of the Prime Minister (Mr, Chifley) to New Guinea was a surprise Christmas box for the Forces, ...

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  13. SOUTH ESK CLAIMS TWO VICTIMS

    LAUNCESTON, Wednesday. — Two youths were drowned in the South Esk River at Perth this afternoon. They were Henry Goss ...

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  14. THREE CHRISTMAS—EVE SUICIDES IN PERTH

    PERTH (W.A.), Wednesday.—Three Christmas Eve suicides have been reported to the police. charles Carroll (45), a well-known ...

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  15. SYDNEY—HOBART YACHT RACE

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The longest yacht race ever attempted in Australia commenced, to-day, when seven cruisers from.Sydney ...

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  16. TWO YACHTS SINK IN RACE

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The crows of two yachts of the Royal St. Kilda Yacht Club were picked up in the buy off St. Leon. ...

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  17. Crossing Fatality at Latrobe

    A young man named Noel Lewis Higgs, of Western Creek, was killed Instantly when a motor cycle he was riding was struck by a ...

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  18. School Break—Up Functions

    CUPRONA—The annual school plents was held at Sulphur Creek on Saturday. Swimming races and games were enjoyed. A case of oranges was ...

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  19. MR. CALWEIL'S CRITICISM RESENTED

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Minister for Information (Mr, calwell) was attacked to-day by Mr. Justice Brennan, Queensland, for ...

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  20. Use of Scientific Knowledge

    During the war the greatest possible use was made of scientific knowledge and methods, In addition to the technical and ...

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  21. Died After Rescue From Sea

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—George Thorogood (S), of Kensington, died today after efforts to save his life in an iron lung failed in the Alfred ...

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  22. Favors Ratification of Bretton Woods Agreement

    PAIRS, Wednesday. — The Foreign Affaire Commission of the French Assembly to day voted in favor of ratification of the Bretton Woods agreement, but ...

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  23. Jews Not Promised National State in Palestine

    There have been serious misstatements of the meaning of the Balfour Declaration, says Professor William Ernest Hocking in an article in the New York "Herald-Tribune." The matter is one of simple fact; but it has been obscured ...

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  24. Russians Develop New Drug

    LONDON, Wednesday — Moscow Radio claims that the Russian Institute of Malaria and Medical Parasitology has developed a new drug which has been named ...

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  25. RADAR IN PALESTINE

    JERUSALEM, Wednesday.—Permanent radar stations will soon "beam in" all aircraft arriving in Palestine from the Near or Middle Bast. At present mobile radar ...

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  26. FOREIGN MINISTERS' FINAL MEETING

    MOSCOW, Weduesdoy. — The Foreign Ministers meeting yesterday broke up shortly before midnight, after lasting 6 hours 45 minutes. No statement was ...

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  27. Motor Cyclist Hurtles 180 Feet Into Gully

    ADELAIDE, Wednesday.— A 17year-old motor cyclist, Ron Morgan, crashed through a fence on Gorge Road this morning and hurtled 18O feet into ...

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  28. MacArthur Calls For Jap Statistics

    TOKIO, Wednesday.—General MacArthur to-day ordered six Japanese Ministries to provide weekly statistics to give the Allies an up-to-date ...

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  29. SUCCESSION OF RAIL CRASHES IN FRANCE

    PARIS, wednesday. — Nine passengers were burnt to death when a military train crashed in a fog at Melun, cast of Paris, yesterday. This is the ...

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  30. £4000 BURGLARY AT DOCTOR'S HOME

    MELBOURNE Wednesday.—The biggest robbery over the Christmas holidays occurred at the home of Dr. W. Flavnn of Malvern,where thieves ...

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  31. Too Many People

    Noted American statisticians, Mr. Guy Burch and Dr. Elmer Peddell, claim there are far too many people in the world. Already three-quarters of the world's ...

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  32. U.S. Soldiers Murdered in Berlin

    BERLIN, Wednesday. — Russian and American military poilce are searching for the killers of two United States soldiers who were shot dead near the ...

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