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  2. FOOT DOCTORS FOR A.I.F.

    LATEST ARMY innovation is the training of chiropodists, so that every unit of the A.I.F. will have its own foot doctor. Above: An expert chiropodist attending to a soldier's feet during a recent route march in the Puckapunyal area. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. GERMAN ESCAPEES WERE "TIRED OF INTERNMENT CAMP"

    The monotony of internment camp life had caused thom to make plans for escapo, and they had gone without a hitch, one of the ...

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  4. Building Up Australia's Home Defence Army

    About 40,000 men from new groups are to be put into training to build up Australia's home defence army of 250,000. Announcing this to-day, the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) said orders had been issued for the calling up of three ...

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  5. AUSTRALIA ENVISAGED AS CENTRE OF BRITISH EMPIRE AFTER THE WAR

    "I am confident that when we have won this war Australia will be the centre of the British Empire with a population not of 7,000,000 but of many times that number." The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) said this to-night at ...

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  6. BIG FALL IN BEER CONSUMPTION Due to Reduced Luxury Spending Power

    The reducing of the luxury spending power of Australians has caused a sharp decline in the consumption of beer in the ...

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  7. Reinforcement of Singapore a Precaution

    The reinforcement of Singapore was purely precautionary, said the Minister for External Affairs (Sir Frederick Stewart) ...

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  8. RATION TICKETS RETURNED Represent 300,000 Gallons

    Petrol ration tickets authorising the purchase of about 300,000 Kallone of motor spirit have already been returned to the State Liquid ...

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  9. MILITARY BOOTS SEIZED

    Police to-day seized more than 200 pairs of military boots bearing what they claimed was a forged stamp of approval. They are continuing their ...

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  10. POWERS TO PEG RENTS

    The National Security Regulation to provide additional powers of rent control for the States has not yet been drafted by the ...

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  11. BLACK DAY FOR ITALY

    Yesterday was a most important day in the smashing of Italy's East African Empire. The capture of Kubkub opens the back door to Keren, ...

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  12. NEW FRENCH INNER CABINET

    VICHY, Monday.—Admiral Darinn has formed nn inner Cabinet, which is limited to five. Admiral Harlan is vice-President of the Council, Minister ...

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  13. Police Have Power to Issue Emergency Petrol Rations

    The police have been given authority to issue special rations of petrol to motorists in cases of extreme urgency. ...

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  14. Five Brothers, One Sister Enlisted

    SOUTHPORT (Queensland), Tuesday.—All five sons and one daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Quayle, ...

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  15. FOUGHT LIKE WILD BEASTS

    The only man to escape from the engine room of the Arandora Star when she was torpedoed 200 miles off Ireland was Mr. Horace ...

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  16. Munition Annexes Near Completion

    It is expected that the building of the Launceston munition annexe will be completed, and the machinery installed by the end of ...

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  17. Married Militiamen May Apply for Discharge

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Any married man with children who joined the militia as a volunteer and is now liable for extended military service may ...

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  18. Cockatoo Dock Strike Settled

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The strike of 60 moulders, crane drivers and ironworkers at Cockatoo Dock was Bottled to-day, and the men will return to ...

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  19. War May Cost Australia £1,500,000,000

    If the war lasted another three years the Australian public debt might be increased by £750,000,000, said Mr. Spooner, M.H.R., in an address to-day. The direct cost of the war to Australia might be ...

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  20. Licenses of Banned Radio Stations May Lapse

    The licenses of four commercial broadcasting stations that were ordered off the air recently by the Commonwealth Government may ...

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  21. Woman Sentenced For Shoplifting

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Anna Hamilton (49), of Upper Ferntree Gully, a mother of ten children, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment for ...

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  22. FLOUR MILLERS RESENT PROFITS INQUIRY

    Giving evidence before the Tariff Board to-day, the secretary of the Victorian Flourmillers' Association (Mr. George Downe) ...

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  23. NEW INDUSTRY FOR TASMANIA

    The Minister in Charge of Commerce and Industry (Mr. T. D'Alton) said to-day that a new industry had been established in Tasmania which. ...

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  24. AIR ATTACK ON CONVOY FAILS

    German dive bombers again failed to smash a British convoy that was taking supplies through the Mediterranean, reports a British ...

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  25. Federal Cabinet Will Not Be Hustled

    The Federal Government will not unduly hurry forward an A.R.P. conference promised by the acting Prime Minister (Mr. ...

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  26. C. L. Badcock Enlists in A.I.F.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—The South Australian and Test batsman, C. L. Badcock, has enlisted in the A.I.F. He passed his first medical examination ...

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  27. DISCOVERER OF INSULIN KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

    Sir Frederick Banting, the discoverer of insulin, and two companions were killed in a 'plane crash 50 miles west of St. John ...

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  28. WAR COMMENTARY

    Although the statement by the Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr. Matsuoka) that the white race should cede Oceania to the Asiatics has caused some alarm, the Far Eastern tension is generally relaxing, according to the Australian Minister to Washington (Mr. Casey) in ...

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  29. Americans "Terrible" Illusion

    Sir Waller Citrine, secretary of the Trades Union Congress General Council, who has just returned to Britain from a tour in the ...

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  30. Color Patch and Uniform For Armored Division

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—"Through mud and blood to the green fields beyond." This is the tradition behind a provisional color patch which has ...

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  31. AUSTRALIAN STAFF FOR EASTERN SUPPLY COUNCIL

    Personnel of the staff that will accompany the Anstraliau representative to the Eastern Group Supply Council at Delhi, India (Sir ...

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  32. Red Cross Gift To China

    The Australian Red Cross Central Council to-day agreed to contribute £10,000 in cash and up to ...

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  33. Insurance for A.R.P. Firemen

    HOBART, Tuesday.—The provision of insurance for auxiliary firemen injured or killed in the course of their A.R.P. duties was a question that ...

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  34. Queensland Buries Party Hatchet

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Political organisations in Queensland have completely subordinated party issues to combine in supporting the national war effort, and ...

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