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  3. GUERRILLA INVADERS IN GREECE FORCED TO SPLIT UP AND RETIRE

    Greek guerrilla forces are reported to have split up and to be retreating towards the hills south of Konitza, near the Albanian border. Government forces have launched a heavy attack ...

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  4. BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED AT TEL AVIV

    A British soldier was killed and another injured yesterday when a mine exploded under a bridge near Tel Aviv. Two ...

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  5. WASHINGTON CONCERNED OVER CANBERRA TALKS

    American officials are stated to have been concerned about the efforts of Australia to establish a united British front on the peace talks for Japan. The United Press points out that the five British votes could ...

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  6. MONEY PAID TO MEET CHEQUES DISHONOURED

    Mr. Thomas Carney, attorney for Lady Iris Mountbatten, has paid the 190 dollars, covering dishonoured cheques ...

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  7. TENSION MOUNTS IN INDONESIA ON DUTCH CLAIMS

    Tension mounted last night when the Republican Cabinet rejected the Dutch proposals for settlement of the last main ...

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  8. GAOL AND FINES FOR CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS

    Dr. Edward Barsky, chairman of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, was sentenced to six months and a 500 dollar fine ...

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  9. POSTURE STUDY OF CHILDREN

    SYDNEY, Thursday. — State and Commonwealth Governments are to combine in an Australia-wide posture study of school children. The ...

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  10. U.S. SAILORS TRY TO SCUTTLE FREIGHTER

    Evidence that Americans from another ship had tried to scuttle a U.S. freighter before a British salvage party boarded it was given in the Admiralty Court to-day. When Mr. tlustice Pilcher asked' ...

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  11. NO MORE TROOPS FOR B.C.O.F. IN JAPAN

    Australia, despite its increased responsibility in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, in Japan, will not need to increase, the ...

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  12. 10-YEAR FLOOD RECLAMATION PLANS IN U.S.A.

    President Truman has asked Congress to launch a 10-year programme to end the devastating floods which, since 1937, ...

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  13. SOVIET TIMBER FOR HOUSING IN BRITAIN

    Remarkable progress in the AngloRussian trade talks was reported by a spokesman for some members of the British delegation, who returned ...

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  14. KRAMER MAY TURN PROFESSIONAL

    Bobby Riggs predicts that Jack Kramer, world's amateur champion, will turn professional before the end of this season or at the close. ...

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  15. NEW SHEEP TYPE SHOWS GREATER WOOL CLIP

    The Dominion experimental farm has developed a new type of sheep called [?], from which a recent test clip averaged over 12.6 lbs. ...

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  16. COMMUNIST TO LEAD WATERSIDERS

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. T. Nelson, Communist, has defeated Mr. W. Coghlan for the presidency of the State branch of the Waterside ...

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  17. AVIATION OFFER TO FLY MIGRANTS TO AUSTRALIA

    An American aviation firm has offered the Australian Minister for Migration (Mr. Calwell) the service of 10 Douglas planes to transport 1,000 migrants a month from Britain to Australia. ...

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  18. DROWNED WHEN BOAT STRUCK SUB-TRAP

    Forty four school children and four women teachers on a holiday, were drowned off Albenga in the Italian Riviera when a pleasure boat ...

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  19. SOVIET INVASION OF CHINA

    The Peiping newspaper, "Hsin Min" reports that troops from the Soviet division of Outer Mongolia, entered the Chinese area across the ...

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  20. ARREST OF COMMUNISTS IN POLAND

    Polish authorities announced a number of recent arrests in connection with discovery of a so-called secret organisation called "Freedom, Equality and Independence." Reuters says that arrested persons ...

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  21. ERA OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA

    The Australian Minister for Post war Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman) addressing the international conference on public education in Geneva, ...

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  22. HOUSE OF LORDS ADOPTS INDIAN INDEPENDENCE

    The House of Lords yesterday passed the Indian Independence Bill, following its approval by the House of Commons. ...

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  23. PRINCESS GAINS FREEDOM OF EDINBURGH

    Acknowledging the honour of receiving the Freedom of Edinburgh, Princess Elizabeth said she was glad that, at a time of happiness, she ...

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  24. Coal Production Vital to European Economy

    The Secretary of State (General Marshall) emphasised that the United States Government desired increased production of coal in the Ruhr as a fundamental basis for the European reconstruction. ...

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  25. INCREASE IN PAY FOR FRENCH CIVIL SERVICE

    The National Assembly early to-day adopted by 600 votes to nil, the Civil Servants' Salaries Bill, which provides for pay increases for more ...

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  26. Film Critic Gains Claim Against M.G.M.

    A High Court jury awarded Mrs. Arnot Robertson, a film critic and authoress, £4,500 damages against M.G.M., for libel and slander. ...

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  27. NEGRO WINS CAR AT RAFFLE FOR WHITES

    Dr. Carl Armstrong, president of the Kiwanis Club of North Carolina, announced to-day that the club had decided to present a 3,200 dollar ...

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  28. DAVIS CUP TEAM FOR CANADA

    The Australian Davis Cup team left for Montreal last night. They will play an exhibition match at Quebec at the week-end at the ...

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  29. BANDITS SNATCH £1,300

    An intensive London-wide search is being made for two bandits who robbed a film company's messengers of £1,300 in the West End. ...

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  30. MIGRANTS FOR N.Z.

    The first draft of settlers under the Government's assisted scheme will sail on the Rangitata from London to-morrow. The draft consists of 72 ...

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  31. FRENCHMEN CLIMB 13,000 FT. MOUNT

    Two French mountaineers, Louis Lachenal and Lionel Terray, climbed the northern face of the 13,000 feet Mt. Alger in atrocious weather and ...

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  32. BRITAIN WITHDRAWS REALLOCATION OF PEOPLE'S CAR WORKS

    Earl Winterton asked in the House of Commons if the President of the Board of Trade (Sir Stafford Cripps) intended to continue with the ...

    Article : 92 words
  33. INCENTIVES URGED IN INDUSTRY

    Incentive payments to increase industrial production and industrial skill were just as necessary in Australia as in Soviet Russia, the ...

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  34. RABBITS INVADING W.A.

    Hordes of rabbits are moving west along the East-West road and have reached Madura, 34 miles from Norseman. ...

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  35. EARL FINED £1,150

    At the Bow Street Court the Earl of Warwick was fined £1,150 for two currency evasions. It was stated that cheques, made ...

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  36. NO ONE-EYED DRIVERS IN NEW ZEALAND

    Draft amendments to the regulations prohibit men with one eye from holding a driver's licence. The Minister for Transport (Mr. ...

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  37. PORTRAIT OF G.B.S.

    The Oldham Art Gallery has bought the picture of George Bernard Shaw, which was painted by a Melbourne artist, Henry Rayne. ...

    Article : 66 words
  38. COLLISION AT SEA

    HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Thursday.—The destroyer, Mitmac, returned under its own steam to Halifax with five dead and 17 injured, after ...

    Article : 48 words
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