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  3. STORM WATER FLOODS LARGE AREAS OF MELBOURNE

    MELBOURNE.—Dozens of homes were inundated and hundreds of acres of land flooded, causing incalculable damage in the metropolitan area yesterday by storm water ...

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  4. RATIONING TO END IN MAY

    MELBOURNE.—Tobacco and beer rationing will end next May, it was stated in authoritative circles yesterday. ...

    Article : 230 words
  5. JAPANESE PUT TO WORK

    At Camp Pratchai, about 90 miles from Bangkok in Siam, a Netherlands army sergeant-major instructs the Japanese foreman of one of the working parties in the construction of a sergeants' mess, one of the amenities that the Netherlanders were forced to do without when the Japanese were their ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. PLANES GOING TO ENGLAND

    Aircraft packed the top deck of H.M.S. Pioneer, an aircraft repair ship, which sailed from Melbourne. All these aircraft have been repaired and are being taken back to England via Singapore. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. Building 1000 m.p.h. Planes in U.S.

    BOSTON (A.A.P.)—Planes now being built will fly at 1000 m.p.h., Lt.-Gen. Doolittle told the Massachussetts Institute of ...

    Article : 99 words
  8. Ministerial Rank for Mr. Howroyd

    The Minister for Health (Mr. Howroyd) was selected for elevation to full ministerial rank at a meeting of the State Parliamentary Labour Party at Hobart yesterday. Though no voting was revealed, it is believed he had votes to spare from the other ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 375 words
  9. Closing Border With Spain

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Reuters correspondent in Paris says the French Cabinet decided yesterday to close the Franco-Spanish frontier to traffic from ...

    Article : 181 words
  10. New York Faces Transport Hold-up

    NEW YORK (A.A.P.).—The City Council is preparing feverishly to meet the threatened municipal subway, tramway and bus strike some time ...

    Article : 214 words
  11. SHIPS FOR BRIDES

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Two ships now being refitted in British shipyards may be used to transport to Australia the wives, children and fiancees of ...

    Article : 109 words
  12. "MISSING" AIRMAN TURNS UP

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—While airfields all over Britain were being warned to look out for him, Air Vice-Marshal Bennett, of Brisbane, was addressing a meeting at Wolverhampton. ...

    Article : 299 words
  13. LEND-LEASE QUERIES

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.).—The U.S. can legally tell Britain not to use any lend-lease munitions or equipment to shoot ...

    Article : 219 words
  14. COAL FOR WEEK IN LONDON

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—London's reserves of house coal have dropped to just over one week's supply—the lowest of the winter, states a Ministry of Fuel ...

    Article : 95 words
  15. Swedish Neutrality Criticised

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—The Swedish Naval Command is severely criticised by Commander E. B. Christmas, Swedish Naval Attache in London from ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. SINGAPORE TRIAL

    SINGAPORE (A.A.P.).—The man who allegedly crowded 17,000 British, and Australian prisoners into barracks designed to hold 800 men, Japanese ...

    Article : 149 words
  17. More Bodies Found in Batavia Canals

    BATAVIA (A.A.P.).—The grim task of recovering mutilated bodies from canals that flow through Batavia into the sea continues. ...

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  18. TWO MORE GENERALS OUT

    MELBOURNE—Major-Gen. A. E. M. Lloyd, who until recently was Adjutant-General, A.M.F., retired from the permanent army this week, and ...

    Article : 125 words
  19. Siamese Exiles Return

    BATAVIA (A A.P.).—Five Siamese Royal exiles, with 14 attendants, have left Bandoeng by air for Slam. They were exiled before the war and are ...

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  20. AUSTRALIAN ON TOKIO COUNCIL

    CANBERRA.—Mr. W. Macmahon Ball, head of the Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne, has been appointed to represent Britain, India, New Zealand and Australia on the Allied Council in Tokio. ...

    Article : 225 words
  21. ALDERSHOT RIOTS

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Disturbances occurred on Monday night at a detention camp near Borden (Hampshire), to which some of the men involved in ...

    Article : 90 words
  22. BRITISH COTTON MILLS BUSY

    MELBOURNE—Britain's cotton industry need not fear competition from any country. This is the view expressed by Mr. ...

    Article : 111 words
  23. Plan for German Industry

    BERLIN (A.A.P.)—Substantial progress has been made toward agreement on the level of industry to be allowed in Germany, and a decision could be ...

    Article : 128 words
  24. "MISCHIEVOUS" CHARGES ABOUT LEAVING GERMAN FOREIGN ASSETS "FOR THIRD WAR"

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.).—Mr. Russell Nixon yesterday accused the U.S. State Department and the British and French Foreign Offices of "secretly conniving to go easy in demanding German assets in Spain, Argentina, Portugal and Switzerland." MR. NIXON was formerly acting ...

    Article : 345 words
  25. DIGEST OF THE LEADERS

    THE creation of an additional state portfolio and the proposal to increase the salaries of judges will have public support. ...

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  26. JAP. SILK FOR AUSTRALIA: ALLOCATION OF 520 TONS

    CANBERRA.—Australia has been allocated 520 tons of manufactured Japanese silk, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said yesterday. THIS comprised about 0.3 per cent. ...

    Article : 193 words
  27. Empire Forces Not to Make Social Calls on Japs.

    TOKIO (A.A.P.).—"British policy is to be polite. I shall rely on the gentlemanly behaviour of my troops," said the British Empire Forces Commander (Gen. Northcott) at his press conference in Tokio. ...

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