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  2. ALLIED ATTACKS ON JAPANESE WARSHIPS

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday.—Two separate attacks on Japanese warships have been made by Allied air forces in the New Guinea area. Our air forces, which included Australian-made, ...

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  3. TROOPS SOLVE BATTLE PROBLEM

    CROSSING A RIVER With Anti-Tank Guns.—British troops in training solve a battle problem. The bridge has been blown up, but the heavy anti-tank guns are successfully hauled by hand to the other side of the river.— (Department of Information.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. SECRET COMMISSION ALLEGED

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Findings that certain persons received a secret commission from the supply of goods to the Australian Defence Cantcen Service were returned by the Board of Inquiry appointed by the Army Minister (Mr. Forde). ...

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  5. DESOLATION AND DEATH IN WAKE OF JAP. RETREAT

    NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The "New York Times" correspondent at Chungking says the blackened ruins of deserted towns and villages greet ...

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  6. Black Market Petrol Ring Believed Broken

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. — By the arrest of eight men and a woman today, detectives claim to have broken up an extensive blade market ...

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  7. Statute of Westminster To Be Ratified

    CANBERRA, Wednesday. — Ratification of the Statute of Westminster will the proposed in a bill to be introduced during the present session by the ...

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  8. Continuity of Vital Production

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Interruption of vital production and the danger of enemy attacks during week-ends are two factors which ...

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  9. Man Missing Following Murder' of Family

    BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Police have been unable to locate William Henry Hansen, whose wife and two daughters were found battered to death ...

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  10. Four Coal Strikes: Over 1000 Men Idle

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two coal strikes in the north and one each in the west and south of N.S.W. to-day cost 3300 tons of ...

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  11. U.S. REJECTS VICHY PROTEST

    WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—The State Department announced that the U.S. had rejected the Vichy Government's protest against ...

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  12. RUSSO- JAPANESE RELATIONS

    NEW YORK, Tuesday. — It is rumored among diplomatic circles in Chungking that the Japanese Ambassador to Moscow (Mr. Sato) presented to ...

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  13. PRAISE FOR SOVIET LEADER

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Paying a tribute to M. Stalin, Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons that the Russian leader was a ...

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  14. ABORIGINAL DESERTER "WENT WALKABOUT"

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Ptc. Len Robert Bowden (17), an aboriginal deserter from the Anny, told a court martial to-day that he had felt an ...

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  15. Dismissed Shop Steward Reinstated

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The dismissed shop steward, E. J. Rice, central figure in the recent Arbitration Court proceedings, was re-engaged to-day by ...

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  16. Japanese Warned to Prepare For Long War

    NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The Tokio Radio says the Japanese Army spokesman, Colonel Yahao, has warned the Japanese to prepare for a long war, ...

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  17. NAZIS DEMAND SHIPPING FROM FRANCE

    LONDON, Tuesday. — The United Press correspondent reports from, the French frontier that to replace Axis shipping lost principally in the ...

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  18. DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—"It is my considered opinion that the defence of Australia must be primarily met by its own manpower and resources, and that the contribution we shall get will be the maximum which the exigencies of war will allow our partners ...

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  19. Time Bomb Found in U.S. Plant

    NEWARK (New Jersey), Tuesday. — The discovery of a powerful time bomb in Western Electric's vast Kearny plant was disclosed by the F.B.I. with the ...

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  20. COMMONERS TAKEN TO TASK

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The "Daily Herald," in a leading article, described the House of Commons sitting at which Mr. Churchill ...

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  21. MR. FADDEN'S REPLY TO MINISTER

    CANBERRA, Wednesday. — From statements made by the Minister for War Organisation of Industry (Mr. Dedman), it would appear that his ...

    Article : 138 words
  22. Queensland Premier To Resign

    BRISBANE, Wednesday. — The Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith) threw a bombshell into State politics when he resigned to-day as leader of the ...

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  23. CONFESSION OF AN ISOLATIONIST

    NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Father Gannon, president of the Fordham Catholic University, addressing students at the opening of the ...

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  24. U.S. Not Forgetting Davis Cup

    NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Officials stated that the national tennis championships would be carried on for the duration of the war if possible, in ...

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  25. PILOT KILLED IN 'DROME COLLISION

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Victorian R.A.A.F. pilot was killed instantly when an Air Force training plane and a motor tender carrying eight men ...

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  26. ALL SHOULD HELP TO DEFEAT JAPAN

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Every Australian should primly determine to do everything in his power to help defeat Japan, a country whose ...

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  27. Desperate Coal Shortage in Britain

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The [?] Wales miners' leader, Mr. Arthur Horner, told the Trades Union Congress that the coal position was more, ...

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  28. NEW WHEAT BOARD PROPOSED

    CANBERRA, Wednesday. — Reconstruction of the Australian Wheat Board by the elimination of merchant, and milling interests is rontemplated by ...

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  29. 77,190 Prisoners Notified in Britain

    LONDON, Wednesday. — British war prisoners notified to August 25 were: Army, 70,526; Navy, 2529; R.A.F., 3135. It is pointed out that there is often a ...

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