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  2. 2700 PRISONERS EXPECTED IN AUSTRALIA THIS WEEK

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—By the end of this week Service authorities expect that at least 2700 Australian Army, Navy and Air Force personnel who have been liberated from Japanese [?]O.W. camps will be back in Australia. Several hundred are ...

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    ROUNDED UP IN HONG KONG for questioning, these Japanese officers were guarded by marines of the British battleship Anson.—(R.N. Official.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION ADDRESS-IN-REPLY AMENDMENT

    HOBART, Tuesday.—For the first time for 33 years, an amendment to the Address-in-RepIy was moved in the House of Assembly to-day. A spirited attack on the Government is expected to-morrow, when the motion, which was moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Baker), and ...

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  5. Singapore Prisoners Nearly All Evacuated

    SINGAPORE, Tuesday. — Only a few Australians of the original population of Singapore's camps were left after the ...

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  6. LIBERATION OF DILLI

    DILLI, Monday.—Dilli, capital of Portuguese Timor, has been liberated by an Australian force composed of four R.A.N. corvettes, the ...

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  7. NO EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION IN FORESTRY DEPARTMENT

    HOBART, Tuesday.—The report by Mr. S. C. Burbury on behalf of the Acting Solicitor-General on investigations into alleged irregularities in the Forestry Department, tabled in the House of Assembly to-night, stated that no sufficient evidence was obtained of any specific act of bribery or corruption ...

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  8. FOOD FOR BRITAIN

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) is to consider the despatch of Australian food to Britain to relieve ...

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  9. Government to Purchase Apple and Pear Crop

    CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Government will acquire all apples and pears in West Australia and Tasmania during 1946, said ...

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  10. 1450 ROYAL NAVY P's.O.W. LIBERATED

    MACASSAR (Celebes) Monday.— More than 1450 Royal Navy P's.O.W. have been liberated here by the Australian occupation force, uuder Brigadier Ivan ...

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  11. SOME LOAN QUOTAS ALREADY REACHED

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—With the launching of the £85,000,000 Fourth Victory Loan, voluntary loan committees in more than 1600 centres ...

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  12. 455 SERVICEMEN RETURN

    Four hundred and fifty-five service personnel—380 from the Army, 66 R.A.A.F., 15 R.A.N. and 9 from women's auxiliary services, arrived ...

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  13. FIVE COMPANIES INTERESTED IN CAR PRODUCTION

    CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Minister for Postwar Reconstruction ((Mr. Dedman) announced tonight that five companies had now ...

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  14. 36,000 DIED BUILDING RAILWAY

    BANGKOK, —Tuesday. — Sixteen thousand Allied prisoners of war and at least 20,000 Asintie slaves died building the Burma-Siam ...

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  15. WATERFRONT DISPUTE Half of Men Return To Work

    SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Settlement of the dispute involving 4000 waterside workers was not the only move to-day towards easing ...

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  16. HAVE LOST TRACE OF WIVES AND FAMILIES

    SINGAPORE, Tuesday. — Members of the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, the Malayan volunteer soldiers who have been liberated from P.O.W. ...

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  17. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

    HOBART. Tuesday.—In the House of Assembly to-day the Speaker (Mr. Dwyer) took the Chair at 3 p.m. After the official opening by the ...

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  18. Dunstan Government Defeated in Legislative Assembly

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Dunstan Government was defeated last night by 29 votes to 26 in a division In the Legislative ...

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  19. Pilfering Prevalent at Launceston

    LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—Pilfering of cargo consigned to Launceston importers continues. Only a few inquiries to-day. were sufficient to ...

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  20. ACCUSES GOVERNMENT OF SURRENDER TO STRIKERS

    CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The policy of the Government on industrial matters was one of futility and inaction, the Opposition Leader (Mr. Menzies) said in the House of Representatives to-day, when he moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the failure of the Government to take effective steps ...

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  21. R.A.A.F. MEN FLYING CIVIL AIRCRAFI

    CANBERRA, Tuesay.— More than 450 former members of R.A.A.K, flying crews were now flying with civil airline companies; the Minister for Air ...

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  22. SEVENTEEN AREA SCHOOLS REQUIRED

    HOBART, Tuesday.—A conference of education officers last week decided that 17 more area schools were required, and to recommend to the Government that the proclamation providing that children attend school till they reached the age of 16 should be issued on February 1. ...

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  23. LATE NEWS

    MADRID, Tuesday. — General Alfredo Kindelan, representative of Don Juan, in Spain, said the monarchist regime would take over ...

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