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  3. FATE OF KASHING THREATENED BY RED ADVANCE

    The fate of Hashing, a strategic rail junction 60 miles south-west of Shanghai, under an attack by 30,000 Communists, lay in the balance to-day as the latest Red drive to lop off Nationalist-held ends ...

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  4. GREECE TO SEEK MEDIATION IN CIVIL WAR

    The State Department is studying a request by the Greek Minister of Justice (Miltiades Porphygrogenis) ...

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  5. AGREEMENT SIGNED TO LIFT SOVIET BLOCKADE OF BERLIN

    Envoys of the Big Four agreed to lift the Berlin blockade to-day, as well as the counter-blockade, and to call a meeting of the Foreign Ministers' Council on May 23 when the agenda will include the ...

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  6. CRASH OF PLANE WITH SOCCER TEAM ON BOARD

    All but one of the Turin Soccer football team, with trainers and journalists, returning from a tour of Portugal, were killed when their plane struck a church tower in Turin and crashed. ...

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  7. SOVIET WINNING "COLD WAR" IN EUROPE

    Mr. Will Clayton, former Under- Secretary of State, told the Senate Foreign Relations ...

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  8. MALAYAN STAMPS VALUABLE

    Two Malayan stamps were sold for £1,105 at a London auction yesterday. A 500-Jollar purple and orange ...

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  9. FOUR MINERS TRAPPED IN PENNSYLVANIAN MINE

    Four men are trapped 800 feet, underground in a burning anthracite mine in Girard ville (Pennsylvania). Compressed air is being pumped down the smokefilled shaft, but the water-pumps have broken down. ...

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  10. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN DEATH PACT

    "We are going out together," wrote Mrs. Dorothy Edna King- ' aton, 54, of Palmerston North, to her husband before carrying ...

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  11. French Doctors To Visit Petain In Island Prison

    The French Government has decided to send a special team of doctors and nurses to look after ...

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  12. MAN AND WIFE KILLED IN LEVEL CROSSING SMASH

    Two persons were killed and a third seriously injured when the Spirit of Progress struck a car and caravan on a level ...

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  13. BRITAIN MAY END MEAT RATIONING

    Announcing in the House of Commons that details of the 15year Anglo- Australian meat agreement were being worked ...

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  14. EIRE CUTS INCOME TAX

    DUBLIN, Thursday.—A reduction of 6d. in the income tax, bringing the tax down to 6/6, at a cost to the Exchequer of ...

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  15. U.S. CONFERRING ON ACTION AGAINST BALKAN STATES

    The United States is conferring with other nations to compel Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania to abide by the human rights pledges in their peace treaties. ...

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  16. Chinese Reds Pledge Support, Korea and Burma

    The Chinese Communists are reported to have signed a mutual aid pact with North Korean Communists and pledged joint aid ...

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  17. U.S. OFFICIALS SCEPTICAL OF SOVIET BONAFIDES

    United States officials were highly sceptical about the successful conclusion between Russia and Western Powers representatives on the Berlin blockade and Germany, says the diplomatic correspondent of the "New York Times" ...

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  18. NO DIVORCE FOR INGRID BERGMAN

    The lovely film star, Ingrid Bergman, shattered world-wide rumours of her impending divorce by stating to-day that she ...

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  19. Miners' Council Defends Right To Criticise

    The Central Council of the Miners' Federation declared in a resolution that the Federation "never has and never will accept ...

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  20. INQUIRY OPENED INTO GROUNDING OF BRITISH LINER

    Captain S. D. Lee, who was making the final run of his career before retiring when the 17,000 ton British luxury liner ...

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  21. AUSTRALIA COULD SECURE MORE PETROL

    A major marketer of petrol in Australia had offered the Commonwealth Government on August 31, 1948, to supply sufficient ...

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  22. REASONS EXPLAINED FOR SHOOTING OF INDIAN LEADER

    The Colonial Under-Secretary (Mr. Rees-Williams) told the House of Commons the circumstances of the'arrest and ...

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  23. STATUTE OF EUROPE TO BE SIGNED

    Following complete agreement by the 10 nation Foreign Ministers' conference yesterday,the Statute of Europe will be signed ...

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  24. MALAYAN BANDITS MAY GO UNDERGROUND

    The Malayan Government is warning the public that there are strong grounds for supposing that bandits may, as a result of ...

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  25. MR. LANG CRITICISES MIGRATION PLANS TO AUSTRALIA

    The Government's immigration scheme seemed to have completely run amok, Mr. J. T. Lang, M.P. said to-day. ...

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  26. SURVEY DISCLOSES COAL DEPOSIT IN INVERELL DISTRICT

    Drilling operations, sponsored by the Commonwealth Government, have discovered coal deposits at 341 feet below the ...

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  27. Senator McKenna Attacks B.M.A. On Free Medicine

    If the B.M.A. had accepted the Government's offer to confer with a view to settling the shape of the medical benefits scheme, ...

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  28. WOOL EXPORTS FROM AUSTRALIA

    Australia's wool exports to Russia increased from just over one million lb. weight in the first nine months of 1947-48 to more ...

    Article : 190 words
  29. LEFT ESTATE OF £167,421

    Mrs. Emily Isabel Hooke Turnbull, of Toorak, Victoria, who died in London on March 15 of last year, left an estate of ...

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  30. DEATH SENTENCE ON GESTAPO CHIEF

    Friedrich Wilhelm Theilengerdes, 54, Gestapo Chief of Oldenburg, was yesterday sentenced to death by a British Control ...

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  31. ADMITTED CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER

    Four South Sea islanders pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court to-day to a charge of manslaughter in connection with the ...

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  32. ISRAEL ABANDONS MILITARY PARADE

    A mammoth military parade, which was to have commemorated Israel's Independence Day, was called off at the last minute in Tel Aviv yesterday, because police and soldiers were unable to control the crowds, estimated at ...

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  33. LORDS APPROVAL OF RELIEF FOR COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN

    The House of Lords carried the second reading of a bill making it possible for Countess Mountbatten to get greater personal ...

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  34. SWISS AND INDIA TO PLEDGE PEACE

    India and Switzerland win pledge "perpetual peace and friendship" when the Prime Minister (Jawaharlal Nehru) of ...

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  35. DUKE AS PRESIDENT OF M.C.C.

    LONDON, Thursday. — The Duke of Edinburgh has been appointed president of the M.C.C. at the annual meeting of the ...

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