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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 10, 1962
Page
3
Detectives analyse chemical stains after a plastic explosive wrecked a BalGowlah Bank safe deposit box. Thieves stole about £1500, using a panel van for getaway. Authorities say plastic explosive, once limited to military use, caused the blast and wall damage.
The English press reports a drastic belt tightening to aid the government with wage cuts and reduced rations. Officials warn food and goods may be cut again while floods and droughts disrupt supplies in Anhwei Hunan and neighboring areas.
Mr S G Anderson of Holyrood Avenue Strathmore secretary of the Essendon Poultry Society reports four of his birds a Fowled The birds were mutilated at the Royal Show grounds after exhibition at the Oakleigh Poultry Show Society contest in Sydney the first world contest of its kind in Australia. Anderson says the birds now require a year for new feathers and must be withdrawn from the Sydney contest.
A 70 year old man, Fred Handley of Five Ways via Cranbourne, was crushed to death this afternoon when a tractor he was reversing from a mud patch in a paddock bogged and toppled, pinning him beneath the vehicle.
United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs G Mennen Williams testified to Congress that about 2,500 Communist operators from the Sino Soviet bloc are posted across Africa as diplomats and experts. The bulk of technicians are in Guinea. Williams said the U S must counter Communist penetration and call it imperialism rather than ideological spread.
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