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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 31, 1961
Page
1
police fired on natives near Rabaul after clashes between Tolai and Sepik groups. Two natives were killed and eight police injured as rioting spread through the town and surrounding hills.
Five days ago in Cairo the Arab League announced plans to organize aid to Tunisia and to dispatch a first contingent of sohin wera. The minister of state Colonel Abdel Hatem said the USAR agreed to send armed forces to Tunisia to support Tunisian forces against future events as France rejoined the UN debate on Bizerti.
A false West Berlin crisis report cites a State Department white paper condemning tactics as immoral and illegal while stressing U S demand for German self determination. East German officials deny war plans. West Germany reports rising asylum requests since July totaling 27 970. President Kennedy hints at armament reviews as talks with allies continue.
The Administrator of the Commonwealth Sir Dallas Brooks waves farewell to Canberra on Saturday as he travels to Paichairn airport for a plane to Melbourne. He will not resume duties as Governor of Victoria until the Governor General Designate Viscount de L Isle is sworn in at Canberra on Thursday.
In southern Victoria a doctor, Dr Peter Grahame, and his wife Anne are missing after a heavy snowstorm near Smiggin Holes. Police cordon off the area and a 10 day search covers about 20 miles of snowdrifts as authorities fear they may be lost and unable to ski a return path.
The English lord, a Queen's representative in a foreign port, mingled informality with duty. He and his daughters leaned over rails as crowds cheered. Accompanied by Lady de Lisle and officials, he greeted a guard of honour, salutes, and a Western Australia visit plan before moving on to City Beach and Canberra after Melbourne.
A 20 year program from the Soviet Communist Party pledges gradual free access to education medical care pensions and child care, with taxes abolished and prices lowered. It envisions free meals in factories, 10 hour work weeks and rapid transition by 1980. Foreign policy labels the USA as main capitalist threat and predicts socialism worldwide.
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