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inning ,i Oo-, unionsratingItaly iminl-juence f the eased, a in-id thest blt-ortant o and ghella.Armyenemyplaces•roved.rRYig the artles front, i new elf as Lnlater )*a as icu as tantin orelgnport-party i four.AGENCIES IN USAFrom Our Own Correspondent In New YorkRecommendations on the future of Australian Government agencies in USA will be made by Senator Keane. Minister for Trade and Customs, when he returns to Australia. He will visit the Australian High Commissioner’s office at Ottawa and the office of the Australian Purchasing Mission in 8an Francisco.Since the Pacific war shifted northwards from Australia the Commonwealth's war needs have been reduced and the stall of the Australian War Supplies Procurement Agency at Washington has been cut. There are still some hundreds employed, however, and it is likely that work of the mission will continue until the Pacific war ends.A proposal that part of the mission’s staff should be returned after the war as a research and trade bureau has been abandoned in favour of the Commonwealth’s proposal to establish Australian consulates in New York and San Francisco whose functions will embrace all the activities now covered by the mission, including commerce, shipping, and transport, and ultimately the Australian News and Information Bureau now located in New York. The establishment of consulates may see the adoption of a new policy by the Australian Government of paying higher salaries to representatives in USA. The staffs of the Australian agencies, because of the tendency to base American salaries on the Australian cost of living standards, are among the lowest paid of any In USA.near Dy islands, ine enemy s situation must be regarded as serious. says General MacArthur's communique.Enemy reaction to air attacks was a raid by 10 planes on our shipping in Leyte Gulf, but our intercepting fighters shot down six and A A destroyed two others. Our shipping received some damage.TOKYO REPORTS BIG JAP DRIVETokyo Radio stated that, the Japanese launched an all-out offensive on Wednesday afternoon against American airfields on Leyte, dropping parachute troops at Burauen. San Pablo. Dulag. and Tacloban.Japanese air commando units, it said, then began a grand-scale offensive against enemy forces, who were found in confused state, by an extremely systematised method of operation. Troops dropped on Tacloban and Dulag are at this moment in process of destroying enemy ground installations.—AAPNEGRESS ALLEGES CRIMINAL ASSAULT BY WHITE MINNew York PM reports that a coloured woman. Mrs Recy Taylor, 22, living at Abbeville t Alabama . was seized and raped by six white men while she was returning from church.The alleged incident occurred on September 3. Taylor stated that she was taken In a motorcar to a lonely spot, stripped and assaulted, and then driven into Abbeville and left naked in a street.Some of the alleged assailants were identified, but the local grand Jurv dismissed the case on September 10. and a committee for equal Justice for Recy Taylor has been formc-i in New Yorkuppt.. zna runti673Artificial SilkDRESSING GOWNSB . . Right. — Bright colourful, Art. Silk Gowns in a largo assortment* of colours and patterns. Brocaded and floral designs All sizes. Ideal for holiday wear. 15 coupons. Dept. Second Floor . .BUCKLEY NUNN LTD.. BOUftrfE ST.\r:jln.s .ftl hy fliiH.n M ' M •**•. '1i • • r V lt;*•••• ; *rlt;j lt;V c. tt»
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Melbourne Argus
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Fri, Dec 08, 1944
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