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Seeking to improve their style by scrimmaging with a more experienced team, Harvard's rugby squad lost their game with the New Zealand-Australian Navy team on Saturday by a score of 12 to 5. Inexperience and lack of coordination among the players were the two main factors in the Crimson defeat...
...family council had been called. Mrs. John Curtin, who has never been outside Australia, said last week in Canberra that she was going to London (via the U.S.) with her Prime Minister husband. Then came word from Auckland that New Zealand's Prime Minister, able Scot-born Peter Fraser, was on "the eve of his departure." No word came from Pretoria, South Africa, but no such council would be complete without Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, the British Commonwealth's elder statesman...
...Dominions "down under," where the invader was stopped uncomfortably close to the home grounds, there has been less talk of world order and much more of immediate security. In their Canberra Agreement last January, Messrs. Fraser and Curtin proposed to build a great Pacific arc around New Zealand and Australia, pledged a common, regional policy within the Commonwealth...
...Zealand troops stormed Hill 435 behind the abbey. The ridge changed hands several times, but at week's end it was back in German hands, as was Mt. Albaneta...
...Germans still held Hill 165, from which they poured a deadly mortar fire on the hard-fighting New Zealand troops in the town. Although Castle Hill, just behind it, is in Allied hands, tricky terrain enabled the Germans to infiltrate through a ravine to the rear whenever New Zealanders attempted to attack Hill 165. The Germans in turn were frustrated in several attempts to regain Castle Hill...