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TROOPS (Received October 1. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 1. It can now be revealed that the liner Queen Mary (81,235 tons) has been in Sydney Harbour. She was fitted to carry more than 10,000 troop's and took Australian forces to the Middle East and Singapore. She was in the formidable armada that took the first contingent of Australian and New Zealand troops to England in 1940. Later she brought American troops to Australia at the time when every ship counted. Her vast accommodation and great speed permitted her to make voyages without escort, thus taking Ibe place of moderatclv-sized convoys. Probably half the Australian population knew that the Oueen Mary had visited Sidney Harbour, and the Axis undoubtedly knew too, because the Japanese Consul-General’s residence overlooked the harbour. Till now the newspapers have never mentioned the whereabouts of the liner, which the Germans constantly referred to on their radio as a great prize. __________
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 5
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156CARRIED NEW ZEALAND Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 5
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