AUSTRALIA
SOVIET MINISTER (Recd. 1.10) CANBERRA, Mar. 4. The arrival in Australia of Andrei Petrovitch Vlasov, first Soviet Minister to the Commonwealth, has been announced. Vlasov’s party numbered fourteen. He is accompanied by his three young daughters. Although it was known that some members of the Soviet Legation staff were on the way to Australia, the early arrival of the Minister was not expected. Vlasov, who is thirty-seven, is a member of the Soviet Foreign Office. He had been dean of faculty of the Institute of Steel at Moscow, and during the last two years occupied a responsible post in the Department of Foreign Affairs. TEXTILE STRIKERS SYDNEY, March 4. . Eighteen summonses for absenteeism have been issued against textile strikers. About 6500 textile workers, mostly women, are still idle m bydnev, in defiance of union orders, ine prosecutions are intended against the ringleaders.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1943, Page 5
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