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  3. LAST DEFENCE LINE CRACKED ON OKINAWA

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The last Japanese defence line on Okinawa has cracked at half-a-dozen points. Infantrymen, scaling the sheer face of the Jaejudaka escarpment on dangling ropes in darkness, gained the summit in several places, and are fighting off bitter counter-attacks. In addition, ...

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    General MacArthur makes an address during the ceremony marking the arrival of the "General MacArthur Special," a freight train completing the first run from San Fabian, to Manila since U.S. troops landed on Luzon on Jan. 9, 1945.—U.S. Office of War ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. MORE GROUND GAINED

    NEW YORK, Wednesday. — The Australians have gained more ground in Borneo, though Japanese resistance is stiffening in some areas. The enemy has been setting fire to oilfields. Flames from oil set afire by the Japanese on the Seria fields, ...

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  6. New Cars Twice as Dear as Pre-War Models

    LONDON, Wed.—The average cost of the post-war car would be double what it was before the war, said Mr. R. C. ...

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  7. First War Criminal Certificate

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The War Crimes Commission has issued to Yugoslavia the commission's first war criminal ...

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  8. SECURITY TALKS AUSTRALIAN AMENDMENT ON VETO POWERS DEFEATED

    SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday.—The Australian proposal to forbid the use of the big Power veto on steps by the World Organisation to settle disputes peacefully and limiting the veto to measures involving force has been rejected by 20 votes to 10. Fifteen nations refrained from voting, and the ...

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  9. TRIED TO KEEP ITALY OUT OF WAR

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The Pope personally sent a letter to Mussolini in April[?] 1940, less than two months before Italy entered the war, ...

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  10. Italian Government Resigns

    ROME. Wednesday. — Signor Bonomi has tendered his Government's resignation to Prince Umberto, who has reserved his decision ...

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  11. BELIEVED NO U-BOATS STILL AT LARGE

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday. — A Navy spokesman said he believed that all U-boats had been captured, scuttled or sunk, although a few had the status ...

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  12. CANADIAN ELECTIONS LIBERAL MAJORITY DIMINISHED

    OTTAWA, Wednesday.—The Liberal Party's majority in the Canadian elections, which seemed fully assured last evening, has been diminished by ...

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  13. BRITAIN'S CONTACT WITH VICHY

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The British Government maintained contact with the Vichy Administration in the autumn of 1940 in the ...

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  14. Joyful Demonstration in Trieste

    LONDON, Wednesday. — "British and American soldiers festooned with flowers almost all day have been carried shoulder high through ...

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  15. LAVAL CHANGED HIS MIND

    PARIS, Wed. — General de Gaulle's office has announced that, after declaring 'that he would give himself up to French ...

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  16. Stepping Up Aid to China

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The Foreign Economic Administrator (Mr:- Leo Crowley) reported to-day that the United States had supplied China with ...

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  17. JAPAN'S WARTIME EMERGENCY MEASURES

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Tokio Radio says the House of Peers has passed the Wartime Emergency Measures Bill. [?] Every man between 15 and 65 and ...

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  18. JAP WAR ONE OF MOST FEROCIOUS EVER

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Brendan Bracken) warned the country that it must not under-estimate the Japanese ...

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  19. Move to Reorganise Polish Regime

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The Foreign Office has announced that Britain, America and Russia had authorised the Russian Foreign Minister ...

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  20. ELECTION RESTRICTIONS ON SERVICE PERSONNEL

    LONDON, Wednesday. — Talks between Mr. Churchill And Mr. Attlee have resulted in the Government deciding to compromise on the wearing ...

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  21. Hitler Youths Gaoled

    LONDON, Wednesday. — A special military court sentenced 13 Hitler youths, aged 15 to 17 years, to terms of up[?] to 10 years, reports the British ...

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  22. "Lord Haw-Haw" Reported To Be in Britain

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The "Evening News" says that Wm. Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") has arrived in England, and is now imprisoned at a ...

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  23. NAZIS POSING AS RED CROSS WORKERS

    LONDON, Wednesday. — An elaborate German Red Cross system in Denmark is being used as cover for a widespread Nazi underground ...

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  24. THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

    LONDON", Wednesday.— A committee on the training of women for work in the Church recommends that the establishment of a theological college, ...

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  25. MOST BESTIAL OF ALL PRISON CAMPS

    LONDON, Wednesday. — Moscow Radio states that the Mauhnusen concentration camp was the most bestial of all Nazi camps. Only 50,000 ...

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  26. More Canadians Returning Home

    LONDON, Wednesday. — Trains pulled out from Yorkshire in a steady stream yesterday carrying thousands of Canadian airmen to ships in which they ...

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  27. Denies Conservatives Ended Coalition

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Churchill has issued from No. 10 Downing Street a statement giving an account of the events leading up to the ...

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  28. 15,924 Members of Quisling Party Arrested

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The Norwegian Newsagency, quoting the Chief of Police, states that 15,924 members of the Quisling party, representing about ...

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  29. SUSPICIOUS OF BRITISH IN LEVANT

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The Associated Press correspondent in Paris says the belief is growing that, despite official British assurances to the contrary, Britain intends to supersede the French authorities completely in the Levant. Authorised sources report that France has despatched two more ...

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  30. AMERICANS PICKING TROUBLE WITH RUSSIA

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Mr. M. Maverick, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, told the House of Representatives ...

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