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  2. INTO SARAWAK

    LUTONG (Sarawak), June 22.—The important oil refinery centre of Lutong in Sarawak on the west coast of Borneo was captured on Wednesday by Australians of the Ninth Division with the same ease that has so far ...

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  3. CHINA DRIVES.

    CHUNGKING, June 22.—A High Command communique announces that Chinese forces are attacking the Liuchow airfield and have ...

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  4. THE LANDING.

    LUTONG, June 22.—Although Lutong was taken without opposition, the landing was the trickiest the Australians have so far made in ...

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  5. OKINAWA'S COST.

    GUAM, June 21.—"Okinawa was the longest and costliest of all the campaigns in the Central and Western Pacific," says the Associated ...

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  6. WANTS WATCHING.

    LONDON, June 22.—Field Marshal Montgomery announced at a Press conference yesterday that the famous Seventh Armoured Division ...

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  7. BROKEN REICH.

    LONDON, June 22.—It is officially announced that the final total of German prisoners of war and disarmed military personnel on the ...

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  8. BOMBER COMMAND.

    LONDON, June 22.—Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, chief of Bomber Command, paid high tribute to his aircrews when he distributed ...

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  9. SICK WORLD.

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.— Interviewed by James Reston for the "New York Times," Field Marshal Smuts said UNCIO had succeeded, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. OVER COLOGNE.

    LONDON, June 22.—The Union Jack was hoisted over Cologne at an impressive military ceremony last night, says a correspondent of the ...

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  11. WHY HITLER FAILED.

    LONDON, June 22.—An intelligence officer attached to Allied Supreme HQ discloses that interrogation of Col-General Jodi and ...

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  12. SIMLA CONFERENCE.

    BOMBAY, June 22.—The Congress Party working committee has decided to participate in the Simla conference, convened by the Viceroy ...

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  13. U.N.C.I.O. SUCCESSES.

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—The Associated Press states: "The Australian delegates, one of the most active national groups in shaping ...

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  14. ISLAND CAMPAIGN.

    MELBOURNE, June 22.—Substantial gains have been made by troops of the Sixth Australian Division against Japanese forces fanatically ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  15. TERRIFIC MELEE.

    BRUNEI BAY, June 22.—Some of the most furious fighting of the whole Borneo campaign suddenly swept part of the Labuan foreshore ...

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  16. FLARE-UP.

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.— There was a flare-up at UNCIO's commission on political security functions (states the United Press) ...

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  17. ITALIAN POLITICS.

    LONDON, June 22.—The new Italian Government, headed by Signor Parri, unexpectedly took the oath of office last night in the Royal ...

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  18. UNEASY SYRIA.

    LONDON, June 22.—"Fierce tribesmen from northern Syria have been attacking French posts on the Turco-Syrian frontier," ...

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  19. NEW FIRE BOMB.

    Two United States Army privates handling the new 650lb fire-bomb, details of which have just been released. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  20. SMOKING HIM OUT.

    GUAM, June 22.—With flame throwers the Americans stormed a giant coastal cave near Mabuni on the south-west coast of Okinawa ...

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  21. SEAPOWER DECIDES.

    LONDON, June 22.—"Japan is now in the same position as we would have been if we had failed to keep control of the sea," said the First ...

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  22. U.S. SATISFACTION.

    NEW YORK, June 22.—The Washington Bureau of the "New York Times" reports that the Acting Secretary of State (Mr J. C. Grew), in ...

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  23. DRUG FIENDS.

    LONDON, June 22.—It is disclosed by an intelligence officer at Allied Supreme HQ that doctors are still giving Goering gradually ...

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  24. THE MOLES OF NIPPON.

    PORTLAND, Oregon, June 22.— Vice -Admiral Mitscher told a Press conference today: "We'll have to bum up the ...

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  25. PERSIA'S EMPRESS.

    LONDON, June 22.—"The plane bearing the Empress Fawzie of Persia, bound for Cairo, circled over Damascus airfield while a dispute ...

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  26. HEAVY EXPLOSIVES.

    WASHINGTON, June 22.—The 20th Air Force announced that a very large force of Super-Fortresses attacked the main Japanese island ...

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  27. REPARATIONS.

    LONDON, June 22.—Moscow radio said today that the Reparations Commission had met for the first time, M Maisky presiding. ...

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  28. IRISH TRAITOR.

    LONDON, June 22.—E. S. Bowlby, aged 33, who declares himself Irish, is the latest traitor to be isolated in Brussels military prison. He was ...

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  29. NEUTRALISATION.

    MANILA, June 22.—Piloting a slack Widow aircraft, Lieut Roy Oakes, of San Francisco, shot down an enemy transport plane during a ...

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  30. STEADFAST GUNNERS

    LONDON, June 22.—Five units of the British Pacific Fleet, including an aircraft-carrier, were hit by Japanese suicide planes during recent ...

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  31. TROOPS' CONDUCT

    CANBERRA, June 22.—In the Senate today Senator Mattner (Lib, SA) defended Militia troops at Port Moresby who were criticise in the ...

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  32. NIPPON'S CITIES.

    NEW YORK, June 22.—According to Tokio radio, the Home Ministry announced that it had been decided that in future no cities in Japan ...

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  33. SHADOW ON JAPAN.

    NEW YORK, June 22.—Tokio radio stated that the American planes had conducted a reconnaissance over southern Japan for two ...

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  34. SPANISH FRONTIER.

    MADRID, June 22.—Spanish authorities at Irun, under instructions from Madrid, have closed the frontier to France to all traffic ...

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  35. EUROPEAN SCRAP.

    WASHINGTON, June 22.—The Munitions Ministry is rushing construction of mobile electric blast furnaces to convert scrap from ...

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  36. AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS.

    Except where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australia Associated Press ...

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