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  2. Transport Crisis In Philadelphia

    PHILADELPHIA, Friday.—America's third largest city has now entered its third tense day of the transportation stoppage. As estimated by Washington officials, the tie-up has cut into production by 50 per cent, and the Navy places its parallel figure at 70 per cent. ...

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  3. Rennes Falls to American Drive

    WASHINGTON, Friday.—The American Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson, this morning revealed that American forces had captured Rennes, the capital of Brittany. Rennes, near the center of the Brest Peninsular, has a population of 98,000 and commands all the main roads and railways passing in to the Peninsula. Of ...

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  4. Myitkyina, Jap Base Occupied by Allies

    KANDY, Friday—British American and Chinese forces have captured Myitkyina, big Japanese base, and the largest town ...

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  5. Partisans Build Airfields in Yugoslavia

    LONDON, Friday. — BBC reporter in Yugoslavia, Kenneth Matthews has just paid a visit to an airfield in Slovenia, built by ...

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  6. Sydney Woman Celebrates 95th Birthday

    SYDNEY, Friday. — When Mrs M. Hinten, of Frederick Street, Rockdale, celebrated her 95th birthday yesterday, her three sisters, aged 75, 79, ...

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  7. Jap Chewed Thermometer

    GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Friday.— The fanatical determination of some of the Japanese captured in the latest clash at Aitape to ...

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  8. 4735 Killed In England By Flying Bomb Raids

    LONDON, Friday.— Mr Churchill disclosed in the House of Commons yesterday that 14,000 people had been injured and 4735 killed in the six ...

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  9. 10,000 Nazis Believed To Have Left Finland

    STOCKHOLM, Friday.— A message from Stockholm reports that the Germans may decide to invade and occupy the Aland Islands, west of ...

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  10. Labour Shortage Limits Book Production

    MELBOURNE, Froday.— The Government had power to take action concerning any obscene literature, said Mr Curtin yesterday. ...

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  11. Thai to "Co-operate Closely With Japan"

    Bangkok, Friday.— The new Thai Coalition Government, in a statement on foreign policy, says it will "co-operate closely with Japan according to the pacts ...

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  12. Bulgaria, Rumania Want Turkey's Friendship

    LONDON, Friday. — According to the Nazi-controlled Paris Radio, the Bulgarian Cabinet met at Sofia yesterday. ...

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  13. 73-Year-Old Doctor Has Face Lifted To Enlist

    SYDNEY, Friday. — A 73-year-old ship's surgeon, Dr. F. L. Harden, now in Sydney, admitted to-day that in order to get into the war he had ...

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  14. Posts and Telegraphs Censorship Defended by Controller at Inquiry

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—Under Army control, post and telegraph censorship worked on secret instructions evolved by the War Office in London, Mr. P. W. Ettleson, Controller of Posts and Telegraphs Censorship, told the Royal Commissioner, Sir William Webb, at the inquiry to-day. ...

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  15. England's Summer Time

    LONDON, Friday.— Double summer time, which was to have ended in England on August 13, has been extended to September 17. ...

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  16. Nazis May Quit Jersey And Guernsey Islands

    LONDON, Friday.— Reliable reports reaching London suggest that the Germans may evacuate their forces from the Jersey and Guernsey ...

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  17. Russians 60 Miles from Cracow

    MOSCOW, Friday.—In southern Poland, the Red Army has smashed its way to within, 60 miles of Cracow, Poland's second largest city, and at other points they are only 100 miles from German Silesia. Russian forces have made more crossings of the River Vistula. ...

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  18. HMAS Napier Arrives In Australia

    AN AUSTRALIAN PORT, Friday.— It is revealed that HMAS Napier has arrived in Australian waters for the first time. ...

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  19. 120,000,000 Maps of Normandy For Invasion

    LONDON, Friday.— As the Allied armies advance deeper into France, the people of England are hearing more and more of the detailed ...

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  20. Preference To Returned Soldiers Urged By RSL

    SYDNEY, Friday.— The RSL State Council has decided to urge the, Federal Government to introduce legislation giving preference to returned ...

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  21. US Munitions Programme

    WASHINGTON. Friday. — US War Production Chief. Mr Donald Nelson, said yesterday that half of America's munitions programme was completed in the ...

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  22. Tinian In US Hands; 5000 Japs Killed

    PEARL HARBOUR, Friday.— The Stars and Stripes are flying over Tinian, captured Jap stronghold at the southern end of the Marianas. ...

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  23. 8th Army Men Edge Still Closer To Florence

    NAPLES, Friday.— In the face of stubborn resistance, men of the British 8th Army are slogging their way forward to Florence. ...

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  24. Suicidal Japanese Charges at Aitape Cost 620 Dead 92 Japs Surrender at Sansapor Without Shot Fired

    GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Friday.—Four separate suicidal charges on a narrow flank in a desperate attempt to penetrate Allied Afua fiank positions at Aitape, have cost the enemy 620 men. The entire battle area was littered with abandoned and uncounted dead Japanese. This is the highlight of the latest communique which says that one enemy attack—there were four distinct ones — was with mortar, artillery and machine-gun fire, ...

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  25. £600,000 To Be Spent On Tools And Equipment

    MELBOURNE, Friday.— It was announced to-day that War Cabinet had decided to place large orders for tools and equipment needed for ...

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