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  2. DEATH OF FORMER FRENCH PREMIER

    MOSCOW, Friday.—M. Leon Blum, former Socialist Premier of France, is reported by the Red Star to have died last year in a notorious Nazi extermination camp in Poland. Asked why he had not attempted to escape from the Germans ...

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  3. LIBERATION OF NANTES AND ANGERS

    LONDON, Friday.—The latest communique from France announces the complete occupation of Nantes and Angers by the Americans, who now control the 50-mile stretch of country between the two places along the Loire River. There have been no reports today of other US troops who are pushing towards Paris. In Brittany, there ...

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  4. FLORENCE WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER

    NAPLES, Friday.— A communique from Allied Headquarters in Italy refers to the serious position of civilians in some sections of Florence. ...

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  5. Poles Continue Drive Up Adriatic Coast

    NAPLES, Friday.—Polish and Italian troops have pushed forward another two miles in their drive north of Ancona on the Adriatic coast and have ...

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  6. AIRBORNE TROOPS NOW UNDER ONE COMMAND

    LONDON, Friday.— All Allied airborne troops in France have been placed under one command to consolidate glider forces and ...

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  7. CAUSE OF RECENT TRANSPORT STRIKE

    PHILADELPHIA, Friday.— The main cause of the recent transportation strike in Philadelphia was a proposal to promote negro employees of the ...

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  8. JAPS IN RETREAT ON BURMA FRONTS

    KANDY, Friday.— Latest despatches say that the Japanese are in retreat along the Imphal-Tiddim Road. Enemy rearguard troops have been ...

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  9. Super Fortresses Raid Japan

    CANBERRA, Friday.—American Super Fortresses, based in China, have again raided the Japanese homeland and bombed the big shipbuilding centre of Nagasaki. This information was picked up this morning from Tokio Radio by a Department of Information listening post. ...

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  10. AWARDS FOR BRAVERY IN ITALY

    LONDON. Friday. — The Victoria Cross has been awarded to two British soldiers who sacrificed their lives by charging German machinegun posts ...

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  11. DARING RAID BY RAF MOSQUITOES

    LONDON, Friday.— In one of the most daring air operations of the war, RAF Mosquitoes mined Germany's vital Dortmund canal on ...

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  12. CZECH GOVERNMENT READY TO RETURN

    LONDON, Friday.— There was an official reception in London last night for members of the Czechoslovakian Government who expect to leave ...

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  13. Tank Battles Prove Costly for Germans in Clashes with Reds

    MOSCOW, Friday.—Fierce battles continued yesterday on the three main sectors of the Russian front—in the Baltic States, on the approaches to East Prussia and in central Poland. One thousand German tanks were destroyed in the day's fighting and much equipment captured. ...

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  14. CONSCRIPTION IN CCC TO END

    MELBOURNE, Friday.— The Allied Works Council has stopped conscripting workers for the Civil Construction Corps. ...

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  15. CENSORSHIP INQUIRY ENDS IN MELBOURNE

    MELBOURNE, Friday:— The censorship inquiry ended in Melbourne to-day and it is expected that the Royal Commissioner, Sir William Webb, ...

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  16. US TRUCKS CARRYING RUSSIAN SUPPLIES

    WASHINGTON, Friday.— Major General J. R. Deane, who has arrived in America after 10 months in Russia as chief of the American Military Mission, said ...

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  17. Goebbels' New Decree

    LONDON. Friday.—The German Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, in a broadcast from Berlin, said that his new drastic labour decree had been brought in ...

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  18. Campaign Ends in Driniumor-Afua Sector; Japs Now Fleeing South Towards Torricelli Mountains

    GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Friday.—All enemy resistance in the Driniumor-Afua sector of British New Guinea has ceased. Remnants of the Japanese demoralised forces which escaped the Allied encircling movements are fleeing south towards the Torricelli Mountains, or trying to make their way back to Wewak. This crushing defeat has destroyed the combat effectiveness of General Adachi's 18th Army. Its casualties in ...

    Article : 431 words
  19. HENGYANG GARRISON FALLS TO JAPANESE

    CHUNGKING, Friday.— It has been officially announced that Hengyang has fallen to the Japanese, and that the Chinese garrison fought so ...

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  20. FLYING BOMBS CARRY INCENDIARIES

    LONDON, Friday. —After a lull of 24 hours more flying bombs have appeared over southern England, including the London area. ...

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  21. WACs for France

    LONDON, Friday.— Lieutenant Colonel A. Wilson, director of the American WAC in London, said yesterday that 3000 WACs will be moved to France soon to ...

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