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  3. KESSELRING'S DESPERATE BID TO HOLD FINAL ROME LINE

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Kesselring is striving desperately to hold the final 25-mile Rome line from Valmontone to the coast, says Reuter's correspondent at advanced headquarters. The Germans are withdrawing in the right sector under the Eighth Army's ...

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  4. UNBROKEN ROAR OF BOMB BURSTS AS R.A.F HAMMERS INVASION COASTLINE

    LONDON, Wednesday.—For 20 minutes from midnight there was an unbroken thunderous roar of bomb crashes and answering gunfire from German batteries as large formations of R.A.F. bombers resumed their offensive against the Channel coast. It was the most violent pounding for the past four nights; ...

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    Smoke rises from submarine pens and workshops at the German-held port of Ijmuiden, Holland, as an American B-26 Marauder medium bomber heads off after dropping its supply of explosives on the targets. Of the 350 Marauders that dropped 700 tons of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. Fighter Bombers Carry Two 1000-lb. Bombs

    LONDON, Wed. — Thunderbolt fighter-bombers are now carrying a 10001b bomb under each wing. This is double their ...

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    MAJOR-GENERAL NICHOLSON, who won the U.S. Legion of Merit award, conferred by President Roosevelt in recognition of distinguished ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. U-BOAT'S VAIN BID TO OUTWIT PURSUERS

    LONDON, Wednesday. — A Uboat'a desperate but unsuccessful effort to outwit its pursuers is described by an Admiralty communique ...

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  9. Australian Aid io U.S. Forces Appreciated

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—After conferring with the U.S. Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull). the Australian Minister for Supply and Shipping (Mrs. ...

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  10. EASTERN FRONT CHARGED WITH TENSION

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The Russo-German front is charged with tension as both sides prepare for what promises to be a titanic clash, says Reuter's Moscow correspondent. According to the Germans the lull has been broken in the southern part of the front. ...

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  11. MR. CHURCHILL'S SPEECH "CHARACTERISTIC"

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Mrs. Roosevelt, at a press conference, described Mr. Churchill's recent speech in the House of Commons as very characteristic. Asked ...

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  12. INVASION IN NEXT THREE MONTHS

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Clarifying statements at a press conference on Friday, President Roosevelt said that, in predicting an invasion ...

    Article : 367 words
  13. AIRCRAFT WORKERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST LOSS OF NAVAL ORDERS

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.— Eleven thousand "stay-in strikers" marched out of two Brewster aeroplane plants upon the orders of the U.A.W. vice-president ...

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  14. German Plot to Smuggle Drugs Frustrated

    LONDON, Wednesday.—Special detachments of the Middle East Narcoties Board, in a series of simultaneous raids in Egypt, Palestine ...

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  15. AMMUNITION DUMP IN ESSEX EXPLODES

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The explosion of an ammunition dump in Essex shook the countryside for miles, and necessitated the evacuation of a village. Nobody ...

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  16. MR. CURTIN IN OTTAWA

    OTTAWA, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Curtin) has arrived in Ottawa from Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Curtin and party will ...

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  17. NEW ECUADOR REGIME PRO-ALLIED

    QUITO (Eeuador), Wednesday.—The revolutionaries who overthrow the Government, yesterday established a provisional military government headed by ...

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  18. SHOULD DECLARE ROME OPEN CITY

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—All United States Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops have sent a joint cablegram to the Pope, stating that the belligerents ...

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  19. Pacific Air Offensive

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—A Pacific Fleet communique says Liberators bombed Saipan Island, in the Marianas, in daylight on Sunday. Moderate to heavy ...

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  20. Chinese Pressing Attacks at Myitkyina

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The Chinese are vigorously pressing their attacks at Myitkyina. They have captured 100 horses, a workshop, and four ...

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  21. 150,000 JAPS THROWN INTO CHINA OFFENSIVE

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Led by crack, well equipped shock troops, from Manchuria, 150,000 Japanese have been thrown into an offensive in the Hunan and Hupeh provinces, says the Chungking correspondent of the United Press. The drive has already developed into the biggest in the Rice Bowl region ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  22. SUBMARINES HAVE SUNK 2,500,000 TONS OF JAPANESE SHIPPING

    PEARL HARBOR, Wednesday.—Admiral Nimitz, decorating 10 submarine officers, regretted that security reasons did not permit him to disclose details of ...

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  23. U.S. Recognition of Polish Government Commended

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The Polo-American Congress adopted a memorial endorsing President Roosevelt's policy of recognising the Polish Government in exile ...

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  24. £19,000,000 Compensation

    BOMBAY, Wednesday.—The Government of India is to pay £10,000,000 compensation for civilian losses caused when an ammunition ship blew up at the ...

    Article : 60 words
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