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  3. SUBMARINE FROM TOULON REACHES SPAIN

    LONDON, Sunday.—One of the two French submarines believed to have escaped from Toulon has reached Barcelona. Her commander ...

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  4. NEW RUSSIAN BLOW ON CENTRAL FRONT

    LONDON, Sunday.—In a new major offensive on the Central Front, west of Moscow, between Velikiye Luki and Rjev, the Red Army has broken through the German ...

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  5. DYING, THEY FULFILLED THEIR PURPOSE

    The French battleships Strasbourg (left) and Dunquerque, which were sunk by the French in Toulon Harbour to prevent them from falling into Axis hands. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. JAP. FLEET OFF NORTH PAPUA

    Somewhere in Australia, Sunday—Japanese naval forces are again manoeuvring off the coast at Buna as the Allied assault on the last Papuan beach head goes into the ...

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  7. Hitler's Europe Likely to Crash "Very Soon"

    WASHINGTON. Sunday.—"Strategically, the war is already won," President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines told a press conference. He added: "Hitler's Europe is likely to crash very soon. As ...

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  8. GOOD NEWS FROM ALL FRONTS, SAYS STIMSON

    WASHINGTON, Saturday—Operations on all the worldwide fronts against the Axis were progressing favourably, the Secretary for War (Mr. Stimson) told a press conference to-day. He added that the Russian counter-attack ...

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  9. Cursing Germans

    German naval officers cursed with rage as they stood on the quay at Toulon and watched one French ship after another heel over, says Reuters ...

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  10. STREET FIGHTING REPORTED IN ALSACE-LORRAINE

    LONDON, Sunday. — Fighting is reported in the streets of Metz, Strasbourg and Mulhouse following drastic German action ...

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  11. MILITANTS' ATTACK ON MR WARD

    SYDNEY, Sunday. — The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) [?] ...

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  12. MORE RAIDS ON BURMA

    NEW DELHI, Sunday.—R.A.F. Blenheims, escorted by fighters, yesterday morning attacked Shwebo airfield in Burma, hitting runways, dispersal ...

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  13. THREE U-BOATS CLAIMED IN ATLANTIC FIGHT

    OTTAWA, Sunday.—The sinking of several U-boats and the damaging of another are clamied by merchant seamen of a convoy which has arrived ...

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  14. Japanese Subs. Head for Buna

    Somewhere in New Guinea, Sunday. —A number of Japanese submarines were seen off the north New Guinea coast yesterday, heading towards Buna. ...

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  15. BARBED WIRE

    Placing barbed wire entanglements in advance of forward positions of U.S. troops, these U.S. Marines are part of the force ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. TURIN HEAVILY BOMBED

    LONDON, Sunday. — A strong force of British bombers attacked Turin last night for the 22nd time since Italy's entry into the war. ...

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  17. WORST JAP. BEATING SINCE MIDWAY

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — "We knocked the 'living daylights' out of the Japs.," said Admiral Halsey, referring to the ...

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  18. REUNION SEIZED, SAYS VICHY

    LONDON, Sunday. — Vichy reports say that British forces, including South African troops, have landed on the French island ...

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  19. TASMANIAN AIRMAN RELEASED

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—When U.S. Army forces occupied Laghouat (Algeria) region recently, they released from internment five members of the ...

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  20. Claims Three More Jap. Cruisers

    WASHINGTON, Sunday. — The Navy's second revision of its assessment of the enemy's losses in the Cape Esperance battle on October 11 and ...

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  21. FIRST ARMY PUSHES STEADILY ON: LIBYAN PAUSE CONTINUES

    LONDON, Sunday.—While the First Army is pushing steadily towards Bizerta and Tunis, and has captured Terburba, only 15 miles west of Tunis, the Cairo communique says that there was nothing to report on land in Libya yesterday. A CORRESPONDENT at Allied ...

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  22. NEW GERMAN FIRE TANK

    ZURICH, Friday.—Swiss newspapers have published details of the latest German tank, which throws a fire jet 950 yards. The jet ignites only ...

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  23. MUSIC WITH MEALS

    Japanese prisoners captured by U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands eat to music played on a bamboo pipe. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  24. NAVY WATCH

    The midshipman of the watch on board a British cruiser looking through binoculars on a bearing indicator. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. CLASH BETWEEN AXIS CHIEFS IN LIBYA

    NEW YORK, Sunday. — A clash of opinions, with open charges of cowardice and desertion, broke out between ...

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  26. 380 Killed in Night Club Holocaust

    BOSTON, Sunday.—At least 380 persons were killed and 200 injured in a fire in a fashionable night club, the Coconut Grove, in the centre of ...

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  27. PITH OF THE LEADERS

    THE story of the scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon is a tragic but heroic one. When the fleet was on the point of ...

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  28. R.A.F. COMMAND CHANGES

    LONDON, Sunday.—Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder has been appointed Vice-Chief of the Air Staff and Air Marshal Sir W. Sholto Douglas ...

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  29. AUSTRALIAN PILOT SHOOTS DOWN MONSTER NAZI TRANSPORT PLANE

    CAIRO, Sunday.—It is revealed that it was an Australian pilot who shot down the first Bloehm and Voss 22, the world's largest operational warplane, no specimens of which have ever before been brought down. ...

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  30. MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK IN U.S.

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—Madame Chiang Kai-shek has arrived in the United States and entered hospital for treatment for the after-effects of ...

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  31. NINE MORE SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN

    LONDON, Sunday.—British submarines have sunk nine more enemy supply ships and damaged three others attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Italy to reinforce the Axis forces in Tripolitania and Tunisia. ...

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  32. BELGIAN HOSTAGES S[?]

    LONDON, Sunday.—Eight B[?] hostages were executed at Ch[?] yesterday after the Belgian auth[?] failed to clear up the murder of [?] ...

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