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  3. JAPANESE LOSE HEAVILY IN OIL FIELDS BATTLE

    LONDON, Thursday.—on all Burma fronts fighting continues, The Japanese are throwing in heavy forces in an endeavour to recapture the oilfield of Yenangyaung. A Chungking military spokesman declared to-day that the ...

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  4. COMMANDOS SILENTLY ATTACK BEACH

    LONDON, Thursday—British commando troops landed on the beach near Boulogne and covered several hundred yards to the sand-dunes before the Germans were aware ...

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  5. AIRCRAFT OF THE NAVY

    Fairey Fulmer fighters ranged on the flight deck of H. M. S. victorious ready for squadron exercises. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. New British Bombers "To End War"

    LONDON, Thursday.—Designers of the British Halifax bomber consider it to be "the plane which will finish the war." ...

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  7. NAZIS MASS FOR UKRAINE PUSH

    LONDON, Thursday—Stockholm correspondents report increasing German air activity. They interpret this as a preliminary to a new offensive. German troop movements towards ...

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  8. SINGLE WORLD COMMAND

    CHUNGKING, Wednesday.—China wants the United Nations to Organise a single supreme command to co-ordinate ...

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  9. VICHY SHIPS IN FAR EAST

    LONDON, Thursday.—It is officially announced that when Japan entered the war there were nine ocean-going French merchantmen in the Far East ...

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  10. SOUTH PACIFIC AREA TO INCLUDE N.Z.

    AUCKLAND (New Zealand), Thursday—Creation of a new command separate from the S.W. Pacific command, and to be known as the South Pacific area, has been announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser). ...

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  11. PRELUDE TO INVASION

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday—The much-discussed second front may be opening before our very eyes, observers say. ...

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  12. HOURS FOR HOTELS

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—When the sale of liquor was discussed by the Premiers' conference to-day, it was ...

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  13. BOMB INJURES TROOPS

    STOCKHOLM, Thursday.—A message from Brussels says a bomb exploded under a room where Flemish Storm Troops were meeting, injuring ...

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  14. New Role for Troops in North

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Allied troops in the North who a few weeks ago saw themselves as the outer screen of Australian defence now regarded ...

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  15. ALLIED NAVAL FORCES

    General Headquarters announced last night the staff of the Commander of Allied Naval Forces in the South-west pacific. it includes an ...

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  16. NAVAL CHIEF IN U.S.

    A spokesman at the headquarters of the Combined Chiefs of Staff of the United Nations, disclosed that the British ...

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  17. TERRORIST RULE IN MADAGASCAR

    DURBAN, Thursday—On Laval's orders a rule of terror has begun in Madagascar, French island off South-east ...

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  18. RULE IN MADAGASCAR

    LONDON'S RIVER BARRAGE BALLOON UNITS are now issued with property fitted barges for living querters, which are tied alongside the operational barge. The photograph shows an R.A.F. speed boat transferring a small balloon to a destroyer whose ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. Nazi Victory— End of Christianity

    LONDON, Thursday.—Speaking at his enthronement at the Canterbury Cathedral to-day, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Temple) said that a ...

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  20. SURPRISE ATTACK NEAR RABAUL

    The following communique was issued by G.H.Q. South-West Pacific area yesterday: New Britain.—On Tuesday afternoon ...

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  21. PERSIA PURGES AXIS SUBJECTS

    TEHERAN, Thursday.—The Persian Government is taking drastic measures to purge the country of all Axis elements. ...

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  22. ARGENTINE SHIP TORPEDOED

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday—A navy spokesman said to-day there was no doubt that the Argentine tanker Victor was torpedoed by an Axis ...

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  23. "Flexible Socialism"

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Madame Chiang Kai-shek, in an article in the "Atlantic Monthly," says the Chinese do not wish to adopt Communism after ...

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  24. THOUSANDS OF POLES FOR MIDDLE EAST

    KASVIN (Persia), Thursday.—At the ancient town of Kasvin, in Northern Persia, one of the strangest episodes of the war is taking place— the evacuation of tens of thousands of polish soldiers from Russia. ...

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  25. PITH OF THE LEADERS

    THERE is much to be said for the attitude of the Premiers on the single tax proposal. Nevertheless, they cannot be content to ...

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  26. "GREAT DICTATOR" FILM STOLEN

    Thursday.—Five masked men to-day stole a copy of Charlie Chaplin's film "The Great Dictator" from a theatre where it ...

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  27. Cables in Brief NAZIS FORTIFY NORWAY

    Forty thousand workers have been engaged completing Germany's anti-invasion fortifications along the Norwegian coast. Narvik harbour has ...

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  28. Petrol and Sugar Rationed in U.S.

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Petrol rationing cards for the eastern seaboard will be distributed shortly. It is expected the allowance will be five ...

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  29. FRENCHMEN MAKING MANY ATTACKS ON NAZI SOLDIERS

    LONDON, Thursday.—The German military commander of Paris to-day disclosed that a great number of attacks are being made on German ...

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  30. SLAV GUERRILLAS SMASH GERMANS

    MOSCOW, Thursday.—Messages from Istanbul say that General Mikhailovitch's guerrilla forces have DRIVEN out Italian and German units from a number ...

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  31. PACIFIC NEGLECT DISASTROUS

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The Chinese Embassy issued an official statement to-day repudiating press reports that China has agreed that the ...

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  32. Dutch Pilots in Ceylon

    COLOMBO, Thursday.—The first intimation that the Dutch force was operating in Ceylon is contained in an official communique stating that ...

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