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  2. BRITISH TROOPS WITHDRAWN On Mandalay Front

    A New Delhi communique says that all British troops on the Mandalay front'are being withdrawn from positions north of Irrawaddy. Road and rail bridges across the Myitnge River, south of Mandalay, were successfully blown up; also two spans ...

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  3. NEW YORK STRIKE.

    Declaring a strike of 8000 elevator operators and building service employees on Upper Westside constituted a menace to life and health, ...

    Article : 137 words
  4. RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

    The Stockholns correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that with the exception of the Battle for Britain the Russian winter ...

    Article : 605 words
  5. FOUR SHIPS.

    The Vatican is to become the owner of ocean-going merchantmen. Four vessels, flying the Vatican flag, will shortly enter service between Civita ...

    Article : 108 words
  6. DAYLIGHT SWEEPS.

    After one day's break, due to weather conditions, the Royal Air Fores resumee its daylight activity to-day when shortly before noor ...

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  7. TWO MYSTERY PLANES SIGHTED Flight Over Townsville

    Mystery planes flew over Townsville on Friday morning, a social communique issued at South-west Pacific General Headquarters revealed last night. Anti-aircraft batteries swiftly went into action, and attempts were also made to ...

    Article : 246 words
  8. THIRTY FRENCHMEN.

    Thirty French officers at a German prison camp have been shot on suspicion of helping General Girand to escape, says a Tass Agency ...

    Article : 293 words
  9. U.S. SENATOR.

    Sensational allegations that a United States Senator frequented a house of ill-fame in Brooklyn, where Neal spies used te obtain ...

    Article : 350 words
  10. TOKIO CLAIMS FALL OF MANDALAY.

    Tokio radio claims the capture of Mandalay, chief city of Central Burna, with a former population of 150,000. A Chungking spokesman says that. ...

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  11. ADVANCE CHECKED.

    On the East Burma front General Stillwell's Chinese forces are reported to have checked the Japanese with heavy losses in a battle north of Lashio. ...

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  12. JAPANESE MOVE UP MARKHAM VALLEY.

    Japanese forces are reported to be again advancing in the Markham Valley in New Guinea, A Port Moresby report states that a strong force reach ...

    Article : 350 words
  13. POSITION UNCHANGED.

    A communique states: Chindwin front: The situation in Monywa is unchanged. Our troops are still fighting in that area. ...

    Article : 136 words
  14. JAPANESE REINFORCED.

    Analysis of the air battie for the North foreshadows Japanese intentions. After three weeks' ceaseless, battering by Allied bombers and fighters, ...

    Article : 268 words
  15. AIRMEN ESCAPE.

    Two British airmen, whose Plane crashed during an R.A.F. raid on Trondheim on April 27, arrived in Stockholm, exhausted ...

    Article : 97 words
  16. U.S. CASUALTIES.

    The Navy has announced that the number of United States casualties since the Pearl Harbour attack until April 15 was at least ...

    Article : 102 words
  17. "NOT WORTH WHILE."

    It is authoritatively stated that although there is no confirmation of the Japanese occupation of Mandalay, it is pointed out that it would not be ...

    Article : 211 words
  18. AXIS DICTATORS.

    wide speculation has followed the meeting between Hitler and Mussolini this week. Here are some of the reports of what ...

    Article : 321 words
  19. EXCESS PROFITS.

    The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee agreed yesterday of a flat 94 per cent, excess profits tax rate for corporations. ...

    Article : 350 words
  20. U.S. CO-OPERATION.

    The "New York Times" Washington, correspondent says that the Secretary for State (Mr. Co[?] Hull) conferred at length with M. Adrien Tixier; chief ...

    Article : 146 words
  21. AID FOR PRISONERS.

    Lack of Japanese co-operation is holding up aid for the British prisoners of war and internees in the Far East. An official leaflet says that ...

    Article : 188 words
  22. CARTELS UNDER FIRE.

    Standard Oil Corporation and other big business corporations are again under fire. The Department of Justice spokesman ...

    Article : 333 words
  23. DELAYING ACTION.

    British and Chinese troops are fighting a desperate delaying action against the Japanese on the outskirts of Mandalay. ...

    Article : 126 words
  24. JAPANESE ALLEGATION.

    The Tokio official radio asserts that a "United States or Allied submarine" torpedoed the Russian merchantman Angrostroi off the Kyushu coast. It ...

    Article : 80 words
  25. STILL HOLD TAUNGGYL

    The New Delhi radio says that the Chinese are still holding Taunggyi. ALL POINTS CAPTURED. A Berlin radio message from Tokio ...

    Article : 117 words
  26. "LA MARSEILLAISE."

    Petain has censored "La Marseillaise," famous French revolutionary song and the Republic's national anthem. The "Daily Mail's" Madrid ...

    Article : 89 words
  27. GERMANS KILLED.

    Between 40 and 50 Germans were killed in a train wreck at Rouen. The Germans have arrested a large number of hostages Rouen was the scene of a ...

    Article : 91 words
  28. U.S. TANKERS.

    Broadcasts to-day reported that two armed United States tankers had engaged a submarine in a running gun fight off the Cuban coast, one within ...

    Article : 77 words
  29. LIFE SENTENCE.

    The Berne radio says that a military court sentenced sat man, including soldiers in the Swiss army and one German, to terms ranging from a life ...

    Article : 62 words
  30. BOMBING OF AKYAB.

    The Tokio official radio says that Japanese naval aeroplanes raided Akyab on Friday before dawn, and rained tons of explosives on the air ...

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  31. SEPARATE STATES.

    The All India Congress Committee rejected Rajar Gopaischrai'a rasolution acknowledging the claim for separata States by 120 to 15. "A counter resolution ...

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  32. AUGSBURG RESULTS.

    A photographic reconnaissance of the Deisel engine factory at Augsburg has now shown that the Lancasters achieved exactly what they set out to ...

    Article : 63 words
  33. BRAZIL'S MAY DAY.

    Brazil's May Day celebrations were banned to-day after an automobile accident, in which President Vargas suffered minor injuries, chiefly bruises. ...

    Article : 82 words
  34. NEW DANISH P.M.

    A stockholm report from Copenhagen says King christian relieved the Prime Minister (Herr stsuning) from his duties for health reasons. ...

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  35. TRIBAL CHIEFTAIN

    It is officially stated that Bong of Wong ruler of a flerce tribe of headhuntersin Assess, has declared war against Japan. He is the second chieftain in Assam ...

    Article : 56 words
  36. MAN-POWER VOTE.

    A Conservative Party spokesman said to-day that unless the King Governmant acta within a week to introduce the overseas conscription legislation the ...

    Article : 46 words
  37. SCHOOLGIRL HANGED

    A 13-year-old schoolgirl.Ruth Bum Helens Sloan, was found hanged yesterday be neath the home ol her parents in Longueville Road, Lane Cove. ...

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  38. ORGANISING HOME GUARD.

    Bengal is organising a Home Guard on British pattern. ...

    Article : 15 words
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