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  2. ALLIED PROSPECTS IN BURMA Appear Much Improved

    The Allied position on the Toungoo front (Burma) appears to have improved considerably. This is announced in the latest communique from New Delhi, and follows the news that reinforced. Chinese troops have recaptured the aerodrome north ...

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  3. BUDDHIST TEMPLES

    Four British soldiers—the only survivors from a battalion which five weeks before were ambushed at Mpolan, near the Sittang River— ...

    Article : 127 words
  4. AIR BOMBARDMENT

    A communique issued at 10 a.m. says: "Corregidor was under continuous bombardment from the air since the afternoon of March 27, but our ...

    Article : 121 words
  5. WAR DISCLOSURES. STIR IN AMERICA.

    Recent revelations will rasait in a drastic overhaul of America's War effort. Following criticism of labear's demands, and the ...

    Article : 464 words
  6. SECOND FRONT.

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  7. CAMPAIGN AGAINST MURMANSK Frustrated by Russians

    German plans for a big Spring campaign against Murmansk have been smashed by a surprise Russian attack on the Aretic front says the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Express." The Soviet forces were covered by units of the ...

    Article : 197 words
  8. KING'S BROADCAST.

    The King, broadcasting, said: "Since I last spoke to you we have been through very hard and anxious times. We have shared the ...

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  9. GERMAN BASE.

    It is officially stated that His Majesty's destroyer Campbelltown rammed the main dock gate at St. Nasaire, in occupied France. Five ...

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  10. BURMESE WITH JAPANESE.

    A Burma communique says patrol activity continues southwards from Prome. A force between 4000 and 5000 mixed Japanese and Burmese are reported ...

    Article : 257 words
  11. DIVE-BOMBERS REPULSED.

    In an effort to check the Russian advance the Germans sent over waves of dive-bombers, but these met with a disastrous repulse. ...

    Article : 229 words
  12. GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY.

    A Moscow communique says that Russians continued the offensive operation to-day and captured sever. inhabited localities, and also repulsed ...

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    Of 4000 German warplanes which tried to reach Moscow during August-September-October, less than five per cent actually reached ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. VITAL PRODUCTS.

    It is officially disclosed that the United Nations had resaoved "substantial amounts of tin, rabber and tangsten fresa Malaya and ...

    Article : 89 words
  15. LEGLESS PILOT.

    Snb-Lientenant Colin Hodgkin son (21), attached to the air branch of the Royal Navy, lost both legs in. an air crash while ...

    Article : 93 words
  16. ENEMY CLAIMS.

    The Tokio official radio claims that the Japanese in Burma advanced north-west of Rangoon and reached a point 31 miles from the important oil centre ...

    Article : 176 words
  17. HEAVY TANKS USED.

    The German radio says that the Russians are using a great number of tanks and heavily attacking the German lines to the north-east of Gjarsk. ...

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  18. WAK APPBOPBIATION.

    Important changes in war plans were announced to-day. A war appropriation provides for an army of 3,600,000 by the end of this year. ...

    Article : 297 words
  19. TRAITORS HELP.

    In the earlier stages of the battle for Toungoo small parties of Japanese cavalry and traitor Burmese infiltrated round the Allies flanks to try to ...

    Article : 228 words
  20. JAPANESE PREPARATIONS.

    A military spokesman says that the Japanese are preparing a two-pronged drive towards Siberia, probably from North Manchukuo and Inner ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. GERMAN REPORT.

    The German High Command, ampliflying the statement of the operation at St Nazaire, stated that shortly after midnight on March 28 waves of enemy ...

    Article : 282 words
  22. CONCERTED ACTION.

    The Australian Minister for External Affairs (Dr. H. V. Evatt), in a speech at the overseas writers dinner, attended by the country's leading political ...

    Article : 409 words
  23. BRITISH PROPOSALS. SETTLE INDIAN PROBLEMS.

    The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Stafford Cripps) said at a Press conference to-day: "I do not want to leave India before I know whether the British proposals ...

    Article : 141 words
  24. STATE OF WAR.

    The Berlin radio states that the Bulgarian Premier (Professor Filoff), in a speech to the Bulgarian Parliament, announced a state of war between ...

    Article : 111 words
  25. WIPE OUT SENTRY.

    Australian soldiers imprisoned in a Chinese grass house after the fall of Singapore drew straws to decide who should settle the sentry when they ...

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  26. SUSPECTED PERSONS.

    There had been a substantial increase in the number of internments of people against whom there was evidence of subversive activities, the Army ...

    Article : 304 words
  27. TROOP MOVEMENTS.

    Bulgarian troops who have been massed on the Turkish frontier since 1938 are moving away since the King Boris-Hitler interview. The Bulgarians ...

    Article : 34 words
  28. MEETING WITH LEADERS.

    Among the Indian leaders whom Sir Stafford Cripps met to-day, according to messages from New Delhi, were Dr. Azad, Congress piesdent, and Mr. ...

    Article : 63 words
  29. SOCIAL SERVICES.

    Increased social services to be provided by the Commonwealth Government, forecast earlier this week, were announced in the House of ...

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  30. MEDAL OF HONOUR.

    A War Department communique from the Australian theatre says that the United States Chief of Staff (General Marshall) has received the following ...

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  31. FIFTH COLUMN.

    The Treasury announced that the American Bosch Corporation of Massachusetts had dismissed 23 employees with German names, although they were ...

    Article : 239 words
  32. GENERAL BLAMEY.

    On his return from Canberra at the week-end, the G.O.C. Australian Troops (General Sir Thomas Blamey) said he had gained the impression that ...

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  33. MOBILISATION ACT.

    The executive issue of the National Mobilisation Act gives the Government almost unlimited power to conscript Chinese man-power and material resources ...

    Article : 77 words
  34. TWO MAN SUB MARINES.

    The "Sunday Express" says that the Japanese two-man submarines were modelled on a 19-ton British craft built in 1905, the tests of which were watched ...

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  35. HEAVY EXPLOSIONS.

    Several heavy explosions in the Remington arms plant wrecked a two-story building and also set fire to several buildings, including nearby resideneee. ...

    Article : 66 words
  36. MOOD OF REALISATION.

    Joseph Harsch, cabling to the "Christian Science Monitor," stated that during the past fortnight Australia had passed through three totally different ...

    Article : 73 words
  37. SAFE CONDUCT.

    The motorzhip Siella, under safe conduet guarantees from the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy, arranged by the Red Cross, sallad yesterday with ...

    Article : 52 words
  38. NEW POLISM MINISTER.

    M. Victor [?] Polish Minister to Canada, has pressanted his credentials to the Governor-General (the Earl of Athlone). ...

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  39. LONE RAIDER BOMBS TRAIN.

    A single raider bombed a train near a north-east, coaststown last night, causing casualties. ...

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  40. JAPANESE AMBAMADOR.

    The Japaness Ambassador to Moscow (Mr. Sate) has arrived. ...

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