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  3. JAPANESE POLICY.

    TOKIO, Feb. 23.—The United States Ambassador in Tokio (Mr. J. C. Grew) conferred with the Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr. Matsuoka) yesterday ...

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  4. WITH THE A.I.F.

    SINGAPORE, Feb. 22.—"Somewhere in Malaya" yesterday, in a cool, white schoolhouse set in the green jungle, L talked with the A.I.F. Commander ...

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  5. MR. MENZIES'S TOUR.

    LONDON, Feb. 23.—The Australian Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies), in a broadcast to the British people through the B.B.C. today assured them of the ...

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  6. AID BILL IN SENATE.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Senator Gillette (Democrat), resuming the debate in the Senate yesterday on the Aid for Britain Bill, said the passage of the Bill ...

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  7. RAIDS ON BRITAIN

    LONDON, Feb. 23.—While rescue squads in Swansea were still digging among the wreckage caused by the German bombings on Wednesday and ...

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  8. MALAYA AND INDIES.

    BATAVIA, Feb. 22.—The first Berlin-directed nerve war in the Far East, from Tokio, has misfired, leaving the Netherlands East Indies and Malaya more ...

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  9. "DOVE" AND "SNAKES."

    SHANGHAI, Feb. 22.—Major Kunio Akiyama, Japanese army spokesman, said at a Press conference yesterday that Japan was like a dove of peace, but the ...

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  10. PATRIOTIC EFFORTS.

    The honorary treasurer of the Australian Comforts Fund (W.A. Division) acknoweldges the following donations:— Previously acknowledged. £32.584; Kukerin ...

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  11. BRITAIN'S STRENGTH.

    LONDON, Feb. 21.—Estimates before the war made it clear that Britain would have a rapidly expanding navy from 1938-39 onwards. It is now ...

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  12. JAPANESE FIRM HELPS.

    SINGAPORE, Feb. 22.—Echigoya and Co,. Japanese hosiers and drapers, who have one of the best-known stores in Singapore, have donated 1,000 dollars to ...

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  13. THAI-FRENCH DISPUTE.

    LONDON, Feb. 23.—Increasingly concerned about the United States and British moves in the Far East, the Japanese Foreign Office has started to intensify ...

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  14. BATAVIA TRADE TALKS.

    HONG KONG. Feb. 20.—Indicating that the Batavia trade talks have been resumed, a series of meetings took place recently between the special Japanese ...

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  15. FREE FRENCH FORCES.

    NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—Count Jacques de Sieyes, American representative of the Free French forces, has left by clipper for London, via Lisbon, in order to ...

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  16. "HEADED FOR WAR."

    NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—General Hugh Johnson, in a speech at Pittsburgh last night, said: "The United States is headed for war. We shall be lucky if we are ...

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  17. AMERICAN OPINION.

    NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—A Gallup survey discloses that the majority of people in the United States is prepared to try to prevent Japan from seizing ...

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  18. R.A.F. TARGETS.

    LONDON, Feb. 23.—On Friday night Royal Air Force bombers attacked targets in west and north-west Germany, invasion ports and aerodromes in ...

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  19. WAY TO VICTORY.

    LONDON, Feb. 22.—"While concentrating on putting our island fortress into the highest state of defence, we know we can win the war only by a ...

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  20. U.S. AERONAUTIC EXPORTS.

    WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—The Department of Commerce reports that United States aeronautic exports totalled £311,757,000 dollars (£77,939,250 sterling) ...

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  21. BRITAIN'S FARMS.

    LONDON, Feb. 21.—In a broadcast ad- dress to farmers today, the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Hudson) said:—"The war has shocked the nation into an ...

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  22. THE TWO-OCEAN NAVY.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Knox) said today that 461,000 men and 35,000 officers would be needed to man the two-ocean ...

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  23. BERLIN CLAIMS.

    LONDON, Feb. 22.—German, communiques yesterday and today claim extensive successes at sea and in the air German naval forces, it was officially ...

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  24. DEFENCE OF SOUTH AMERICA.

    NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—A Gallup survey shows that 86 per cent of United States voters gave an affirmative answer to the question whether the United States ...

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  25. A DANISH TRIBUTE.

    LONDON, Feb. 21.—A tribute to the strength of Britain's world position appears in an article in the Danish pro-Nazi weekly "British Ugerevue." The ...

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  26. BATTLE OF LONDON.

    LONDON, Feb. 21.—The first party of Auxiliary Fire Service men from Northern Ireland to visit London in connection with the scheme to give them experience ...

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  27. U.S. COMMUNICATIONS.

    NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—A meeting at St. Louis of the Mayors of 150 American cities unanimously resolved to urge the Federal Government to build a system of ...

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  28. SOVIET AGENTS ON U.S. SHIPS.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Mr. Fred Howe, representing the Commercial Telegraphists' Union, gave evidence before a House of Representatives Committee ...

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  29. CHINA CONFLICT.

    LONDON, Feb. 22.—The Saigon radio reported yesterday that an economic agreement "in principle," had been signed in Moscow by Japan and the Soviet. ...

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  30. AMERICAN FINANCE.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.— The Treasure is expected to undertake on February 25 the first major financing operations under the so-called Public Debt ...

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  31. MR. WILLKIE'S PLANS.

    INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 22.—Mr. Wendell Willkie, the Republican leader, said yesterday that he would probably not go to China. He said last week that he was ...

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  32. INDIAN DISOBEDIENCE.

    BOMBAY, Feb. 23.—Mrs. Freda Bedi, the first Englishwoman to participate in Gandhi's disobedience movement, has been sentenced to seven months' ...

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  33. PHILIPPINES PREPARE.

    BATAVIA, Feb. 21.—Like Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and Australia, intense defence preparations are on foot in the Philippines. General Douglas McArthur, ...

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  34. SEIZURE OF FRENCH SHIP.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The United States, with a majority of other American Governments, is supporting the Brazilian proposal for a collective protest ...

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  35. NO POTATOES FOR PARIS.

    LONDON. Feb. 22.—A correspondent of "The Times" on the French frontier states that owing to disorders in the Paris central market the German ...

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  36. FORMER SCULLS CHAMPION

    LONDON. Feb. 22.—Pilot-Officer Louis Barry, the English professional sculling champion in 1936, who was previously posted missing, is now reported to be a ...

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  37. WORKERS EARN MORE.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The average hourly earnings of workers in manufacturing industries reached 68.3 cents in December, an increase of two cents. ...

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  38. ARMY PLANES FOR HAWAII.

    HONOLULU, Feb. 22.—Thirty-one United States Army P36 pursuit planes have been landed here after having been secretly ferried from the United States ...

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