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  3. GREENLAND SURPRISE.

    WASHINGTON, April 26.—The possibility that Axis forces already partly occupy Greenland was disclosed with frank surprise by President Roosevelt at ...

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  4. SHIPPING LOSSES.

    WASHINGTON, April 26.—The Department of Commerce reported yesterday that British, Allied and neutral merchant shipping losses in the first 18 ...

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  5. LONDON COMMENT.

    LONDON, April 27.—President Roosevelt's decision for extended use of the United States neutrality patrol is welcomed in the Press as providing an ...

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  6. R.A.F. ASSAULTS.

    SUCCESSES AGAINST SHIPPING. LONDON, April 27.—Royal Air Force bombers again on Friday night ranged wide afield. The great naval centre at ...

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  7. RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN.

    SYDNEY, April 27.—Germany propaganda broadcasts in which, according to official reports, suggestions have been made of dissension between the British ...

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  8. RAIDS ON ENGLAND.

    LONDON, April 27.—In scattered raids over England last night, German bombers made the Merseyside their principal objective. "Planes crossed the coast at ...

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  9. PRACTICAL ISSUE.

    MELBOURNE, April 27.—The greatest Importance Is attached by observers to the speeches by the United States Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) and ...

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  10. FULL FACTS WANTED.

    NEW YORK, April 26.—Mr. Wendell Willkie, in a speech at Pittsburgh yesterday, called on the Administration to give the American people the full facts ...

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  11. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.

    RIO DE JANIERO, April 26.—The German freighter Lech (3,290 tons) has completed loading and is apparently ready to dash for Europe in an attempt ...

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  12. RULE OF INDIA.

    NEW DELHI, April 26.—Mr. M. K. Gandhi, the Indian Congress leader, today criticised the speech by the Secretary of India (Mr. Amery) in the House of ...

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  13. SABOTAGE PLOT.

    SEATTLE, April 26.—The police announced yesterday that they had discovered a plot by criminal elements and saboteurs to close down the Boeing ...

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  14. OUT OF LONDON.

    LONDON, April 25.—After the last mass air raids on London sponsored evacuation has greatly increased and parties of mothers with their children ...

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  15. RELEASED BRITISH SEAMEN.

    CAPE TOWN, April 25.—Sixty British seamen who were released at Mogdishu (Italian Somaliland) after the British occupied the port have arrived here. ...

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  16. A DEADLY FIGHTER.

    LONDON, April 27.—The new single-seat Typhoon fighter, it is revealed, is now in full production. The Typhoon is powered with a Sabre ...

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  17. HINDU-MOSLEM RIOTS.

    BOMBAY, April 26.—The police today fired on rioters during disturbances between Hindus and Moslems. Troops are standing by as the tension between the ...

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  18. SHORTAGE OF SEAMEN.

    WASHINGTON, April 26.—The Federal authorities are investigating re- ports that pro-Axis elements are trying to induce seamen not to sign on ships ...

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  19. EMPIRE CO-OPERATION

    LONDON, April 26.—The Home Secretary (Mr. Herbert Morrison) spoke at Guildford today on Empire co-operation in the war effort-a co-operation of ...

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  20. AIR TRAINING CORPS.

    LONDON, April 25.—The striking growth of the Air Training Corps has necessitated the decentralisation of control in Scotland from London. This ...

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  21. BRITISH LABOUR LEADER

    SYDNEY, April 27.—Mr. W. Holmes (past president of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain), who is now visiting New Zealand, is expected to come ...

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  22. NAZI ACE'S END.

    LONDON, April 26.—A young British pilot, Flight-Lieut. John C. Dundas, never knew that he shot down Wieck, Germany's fighting ace, over the Isle of ...

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  23. RAID VICTIMS' ESTATES.

    LONDON, April 25.—Where a man and, his wife are killed in an air raid, unless there is evidence to the contrary, it is presumed that the younger died last. A ...

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  24. SILENT AERO ENGINES.

    A claim that Germany has invented a silenced motor for bombers was made in Berlin recently by a member of the German Air Force. The invention of this ...

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  25. MANNING CONVOYS.

    CHICAGO, April 26.—Captain May. national vice-president of the Masters. Mates and Pilots' Union (American Federation of Labour) said today that his ...

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  26. LABOUR BEHIND THE WAR.

    MELBOURNE, April 27.—Commenting tonight on enemy propaganda regarding Australia's attitude to the campaign in Greece, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. ...

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  27. AIR-COMMODORE HUSKISSON.

    LONDON, April 25.—Leading eye specialists are fighting to save the sight of Air-Commodore Huskisson, a bomb designer, whose eyes were badly injured as ...

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  28. FOREIGN VESSELS.

    WASHINGTON , April 26.—The Merchant Marine Committee of the House of Representatives approved yesterday of President Roosevelt's request for authority ...

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  29. SERIOUS STRIKES.

    WASHINGTON, April 26.—The New York "Herald-Tribune" reports that the employees of 60 of the 61 plants of the General Motors Corporation have voted' ...

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  30. TOLL OF THE ENEMY.

    LONDON, April 25.—One hundred enemy aircraft have been shot down this month over Britain and around the coasts. Of these, 75 were destroyed at ...

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  31. ANXIOUS TO GO ABROAD.

    SYDNEY. April 27.—A most effective answer to enemy propaganda suggesting reluctance to send more Australian troops abroad was provided today by a ...

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  32. RAID ON MALTA.

    LONDON, April 26.—A Malta communique states that a large German formation raided Malta on the night of April 24-25. The raiders, after dropping ...

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  33. VICHY AND THE NAZIS.

    LONDON, April 25.—The French Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister (Admiral Darlan) is reported to have returned to Vichy after a visit to Paris, which is ...

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  34. MORE FREIGHTERS.

    OTTAWA, April 25.—The Canadian Government has ordered 96 cargo freighters of 10,000 tons each at a cost of 175,000,000 dollars (about £39,000,000 ...

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  35. PLANES FROM INDIES.

    BATAVIA, April 26.—The latest figures reveal that the Dutch East Indies is one of the best contributors of Spit- fires to Britain. Since May 10 last year ...

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  36. COUNCILS OF EMPIRE.

    LONDON, April 26.—Referring to Australia's part in the councils of the Empire, the Minister for Home Security (Mr. Herbert Morrison), speaking at ...

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  37. PICTORIAL RECORD.

    LONDON, April 26.—The Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Menzies) will take back to Australia one of the most remarkable war films ...

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  38. CANADIAN DISPUTE.

    MONTREAL, April 25.—The 324 employees of the Peck Rolling Mills, Montreal, who began. a strike for higher wages on Wednesday morning, decided ...

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  39. NAILING THE LIE.

    LONDON, April 25.—The German Propaganda Minister (Dr. Goebbels) Is broadcasting hourly to the Balkans that "again the English have forced the ...

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  40. NEW ARMOURED DIVISION

    SYDNEY, April 27.—The equipment of Australia's new armoured division will be discussed tomorrow by the War Cabinet. Officers are now being selected for this ...

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  41. NEW ZEALAND AND THE WAR.

    AUCKLAND, April 27.—Addressing a parade of the Home Guard today, the Governor-General (Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Cyril Newall) said 100,000 ...

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  42. NEW EMPIRE MEDAL.

    LONDON, April 25.—The first woman to win the new British Empire Medal is Miss Rosalie Gassman, of Hornsey. Miss Gassman, who holds the position of a ...

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  43. "STUPID DEFEATISTS."

    SYDNEY, April 27.—A slashingly outspoken attack on "stupid defeatists, whisperers and faint hearts" was made by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) ...

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  44. WAR SAVINGS CAMPAIGN.

    WASHINGTON, April 25.—Mr. Emil Ludwig, noted German author, who volunteered his services without pay, has been appointed by the Treasury to take ...

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  45. BACK TO THE DICTIONARY.

    LONDON, April 25.—The Lyons radio states that the French Academy resumed yesterday its work on the French dictionary, which "events interrupted." The ...

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