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  2. AMERICAN LABOUR.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—In a surprising and dramatic move Mr. John L. Lewis, founder and former president of the Congress of ...

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  3. LIBYAN LULL.

    LONDON, Jan. 19.—Reuters correspondent with the Eighth Army in Libya reports that although British advanced armoured units now ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. A PREMIER DETAINED.

    LONDON, Jan. 19.—It is announced officially that the British Government has detained U Saw. Prime Minister of Burma. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. A.I.F. FIGHT.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 19.—Further news of successful encounters against the enemy in Malaya was received today by the Minister for the Army ...

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  6. MALAYAN PRESSURE

    SINGAPORE, Jan. 19.—The Japanese forces in Malaya have maintained heavy pressure against the British and Imperial fronts along the Muar and Segamot Rivers. In the Muar area, the enemy has succeeded in infiltrating a number of troops southward in the coastal belt and there ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. CHINESE SUCCESS.

    CHUNGKING, Jan. 19.—A Chinese army communique last night said that the Chinese forces pursuing the decimated Japanese units in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. RUSSIAN BATTLES

    LONDON, Jan. 19.—"Red Star," the Soviet Army newspaper, states that street fighting is in progress at Mojaisk, 65 miles west of Moscow, and the nearest stronghold to the capital still in German hands. The whole of Mojaisk is said to be in flames. Russian troops have also ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. BOMBING OF AERODROMES.

    BATAVIA, Jan. 19.—On Friday about noon Medan (in north-eastern Sumatra) was bombed by 21 Japanese bombers, which were ...

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  10. FEDERAL MEETING.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 19.—The War Council meeting in Melbourne tomorrow will still be without definite knowledge of the arrangements that ...

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  11. SINGAPORE RAIDS.

    SINGAPORE, Jan. 19.—Big forces of Japanese planes raided Singapore yesterday morning. The first "alert." was soon after breakfast. Observers ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. WAR AT SEA.

    WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—Senator T. Conally (chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) told a Press conference yesterday that ...

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  13. NAZI TROOPS IN BALKANS.

    ANKARA, Jan. 19.—It is reliably reported from Belgrade that German troops are hurriedly withdrawing from Serbia, where they are ...

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  14. PHILIPPINE DEFENCE.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The War Department announced in a communique yesterday afternoon (early this morning, Manila time) ...

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  15. U.S. FORCES.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Navy Department has disclosed that President Roosevelt today requested an additional 11,000,000,000 dollars ...

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  16. MARSHAL'S DEATH.

    LONDON, Jan. 18.—Hitler issued the following Order of the Day in connection with the death of Field Marshal von Reichenau, who was ...

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  17. HAWAII STRONGER.

    HONOLULU, Jan. 18.—Foreign broadcasts heard in Honolulu last night reported Japanese troop concentrations in the Marshall Islands ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. SURVIVORS' EXPERIENCES.

    MONTREAL, Jan. 18.—Six survivors from a torpedoed Panamanian vessel are now in hospital at an eastern Canadian port, after 3½ ...

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  19. GENERAL SIR JOHN DILL.

    OTTAWA, Jan. 18.—General Sir John Dill has arrived here by air from Washington for conferences with the Prime Minister (Mr. ...

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  20. VISIT BY WAVELL.

    SINGAPORE, Jan. 19.—The Allied Supreme Commander in the South-West Pacific (General Sir Archibald Wavell) visited the ...

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  21. ITALIAN WARSHIPS.

    LONDON, Jan. 19.—The "'Daily Mail's" Madrid correspondent states that when the Chief of the German Navy (Admiral Raeder) and the ...

    Article : 128 words
  22. SUGAR SHORTAGE.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Secretary of Agriculture (Mr. Claude R. Wickard) has issued a warning that the United States is faced with ...

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  23. SUBMARINE'S FATE.

    LONDON, Jan. 19.—Yesterday's Admiralty communique announced that His Majesty's submarine Perseus was overdue and must be considered ...

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  24. AMERICAN PRISONERS.

    NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The Tokio official radio said last night that 1,200 prisoners from Wake Island arrived in Yokohama yesterday. ...

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  25. NEARING AUSTRALIA.

    LONDON, Jan. 18.—The Berlin radio said yesterday afternoon that the Japanese had landed on Amboina Island, in the east of the ...

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  26. TOKIO CLAIMS.

    LONDON, Jan. 19.—The Domei newsagency claimed today that Japanese forces on the west coast of I [?]alaya were less than 25 miles from ...

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  27. SOUTH BURMA MOVE

    RANGOON, Jan. 19.—A communique last night announced that Imperial forces were contesting a Japanese advance along the 22-mile ...

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  28. BORNEO OIL.

    NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—The Tokio official radio claims that the sultans of northern British Borneo have surrendered to the Japanese in ...

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  29. AXIS CO-OPERATION.

    LONDON, Jan. 18.—The Berlin radio states officially that a military convention was signed in Berlin today between Germany. Italy and ...

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  30. DR. VAN MOOK.

    BATAVIA. Jan. 18.—The Lieutenant-Governor of the Netherlands East Indies (Dr. H. J. van Mook), who is at present in the United ...

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  31. IN CENTRAL AMERICA.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Costs Rica has been allotted £125,000 sterling from lease-lend funds to buy arms. The Public Works ...

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  32. U.S. ARMY PLANE CRASHES.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—It is officially announced that an army bomber crashed at [?]ton, Oregon, at 11.30 a.m. today, killing ...

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  33. AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS.

    Except where otherwise designated the overseas Intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...

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