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  2. TORPEDOED SHIP.

    After having spent 24 hours in a lifeboat 25 men, survivors of the vessel which was torpedoed on Wednesday night, landed at a seaside ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. PACIFIC BASES.

    WASHINGTON, June 5.—Midway Island, the United States Pacific base 1,350 miles north-west of Honolulu, was heavily raided by ...

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  4. SUBMARINES SUNK

    MELBOURNE, June 5.—Two enemy submarines were sunk and a third probably sunk yesterday by Australian and Dutch reconnaissance squadrons which located them on the surface in widely separated localities off the east coast of Australia. ...

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  5. EAST CHINA THRUST.

    CHUNGKING. June 5.—Although there was little fresh news today of the fighting in Eastern China, reports indicated that the enemy was ...

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  6. AID FOR INDIA.

    NEW DELHI, June 5.—A military spokesman announced today that the largest convoy of reinforcements ever to reach India, and probably ...

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  7. LIBYAN STRUGGLE.

    LONDON, June 5.—A communique issued today from British GHQ in Cairo on the battle in Libya was as follows: "British and Indian columns ...

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  8. BREMEN RAID.

    LONDON, June 5.—The Air Ministry states that it was clear and cloudless when the RAF bombers attacked Bremen on Wednesday ...

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  9. COMMANDO'S FEAT.

    LONDON, June 5.—Further details of the raid carried out successfully by British special service troops on the French coast in the early ...

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  10. THE BURMA FRONT.

    NEW DELHI, June 5.—A military spokesman said today that the Japanese in Burma had reached Homalin on the Upper Chindwin 60 miles ...

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  11. HARBOUR ATTACKER.

    SYDNEY, June 5.—Australian and American naval officers are now inclined to the opinion that the Japanese submarine raised from the ...

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  12. MASS PRODUCTION.

    NEW DELHI, June 5.—A Government spokesman drew heckling when he told a Press conference today that some of the American Technical ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. ALLIED LEADERS.

    CHUNGKING, June 5.—Lt-General Stilwell, of the US army, who commanded the Chinese forces in the Burma campaign. and ...

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  14. ALASKAN ATTACK.

    WASHINGTON, June 5.—Details of the Japanese air attack on Dutch Harbour in the Aleutian Islands on Wednesday are contained in the ...

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  15. DUTCH PILOT'S STORY.

    Flight-Lieut Winckel, pilot of a plane which destroyed one of the Japanese submarines, is an unassuming, blue-eyed and blond, 6ft ...

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  16. SAFE IN PORT.

    When an Australian freighter reached port this morning some strange aspects of her encounter with a submarine on the previous ...

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  17. USE OF GAS.

    WASHINGTON, June 5.—President Roosevelt at his Press conference today said the United States had received reports Japan was ...

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  18. RUSSIAN FRONT QUIET.

    LONDON, June 5.—Activity along the Russian front yesterday was confined to patrolling and local raids, but the German radio ...

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  19. AMERICA'S LOSS.

    WASHINGTON, June 5.—Addressing a crowded house in the Senate; yesterday by special invitation, President Quezon of the Philippines said: ...

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  20. SWEEPS OVER FRANCE.

    LONDON, June 5.—After a night spent in attacking enemy aerodromes and aircraft and providing air support for the Commando ...

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  21. MR BRUCE'S POST.

    LONDON, June 5.—Referring to the appointment of Mr S. M. Bruce as the accredited representative of the Australian Government in the ...

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  22. DIEGO SUAREZ.

    LONDON, June 5.—Tokio official radio today broadcast a report from Imperial Headquarters that Japanese submarine units in a surprise ...

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  23. AXIS COMMUNIQUES.

    LONDON. June 5.—A Rome communique today stated: "A British counter-offensive in North Africa was repulsed. Considerable losses ...

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  24. AVENGING PEARL HARBOUR.

    WASHINGTON, June 3.—The Navy has completed plans to swear into service "Avengers of Pearl Harbour" in a special ceremony next ...

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  25. PILOTS WITHOUT PLANES.

    LONDON, June 5.—Of a score of pilots who have returned to their bases in Libya after being posted missing all but 2 reappeared within ...

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  26. "SANK A WARSHIP."

    NEW YORK, June 5.—The Tokio official radio today quoted Imperial Headquarters as stating that a flotilla of special submarines Invaded ...

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  27. MOONLIGHT RAID.

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 5.—Low-level attacks were made by a small force of Allied aircraft which raided Rabaul on ...

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  28. JUNKERS DESTROYED.

    LONDON, June 6.—The Australian Air Force nightfighter squadron has brought down its second raider. Observer-Sgt Ronald Charles ...

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  29. JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

    NEW YORK, June 5.—The Tokio official radio yesterday quoted the "Diplomatic Review" as asserting that Japan was conforming to the ...

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  30. ENEMY BASES HIT.

    MELBOURNE, June 5.—Further heavy attacks by Allied aircraft against the Japanese bases at Koepang in Timor and Rabaul in New ...

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  31. AUSTRALIANS' PART.

    CANBERRA, June 5.—Advice has been received from RAAF headquarters in the Middle East that an Australian pilot-officer from Rose ...

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  32. REVISED CASUALTY LIST.

    MELBOURNE, June 5.—A statement issued from the Navy Department today adds the names of Engineroom-Artificer W. G. Gordon, ...

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  33. HITLER IN FINLAND.

    LONDON, June. 5.—Hitler, who flew to Finland, yesterday presented Field Marshal Mannerheim, the Finnish commander-in-chief, with the Grand Cross of the German ...

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  34. ATTACKS ON ENGLAND.

    LONDON, June 5.—An Air Ministry communique today stated that a single enemy plane last night bombed a coastal town in East ...

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  35. "A GREAT SUCCESS."

    MELBOURNE, June 5.—"The sinkings of enemy submarines in Australian waters during the last few days represents a great success ...

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  36. TIMOR ATTACK.

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 5.—Koepang aerodrome was bombed by RAAF planes on Wednesday night in the fifth attack on ...

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  37. FLYING FORTRESS.

    NEW YORK. June 4.—A report from Burbank, California, stated the Boeing flying fortresses are rolling off the Vega Aircraft Co's ...

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  38. HEYDRICH'S DEATH.

    LONDON, June 5.—The German radio broadcast that all the weapons used in the fatal attack on Herr Reinhard Heydrich, Gestapo ...

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  39. ORDER RESCINDED.

    BUENOS AIRES, June 3.—The Argentine Government has retracted its recent order forbidding the Press from printing or commenting on ...

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  40. IN VULNERABLE AREAS.

    LONDON, June 4.—It is clear from reports reaching London from German occupied countries that workers in these countries who are cajoled ...

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  41. ILLNESS AT ARMY CAMPS.

    WASHINGTON, June 4.—The Secretary of War (Mr H. L. Stimson) stated at a Press conference that a special War Department ...

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  42. USE OF AIR POWER.

    WASHINGTON, June 4.—The War Department has nominated Brigadier-General Idwal Edwards, Assistant Chief of Staff, to be in ...

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  43. DECLARATIONS OF WAR.

    WASHINGTON, June 4.—The Senate unanimously and without debate completed the Congressional action for declarations of war against ...

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  44. NAVY DEVELOPS NEW MOTOR

    WASHINGTON, June 2.—The Navy revealed today that it has developed a liquid-cooled aircraft motor and awarded a contract for ...

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  45. DRAFTEE A WOMAN.

    NEW YORK, June 4.—Ten draftees from Galesburg, Illinois, appeared before the Draft Board for induction and 9 were accepted but the ...

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  46. USA PATROL SHIP LOST.

    WASHINGTON, June 5.—The Navy Department has announced the loss in the Atlantic of the small naval patrol ship Cythera. ...

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