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  2. GIGANTIC BATTLE

    LONDON, May 22.—The Red Army organ "Red Star" stated this afternoon that the gigantic battle which has been raging in one sector of the Kh[?]rkov front for 4 days is still going on but the Germans, after Immense losses are showing signs of beginning to crack. The Russians ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. PERILOUS ORDEAL.

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 22.—After a remarkable escape from a ship which was bombed and damaged by Japanese bombers 154 ...

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  4. ATLANTIC SINKINGS.

    WASHINGTON, May 22.—Senator Brewster, addressing the Senate yesterday, criticised the American precautions against U-boats. He ...

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  5. CRUISER SUNK.

    MELBOURNE, May 22.—The sinking of 1 Japanese heavy cruiser and 2 large cargo vessels by Allied submarines is announced in today's ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. SPITFIRE SQUADRON.

    LONDON, May 22.—The Australian Minister for External Affairs (Dr Evatt) yesterday morning visited an Australian Spitfire ...

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  7. EASTERN CHINA.

    CHUNGKING, May 22.—The Chinese High Command announced yesterday that Japanese troops had been landed near Foochow and were ...

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  8. MELBOURNE MURDERS.

    MELBOURNE, May 22.—Following Investigations by detectives and military police into the murders of 3 women in Melbourne this month, ...

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  9. WHEN PEACE COMES.

    LONDON, May 21.—Lord Nathan (Lab), speaking in the House of Lords debate on post-war policy towards Germany, said yesterday that ...

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  10. USA BATTLESHIP.

    LONDON, May 22.—A special communique issued in Rome today claims that Italian submarines attacked a United States naval formation off the ...

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  11. NORTHERN BLOW.

    Wading knee-deep in icy water through forests in a sector in North Karelia the Russians, supported by heavy artillery, have launched a new ...

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  12. TORPEDOING OF TANKER.

    MEXICO CITY, May 22.—The Foreign Office yesterday announced that the Axis nations had rejected Mexico's note of protest and demand ...

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  13. TRAFFIC TO BRITAIN.

    HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 21.—The Minister of the Navy (Mr Angus MacDonald) told the Halifax Service Club today that 99 per cent ...

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  14. IN MADAGASCAR.

    LONDON, May 22.—The Free French authorities have published the following extracts from a report by a French officer who has escaped ...

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  15. MASS LAUNCHING.

    WASHINGTON, May 21.—On the occasion of the national maritime day tomorrow American shipyards will launch 27 merchantmen within ...

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  16. ST NAZAIRE HEROES

    LONDON, May 21.—The award of 3 Victoria Crosses is announced tonight for daring and valour in the recent combined operation on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. AIR OFFENSIVE.

    NEW YORK, May 22.—Brigadier-General Chennault, commander of the American Volunteer Group in China, in an interview in Kunming, ...

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  18. CORAL SEA BATTLE.

    NEW YORK, May 2.—In an apparent attempt to elicit information the Tokio radio today broadcast further purported details of the Coral ...

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  19. AID FROM USA.

    NEW YORK, May 22.—Senator Hill and George, expressing the belief that the Japanese would not attempt to attack India at present ...

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  20. SOUTH PACIFIC.

    AUCKLAND, May 21.—Vice-Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, US Navy, who was appointed to command the Allied forces in the South ...

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  21. HITS ON CONVOY.

    CAIRO, May 22.—Yesterday's RAF communique aid that objectives in Crete and Libya were attacked on Tuesday night, ...

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  22. NO FOOD WORRIES.

    CHUNGKING, May 22.—China is not worried about food, regardless of the outcome of the Japanese drives in South-West and Central China. ...

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  23. THE NORMANDIE.

    WASHINGTON, May 21.—The Navy Department announced today that preliminary work had begun on raising the burnt and capsized ...

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  24. JAPAN'S INTENTION.

    NEW YORK, May 21.—Writing in the New York "Herald-Tribune" Mr Wilfrid Fleisher, in a thorough political, economic and historial ...

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  25. SOUTH AFRICA'S DANGER.

    NAIROBI, May 2.—Interviewed on returning to Pretoria after having visited the South African base and forward troops, the Prime ...

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  26. KERCH STRUGGLE.

    LONDON, May 22.—This morning's Moscow communique states that fighting continues on the eastern part of the Kerch Peninsula. ...

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  27. FRENCH SUBMARINE LOST.

    LONDON, May 22.—A Vichy report says that it is now learnt that a second French submarine was sunk in the British attack on Madagascar. ...

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  28. NEI FORCES.

    SAN FRANCISCO, May 22.—The former Netherlands Consul in Sydney (Mr Elnik Schurman), who has arrived from Australia en route for ...

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  29. USA CONVERSATIONS.

    WASHINGTON, May 22.—The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) at a Press conference yesterday said that the conversations with the ...

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  30. RALLYING GROUND.

    AUCKLAND, May 21.—The need to regard Australia and New Zealand as bases from which the enemy can be attacked was emphasised by ...

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  31. PRISONERS OF JAPAN.

    BUENOS AIRES, May 21.—The Argentine Foreign Office has announced that Japan has agreed to permit a Red Cross ship to carry ...

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  32. SPIES IN JAPAN.

    WASHINGTON, May 21.—The Office of Facts and Figures states that Japanese broadcasts today disclosed the existence of an-anti-Axis ...

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  33. INDIAN ARSENAL.

    BOMBAY, May 22.—The Chief of the US Technical Mission (Dr O'Grady) said yesterday that India's war production must be developed ...

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  34. BOMBS ON AKYAB.

    LONDON, May 22.—Today's New Delhi communique said that RAF bombers yesterday again attacked the Akyab aerodrome, dropping ...

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  35. OPTIMISTIC SURVEY.

    LONDON, May 21.—In a speech today the Dominions Secretary (Mr C. R. Attlee) welcomed Russia's "kickback." "We have plans too," ...

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  36. USA TRANSPORT.

    LONDON, May 22.—It was reported from Vichy yesterday that 2 cruisers and an aircraft carrier had arrived at Gibraltar followed by a ...

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  37. TROOPS FROM BRITAIN.

    Polish troops formerly stationed in Scotland have arrived in Russia. They had been in Britain since the fall of France and are highly ...

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  38. ARMOURED DIVISION.

    LONDON, May 21.—The King and Queen, with Queen Mary, watched for 8 hours the manoeuvres of the Guards Armoured Division of the ...

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  39. TASK FOR SIAM'S KING.

    NEW YORK, May 21.—The Tokio official radio reports that the Siamese Government has asked young King Ananda Mahidol to return ...

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  40. ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE.

    LONDON, May 22.—According to the Oslo radio 15 Norwegians have been shot and 2 sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to ...

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  41. AIR TRAINING.

    OTTAWA, May 21.—Committees of the United Nations air-training conference today continued their sessions in secret. The Canadian ...

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  42. EXPLOITING CONQUESTS.

    NEW YORK, May 21.—The Tokio official radio states that General Hayashi, a former Prime Minister, has been named president of the ...

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  43. RAIDERS OVER BRITAIN.

    LONDON, May 22.—An Air Ministry communique states that shortly after midnight last night a few enemy planes crossed the north-east ...

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  44. SPIES SHOT IN SYRIA.

    BEIRUT, May 22.—Four spies were shot at dawn yesterday after a military trial. Others were imprisoned for terms ranging from 5 ...

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  45. DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS.

    GENEVA, May 22.—Twenty Germans are reported to have been killed by 2 fresh dynamite explosions at the Paris headquarters of ...

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  46. 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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