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  2. SEA VICTORY

    WASHINGTON, June 7.—The highest circle in Washington were greatly heartened last night by an official report that United States forces had scored a crushing victory over Japanese naval units in the greatest air and sea battle fought so far in this war. ...

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  3. GUNS ON SYDNEY

    SYDNEY, June 8.—Sydney was shelled from the sea early this morning. Large-calibre shells passed over the eastern suburbs. One shell exploded in Rose Bay. Another fell in Simpson-street, Bondi. An alert was sounded soon after midnight but thousands of residents ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. SUBMARINE WAR.

    MELBOURNE, June 7.—Another enemy submarine was sunk off the east coast of Australia yesterday. It was bombed by an Allied plane and ...

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  5. RUSSIAN AIR STRUGGLE

    LONDON, June 7.—The weekend Moscow communiques referred only to "battles of local significance" and said there had been "no significant ...

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  6. FATE OF CHUHSIEN

    CHUNGKING, June 7.—Although Tokio official radio claims the capture of Chuhsien, 45 miles southwest of Kinhwa, there is no ...

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  7. GREAT LIBYAN BATTLE

    LONDON, June 7.—A counter-attack by General Ritchie's Eighth Army in Libya began at 4 o'clock on Friday morning and yesterday GHQ in Cairo announced that the initial phase had been successful. Fighting 'between armoured forces went on all day, also all day ...

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  8. STRATEGY IN CHINA.

    CHUNGKING, June 7.—High Chinese quarters declared on Friday that they had received information that high Japanese diplomats, after ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. HARBOUR ATTACK

    SYDNEY, June 7.—Four bodies have been recovered from 2 Japanese submarines which have now been raised from the bed of the harbour. ...

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  10. BRITISH AIR ATTACKS.

    LONDON, June 6.—In an interview given today to a correspondent of the "Sunday Times" in the Western Desert Air Vice-Marshal ...

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  11. TOKIO CLAIMS.

    NEW YORK, June 7.—Japanese broadcasts heard in New York to 1 pm today (Tokio time) did not mention the Battle of Midway Island ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. RAAF ACTIVE.

    SYDNEY, June 7.—RAAF bomber crews, some of whom have been in service in other war theatres, have played a notable part in the ...

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  13. GERMAN CONVOY LOSSES.

    LONDON, June 6.—Yesterday the Moscow radio announced that Stormoviks sank 6 merchantmen out of 2 German convoys in the Baltic ...

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  14. LEADER CONFIDENT.

    CHUNGKING, June 7.—In a speech made on June 2 but released for cabling only on Friday. the Chinese Generalissimo Chiang ...

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  15. CASUALTY LIST.

    MELBOURNE, June 7.—With the addition of the name of Stoker Arthur William Francis, of England, to the list of missing, believed killed, ...

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  16. BRITON'S IMPRESSIONS.

    LONDON, June 5.—A British antiaircraft officer who has just returned from Russia has brought back some striking impressions of the ...

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  17. FORCES IN BURMA.

    LONDON, June 7.—Berlin radio quotes a Tokio report that General Lo-Choying, commander or the Chinese forces in Burma, has escaped ...

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  18. WAR MEMORIAL REQUEST.

    CANBERRA, June 7.—Te Minister for the Interior (Senator Collings), who is chairman of the Australian War Memorial Board, has ...

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  19. OVER RANGOON.

    NEW DELHI, June 7.—United States heavy bombers under the command of Captain Frank Sharp attacked enemy shipping and the ...

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  20. AUSTRALIAN ZONE.

    LONDON, June 7.—The diarist of the "Observer" detects an encouraging new note in Mr Curtin's "habitually cautious reference to the ...

    Article : 227 words
  21. AIF GUERILLAS.

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 5.—Today I witnessed a demonstration of guerilla tactics by a picked platoon of AIF men whose ...

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  22. FINLAND'S POSITION.

    WASHINGTON. June 6.—At a Press conference today the of State (Mr Cordell Hull) said that Hitler's visit to Finland was a ...

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  23. NAVAL BALANCE.

    MELBOURNE, June 7.—Reliable observers consider that the heavy naval engagement slightly south of Midway Island will have a profound ...

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  24. MACARTHUR DAY.

    WASHINGTON, June 7.—The House of Representatives has passed legislation designating June 13 as MacArthur Day—a day which will ...

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  25. CANADIANS IN HONG KONG.

    OTTAWA, June 7.—The Canadian Expeditionary Force at Hong Kong fought without its mechanical transport, because 212 vehicles were ...

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  26. WASHINGTON DISCUSSIONS.

    WASHINGTON, June 7.—Australians figured prominently in the capital's diplomatic activities yesterday. ...

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  27. ENEMY CLAIMS.

    LONDON, June 6.—Yesterday the following communique was issued by the German High Command: "The Italo-German forces in North Africa ...

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  28. GERMAN ORDER TO BELGIANS

    LONDON, June 7.—It was learnt in Belgian circles in London that all Belgian army and reserve officers, including doctors, chemists ...

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  29. IN MADAGASCAR.

    PORT LOUIS (Mauritius), June 7.—A message from Antananarivo. the capital of Madagascar, states that a British motorised column occupied ...

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  30. SINGAPORE PRISONERS.

    SYDNEY, June 7.—The Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) said yesterday that no further news of war prisoners in Singapore had been ...

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  31. BIR HAKHEIM FIGHT.

    A Free French dispatch from Libya yesterday said that large numbers of Axis tanks plus hundreds of lanes and supported by scores of ...

    Article : 133 words
  32. GERMAN INVASION BARGES.

    LONDON. June 7.—A Stockholm report says that many flat-bottomed German invasion boats are moving from the Low Countries through ...

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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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