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  2. STALINGRAD HOLDS

    LONDON, Oct 8.—Latest dispatches indicate that the amazingly stubborn Russian defence is successfully holding the Germans at bay at Stalingrad itself, while according to the Moscow radio the Russians north-west of the city are persistently and methodically breaking up Axis ...

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  3. THE SARK RAID.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—The German threat to put all British officers and men captured at Dieppe in irons from noon today as a reprisal ...

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  4. CHINA'S WAR VIEWS.

    CHUNGKING, Oct 8.—Mr Wendell Willkie, the US Republican leader, left Chungking yesterday by plane for an undisclosed destination. ...

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  5. ALEUTIAN BASES.

    WASHINGTON, Oct 7.—Aerial reconnaissance indicates that the Japanese have withdrawn from the islands of Attu and Agattu, in the ...

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  6. JUNGLE PROGRESS

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 8.—The mystery surrounding the New Guinea fighting did not lessen today though some clarification of the situation is contained in a statement in the GHQ communique. This statement is that the incredibly difficult Owen Stanley Range ...

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  7. DUKE OF KENT.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—The Secretary for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) announced in the House of Commons yesterday the findings of the Court ...

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  8. ALLIES' AID TO REDS.

    LONDON, Oct 7.—The Moscow correspondent of "The Times" reports: "One hears criticism expressed in Moscow that the ...

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  9. SECOND FRONT.

    NEW YORK, Oct 7.—In a leading article the "New York Times" states: "The Russians want a second front even if it fails of success. The ...

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  10. AGAINST THE NAZIS.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—The "state of emergency" in the Trondheim district was extended yesterday to the town of Roeros, according to ...

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  11. ENEMY STATION RAIDED.

    CHUNGKING, Oct 7.—The Associated Press states that Chinese forces have carried out a devastating raid on Sanyukang railway station, ...

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  12. INDIAN PROBLEM.

    LONDON, Oct. 8.—Initiating a debate on India in the House of Commons today the Secretary of State for India (Mr L. C. Amery) ...

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  13. MISSING PILOT.

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 7.—A young Melbourne sergeant- pilot who served in 6 theatres of war abroad in fighters and bombers has ...

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  14. LULL IN PACIFIC.

    WASHINGTON, Oct 7.—The Pacific theatre was relatively quiet, President Roosevelt told the Pacific War Council today. He added that ...

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  15. ARCTIC AIR BATTLES.

    LONDON, Oct 7.—Major Oleshkovsky in an article in "Soviet War News" pays tribute to the part played by British and American ...

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  16. QUICKLY ON THE JOB.

    TORONTO, Oct 7.—A shipment of Canadian tanks to Russia went into action 40 minutes after delivery, after being fuelled on shipboard, ...

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  17. NATIVE LABOUR.

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 7.—Natives recruited by the Japanese from Rabaul for labour gangs operating on the Kokoda ...

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  18. VICHY COLLABORATION.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—According to the Vichy radio, a special train went to Germany from Nice yesterday with French workers for the Reich. ...

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  19. MR WILLKIE'S SPEECHES.

    WASHINGTON, Oct 7.—"I'll say what I damn well please," Mr Wendell Willkie told the Press in Chung-king (a dispatch from the city ...

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  20. DENMARK TENSION.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—It is reported from Stockholm that crucial negotiations took place in Copenhagen all day yesterday between the ...

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  21. ENEMY TREACHERY.

    NEW YORK, Oct 7.—The Japanese in the South Sea Islands follow only the law of claw and fang. They wage war with a ferocity unknown ...

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  22. HINDU BODY'S MESSAGE.

    NEW DELHI, Oct 8.—The high-caste Hindu organisation known as Mahasabha has sent the following message to President Roosevelt and ...

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  23. LOST BATTLESHIPS.

    NEW YORK, Oct .—RAF fighters half an hour away failed to go to the aid of HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales when Japanese aircraft ...

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  24. GERMAN DEMANDS.

    NEW YORK, Oct 8.—The "'New York Times" Stockholm's correspondent states that persons in touch with the Government understand ...

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  25. CAUCASUS BATTLES.

    Neither the Russians nor the Germans are overlooking the importance of the battle for the Caucasus, where winter will lay its hampering hand ...

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  26. TOKIO'S "HEADACHE."

    CHUNGKING, Oct 7.—General MacArthur's gallant Australian and American forces are giving Japan a headache in the SW Pacific, a ...

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  27. ISLANDERS' DEPORTATION.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—Questioned in the House of Commons whether the Germans had compulsorily evacuated Channel Islanders to ...

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  28. GREEK RESISTANCE GROWS.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—The Instabul correspondent of "The Times" says that latest messages from Greece confirm reports that resistance there is ...

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  29. CHINA SEA SINKING.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—The British War Office is taking action to investigate a statement by the Japanese that the Lisbon Maru, a ...

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  30. AT CLOSE QUARTERS

    MELBOURNE, Oct 8.—Personal narratives of jungle fighting in the earlier stages of the battle for the Owen Stanley Range have been ...

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  31. CROAT GENERAL RETIRED.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—The German Newsagency says that Lt-General von Laxa, Chief of the Croat General Staff, has been relieved at his ...

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  32. ORDEAL AT SEA.

    NEW YORK, Oct 8.—A dispatch from a correspondent with the Pacific fleet, dated September 27, says that 7 American army flyers ...

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  33. POLICE FIRE ON MOB.

    NEW DELHI, Oct 8.—A message from Bangalore states that 3 people were killed and several injured when the police were forced to fire on ...

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  34. SHOTS IN COPENHAGEN.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—The Moscow Information Bureau says that German soldiers opened fire and wounded a number of Danish ...

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  35. LONDON EXPLANATION.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—It is stated authoritatively that Admiral Hart is misinformed in declaring in the "Saturday Evening Post" that RAF ...

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  36. NAZI SHIPPING.

    NEW YORK, Oct 8.—An Associated Press message states that the United Nations have sunk or seized at least 218 Nazi merchant vessels ...

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  37. POPULATION FIGURES.

    NEW DELHI, Oct 8.—Yesterday's census shows that India's population is approximately 388,800,000, an increase of over 50,000,000 since ...

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  38. BOFORS AA GUNS.

    NEW YORK, Oct 7.—For cutting the assembly time of Bofors anti-aircraft guns from 450 to 14 hours 45,000 Chrysler workers at Detroit ...

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  39. ALAMEIN FRONT.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—The British GHQ in Cairo said in today's communique that our patrols were active all along the front on Wednesday ...

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  40. INTERNED BRITONS.

    LONDON. Oct 8.—"Conditions for Britons interned in Hong Kong had shown some improvement since the early days," said the Foreign ...

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  41. IN MADAGASCAR.

    LONDON, Oct 8.—A Vichy communique yesterday said that the British forces slightly advanced in Madagascar on Tuesday. There was ...

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  42. NEWFOUNDLAND TROOPS.

    LONDON. Oct 8.—A further Newfoundland artillery contingent has arrived at a northern UK port. This is the 31st contingent of ...

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  43. REFUGEE SHIP WRECKED

    LONDON, Oct 8.—According to the Vichy radio, the Rumanian steamer Vitorul (120 tons), bound for Turkey with Jewish refugees. ...

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