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  2. DESERT STRUGGLE

    LONDON, Oct 30.—A dispatch from Cairo today states that the Allies have consolidated all ground taken since the offensive in the Western Desert began, including ground gained on Wednesday night. This morning's communique from British GHQ in Cairo announced: ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. AUSTRALIAN GUNS.

    BATTLE HQ, Oct 27.—Commenting on our part in Friday's record Western Desert artillery barrage preceeding the general Allied ...

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  4. AT STALINGRAD.

    LONDON, Oct 30.—The latest reports from Moscow, including the midday communique, shows that the Russians at Stalingrad are holding ...

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  5. MACARTHUR'S ROLE.

    NEW YORK, Oct 29.—"General MacArthur's airmen are apparently not permitted to continue hammering blows against the southern ...

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  6. BAYONETS AT ALOLA.

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 30.—With a strong bayonet charge Allied troops in New Guinea drove the Japanese at dusk ...

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  7. TOUGH GOING

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 28.—The slowdown in the Allied advance through the difficult terrain of the Owen Stanley pass can be ...

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  8. SOLOMONS OUTLOOK

    Japanese attacks upon the American lines at Guadalcanal are announced in Thursday's Navy Department communique from Washington. The lines were pierced, but counter-attacking by Army and Marine Corps troops thrust the enemy out. ...

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  9. POLITICAL DISCLAIMER.

    NEW YORK, Oct 29.—Discussing General MacArthur's disclaimer of political ambitions, Arthur Krock, special correspondent of the "New ...

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  10. BATAAN TO AUSTRALIA

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 30.—The Pacific war has produced numerous amazing escape stories, but none more dramatic ...

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  11. USA NAVY.

    NEW YORK, Oct 29.—The Director of the Office of War Information (Mr Elmer Davis) asserted in a broadcast that all sinkings of ...

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  12. JAPANESE FLEE.

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 29.—In a ferocious bayonet charge up a precipitous hill as dusk was falling in the Owen Stanley ...

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  13. JAPAN'S STRENGTH.

    NEW YORK, Oct 29.—"Until American naval superiority is established a further offensive in the Solomons is unlikely and the defence ...

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  14. AIR SUPPORT.

    The high-spot of yesterday's air activity in the Western Desert was the RAP fighter raid on Mersa Matruh. The fighters swept in from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  15. ALLIED AIR STRENGTH.

    MOSCOW, Oct 29.—"The considerably developed Allied forces in the Pacific are able to oppose successfully any offensive by the ...

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  16. ALLIED CONVOY.

    LONDON, Oct 30.—Berlin High Command in a special announcement asserts that a group of U-boats, despite strong defences, attacked a ...

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  17. "GETTING TOUGHER."

    NEW YORK, Oct 29.—"The Solomons fighting is getting tougher all the time," said 4 Navy fighter pilots returning to the United States for ...

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  18. BOMBS ON INDIA.

    LONDON, Oct 30.—A New Delhi communique states that Japanese planes on Wednesday again attacked aerodromes in north-east India. ...

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  19. NZ FORCES.

    AUCKLAND, Oct 30.—An out-line of the part New Zealand is playing in the defence of the South Pacific was given today by the ...

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  20. BOMBS AT BUIN.

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 30.—Flying Fortresses made a strong attack against the Japanese naval base at Buin in the Solomons ...

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  21. REASONS FOR SUCCESS.

    CANBERRA, Oct 30.—The Australian troops' success in driving the Japanese back in New Guinea was a direct result of their high morale, ...

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  22. ALASKAN HIGHWAY.

    WASHINGTON, Oct 29.—The entire Alaskan Highway is now open to traffic 2 weeks ahead of schedule. In making this ...

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  23. TRAINING FOR WAR.

    The Soviet authorities have issued a decree under which all Russian boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 18 will be trained in war duties. ...

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  24. FIGHTING SPIRIT.

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 29.—An Australian officer who has been in the Owen Stanley jungles said today that the Japanese ...

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  25. SECOND FRONT.

    NEW YORK, Oct 29.—"PM's" military commentator says: "Stalin and Soviet officials have always realised that Britain and the United States ...

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  26. WENDELL WILLKIE.

    NEW YORK, Oct 30.—Mr Wendell Willkie in his second broadcast renewed his plea for increased aid for Russia and China and added that ...

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  27. CAMPAIGN'S ORIGIN.

    WASHINGTON, Oct 29.—The decision to launch the Solomons operation was made by the joint Army and Navy Chiefs of Staffs in ...

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  28. AIR OPERATIONS.

    LONDON, Oct 30.—An Air Ministry communique states that Bomber Command aircraft operating singly in daylight yesterday attacked ...

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  29. AFRICAN TOUR ENDS

    LONDON, Oct 29.—According to the Vichy radio. Admiral Darlan (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed; Forces) said at the conclusion of his ...

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  30. USA ARMY CHIEF.

    WASHINGTON, Oct 30.—The American Associated Press states that it is reliably reported that Lt.-General Dwight Eisenhower, ...

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  31. FORTRESSES AT FAISI.

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 29.—Flying Fortresses which raided Rabual yesterday morning struck again at Japanese shipping at ...

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