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  2. ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—America is now producing military planes at the rate of 66,000 per year. The production figures for 1942 were given by President Roosevelt when he addressed the 78th US Congress today. "We produced 48,000 military planes—more than the ...

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  3. POSITIONAL FIGHTING.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—The recapture by the Germans of two heights guarding the approach to Mateur and Bizerta (the Tunisian naval ...

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  4. NEARER ROSTOV.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—A Moscow dispatch today reports that the vanguard of the Soviet offensive down the Don River has passed Strakhov, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. THRUST FROM CHAD.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—After 3 days' severe fighting General Leclerc's Fighting French forces, which have advanced northwards 1,000 miles ...

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  6. JAPANESE CONVOY

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 8.—After 24 hours' incessant attacks by waves of Allied aircraft a strong Japanese convoy of 10 ships heading for Lae in New Guinea was reported to have lost 2 large transports while a third had suffered a direct hit from a 500lb bomb. ...

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  7. BENGAL CYCLONE.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—It was revealed last night that 3,000 square miles were affected by the terrific cyclone which swept south-western Bengal ...

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  8. TO BEAT JAPAN.

    For more than 5 months now the Pacific war has been more or less centred on one small campaign— small, that is, by contrast with the ...

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  9. LIBYAN CAMPAIGN.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The Pacific War Council meeting yesterday was attended by the British Minister of State in the Middle East ...

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  10. GERMAN LOOTING.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—According to the "Daily Telegraph," the Central Institute of Art and Design, of which many Allied experts are ...

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  11. SOLOMONS AREA.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Today's Navy Department communique reported: "Yesterday Flying Fortresses with a Lightning and ...

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  12. SEIZURE DEFENDED.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—Replying to the Allies' denunciation of Germany's looting of occupied countries, a Berlin official spokesman says: "The ...

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  13. AXIS TRANSPORT ATTACKED.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—Today's Cairo GHQ communique states: "There was nothing to report yesterday from our land forces. Allied fighters at ...

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  14. MEAGRE NEWS.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—"We are unable to understand why the British public should not be more fully acquainted with the position of the ...

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  15. AMERICAN VIEWS.

    NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Col Melvin J. Maas, a member of the House of Representatives who criticised the conduct of the war in the Pacific in ...

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  16. "SUICIDALLY DEVOTED."

    NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—The New York "Herald-Tribune" declares editorially that the Japanese soldier in New Guinea has shown himself as ...

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  17. ROMMEL MOVING WEST.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—The National Broadcasting Corporation's Cairo representative states that British fighter pilots report that a sizable ...

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  18. SANANANDA SALIENT.

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 8.—While the Japanese are struggling to push reinforcements in to their garrison at Lae and ...

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  19. DUTCH BOMBER SQUADRON.

    Some of the men who form a Dutch bomber squadron in Australia. They are for the most part men who have escaped from Holland and the Netherlands East Indies. To their numbers numbers have been added some who have been resident in Australia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  20. RAF OVER BURMA.

    NEW DELHI, Jan. 8.—A communique issued by British HQ to-day stated: "RAF heavy bombers last night heavily bombed the port ...

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  21. CHINA AND ALLIES.

    CHUNGKING, Jan. 7.—The Minister for Information (Mr Chang Tao-fan) explained today that Lt- General Hsiung Shih-fei, head of ...

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  22. MAMMOTH CONVOY.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—According to Berlin radio "a mammoth convoy assembling at Gibraltar includes over 50 cargo vessels and 10 ...

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  23. MR CASEY IN USA.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The British Minister in the Middle East (Mr R. G. Casey) told the Associated Press yesterday that he was ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. NURSING SERVICE.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 8.—Commonwealth control of all trained nurses probably will be the outcome of conferences held today between the ...

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  25. FRENCH LEADERS.

    LONDON, Jan. 7.—The Press Association's diplomatic correspondent says it is learnt in Fighting French circles that General Giraud (French ...

    Article : 89 words
  26. S. AFRICAN FINANCE

    CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7.—It is anticipated that the S African Budget will reach the record figure of £150,000,000, including £50,000,000 ...

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  27. MR CURTIN'S WARNING.

    LONDON, Jan. 7.—In a leading article "The Times" says: "Mr Curtin has done well to give a warning that the recent Allied successes in ...

    Article : 92 words
  28. DARLAN'S SLAYER.

    LONDON, Jan. 7.—Vichy radio asserted today that the man who assassinated Admiral Darlan in Algiers on Christmas Eve was a 20 ...

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  29. MOTORING IN USA.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The Price Administrator (Mr Leon Henderson) yesterday banned all pleasure and non-essential motoring in 17 ...

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  30. USA WHITE PAPER.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The Director of the Office of War Information (Mr Elmer Davis) said to- day that the State Department's ...

    Article : 83 words
  31. MONARCHIST PRETENDER.

    LONDON, Jan. 7.—The Algiers correspondent of the "Daily Express" says it has been revealed that the 35-year-old pretender to the ...

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  32. HIDING IN JUNGLE.

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Jan. 6.—Like rabbits without a burrow small parties of Japanese are still roaming the jungle round Buna ...

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  33. AIRCRAFTWOMAN'S DEATH.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 8.—The funeral of Aircraftwoman Rita May Leonard, who was killed when struck by a motor truck while walking ...

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  34. INDIAN AFFAIRS.

    LONDON, Jan. 7.—"The ruling princes of India," said the Secretary for India (Mr L. S. Amery) in a speech today "are essential and ...

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  35. FREE AUSTRIANS.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—At a Press Conference yesterday President Roosevelt described as completely vicious and untrue reports ...

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  36. LANDING A TANK.

    A US tank rolling ashore from a landing barge during full-scale manoeuvres held on the east coast of America in preparation for the North African Campaign. (US Office of War Information Photograph). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  37. OVER THE RUHR.

    LONDON, Jan. 8.—An Air Ministry communique today stated that RAF Bomber Command planes last night attacked targets in the Ruhr. ...

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  38. TREACHEROUS NATIVE.

    ALGIERS, Jan. 8.—A Tunisian native has been publicly executed in the theatre square at St Arnaud for guiding German soldiers on a ...

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