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  2. SWEPT CLEAN

    WITH GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Nov 4.— Hardly a single ship escaped destruction or damage in the great air raid on Rabaul harbour on Tuesday. "The harbour was practically swept clean," declares General MacArthur's communique, "nearly every ship ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. POST-WAR SECURITY.

    WASHINGTON, Nov 4.—Opening the way to a compromise of the Senate controversy over foreign policy, its Foreign Relations ...

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  4. FIFTH ARMY.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—The Fifth Army's long-expected attack in the coastal sector of the Gulf of Gaeta against the advanced position on ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. LARGEST U.S.A. FORCE.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—The largest force of heavy bombers the US Eighth Air Force has yet dispatched was over Germany yesterday. ...

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  6. GERMAN ROUT

    LONDON, Nov 4.—"Don and Kuban Cossacks, sabring and tommygunning the fleeing Germans, have made the greatest advance of any single day in the war in pursuit of the shattered enemy forces between the Lower Dnieper and the Black Sea," says the British United Press ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. HURTLING PLANES.

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Nov 4.—"The Rabaul scene yesterday was just like a Hollywood set. I have never seen so many Japanese ...

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  8. EMPIRE COUNCIL.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Supporting Mr Curtin's proposal for an Empire Advisory Council, the "Daily Mail" declares: "Two wars have revealed ...

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  9. U.S.A. COAL DISPUTE.

    WASHINGTON, Nov 3.—The United Mine Workers of America has instructed the miners to resume work as early as possible because a ...

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  10. PORTENTS.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—The Russians north of the Dnieper Bend are likely to inflict another rout on the Germans within a few days, according ...

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  11. ON BOUGAINVILLE

    WITH GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Nov 4.—It is now revealed that within a few hours of the landing on Bougainville ...

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  12. THEN DUSSELDORF.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Today's Air Ministry communique states: "Bomber Command planes were over Germany in great strength last night ...

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  13. JAPANESE DRIVE.

    CHUNGKING, Nov 4.—The Associated Press states that the Japanese launched a new seven-column drive in the rich "rich bowl" region in ...

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  14. STRIKES IN BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Twenty-four thousand workers, the majority of whom are women, in a west of Scotland group of engineering factories ...

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  15. RAID ON COLOGNE.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Berlin radio says that the cathedral was heavily damaged when the RAP attacked Cologne last night; One bomb tore ...

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  16. GATHERED MIGHT.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—The Berlin correspondents of Swedish newspapers say that a giant Russan offensive is impending west of ...

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  17. TRIGNO RIVER.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Better weather on the Adriatic coast has enabled the Eighth Army to extend its bridgehead across the Trigno River ...

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  18. FINAL AIR ASSAULT.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—"The Allies are planning for this winter a anal three-way air assault to crack Germany's war industry. This is the in ...

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  19. S.O.S. TO HITLER.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—"General Jaenecke, the German commander-in-chief in the Crimea, is repeatedly sending SOS messages to Hitler's ...

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  20. LEADERS OF RUSSIAN OFFENSIVES.

    Russian Generals who direct the present offensives. Left to right: General Rokossovsky, who struck from Kursk at Kiev and who previously encompassed the German defeat at Stalingrad; Artillery Marshal Voronov, whose guns are with the whole westward drive; and General ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  21. OFFICIAL REPORT.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Today's Algiers HQ communique was as follows: "Land: Heavy fighting went on near San Salvo, in the northern sector ...

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  22. JAPAN WARNED.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—The Protecting Power had continually made representations to Japan to secure permission to visit prisoner of war ...

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  23. EXTENDING OFFENSIVE.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Last night's Moscow communique was as follows: "The Red Army between the Dnieper and Karkinit Bay continued to ...

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  24. NEW DUTCH COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

    Lt-General L. H. van Oyen, newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army, being welcomed on his arrival in Melbourne by the Netherlands Minister in Australia, Baron F.C. van Aerssen Beyeren von Voshol. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. KING OF ITALY.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Reuters correspondent at Zurich says that King Victory Emmanuel's abdication appears to have been definitely ...

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  26. ROAD TO SATELBERG

    SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Nov 4.—After stiff mountain fighting against entrenched Japanese positions AIF troops have smashed ...

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  27. CIANO ARRESTED.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—A Zurich dispatch says that according to Italian sources Count Ciano, the Duce's son-in-law and former Foreign ...

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  28. WHY BURMA FELL.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Repudiating charges against the civil administration when Burma was overrun by the Japanese, Mr. T. L. Hughes told ...

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  29. CHAOTIC FRONT.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Reuters Stockholm correspondent reports that the German-controlled Scandinavian Telegram Bureau says German ...

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  30. FIFTY DEAD.

    NEW YORK, Nov 4.—The Associated Press reports that at a Press conference at his S Pacific HQ Admiral Halsey said: "We are ready to ...

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  31. MESSERSCHMITT FACTORY.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—An Algiers official statement declares that the Messerschmitt factory at Wiener Neustadt (Austria) was destroyed in ...

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  32. NEXT STAGE.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Moscow dispatches say that with the Germans completely bottled up in the Crimea and the escape gaps at Borislav, ...

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  33. PETROL TRAIN HIT.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—One of the most violent explosions of the Italian campaign occurred at Avezzano, north-east of Rome, when Spitfires ...

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  34. IN YUGOSLAVIA.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—Today's Yugoslav Army of Liberation communique was as follows: "After several days' obstinate fighting we captured the ...

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  35. ALAMEIN TO VOLTURNO

    LONDON, Nov 4.—On the plains north of the Volturno River two crack armoured divisions are fighting out another round in the battle ...

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  36. PROGRESS ON CHOISEUL.

    NEW YORK, Nov 3.—In a dispatch from S Pacific HQ the Associated Press says that Admiral Halsey's spokesman reported the ...

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  37. OUT OF COMMISSION.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—An Algiers dispatch states that the Ottoviano Augusto (3,362 tons), which is the last Italian cruiser remaining in ...

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  38. THE CLAIMS OF FRANCE

    LONDON, Nov 4.—"France thinks that any European settlement without her would not be a good settlement and has a deep feeling that ...

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  39. BATTERED REICH.

    CANBERRA, Nov 4.—The air was drawing off a huge volume of Germany's resources and eating up in giant mouthfuls the German ...

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  40. LABOUR OFFICE.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—The Minister of State (Mr R. K. Law) was asked in the House of Commons what steps the Government were taking to ...

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  41. AIRFIELDS AND HARBOURS.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—The Middle East communique issued at Cairo today stated: "The RAP on Tuesday night bombed warehouses and ...

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  42. CHANNEL DUEL.

    LONDON, Nov 4.—A channel gun duel—the heaviest yet—lasted about two hours last night. The British guns, it is believed, were engaging ...

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  43. 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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