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  2. COUCHED FOR ACTION.

    LONDON, May 5.-"The Italian front is humming with intense preparations. The German High Command is awaiting a large-scale ...

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  3. THE AIR WAR.

    LONDON, May 5.—Large forces of Allied planes were over the south- east coast before and after dawn, some returning from a night ...

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  4. NEW LANDINGS.

    WITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, May 5.—The ring of encirclement round the Japanese forces trapped on the ...

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  5. BURMA WAR.

    LONDON, May 5.—Today's South- east Asia communique stated: "Allied troops are attacking at all points at Kohima and are making ...

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  6. CURTIN MEETS PRESS

    LONDON, May 5.—One of the largest attendances of the war was present yesterday when the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) ...

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  7. AFTER VICTORY.

    LONDON, May 5.—"The Domination examining Allied schemes for the rehabilitation of Europe after ...

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  8. INFILTRATING.

    LONDON, May 5.—"Red Army mountain troops are methodically pushing up the valleys through the Carpathian foothills, fighting a series ...

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  9. SUBMARINES MASS.

    LONDON, May 6.—"British submarines are now mustering in Far Eastern waters for a smashing blow against the vulnerable sea ...

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  10. HARD GOING.

    FROM GENERAL WILSON'S MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND.— At General Alexander's invitation I have been visiting the victorious ...

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  11. ADMIRAL KOGA.

    NEW YORK, May 5.—Tokio official radio announced today that Admiral Mineichi Koga, C-in-C of the Japanese Fleet, had been killed ...

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  12. BAD WEATHER.

    LONDON, May 5.—The most promising start made this morning by the Allied air forces to carry on the great air offensive over the ...

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  13. GRIP ON CHINA.

    MONTREAL, May 4.—The Chungking correspondent of the Associated Press reports that the Japanese driving from the north and south ...

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  14. INVASION OUTCOME.

    LONDON, May 5.—"While the enemy has had abundant time to prepare for invasion, so have we to repulse it," says the German ...

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  15. ALLIED TARGETS.

    LONDON, May 5.—Today the following targets in France were struck: Railway yards at Cambral (by Second Tactical Air Force Mitchells ...

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  16. TANKS AID TROOPS AT HOLLANDIA.

    Tanks move through blasted enemy positions as American troops take Hallandia, Dutch New Guinea D.O.L. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. BOMBS ON TRUK.

    WASHINGTON. May 4.—A Pacific Fleet communique issued today states: "Army Liberators on Monday night dropped 50 tons of bombs ...

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  18. U.S.A. AIR AID.

    NEW YORK, May 4.—Repeating its previous warning that the United States 14th Air Force in China was being strengthened, a Domes agency ...

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  19. TRAPPED ENEMY.

    NEW YORK, May 4.—In a dispatch from an advanced Solomons base Charles Arnot. of the United Press, states: "Over 150.000 ...

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  20. A CZECH IDEA.

    PHILADELPHIA, May 4.—The Czechoslovak Foreign Minister (M. Jan Masaryk) In a speech proposed that the Germans should be placed ...

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  21. CULTURAL ART.

    NEW YORK. May 4.—The "New York Times" reveals that plans to prevent the unnecessary destruction of European cultural art and ...

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  22. GERMANY'S TANKS

    LONDON, May 5.—The importance the Germans attached to Wednesday night's main RAF target in Europe—the military depot at ...

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  23. TWO TORPEDOED.

    NEW YORK, May 4.—Salgon radio has reported that on the night of April 29 an Allied submarine torpedoed and sank a naval craft and ...

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  24. LEND-LEASE.

    WASHINGTON, May 4.—The Associated Press states that the Senate Appropriations Committee has directed Government agencies to give ...

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  25. INVASION SUPPLIES.

    LONDON, May 5.—"When the day arrives for starting the invasion every soldier may be assured that his weapons, ...

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  26. BLACKOUT LIFTED.

    HOLOLULU, May 4.-The United Press states that Lt-General Richardson has completely lifted Hawaii's blackout but the 10 o'clock ...

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  27. MORE SHIPS LOST.

    CHUNGKING, May 5—Lt-General Stilwell's communique today stated that on Wednesday Liberators sank a 4,000-ton freighter in an attack ...

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  28. FOUR GO DOWN.

    LONDON, May 5.—An RAF Mosquito shot down four enemy aircraft in six minutes over Dijon airfield this ...

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  29. WAR CRIMINAL.

    LONDON, May 5.—A Moscow message says the Soviet Atrocity commission has named Lt-General Munoz Grande, commander of the ...

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  30. JAPAN'S AIRCRAFT.

    NEW YORK, May 4.—Tokio radio stated that Emperor Hirohito sent an aide-de-camp to inspect the Tanaka Aircraft Company factories. ...

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  31. DAY OF PRAYER.

    LONDON, May 5.—The Government and church leaders are conferring about the possibility of calling a national day of prayer when ...

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  32. UNIVERSITY SHUT.

    NEW YORK, May 5.—A United Press message from Chungking states that the Japanese have closed Peiping's Roman Catholic University ...

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  33. IMMIGRATION.

    NEW YORK, May 4.—Mr P. J. Clarey. president of the Australian ACTL and employees' delegate at the conference of the International ...

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  34. "END WHISPERING."

    NEW YORE, May 4.—The Washington bureau of the New York "Herald-Tribune" states that the British Ambassador (Lord Halifax). ...

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  35. ATTITUDE TO WAR.

    KANSAS CITY, May 4.—The general conference of the Methodist Church after a hot debate voted to reverse its anti-war stand of 1940 ...

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  36. PACIFIC WAR.

    GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, May 5.—The following communique was issued today: NORTH-WESTERN SECTOR.— ...

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  37. COMMONS QUERIES.

    LONDON, May 4.—The Secretary for India (Mr L. S. Amery). replying to a question in the House of Commons, why India was not ...

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  38. YUGOSLAV MISSION.

    LONDON, May 5.—General Vladimir Velevit, leader of the Yugoslav military mission now in Britain, at a Press conference yesterday ...

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  39. FLOWN TO U.S.A.

    WITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, May 5.—Seriously ill and in need of an immediate operation in the US, an ...

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  40. DUTCH TROOPS.

    LONDON, May 5.—Prince Bern-hard in a broadcast to Holland, emphasised that Dutch troops co- operated with the Australians and ...

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  41. ECONOMIC POLICY.

    LONDON, May 5.—The attendance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson) at to-day's session of the Prime Ministers' ...

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  42. VICHY REPRISAL.

    LONDON, May 5.—Vichy radio says that a French military court at Annecy sentenced to death 10 members of the French Resistance ...

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  43. TRANSPORTATION

    WASHINGTON, May 4.—At his Press conference today the Secretary of War (Mr Stimson) declared that the air assault on Europe was ...

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  44. SUBMARINE LOST.

    LONDON, May 5.—The Admiralty reports that the submarine, HMS Stonehenge (Lt D. S. Verschoyle- Campbell, DSO, DSC) is overdue and ...

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  45. CARGO WAR RISKS.

    LONDON. May 4.—The Institute of London Underwriters has reduced cargo war risk insurance rates between South America (Pacific port ...

    Article : 67 words
  46. 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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