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  2. ALLIES IN ITALY.

    LONDON, June 21.—Algiers radio today stated: "Eighth Army forces have captured San Benedetto del Tronto, on the coast 40 miles north ...

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  3. ROBOT PLANES.

    LONDON, June 21.—After a night of slightly increased activity in which damage and casualties were reported, more pilotless bombers flew ...

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  4. SOVIET VICTORY.

    LONDON, June 21.—The important town of Wiipuri (otherwise Viborg) on the Gulf of Finland at the northern end of the Karelian ...

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  5. ARMOUR.

    LONDON, June 21.—"The Normandy campaign has shown that, despite technical superiority or equality in most weapons, the Allies ...

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  6. BERLIN AGAIN.

    LONDON, June 21.—Over 1,000 Eighth Air Force Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by Eighth and Ninth Air Forces' Lightings. ...

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  7. BEFORE CHERBOURG

    LONDON, June 21.—Advancing on a 20-mile front after taking the important road junction of Valognes on the main highway to Cherbourg and Couville near the junction of the western road and railway, the Americans have commenced the assault on the defences of the naval ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. NAVAL SHOWDOWN?

    WASHINGTON, June 20.—At Pearl Harbour Admiral Nimits (C-in-C, Pacific Fleet) announced today that the Japanese fleet has moved into position east of the Philippines, which may lead to a decisive naval battle. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. POLITZ RAID.

    LONDON, June 21.—It was officially stated today that the Liberators which attacked the oil refineries at Politz (north-east of ...

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  10. WEARING THIN.

    LONDON, June 21.—Reuters correspondent with the British force in France stated last night: '"The German wall of men and armour ...

    Article : 174 words
  11. LIBERATION.

    LONDON, June 21.—Supreme Allied HQ Issued its 31st communique late this morning, It read: "Allied troops advancing against ...

    Article : 352 words
  12. SAIPAN PROGRESS

    WASHINGTON, June 20.—The Navy has announced that the Americans now control the entire southern portion of Saipan Island and are ...

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  13. ELBA OCCUPATION.

    LONDON, June 21.—The British United Press correspondent in a dispatch sent from-Napoleon's villa at tuba yesterday said: "With white ...

    Article : 335 words
  14. SPLITTING CHINA.

    CHUNGKING, June 21.—The Chinese communique today stated: 'The Japanese after the capture of Changsha, crossed the Lu River ...

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  15. SCOTCHED.

    LONDON, June 21.—The E-boat menace to the Allies' cross-Channel supply lanes has been defeated, if only for the time being, though, ...

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  16. AROUND MOGAUNG.

    KANDY (Ceylon). June 21.— Today's south-East Asia Command communique was as follows: "After extensive patrol action Chinese and ...

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  17. DEFENSIVE MEASURES.

    LONDON, June 21.—"There is heartening evidence that the new defensive and offensive measures are gradually overcoming the ...

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  18. FINNISH CITY CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS.

    A pre-war photograph of Wiipuri, Finland's second largest city, and a place of many waterways, which has been captured by the Red Army. This photograph, was taken in the summer, the present season in Finland, but in the winter months all the waterways are frozen and the houses covered with snow. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. HEAVY FIGHTING.

    LONDON, June 21.—Heavy fighting is reported from the southern apex of the Tilly-Bayeux-Caen triangle on the Allied eastern flank in ...

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  20. "RED ARMY."

    LONDON. June 21.—The Associated Press correspondent in Rome' says that a leftist military organisation, the Armaia Rossa—Red Army ...

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  21. AT THE GATES.

    LONDON, June 21.—"Chasing the last remnants of two German divisions into Cherbourg the Americans have begun the last battle for the ...

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  22. TOKIO CLAIMS.

    NEW YORK, June 21.—Tokio official radio claimed this morning that an American battleship sunk off the Marinas last Friday was ...

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  23. ALLIED BOMBS.

    LONDON, June 21.—A captured German document confirms, remarkable accuracy of the night precision bombing of heavy coastal guns ...

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  24. REVIEWED BY POPE.

    LONDON, June 21.—Four thousand British soldier, mostly Roman Catholics, cheered the Pope when the reviewed them in the Vatican. ...

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  25. EERIE AS A TOMB.

    LONDON, June 21.—An American jeep driver and a lieutenant with a rose dangling from his mouth captured Valognes and 40 Germans ...

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  26. "AIRFIELDS."

    LONDON, June 2,—"Conditions on Allied airfields in France are considerably different from conditions at home," writes a ...

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  27. BIAK SUCCESS.

    WITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, June 21.— After a bitter 25-day battle we now have strategic control of Biak Island, ...

    Article : 371 words
  28. LIBERTY SHIPS.

    WASHINGTON, June 20.—The House of Representatives, Merchant Marine Committee, after a year's investigation today reported that ...

    Article : 107 words
  29. CLOSE-UP OF THE FOE

    LONDON, June 21.—The only Allied correspondent who has interviewed and watched Germans in their own front line and then ...

    Article : 434 words
  30. BEACH GUIDES.

    LONDON, June 21.—How guides to Normandy beaches describing in simple language every small detail were made available to every British, ...

    Article : 212 words
  31. FIGHTING IN SOUTH

    LONDON, June 21.—The Geneva correspondent of "The Times" reports: "German troops who reoccupied the French border town of ...

    Article : 205 words
  32. STOCKTAKING

    LONDON, June 21.—"It is a suitable moment in Normandy for a stocktaking, in view of the relatively static nature of the front line in the ...

    Article : 371 words
  33. METAL RIBBONS.

    LONDON, June 21.—It is stated at Supreme Allied HQ that the Germans are using a new anti-aircraft weapon in Normandy ...

    Article : 55 words
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