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  2. LIBERATION OF PHILIPPINES BEGINS

    GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, South-West Pacific Area, Oct 20.—"In a major amptibious operation we have seized the eastern coast of Leyte Island in the Philippines, 600 miles north of Morotai and 2,500 miles from Milne Bay, whence our offensive started nearly 16 months ago," states a special communique issued by General MacArthur. "This point of entry in the Visayas is midway between Luzon and Mindanao and at one stoke splits ...

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  3. "IN A SOFT SPOT."

    NEW YORK, Oct 19.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times," in a report before the official announcement of the American ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. SEA WAY TO ANTWERP

    LONDON, Oct 20.—"The Canadians, after a three miles dash, are now under half a mile from Oastburg, the pivot town in the German ...

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  5. HURRIED FLIGHT.

    LONDON, Oct 20.—The Red Army in its amazing offensive in Czechoslovakia is keeping up with the retreating Germans over bad ...

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  6. THE ASSAULT.

    WITH GENERAL MacARTHUR AT LEYTE, PHILIPPINES. Oct 20. —Under a devastating US battleship and American and Australian cruiser ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. RISE AND STRIKE!

    NEW YORK, Oct 20.—In a broadcast on the "Voice of Freedom Radio," General MacArthur, speaking to the people of the Philippines, ...

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  8. NEW OFFENSIVE.

    LONDON, Oct 28.—"The British and Canadians with tank and air support this morning launched a new offensive north of Antwerp ...

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  9. FLASHING NEWS.

    GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Oct 20.—The news of the landing in the Philippines is being flashed to the world from the spot by the first ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. FRONT SURVEYED.

    LONDON, Oct 20.—Today's Supreme Allied HQ communique (No 195), issued at 9 am, was as follows: "Good progress has been made south ...

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  11. "WE HAVE RETURNED."

    WASHINGTON, Oct 20.—"We promised to return and we have returned," said President Roosevelt. "We have landed in the Philippines ...

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  12. OPERATIONAL RECORD.

    PEARL HARBOUR, Oct 20.—The C-in-C Pacific Fleet (Admiral Nimitz) announced that carrier forces continued their attacks in the ...

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  13. HUGE CONVOY.

    MONTREAL, Oct 20.—"In this part of the Pacific as far as the eye can see is a huge American convoy plying onward," wrote an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. SOVIET ASSAULT.

    LONDON, Oct 20.—The Moscow t correspondent of the British United Press says that no confirmation so far is available in Moscow of the ...

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  15. AIRFIELDS.

    GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ. Oct 20.—We will have nearly a month to secure Leyte before the rainy season starts. The season ...

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  16. ENEMY REPORT.

    NEW YORK, Oct 20.—"The enemy has begun landing on Leyte Island between Mindanao and Luson," stated Tokio official radio ...

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  17. ENEMY RESPITE.

    LONDON. Oct 20.—"The Anglo- American offensive south of Venraal halted yesterday in driving rain and thick mud," says a BUP ...

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  18. ALLIED SHIPS ASSEMBLE FOR PHILIPPINES INVASION.

    A large concentration of Allied shipping at a Dutch New Gunia base preparatory to the invasion of the Philippines. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. THE TERRAIN.

    MONTREAL, Oct 20.—"For the first time since General MacArthur's forces started fighting their way back to the Philippines they are plunging ...

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  20. HOARDED SUPPLIES

    LONDON. Oct 20.—A Reuters correspondent in Brussels reports: "Faced with a rising tide of popular feeling at the lack of essential ...

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  21. IN READINESS.

    MONTREAL, Oct 20.—A dispatch from a Combined Allied Press correspondent with General MacArthur on Leyte states that President ...

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  22. AMERICA EXULTS.

    WASHINGTON, Oct 20.—President Roosevelt has sent this message to General MacArthur: "The whole ...

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  23. "MOST INCREDIBLE."

    MONTREAL, Oct 2O.—'"The long awaited attack on the Philippines is without doubt the war's most incredible invasion," states a ...

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  24. COMFORTING.

    PEARL HARBOUR, Oct 20. —"I have received from Admiral Halsey, commanding the US Third Fleet, the ...

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  25. ROGUES' GALLERY.

    LONDON, Oct 20.—A book which United States First Army intelligence officers found at a Gestapo head quarters in the Eupen-Malmedy area ...

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  26. INVADING TROOPS BRIEFED

    GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ Oct 20.—American troops awaiting the day of embarkation at bases where the vast convoys were ...

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  27. TO FILIPINOS.

    NEW YORK, Oct 20.—Tokio official radio says that Lieut-General Masaharu Homma, commander of the Japanese forces that landed in ...

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  28. BALKANS DRIVE.

    LONDON, Oct 20.—The Moscow communique issued late last night was as follows: "North of Sighet in Czechoslovakia, the Russians ...

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  29. UNDER FIRE.

    LONDON, Oct 20.—Seventeen hundred women patients were removed from a lunatic asylum at Venraai under constant German ...

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  30. ALLIED MOMENTUM

    "The Commander-in-Chief, South-West Pacific Area (General Douglas MacArthur) is fulfilling his pledge that he would return to Bataan," ...

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  31. TRAPPED NAZIS.

    LONDON, Oct 20.—The Ankara correspondent of "The Times" states that reports received in Ankara concur in describing the ...

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  32. AUSTRALIA'S PART.

    LONDON, Oct 20.—The Times" and the "Daily Telegraph" in leading articles referred approvingly to Mr Curtin's statement on Australia's ...

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  33. NAZI WITHDRAWAL.

    LONDON. Oct 20.—Today's Allied communique from Italy states: "As a result of the pressure being exerted by Greek guerillas, the withdrawal ...

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  34. CONVOY BOMBED.

    LONDON. Oct 20.—A Moscow air communique states: "Soviet airmen from the Northern Fleet Air Arm attacked a strongly-escorted enemy ...

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