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  2. COLOGNE BATTLE

    LONDON, March.—American infantry and armour have blasted their way into the city boundaries of Cologne. They are slowly closing in on Germany's fourth city. The final powerful attack was launched at 4 o'clock this ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. "IN THE FRONT LINE."

    LONDON, March 5.—"Cologne, Dusseldorf and Duisburg are right in the front line tonight," stated the German Newsagency's reporter, ...

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  4. READY FOR ACTION.

    MELBOURNE, March 5.—The C-in-C of the British Pacific Fleet (Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser), who is visiting Vice-Admiral Daniels at his ...

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  5. END OF THE WAR.

    LONDON, March 5.—The view that the weather alone can prevent a comparatively early end to the war is expressed by some experts at ...

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  6. AIR OFFENSIVE.

    LONDON, March 5.—The United States Air Force today announced that over 400 Flying Fortresses and Liberators under escort of over 600 ...

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  7. ROAD TO MANDALAY.

    MANDALAY FRONT, March 5.—Troops of the 19th Division, advancing rapidly down the eastern bank of Irrawady, have ...

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  8. BALTIC REACHED

    LONDON, March 5.—Overcoming the German defences with swift co-ordinated blows, the Red armies of Marshal Zhukov and Rokossovsky have driven wedges through to the Baltic coast in two areas. This information was ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. SOLOMONS DRIVES.

    BOUGAINVILLE, March 5.—Australian troops are meeting fierce Japanese resistance in their drive towards Soraken, in the north of ...

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  10. RHINE BRIDGE.

    LONDON, March 5.—The BUP correspondent at Supreme Allied HQ says British troops reached the Rhine yesterday at Vynen, eight ...

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  11. "ASH-HEAP" TUSSLE.

    GUAM, March 5.—"Japanese resistance on the northern end of this volcanic ash-heap surpasses anything we have hitherto met," says ...

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  12. RETREATING ENEMY

    LONDON, March 5.—Correspondents at Montgomery's HQ report that other units of the Ninth Army reached the Rhine bank north of ...

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  13. DOUBLE POCKETING.

    LONDON. March 5.—The magnitude of Marshal Zhukov's smashing 63 miles drive to the Baltic is indicated by the fact that Marshal ...

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  14. BASLE HIT.

    LONDON, March 5.—It has been announced at Supreme Allied HQ that American Liberators yesterday bombed Basle through heavy cloud ...

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  15. POSSIBLE SCORED.

    MANDALAY FRONT, March 4.—An Australian Beaufighter pilot' Warrant-Officer Herbert Johnstone, of Wirrulla (West Coast, SA) shot ...

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  16. GERMAN DEFEAT.

    LONDON, March 5.—"With American armour and infantry at the gates of Cologne and the whole Allied Due closing to the left bank ...

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  17. DANISH SABOTAGE.

    LONDON. March 5.—"No train has reached Germany from Denmark without at least being delayed by Danish patriots," says a special ...

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  18. THE "SCARECROW."

    MELBOURNE, March 5.—The Germans are now using a new type of flak which bursts in the air and gives the effect of a bomber bursting ...

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  19. ALLIED COMMUNIQUE.

    LONDON, March 5.—Today's communique (No 331) issued by Supreme Allied HQ at 9 am was as follows: "The Allied forces are meeting ...

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  20. THIRD ARMY.

    LONDON, March 5.—Reuters correspondent with the Third Army says that Patton's forces yesterday captured nine and cleared two towns ...

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  21. HOW TO SURRENDER

    LONDON, March 5.—General Eisenhower told German towns how to surrender in the following instructions issued over the Luxemburg ...

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  22. GAINS IN ITALY.

    LONDON, March 5.—"American troops advancing west of the Bologna-Pistoja highway have made gains which will be important in the ...

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  23. GERMAN CIVILIANS.

    LONDON, March 5. —"Much higher numbers of German civilians remained in the recently captured west front towns than was ...

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  24. RUSSIAN POWER.

    LONDON, March 5.—Marshal Rokossovsky has been in a position for some days to send his forces through to the Baltic coast, but he ...

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  25. ISLAND CHAIN.

    GUAM, March 5.—Headquarters announced today that carrier planes attacked the Ryukyu Islands (between Formosa and the ...

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  26. GERMAN REPORTS

    LONDON, March 5.—While the British, American and Canadian troops were pressing back the remnants of von Rundstedt's armies ...

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  27. WIPED OUT.

    LONDON, March 5.—"Dresden has been completely wiped out by the massive Allied air blows on February 14 and 15. Not a single ...

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  28. NEWLY-WON STRIP.

    GUAM, March 5.—The first Super-Fortress landed on Iwo Island yesterday when it had exhausted its fuel on its homeward journey from ...

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  29. HUNGRY ISLANDS.

    LISBON, March 5.—The 37.000 Germans garrisoning the Channel Islands have not a cigarette between them according to the crew ...

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  30. "FALL TOGETHER."

    LONDON. March 5.—According to Moscow radio Hitler has sent a letter to members of the Nazi Party calling on them to remain faithful. ...

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  31. FILIPINO VICTORY

    MANILA, March 5.—General MacArthur announced today that Filipino guerillas had cleared the Japanese from Ilocos Norte province ...

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  32. HEAVY RAID ON TOKIO

    SAIPAN, March 5.—Super-Fortress crews returning from the bombing of Tokio yesterday reported that if they had arrived over the target ...

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  33. DURBAN DOCKS.

    DURBAN, March 5.—Seventy-five per cent of ship repair work has stopped here because 1,400 engineers have locked up their tools. They are ...

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  34. AID FOR POLAND.

    LONDON, March 5.—Moscow radio reports that a Russian State Commission to organise and co-ordinate Russian aid to Poland has ...

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  35. CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

    OTTAWA, March 5.—The Minister of Finance (Mr J. L. Ilsley) announced today that Canada was providing 15,000,000 dollars' worth of ...

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  36. YUGOSLAV GAIN.

    LONDON, March 5.—Marshal Tito's communique says today that Konjica, the last enemy strongpoint in the Yugoslav province of ...

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  37. 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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