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  2. INTO FINSCHHAFEN

    WITH GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 3.—Finschhafen has been captured. Troops of the Ninth AIF Division after fierce fighting on the spurs above the mission cleaned out the last pockets of Japanese resistance on Saturday morning. By 11 o'clock fighting had ...

    Article : 307 words
  3. BATTLE OF ATLANTIC.

    OTTAWA, Oct 2.—The Navy Minister (Mr MacDonald) has announced that the Canadian destroyer St Croix, has been torpedoed and ...

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  4. NORTHWARD IN ITALY

    LONDON, Oct 3.—While Allied engineers are working hard to recondition the shattered port of Naples, the Fifth Army is pressing northward. In the west coastal sector it is meeting stiff resistance from enemy armour. Its right Bank however has moved rapidly forward to take the ...

    Article : 358 words
  5. NEAPOLITAN HYSTERIA

    LONDON, Oct 3.—"Naples was 'taken' on Friday by a jeep carrying three American correspondents and myself," writes Noel Monks, ...

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  6. ACROSS THE ALPS

    LONDON, Oct 3.—An Allied HQ communique states: "For the first time heavy bombers from north-west Africa crossed the Alps on ...

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  7. HERCULEAN EFFORTS

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Reports from Moscow on the great Russian offensive show that the main fighting at present is centred in the drive into White Russia. There is little news from other parts of the front. Reuters Moscow correspondent states that the Red Army is making Herculean ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 606 words
  8. WINNING CORSICA.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Algiers radio gives this French communique: "In violent fighting the enemy has been forced to give ground everywhere ...

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  9. RIVER CROSSING.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—It seems uncertain whether the Russians have crossed the Dnieper. Enemy reports speak of fighting on the west flank, ...

    Article : 298 words
  10. CONVOY CAUGHT.

    WITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 3.—Japanese attempts to bring supplies to their hardpressed outposts in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 168 words
  11. THROUGH NAZI LINE

    MONTREAL, Oct 3.—How Italy's royal family passed unmolested through the German lines to southern Italy after the German ...

    Article : 227 words
  12. BATTLE FOR NAPLES.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—"The advance over the last 12 miles to Naples was a Joy ride for the British and Americans," says Reuters correspondent ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. KOS ATTACKED.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—A Cairo communique announced that the enemy early today launched a seaborne and airborne attack against the ...

    Article : 114 words
  14. "BATTLE IN FULL SWING."

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Reuters Moscow correspondent in a dispatch on Friday night skid: "The battle for the Dnieper over a 400-mile front is ...

    Article : 68 words
  15. OVER SWITZERLAND

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Swiss radio gave an official announcement yesterday that four American Flying Fortresses were shot down over east ...

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  16. EAST COAST FORCES

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Over Berlin radio the commentator, Capt Sertorius, states that considerable new Allied forces have "already been ...

    Article : 149 words
  17. VALLEY TRUDGE.

    WITH AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN MARKHAM VALLEY, Oct 1.—For three days this force has trudged in oppressive heat. It has trudged ...

    Article : 314 words
  18. BRAZILIAN SHIP SUNK.

    MACEIO (Brazil), Oct 2.—The Associated Press states that a U-boat twice torpedoed the 5,000-ton Brazilian passenger ship Itapage, which ...

    Article : 104 words
  19. SOVIET PROGRESS.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—The Moscow communique issued last night states: The Russians today on the Taman Peninsula in the Kuban captured the ...

    Article : 256 words
  20. EARLIER PHASES.

    WITH THE FINSCHHAFEN LANDING FORCE, Sept 27.—No two operations have ever been exactly alike in New Guinea and those ...

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  21. THE REICH TODAY.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—In a speech in Germany today the Minister for Propaganda (Dr Goebbels) said, speaking for Hitler who was unable ...

    Article : 197 words
  22. LOSS OF CERAMIC.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Details of one of the worst shipping tragedies of the war—the sinking without trace last November, of the liner Ceramic ...

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  23. THREE TO ONE.

    NEW YORK, Oct 3.—In an interview at Seattle with the Associated Press the chief of the United States Air Forces (General Arnold) gave ...

    Article : 120 words
  24. RED BALTIC FLEET.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—The Commander-in-Chief of the German naval forces in the Gulf of Finland (Admiral Boehm), speaking over the ...

    Article : 106 words
  25. GERMAN VERSION.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Yesterday's German High Command communique stated: "Our forces are withdrawing to prepared mountain ...

    Article : 120 words
  26. BREAD RATION.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—The Nazi Minister for Propaganda (Dr Goebbels) in a speech over the Berlin radio said that the monthly bread ration ...

    Article : 59 words
  27. FIGHTING FOR U.S.A.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—It is officially stated in Algiers that a battalion of American-born Japanese is now in action with the American forces of ...

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  28. GERMAN VIEW.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Referring to the Red Army drive into White Russia, Berlin radio's military commentator (Capt Sertorius) says: "The ...

    Article : 85 words
  29. JAPANESE BOMBING

    WITH THE FINSCHHAFEN LANDING FORCE, Sept 28.—Out over the waters of Huon Gulf wasp-like Bostons are circling and ...

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  30. LAND AND AIR.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Yesterday's Algiers communique stated: "Land—The successful advance of the Fifth Army continues. In addition ...

    Article : 165 words
  31. R.A.A.F. AT SALERNO

    MELBOURNE, Oct 3.—RAAF kittyhawks flown from Sicily with skeleton ground staffs made up the first Allied air unit to operate as a ...

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  32. BADOGLIO REGIME.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—An interview given by Marshal Badoglio to Allied newspaper correspondents—his first Press interview since the armistice ...

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  33. MASS DEPORTATION.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm paper. "Tidningen," quotes a German front-line reporter as indirectly ...

    Article : 71 words
  34. POPE AND ROME.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—The present position of the Pope in the Vatican was discussed by President Roosevelt at his Press conference, states a ...

    Article : 98 words
  35. RAIDERS OVER BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—The London area had a brief alert early today and anti-aircraft batteries went into action. No incidents were reported. ...

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  36. ENEMY COMMUNIQUE.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Today's German High Command communique claims: "Local attacks in the Kuban and on the south and central ...

    Article : 71 words
  37. RESISTANCE IN NORTH.

    LONDON, Oct 3.—Algiers radio says that British planes have dropped food and arms for Italian patriots and Anglo-American escaped ...

    Article : 51 words
  38. 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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