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  2. STILL ADVANCING

    LONDON, Dec 18.—"The Germans are still advancing today in their all-out counter-offensive and the situation is reported to be entirely fluid," says Reuters correspondent of Supreme Allied HQ. "Measures to deal with the situation are in hand and there is no cause for undue ...

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  3. SIEGFRIED LINE.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—"The Seventh Army's assault on the Siegfried Line has begun," said Reuters correspondent with the United States Seventh ...

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  4. SECOND EDITION

    LONDON, Dec 19,—An American reporter with the First Army broadcasting this afternoon said: "As I left our defences two hours ...

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  5. RUSSIAN DRIVE.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—Marshal Malinovsky's army has reached the southern border of Czechoslovakia at one point and is approaching other parts ...

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  6. CHECK ON GERMANY.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—Paris radio broadcast the text of the Franco- Russian agreement last night. It provides that France and Russia ...

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  7. AGAINST TIME.

    LEYTE, Dec 18.—Taking full advantage of the delay in Japanese air reaction to the landing on Mindoro Island, in the Philippines, ...

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  8. CLEARING ATHENS

    LONDON, Dec 18.—"British troops are using armoured cars, tanks, 25-pounders and mortars supported by Beaufighters in an all-out offensive today against the ELAS Forces," says Reuters correspondent in Athens. "The British are aiming to clear up the road between Athens ...

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  9. LONDON'S INVASION BULWARKS GO.

    A pillbox covering the approach to the Albert Bridge being demolished with pneumatic drills. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. CANNY RUNDSTEDT

    NEW YORK, Dec 17.—In a dispatch to the "New York Times" from Supreme Allied HQ Drew Middleton reports: "The German ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. FIGHTING REVIEWED.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—The 254th communique issued by Supreme Allied HQ today was as follows: "The intensity of the fighting has ...

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  12. THE REGENCY.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—Reuters correspondent at Athens says that eleventh hour differences of opinion are stated to have arisen within the ...

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  13. DEFENCE OF VIENNA.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—"The defence of Vienna, not Budapest, is the Germans' main pre-occupation as the Red Army beyond the Ipoly River ...

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  14. DESPERATE PLIGHT.

    LEYTE, Dec 18.—In the two days' fighting in which the advances against Valencia were made the Japanese suffered terrific casualties. ...

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  15. FIERCE DOGFIGHTS.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—Reuters correspondent at Allied HQ in the Mediterranean, states that Mustangs and Lightnings escorting heavy bombers ...

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  16. BRITISH FEELING.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—A crowd of about 10,000 was present at a "Hands Off Greece" demonstration in Trafalgar Square yesterday. It ...

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  17. POLITICAL SCENE.

    LONDON , Dec 18.—"Intrigue and, jockeying for position are at present proceeding among Greek politicians, particularly the members of the ...

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  18. GERMAN OFFENSIVE.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—"The Germans are throwing in infantry and armour and even their air force in their major counter-attack on a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. PERILOUS ILLUSION.

    NEW YORK, Dec 17.—In an editorial the "New York Times" states: "The mere fact that such a German counter-offensive could be ...

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  20. BID FOR AIR MASTERY.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—The Associated Press correspondent at Supreme Allied HQ says that Ninth Air Force fighter-bombers yesterday ...

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  21. ALMOST ENCIRCLED.

    LEYTE, Dec 18.—American advances in the Ormoc valley on Leyte have been so rapid in the last two days that the headquarters at ...

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  22. TONS OF EXPLOSIVES FOR FORMOSA.

    This photograph, taken from the nose of another giant plane of the same formation, shows tons of bombs falling through the bomb-boy doors of an American B-29 Super-Fortress during a recent raid over Formosa. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  23. AEGEAN ISLANDS.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—The Associated Press says that the Papandreou Government has announced reception of messages from the majority ...

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  24. BEYOND FAENZA.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—The New Zealanders, exploiting their capture of the town of Faenza on the Adriatic sector in Italy, pressed forward and ...

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  25. FORMER PREMIER.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—Reuters correspondent at Athens says that General Nicholas Plastiras, a former Premier, who recently returned to ...

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  26. "CRAZY WAR."

    LONDON, Dec 8.—"Dunkirk has settled in for the winter and may not be avenged until the end of the war," states Reuters ...

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  27. GREEK SITUATION.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—Lt-General Scobie's communique today stated: "British and Indian troops after re- grouping in the Piraeus and ...

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  28. ESCAPE THWARTED.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—The vigilance of British guards at a prisoner of war camp in south-west England frustrated a carefully-prepared plan ...

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  29. POLAND'S BORDERS.

    ZURICH, Dec 18.—"Mass murder of millions of Germans" is the heading given by the "Voelkischer Beobachter" to a report of Mr ...

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  30. NO CHURCHILL BROADCAST.

    LONDON, Dec 17.—The BBC arranged for Mr Churchill to broadcast to the nation before the news session at 9 o'clock last night, but ...

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  31. MORIBUND?

    NEW YORK, Dec 17.—The New York "Herald-Tribune's" Washington bureau states: "Despite the increasing emphasis on the war in ...

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  32. JAPAN RAIDED.

    WASHINGTON, Dec 18.—The War Department announced that a sizable force of Super-Fortresses based on Saipan yesterday attacked ...

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  33. CHUNGKING REGIME

    NEW YORK, Dec 17.—The Yenan radio states that the Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung, has announced that the Second People's ...

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  34. ITALIANS SUCCEED.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—The Press Association Agency states that nearly, 100 Italian prisoners of war during the weekend escaped from a camp ...

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  35. RUHR RAILWAYS.

    LONDON, Dec 18.—Over 1,300 planes were engaged last night and early today when RAF Bomber Command supported the Allied armies ...

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  36. HOMMA EXPLAINS.

    NEW YORK, Dec 17.—According to Tokio radio, Lt-General Homma, former Japanese commander in the ...

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  37. TANKER SUNK.

    WASHINGTON, Dec 17.—It was officially announced yesterday that the new 17,000-tons tanker Jacksonville was sunk in the Atlantic several ...

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  38. NEARER HOCHIH.

    CHUNGKING, Dec 18.—The Chinese forces, driving down the Kweichow-Kwangsi railway have reached to within one mile of Hochih, 1 ...

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  39. 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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