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  2. CRIPPLING RAIDS ON JAP SHIPPING AT RABAUL

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Sunday.—Hits on ll Japanese ships in Rabaul Harbor were scored in low-flying attacks by Flying Fortress bombers on Friday and yesterday. A cruiser, destroyer and two large merchantmen or transports are believed ...

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  3. U.S. LANDING IN NEW CALEDONIA

    U.S. SOLDIERS, carrying rifles and full packs, filing on to the docks of a New Caledonia harbor as they land from barges which brought them ashore from troop transports.—(U.S. Office of War Information). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. NO MAJOR CLASHES IN SOLOMONS

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—There have been no major developments either on land or sea in the Solomons area. A small Japanese force which moved from the west against the U.S. forces on Guadalcanal was repulsed some days ago. In one attack on ...

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  5. SEEKING IMPROVED SOVIET RELATIONS

    NEW YORK, Sunday.—Britain and the U.S. are acting to repair their deteriorating military and political rclutions with Russia, ...

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  6. POWERFUL BRITISH BATTLE FLEET IN INDIAN OCEAN

    LONDON, Sunday.—It is announced that Britain has a powerful battle fleet operating in the Indian Ocean and along the East Coast of ...

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  7. BRITISH SUBMARINES' SUCCESSES IN MEDITERRANEAN

    LONDON, Sunday.—An Admiralty communique issued this afternoon reports that our submarines in the Mediterranean have ...

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  8. BATHERS SWEPT OFF SANDBANK

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Four huge waves swept more than 100 bathers—men, women and children—out to sea from a sandbank 100 yards ...

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  9. UNSUCCESSFUL RAIDS ON MALTA

    LONDON, Sunday.—Raids wero continued against Malta yesterday with negligible results. Three of, the raiders were destroyed. ...

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  10. Believed Kicked to Death by Horse

    HOBART, Sunday.—The body of Raymond N. Livingstone (39), architect, employed by the Department of Publie Works, was ...

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  11. SEX OF BABIES MAY SOON BE PRE-DETERMINED

    LONDON, Sunday.—The "Sunday Express" says thar, soon parents may be able to decide beforehand what sex their baby will be. According to Mr, ...

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  12. Reply to Jap Threat Against U.S. Pilots

    LONDON, Sunday.—A New Delhi report says that the Japanese announcement that Japan will courtmartial U.S. pilots who bomb Japan ...

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  13. NO SHORTAGE OF RUBBER IN AMERICA

    NEW YORK, Sunday.—The "Daily News' " Washington correspondent says that America's tyre problem has been "licked." ...

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  14. U.S. SENATE AMENDS 18-YEAR-OLD DRAFT BILL

    WASHINGTON, Sunday—After oight hours of controversy and clashes with the Administration and Army Command, the Senate, voting ...

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  15. AUSTRALIA'S SKY-WATCHERS

    Tho Volunteer Air Observers Corps, like the British Koyal Observer Corps, provides the Commonwealth with watching eyes and alert ears ...

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  16. RECORD FINES FOR SP. BOOKMAKING

    MELBOURNENE, Sunday.—While S.P. bookmakers are operating as briskly as ever and making a barvest from illegal betting, the ...

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  17. CHANGES IN PACIFIC NAVAL COMMANDS

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The Navy Department announced that Vi[?]e-Admiral William Halsley, Jr., has been appointed to command the ...

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  18. COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES

    HOBART, Sunday.—Permits to buy new commercial road vehicles will in future be granted only where the vehicles are to be used for work dir ...

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  19. NAZIS RUSHING OIL PLANTS TO CAUCASUS

    NEW YORK. Sunday.—The "New York Times" Istanbul correspondent says the German Labor Corps is dismantling French nnd Belgian oil ...

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  20. TWO MERCHANTMEN SUNK IN NORTH ATLANTIC

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The Navy Department announced that two medium-sized American mer[?]hantmen that were part, of a convoy bound for ...

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  21. FOOD PROBLEMS IN GERMANY

    LONDON, Sunday.—In Germany the State Secretary to the Ministry of Transport told listeners all over the county: "Germans have ...

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  22. JAPS BOMBED IN NORTH CHINA

    CHUNGKING, Sunday.—A communique from General Stilwells headquarters says that U.S. Army bombers, striking far north in China, caused ...

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  23. Major Decoyed French on Madagascar

    AMBOSITRA (Madagascar), Sundny. —A S. African major acted ns a decoy In the capture of Luato, five miles south of Ambositra. ...

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  24. Two Children Drowned in Bath

    BRISBANE, Sundny.—Detectives are investigating the death of two children whose bodies were found in a bath at their home at ...

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  25. 12 Killed in Air Crash

    NEW YORK, Sunday.—Twelve pel sons, including Ralph Rainger, the popular song writer, were killed when an American airliner crashed in the ...

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  26. A.I.F. MEN ADEPT AT TRADING WITH NATIVES

    SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Sunday.—Australian troops in New Guinea have become as adept ns old South Sea traders in ...

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  27. New U.S. Cruiser to Be Named Canberra

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—A cruiser now under construction for the U.S. Fleet has been named U.S.S. Canberra, in honor of the ...

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  28. AUSTRALIA HAS EIGHT TO BE PACIFIC-MINDED

    MELBOURNE, Sunday.—"In Australia the Government has had great difficulty in preaching the crucial importance of the Pacific theatre of war," said the Minister for External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) in the Kooyong Methodist Church this afternoon. ...

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  29. FAMOUS U.S. AIR ACE MISSING IN PACIFIC

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The U.S. War Department disclosed that Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, the famous American air ace of tho last war, was ...

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