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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 13 June 1945, Page 6

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A.I.F. GAINS IN BRUNLI WASHINGTON, June 12.-—General MacArthur announced that the Australians have secured Nuara Island at the mouth of Brunei and on the mainland have driven two miles to the south toward Brunei ADVANCE OF CHINESE CHUNGKING, June 12.—The Chinese have advanced 31 miles up the east China coast, reaching within 24 miles of Wenchow in a mounting drive to clear the Japanese from the mainkind defences opposite Okinawa, state iront-line reports oi the Associated Press of Great Britain. Chinese source? in Chungking believe the Japanese might be planning to abandon Wenchow and withdraw 225 miles northward to Shanghai. LAND FOR POLISH SOLDIERS LONDON, June 12.—Officers and men of the Polish Army will be given priority in the distribution of land taken' from Germany, says Warsaw radio. A list of men wishing the allotment of land is being prepared and the first new owners will shortly "lake up possession. JAPS TOUGHER THAN GERMANS LONDON, June 12.—The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Brendan Bracken, in a speech warned the country that it must not under-estimate the Japanese war. "It is one of the most ferocious wars known to man, ’ he =aid. "Our Japanese enemy is far tougher and even more ferocious than the German. We are pledged in honour to rescue at the first possible opportunity many thousands of British men and women whom the Japanese cupying k tbc nX'o: a Service Minister must the public to brace it? mind to the tremendous tasks ahead ” LAVAL CHANGES HIS MIND LONDON, June 12.—'“Laval has Pres- Paris correspondent. It was neard what was happening to war criminals