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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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Army Headquarters (Guadalcanal).—Superior strength in manpower and overwhelming artillery firepower broke the Japanese on Guadalcanal. The Japanese named it "Death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. and Mrs. Percy Ifould, of Kurralta, Burnside, have been advised that their only son, Capt. Austin Hamilton Ifould, 26, was killed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA. — The Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) said that the man responsible for a scheme to obtain money from the relatives of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA.—The principle that all refugee and enemy aliens made available by the manpower authorities should be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scheme To Obtain Money From Relatives CANBERRA, February 15. There should be no misapprehension as to the ground upon which Security authorities have detained persona responsible for a scheme to obtain money…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA,— Clarification, of the scheme of payments of pensions to widows under the Repatriation Bill now before Parliament was given by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] of age, every member of the [?]ces on service with his unit within and outside Australia will be allowed to vote at the next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Coles, two Independents in the House of Representatives, have indicated their agreement with the proposal to increase…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA.—War pensioners receiving more than the allowed income of 38/6 a week would be unable to draw the of d-age pension, an official…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. and Mrs. Turner, of Cummins St., have been informed that their son. Pte. Colin R. Turner. AIR is a prisoner of war. He wu reported missing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kharkov has been captured by the Russians, this being the last and strongest bose of the German defence line in South Russia. The fall of the city, announced in a special Moscow communique tonight is regarded in London as the biggest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IMPROVED pension grants and rights are aimed [?] by the Australian Soldiers Re[?]triation Bill which is up for its second reading in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Japanese are continuing a withdrawal from the Wau area in New Guinea that was commenced a few days ago. The movement is towards Muto…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Winchcombe, Carson. Ltd., report:—Latest mail advices indicate that the United States Government at Washington had reached agreement with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An American soldier charged with unlawfully wounding Constable Percy Edgecombe Holloway on February 10 was handed over to American Army Guards…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELAIDE.—After an alleged disagreement between an AIF sergeant and his wife in the kitchen of a house in Exeter Street last night, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE.—Referring to recent complaints of the delay in delivering mail to troops, the CO. S.A. L-of-C area (Brig. H. C. Bundock) said that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE.—Adelaide tailors don't agree that soldiers after the war will continue to wear shorts and open[?] necked shirts in summer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In his plans for the conquest of Russia, Hitler has made the fatal mistake of over-estimating the strength of the German military machine and under-estimating Russian military power and tactical skill. It was this over-confidence that led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Found with a long sheath knife in his heart Sgt John Kelly (38) of the A.I.F., was found dead at the home of his sister-in-law at Exeter last night…
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