Artificial Teeth As War Fund Aid
CANBERRA.—Gold-encrusted artificial teeth, wedding rings, and of d watches are among the peculiar gifts the Government has received to assist…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1943
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War's Nerve Centre WAAAF's Work In Signals Room Somewhere in Aust., Mar. 10
For 24 hours each day every day of the week girls of the WAAAF's working in the signals room of Command Headquarters are in constant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japan's Strength And Strategy In South-West Pacific Bismarck Losses Made Good (Weekly War Commentary by the Department of Information)
The cheers that acclaimed the Bismarck Sea victory having subsided, it is now possible to assess the outstanding achievement of the Allied air arm in its true perspective, and to relate the loss suffered by the enemy to its strategical position in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Killed And 14 Injured In Train Smash BRISBANE, March 12
One soldier was killed and fourteen others were injured, two railway trucks were wrecked and five badly damaged while the line was temporarily blocked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Living In One Room Soldier's Awl Plea Melbourne, March 12
An application for the discharge of a soldier who had pleaded guilty to a charge of having been absent without leave for 33 days until February 23 was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air War
The war is far from ended yet. A long road must be travelled before the Axis Powers are defeated. However, a squaring up process is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers and Post-war Problems Adelaide, March 14
A standing army of 100,000: a national building plan, and a soldier land settlement scheme are among the postwar steps advocated by the President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Loans and Patriotic Funds Adelaide, March 14
The Premier has decided not to support the Commonwealth's contention that appeals by patriotic funds should be regulated as they interfere with war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strike Offer Will Maintain War Production BRISBANE, March 14
The disputes committee of the Vehicle Builders' Union has offered to provide sufficient labor without payment for any war production during the dispute at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →English War Life Sir Earle Page's Observations Sydney, March 14
The most striking feature of English war life was the universally high morale of the people, said Sir Earle Page, speaking at the Lyceum hall this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Climax Near Mr. Churchill to Warn London, March 13
"Mr. Churchill will take an early opportunity to warn the nation that the climax of the war is approaching, needing the utmas vigilance, alertness,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Beryl In Demand For War Purposes
SYDNEY.—Mr. J. M. Baddeley, Minister for Mines, today drew attention to the fact that there is a keen demand at present for supplies of beryl, the principal ore of beryllium—a silver white malleable metal having a specific gravity of 1.8 and one of the lightest metals known. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man In Gaol Aids Our War Finances
MELBOURNE,—One supporter of the Federal Government's wartime finances is serving a long sentence in Coburg Gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman War Worker Pays £500 for Coat
SYDNEY.—Recently in America a woman shipyard worker walked into a shop in her overalls and bought a £500 mink coat, said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U. S. Post-war Resolution New York, March 14
The New York "Times" Washington correspondent declares that although President Roosevelt and Congress have reached agreement on the past-war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kokoda Track Revisited The Jungle Is Already Healing The Scars Of Recent War
War has played curious tricks in New Guines, Six months ago all our energy was directed to the job of forcing a serviceable supply line through on point…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Tells of Escape
ADELAIDE.—A New South Wales AIF private who attempted to escape from the Middle East to Australia, and later got away from a South Australian military hospital, appeared before a district courtmartial today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post-War Wool Competition
LONDON, March 15.—Commenting on the desire of Dominion wool growers for an assured market and stable price after the war, the wool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trackers Suggested for War Jobs
MELBOURNE. — Escapes from camps of prisoners of war would be fewer if an aboriginal blacktracker were attached to each camp, says a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Senator Wilson Hits at War Handling
CANBERRA. —Speaking in the Senate last night. Senator Wilson (U.A.P.[?] S.A.) attacked the Government for its handling of the war…
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