War Articles Cause Stir in Us. Senate
WASHINGTON, March 12.—The United States Army War College Library has been ordered to discontinue the distribution of certain…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
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Pilot s Death Recalls 1914-18 War Controversy
TORONTO March 12.—The dealt is reported of Captain Roy Brown, 50, who shot down Baron Manfred von Richtofen, the German air ace,…
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SYDNEY.—Commenting on a case in which three men were found guilty of assaulting and robbing American servicemen, Acting Judge Redshaw, in the Quarter Sessions to-dav, declared that the Army authorities could, and should,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decoration for Wounded Men Sydney. March 13
Australian servicemen who were listed as battle casualties would be entitled to wear a gold wound stripe for each cocasion on which they had been wounded…
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Mr. C. P. Brown, at the showing of the "Why We Fight" films, made the following appeal: "When you invest in the First Victory…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Films Shown in Suburbs
The two special war films, "Divide and Conquer" and "Battle of Britain," were shown to appreciative audiences at both Hillside and Metropole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jobs for 130 Million Needed After War
NEW YORK. March 13.—Jobs for 130,000,000 people must be found when world war economy is dismantled, according to a report prepared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pope Wants No War in Rome London. March 12
"Those men who would turn Rome into a battlefield would forever bear the curse Such an act would not be excused in her history said the Pope…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Deserter on Four Wrecked Ships in Merchant Navy Sydney. March 13
When Corporal Douglas McGrugor came before a District Court Martial to-day charged with twice deserting from the AIF It ws revealed that during…
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BRISBANE.—An AIF soldier. Sapper G. Fildes, was shot dead and Mrs. Francis Josephine Lynch critically injured in a house at Toowong…
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ADELAIDE.—While he was questioning a serviceman near the Troop Hostel last night, Assistant Provost Marshal Flight-Lieutenant Richards was shot in the leg. Richards is alleged to have…
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A meeting of the War Loan Committee will be held at the Town Hall at 8 p.m. on Friday. There will be a discussion of further plans for the…
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LONDON March 14.—Exceptionally lively patrol activity is reported from the 8th Army front. Reporting this, Reuter's…
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CANBERRA.— For the second month in succession, Federal accounts for February show another big fall in Commonwealth war expenditure…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →W. M. Hughes' Seat on the War Council
CANBERRA. — Opposition colleagues believe that the deputy leader of the U.A.P. (Mr. Hughes) will not make up his mind whether to return…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chicago "Tribune" Urges Australians to Get Into Pacific War Canberra, March 15
The Army Minister, Mr. Forde said today that it was galling after four and a half years of war to read in a report published by the Chicago "Tribune" that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?]Eaviest Bombing Attack of the War Mountain Town Of Cassino Now Heap of Ruins
LONDON, March 15.—The Allies today unleashed the most concentrated bombing attack in history on Cassino, the mountain town in the centre of the Italian front. Planes of practically every description, from Flying…
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A meeting of the War Loan Committee will be held at the Town Hall to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Cassino (Italy) Wrecked
The fact that the Allies are set for a big move in Italy was explained on Wednesday when Cassino, the mountain city and Nazi stronghold in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Africa Pays War Cost Share
CAPETOWN, March 16.—General Smuts disclosed to the House of Assembly that agreement had been reached between Britain and South…
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