Soldier Fatally Injured
SYDNEY.—At a post-mortem today the police will test the theory that Pte. Norman Murdoch (26), who was fatally injured at the Sydney…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
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The War Big Russian Progress
The Russians continue to advance over the enemy, and have taken the last German hedgehog cast or the River Bug. This means that the Soviet forces are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Women In War Work
Of 9,600,000 women who were registered in Britain for war service it had been necessary only to exercise compulsory powers in respect of 26,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Order In U.S.A. After War To Be For 2,000,000 Irons
The U.S.A. War Production Board has decided that the first order to be given under postwar reconversion plans shall be one of 2,000,000 electric irons…
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For "refusal to admit defeat in the lace of a seemingly impossible situation," Sergeant Thomas Currie Derrick, [?] of Mansfield Street, North Adelaide has…
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CANBERRA.—Moving the second reading of a Loan Bill to provide £200,000,000 for war purposes in the House of Representatives today, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post-War Freedom
There will have to be some recasting of a lot of things after the war and a restoration of some privileges that have necessarily been subordinated to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air War Causes Nazis Anxiety
LONDON, March 24.—German propagandists are not doing a great deal to cheer up the populace so far as the air war is concerned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers To Vote On Powers Bill CANBERRA, March 24
The Prime Minister. Mr. Curtin, told the House today that soldiers overseas would be given an opportunity to vote at the forthcoming referendum on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Soldiers Drowned While Fishing
BRISBANE,—An amphibious jeep is being used to find the bodies of two Australian soldiers, Brian Frederick Oswald Ferris and Norman Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Model Planes For War Loan Show
TWENTY-SEVEN exact scale models of Allied planes and Japanese planes will be a feature of the War Loan exhibition, which will open in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Calwell Talks of War Weariness
MELBOURNE.—Speaking to a church gathering at Fitzroy yesterday, the Minister for Information (Mr. Calwell) said that many people…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air War Against Nazis Enters New Phase London, March 26
Including Friday night's heavy RAF attack against Berlin and further heavy blows on largest in north-west and central Germany yesterday when the eighth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Barrier Miner Monday, March 27, 1944. Churchill Cheerful on Pacific War
ACCORDING to the week-end broadcast by the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) the Allied position in the Pacific war has greatly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Premier's Address to Greek Ex-soldiers
SYDNEY.—Addressing Greek exservicemen last night the Premier (Mr. McKell) said that there was a danger of small disagreements…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Post-War Pointers
CANBERRA.—Liaison officers from all State Governments will be told tho Commonwealth's plans for public works, housing, secondary industries,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Post-War Period Concessions From People SYDNEY, March 27
The Director of Post War Reconstruction, Dr. Coombs, addressing members of the Constitutional Association today, said that the aims of his Department were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russians Reach Rumanian Border Marshal Koviev Makes One Of Swiftest Advances Of War LONDON, March 27
The Russians have reached the Rumanian border. This historic news was revealed by Marshal Stalin in an Order of the Day, which announces that after the Russians a few days ago forced the Dniester River on a front of over 110 miles they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Years For Soldier BRISBANE, March 28
A sentences of six years gaol was given Henry De[?] Buckley (22), a soldier, after having been convicted of a criminal assault, by Mr. Justice Douglas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers' Voting Bill
A Parliamentary Election Wartime Bill, which covers voting by members of the Forces and C.C.C. personnel for the forthcoming State Election was…
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