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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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Anzac Day Mine Stoppages

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 3

Sydney, April 23.—The order given by the Coal commissioner. Mr. Mighell, that all mines should work on Anzac Day defied by some miners on each of the…

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Impressive Scenes At Sydney's Anzac Day

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 3

Sydney, April 25.—A crowd of 20,000 people in Martin Place today honored the 20th [?] of the Auzar Landing. The down service, the largent on…

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War Correspondents

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 7

MELBOURNE.—Statements issued last night by the Federal Council of the Australian Journalists' Association and the Newspaper Proprietors'…

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Rev. G. Hutchinson's Message At Anzac Dawn Service At Memorial

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 6

THE Rev. G. C. Hutchinson, a Digger of the last war, and who was until recently an Army padre, gave the occasional address at the citizens' Anzac Dawn Service held at the. Fallen Soldiers' Memorial yesterday. It was an…

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Duke And Duchess At-War Memorial

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 3

Canberra, April 25.—The Governor General. the Duke of Gloucester, and the Duchess of Gloucester attended the Anzac Day commemoration service at the…

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War Ending Forecasts

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 1

Washington, April 26.—After conferring with President Truman, the chairman of the Sub-committee on the War Department Appropriations, Mr. O. B…

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The War Berlin In Flames

Western Grazier · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 1

The was in Europe is coming to in end. The Russians are taking Berlin Street for street, and the once pound capital is going down in a are of flames…

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Aus. Pacific War Reporters Newspaper Head And A.J.A. Resent Minister's Statement

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 7

Melbourne, April 26.—Statements by Mr. Dedman, Minister for Post-War Reconstruction, in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night reflecting on…

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No Arms For Leave Soldiers

Western Grazier · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 2
Also in Barrier Daily Truth

Sydney, April 26.—Servicemen of any rank are liable to prosecution for carrying firearms on leave. An Army spokesman said today that…

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Soldiers' Preference

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 1

CANBERRA.— The Limbless Soldiers' Association has asked the Commonwealth Government to remove the seven years limit in the soldiers'…

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Suspended Sentences for Soldiers

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 April 1945 · page 4

CANBERRA.—In the House of Representatives Mr. White (Liberal Vic.) said that two AIF men who left their units to fight with the…

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Dutch War Reporter Liberates Own Wife

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 April 1945 · page 2

FOR five days the office of the Netherlands Press Agency "Aneta" in England had not heard anything of its well-known war correspondent, A. C. Van Beers, who went with the Canadians in their drive into Northern Holland. Then the news came that van Beers had liberated his own wife,…

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German Redoubt Is Disintegrating Munich In State Of Chaos Discipline Generally Lagging And Soldiers Wandering About

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 30 April 1945 · page 3

London, April 29.—The whole of the southern German redoubt is disintegrating, according to Reuter's Zurich correspondent. Reliable Swiss citizens who were in Munich on Friday say that the city was then in a state of chaos. The Wehrmacht in the early hours…

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Released Australian Prisoners Of War

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 1 May 1945 · page 1

Melbourne. April 30.— The Acting Minister for the Army, Senator Fraser said today that the next of kin of many Australian POWs recently released in…

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South £50,000 To War Loan

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 1 May 1945 · page 1

When interviewed today the Local War Loan Organiser (Sgt. S. J. D. Roberta) stated that he had been informed by Mr. P. N. Thomas of Broken Hill South…

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Wild Scenes In Brisbane Owing To Lack Ot Hostels And Cante ens For Soldiers

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 May 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE.—Discontent over lack of canteens and hostels led to wild scenes in which hundreds of Australian servicemen, with a sprinkling of British sailors, took part in city streets last night from 9 to 11.30 p.m…

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Anzac Hospitality Centre Chief's Visit

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 2 May 1945 · page 2

A very pleased man in Broken Hill is Mr. Mate Santich, of 331 Ryan Street, who is leaving by 'plane this morning for Sydney to see a picture of the…

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Lord Haw Haw Interpreter at War Trials

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 May 1945 · page 6

LONDON, May 1.—The British renegade broadcaster Lord HawHaw has been acting as interpreter at the trials of British and American…

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Heavy Toll of Airmen in War in Europe

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 May 1945 · page 6

LONDON, May 1.—The British and American heavy bomber fleets based in Britain, whose tasks are now nearly finished, have jointly lost…

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