Official News of Prisoners of War in Hong Kong
Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2
Official news of prisoners of war in Hong Kong, and also internees at Stanley and Kowloon sections of what is known as "Military Internment Camp," Hong Kong, has reached Australia, via Geneva, from the Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rehabilitation of Returned Men Important and Representative Committee Formed
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 1
An important step to assist in the rehabilitation of returned soldiers on the land, one that it is hoped will have far reaching beneficial results, was taken at the S.T.D. League rooms yesterday morning, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Exports and Stocks : Six War Years
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 5
Winchcombe Carson Ltd., report: War-time circumstances have produced changing conditions in the quantity of wool imported by the consuming countries. In 1940, by way of example. Great Britain imported the equivalent weight of over 3,300,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flames East of Berlin Grow Redder Battle for Kustrin One of Fiercest of the War
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 3
LONDON, Wednesday: After smashing the great Kustrin defence triangle, with its apex at the confluence of the Oder and the Warthe Rivers, Field-Marshal Zhukov has launched a new drive for Berlin. Latest reports from the front say that the whole Oder-Neisse line is allame…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Politicians and Soldiers
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 3
SYDNEY: Mr. F. M. Daley, M.P., said to-day that he would seek the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accounted for Six Jap. Soldiers
Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 1
Above: Pte. Edgar Gay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gay, of Kialla, whose exploit near the Genga River, Bougainville, was described in our last issue. Mrs. Gay has now received a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier's Body Found Alongside Line Near Nubba
Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 4
For the third time within twelve months a soldier has been killed as a result of falling from a train between Cootamundra and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Stocks Post-war Aspects
Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 4
Wihchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The importance of making worldwide arrangements for the gradual offering of accumulated wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After the War
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 5
American electronics engineer; say that after the war such wonders will be revealed as:— Automatic warning for aeroplane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Burdens Mr.Chifley on What Lies Ahead
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 2
Defeat of Germany would not case Australia's burdens, but accentuate them, the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) said last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Soldier and Sailor Too"—the Marine Who He Is and What He Is
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 1
"E's a sort of 'bloomin' 'cosmopolous- soldier an' sailor too. "Kipling wrote in praise of Britain's seagoing soldiers, the Royal Marines—the "Leathernecks" with the tradition of being "first in and last to leave." and with the proud reputation for forming the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blind U.s. Soldiers Rehabilitated
Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 3
Blind U.S. soldiers of the current war, of whom there were less than 200 reported at the start of 1945, receive specialised medical care and then a four-month stay at a rehabilitation and readjustment centre operated by the U.S. Army Medical Corps in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gunning Returned Soldiers’ League Preference to Returned Men Advocated
Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 1
In the absence of the president (Dr. W. M. Barbour) the vice-president (Mr. W. Thoms) presided at the monthly meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After the War
Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 3
CANBERRA: The Minister for Reconstruction, Mr. Dedman, will submit to the Government a reconstructional employment bill in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Bonds Safeguard on Prices
Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 1
If we are to win the peace as well as the war, the cost of living must be kept down, the purchasing power of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six War Years Wool Exports and Stocks
Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 4
Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: War-time circumstances have produced changing conditions in the quantity of wool imported by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Loan Bonds Readily Saleable
Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 3
"Victory Bonds are liquid assets. There is nothing in Australia more readily saleable." This assurance was given…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Returned Men and Housing
Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 March 1945 · page 1
Goulburn sub-branch of the R.S. League wrote to the City Council suggesting the formation of a housing allocation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After the War
Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 26 March 1945 · page 3
American electronics engineers say that after the . war such wonders will be revealed as:— Automatic warning for aeroplane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Workers and War Loan
Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 March 1945 · page 3
War Loan speakers were faced with an unusual problem on Friday last. Driver Whiting was addressing members of the Locomotive Department outside the gates, and telling them of his experiences in New Guinea, when…
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