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The wars & local soldiers, 1943

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War Damage Collections in Em

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 2

Ai last night a meeting of East Maitland Council a letter from the Way Damage Commission expressed appreciation of East…

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“Air Power Can Win the War”

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 3

LONDON January 25. — “Air power can win this war” declared Air Maitland Drummond in an interview in Cairo…

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Cessnock Returned Soldiers

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 4

The State Secretary of the R.S. and A.I.L.A., Lieut. A. R. Cutler, V.C., will pay a one day visit to Cessnock soon, and the Sub-branch have the…

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Work for Awl Soldiers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 2

CANBERRA Tues.— Instead of being imprisoned, soldiers convicted of being AWL may be required to do work useful to the…

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Soldier Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 3

CESSNOCK Tues.—Regineld J. Bull, 88, a soldier, of Singleton, fell form an armoured [?] at Cessnock to-day and received…

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Additions To The Anzac Buffet

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY Wed.—Officially opening a new recreation hall and kitchen at the. Ansae Butted, Hyde Park, the Lord Mayor. Alderman…

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Increase in War Pensions

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 4

SINGLETON Wed— At the meeting of the Singleton sub-branch of the returned Soldiers and Sal[?] imperial League it…

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National Post-War Planning

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 2

“I have noted with considerable pleasure that In many country sent[?] the Press local governing bodies and public [?]…

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South American Wool Ships and Post-war Position

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— Latest mail advices indicate that the United States Government at Washington had reached agreement…

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Returned Soldiers League’s Financial Position

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 4

SINGLETON Wed.—The secretary of the Singleton sub branch of. the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and. Airmen’s Imperial…

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Soldiers Absent Without Leave Imprisonment May Be Abolished

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 1

Soldiers convicted of being A.W.L. may be required to do work useful to the Army instead of being imprisoned. This proposal, it is…

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Bayoneted Six Times by Japanese Soldier Who Wore Red Cross Brassard

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 1

Although he was wearing a Red Cross brassard, a soldier was bayoneted six times by Japanese. He has returned with numbers of…

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Claimed He Bought Boots From Soldier Stranger to Town Sent to Gaol

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 3

In the local Police Court this morning before Messrs. K. Ryan and J. A. Letts, Js.P., John Thomas Files, aged 65, a stranger to the town, who…

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To-day’s Leader: Duty on Comforts Old Methods —New World Allied Agreement ok War Plans For 1943 Unconditional Surrender of Axis Nations Important Conference of Allied Leaders In Africa{AUSTRALIAN Associated Press)

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 1

LONDON Jan. 26—It was announced to-day that the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, and President Roosevelt completed a today conference at Casa Blanca, in North Africa where they met General de Gaulle and General Giraud…

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Prisoner of War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Thurs.—In a casualty list issued today Lieut M. H. Felsch, [?] Dungog, previously reported missing is now reported…

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Australian War Casualties

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 2

CANBERRA Thursday. — The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, stated in the House of Representatives that the total Australian…

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War Workers For Adelaide

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY Thurs.—Fifty women will leave Sydney this week to take up war work in Adelaide, where there is a…

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How War Correspondent Was Killed

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 1

LONDON January 27.—One of several transport planes flying correspondents to Casablanca for interviews with President…

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Discussion of Post-war with Russia

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 1

LONDON Jan. 27.—In the House of Commons today, the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) said the British Government had…

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After the War the Problem of Employment

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 4

What are the best means to adopt to find employment for all those now at the front and those engaged in equipment and munition making and so on among…

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