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The wars & local soldiers, 1943

3,182 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 25 of 160

Chinese Soldiers in U.s. Plane

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 1

A transport of the U.S. Army Air Forces is used to carry Chinese soldiers to India on a task mission. [?]…

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Bigamy Charge Soldier Remanded

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 2

On a charge of bigamy. Clifton John Harvey, 80, a soldier, was remanded from West Maitland court on Thursday next on a…

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Italy Has Lost the War No Matter Whether She Makes a Separate Peace or Not (By an Italian Author Now In Great Britain)

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 4

If the forces landed in French North Africa succeed in linkingup with Montgomery's army racing west to meet them, Italy will have lost the war for good, whatever happens at the northern end of the Axis. It will not matter much whether she makes a separate…

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War Education

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 5

CANBERRA Tuesday ,—At the next meeting of Jainet, a recommendation will probably be made that a central directorate…

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Dealing With Post-War Problems

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Tues.—The central executive of the [?] decided to-day to ask the Federal Government to take steps at once to…

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War Brings Changes New Uses Fob Oils

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 1

A new use for detoluated benzol obtained from India's toluene industry, as a solvent in processing rubber, has re-routed oil of her oil fields from…

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U.s. Estimate of War’s End

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

NEW YORK Feb. 22—The US Under-Secretary of War, Mr. R. L. Patterson, declared that it was likely that the war would…

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Post War Problems for Australia Position As Mr. Hughes Sees It

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY Tuesday—“What the treaty terms may be we do not know, but there is reason to believe that strong efforts will be made to break down the narrow policy of economic nationalism and to substitute one embodying the principles…

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Better Conditions For Soldiers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Tuesday — The Secretary of the newly formed soldiers political party which has been set up in Sydney Mr. Ralph…

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Returned Soldiers Meet

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 6

SINGLETON Tuesday—Mr. R. Cutler, State Secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League notified Singleton branch at the…

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Soldier Had A Wireless Set

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Tues.—Pleading guilty in the Police Court to-day to having in his possession a wireless set suspected unlawfully…

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News of Scone District Soldiers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 4

SCONE Tuesday.—Pte. Arthur Daley, now in the fourth year in the Middle East was still in hospital at latest advice, recovering…

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Not Near End of War

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 1

LONDON Feb. 23—“If Britans could compare their lot with the residents of Leningrad, where 300,000…

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Germany's Losses in War Total of Killed, Permanently Disabled. and Prisoners of War

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 1

The labor front and the great insurance companies estimate that Germany's total of killed, permanently disabled or prisoners of war…

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Finland May Soon Withdraw From War

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 1

WASHINGTON Feb 23—Replying to a question at a press conference concerning Finland the Assistant Secretary for…

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Us Soldier’s Appreciation

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 2

Mrs. W, J, Branch, of Newcastle street East Maitland has received a latter of appreciation from Cpt Arthur Hntzke of the…

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Death of Soldier

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 3

SCONE Wednesday—The sad Intelligence came to hind-yesterday of the passing in a hospital in the Far North Of Private…

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Local and General News Branxton Soldier Home on Leave

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 2

Corporal R. (Dick) Holmes is spending leave with his patents at Branxton, having returned from service in New Guinea, where he…

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Missing: Now Prisoner of War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 4

SCONE Wednesday—Mrs. S. N. Readford of “Sledmere,” Scone, was overjoyed when word came through from the Air Board…

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To-day’s Leaders: Comparisons Army Poy For Objectors Air War in the Solomons

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 1

WASHINGTON Feb. 24—Considerable air activity in the solomons was received in to-day’s Navy communique…

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