The Digger at His Top in New Guinea Battle Experience Helps American Soldiers
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 3
Since returning from New Guinea recently, I have often asked “What do you think of Australian and American soldiers?” As Australians have been in this war for more than four…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 3
SYDNEY Sat.—John Charles Bussell, 28, a former pay sergeant, was charged at court-martials yesterday with having…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2
THE maintenance of Australia’S war-time communications system has demanded the maximum use of every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters For Prisoners of War
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 1
SYDNEY Monday.— Since the outbreak of war more than 52 million letters concerning prisoners of war and internees have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Post-war Wool Plans Discussed
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2
ARMIDALE Mon.—Plans to meet the threat of synthetic fibres to the wool industry after the war were discussed at a…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 1
NEW YORK Jan. 30—The announcemnet that the Soviet Supreme Council is considering a change of the Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →May Speed Up War in Pacific
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 1
NEW YORK Jan. 30.—The reports of Japanese atrocities may affect the strategy of the Pacific war, says Hanson Baldwin in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cpl Dennis a Prisoner of War
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2
Corporal Albert (Bert) Dennis, third son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dennis,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dr. Evatt’s Post-War Warning
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 1
CANBERRA Monday — Addressing the Australian institute of Political Science Summer School to-day the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Post-war World Dr. Evatt Issues A Warning
Singleton Argus · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2
Addressing the Australian Institute of Poltical Science Summer School at Canberra today, the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman's Part in War Effort 50,107 in Various Services
Singleton Argus · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 3
As in other branches of war work, Australian women are doing; a fine job in the auxiliary services of the Navy, Army and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Today’s Leader: Life Lines of War Task for the Empire Conference
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 1
LONDON Jan. 30—“The con[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Price Control—rationing Needed After War Professor Copland’s Views Of Future Economy
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2
CANBERRA Monday—In his address to the summer school of the Institute of Political Science the Prices Commissioner, Professor Copland, said that Australia could expect war-time measures, including price control and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Allied Bombers Smash Nazi Cities Worst 40 Hours In The History of the War (Australian Associated Press)
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 3
LONDON Jan. 30—From Thursday night to noon on Saturday, German industrial centres were subjected to the most intense bombing in the history of the war. More than 5000 tons of bombs were rained on them by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enlistments In Air Training Corps
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2
SYDNEY Mon.—Up to the end of 1943, 6500 Air Training Corps Cadets had enlisted in the RAAF. Of these 2603 came from the NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News of Gloucester Soldier
Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2
GLOUCESTER Monday.— Mr. H. A. Sansom, of Sing-street, Gloucester, is in receipt of the following message from the…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 1
SYDNEY Monday.— Investigating a report that a man had slashed his wrists in King-street, City, early yesterday, the police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Caught by Science Hairs Trapped Soldier Killer
Singleton Argus · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 4
A strand of hair found on a I soldier's clothes and a fibre of J wool taken from the finger-nail I of a dead girl built up a case I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What of the Post-war Motor Car?
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1
The tendency on the part of some armchair prophets to forecast startling innovations as part of the immediate post-war motor car design is likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Official Investigation of War Commonwealth Commission Appointed
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 2
CANBERRA. Tuesday—Dr. Evatt Minister for eternal Affairs, has announced, that a Commonwealth Commission of inquiry has been established under the [?] Justice of Queensland, Sir William Webt, to investig…
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