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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

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The Post-war World Dr. Evatt Issues Warning

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

Addressing the Australian Institute of Political Science Summer School at Canberra, the Federal Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt)…

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Troops Resent Strikes. Soldier's Letter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

"The troops are very sore about the whole business. Of course we do not know the full details, but it seems to that the sooner…

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Problems of Returned Soldiers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 2

Ex-servicemen are reminded by advertisement in this issue that Mr. E. Kltching, State branch representative, Returned Soldiers…

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Singleton Soldiers' League Annual Meeting

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 4

SINGLETON Tuesday —The report of the Singleton branch of the Returned Soilders League presented at the annual meeting…

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Japan’s Place After the War

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE Wed. —The [?]der of the Federal Opposition, Mr, Menzies, defended his statement that Germany and Japan…

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Employing Prisoners of War on Farms

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY Wed.—The Manpower Director (Mr Be[?]) visited Orange to investigate complaints that nearly 150…

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Helping The Soldiers’ League

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 6

SINGLETON Wednesday.—Little business was before the Red Cross meeting yesterday. Before business began the…

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Mas Ups and Downs Returned Singleton Soldiers Tell Of Experiences

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 3

Now that' they are' back in sunny Australia, and for the present are spending- time in Singleton amongst their families. Sinerletnn soldiers recently…

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Prisoners of War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

SCONE Thurs—Mr. and [?] A. T. Baker, of Scone, have [?] ceived word that their son, [?] who is a prisoner of war in [?]…

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Mail for War-Prisoners In Far East

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY Thurs. — Australian Red Cross officials urge next of kin to continue to write regularly, their 25-word messages each…

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“Finish the War This Year” Gen. Montgomery’s Address

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 1

LONDON Feb. 2—“This was begun a long while ago, I am getting tired and fed up with the said General Montgomery…

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Roosevelt Explains U.S. War Objectives “Expel and Defeat the Enemy (Australian Associated Press)

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

NEW YORK Feb. 2—“American objectives in [?] or elsewhere in continental Asia are to expel and defeat Japanese in the closest collaboration with our British, Chin[?] and other Allies in that theatre,” said a formal stateme[?]…

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English Observers in New Guinea Every Branch of the Service Represented (By Noel Adams, Our War Correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 4

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA—During the Huon Peninsula campaign I was sitting one day on a beach waiting for a barge when I heard someone talking about the Punjab. The Sun was warm and drowsy, and it look me a little…

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U.S. Soldier Falls From Parapet

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY Thursday.—Sergeant Therman Reddock, 25, an American soldier, fell asleep last night on the parapet of the Red Cross…

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Airman Killed in Action

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY Friday—Mr. and Mrs. Percy C. Breakspeare, of Carlton, have received hews that their, son, Flight-Sgt- Alan Rothery,…

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Personal Items Roll of Honor Pte. Patrick G. Golledge Killed in Action

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 1

Flags were flown at half-mast in Scone yesterday, from the Soldiers' Memorial School of Arts, upon receipt of the sad news by…

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War Pictorial

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 1

THESE ARE THE LATEST WAR PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE RELEASED BY THE UNITED STATES WAR INFORMATION OFFICE TO WHOM THEY ARE ACKNOWLEDGED…

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War Commentator Killed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 1

The Navy has announced in Washington that the columnist and war commentator, Raymond Clapper, was killed in a plane accident while covering the landing at the Marshall Islands…

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“Waging War With Honour”

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK Feb. 3.— Tokio official radio’s Filipino commentator has written an article severely criticising the “un-Christian…

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L-corporal Bob Sillis' Courageous Action. Prevents Japanese Firing On Wounded

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 4

Reports from New Guinea, describing the gallant work of the Australians in the fierce fighting which led up to the occupation of…

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