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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

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Expenditure on the War

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 1

At the end of the first six months of the financial year Australia had spent £281 694,000 on trie war. The Budget estimate of war ex-…

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Views on Post - War Mattes

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 6

SINGLETON Wednesday.—A lengthy discussion on post-war reconstruction took piece at a special municipal council meeting…

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U.S.A’s Biggest War Plant

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 6

CHICAGO.—The Dodge Division of Chrysler Corporation has announced the completion here of the largest war plant in the…

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Roosevelt’s Emphatic Reply To Critics Determined There Will Not Be Another War (Australian Associated Press)

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 1

WASHINGTON Jan. 11—president Roosevelt, in his message to Congress, recommended a five-point legislature, headed by the National Service - Law, for the duration to prevent strikes, and, with some exceptions, to make…

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Admitting Soldiers’ Wives To U.S.A.

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 5

NEW YORK Jan. 11—“Mary Browne, former leading American tennis player, now in Australia with the American Red Cross,…

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Wounded in New Guinea

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 3

Private C[?] who was seriously wounded In New Guinea, has arrived In Sydney, and is undergoing treatment in a…

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War and Transport System

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 5

Whilst the railway systems of the Allied Nations are doing a great transportation job in handling personnel, war…

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Pacific War Council Meeting

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 1

WASHINGTON Jan 12.—After three months Inactivity the Pacific War Council met, to-day, The New Zealand…

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Losses of R.A.A.F. In The War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE Thursday — The Minister for Air, Mr. Drakeford, has revealed that RAAF casualties In all theatres of war to date…

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Wounded in Action

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 1

SIDNEY Friday. — In a casualty list issued to-day, Lieut. J. A. Piper, of Langothlin is reported wounded in action…

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Women and The War

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

THE Department of Information. in its publication entitled “Facts and Figures.” discloses that since the…

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Explosion in War Museum

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday : Two children had a narrow escape, when the projection charge of a German mortar grenade of the…

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Air Marshal Answers War Editors

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON Jan. 13. — Air Marshal Peck and American Major General Spattz, who will command American air forces in the…

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Post-War Aid To Industry

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA Friday.—The Government is determine to do all it can to assist secondary industry in Australia to become an…

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War Honours Won by Australians

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 1

Awards for bravery and distinguished service won by Australian soldiers since the outbreak of the war, total 3629. In the Middle…

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Japanese Mandated Islands Post-war Plans

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 1

Control of the Japanese mandated islands must be vested after the war in a great and friendly Power, says the…

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Every Effort Still Needed for War

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

FROM the Australian point of view the war in the Pacific is the main theatre, and much has yet to be done before the Japanese can be defeated. In the two years that America has been in the war, only in and hopping has been the main feature. In…

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Australian Violinist Assists America's War Effort

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 4

Godfrey Ludlow, Australian-born violinist whom the American National Broadcasting Company rates among its musical stars, has…

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The Food Front. Strength Will Largely Determine War's Duration

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 4

Food is the war material of which the nation is now in most vital need, and a full recognition of this fact can do much to advance the day of victory,…

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90,000 Million Dollars for War. Huge U.S. Budget. Washington

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

President Roosevelt's Budget for 1945 is anticipated to total Federal expenditure of 100,000 million dollars, of which 90,000 M. will be for war…

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