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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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To-day's Leader: Timber And The War German Flank Below Berlin Shattered Australian Associated Press

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON, February 12.—-Marshal Koniev's vigorous new thrust to the Bober river has shattered the German Sank positions below Berlin, says the American Associated Press military correspondent…

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"Nazi Germany is Doomed" —Says "Big Three." Momentous Decisions of Crimea Conference War Criminals will be Punished :: Reparations :: Enemy Forces Will Disarm and Disband :: Industry Controlled

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 1

MOMENTOUS DECISIONS FOR THE FINAL DEFEAT OF GERMANY AND THE POST-WAR SETTLEMENT OF EUROPE WERE ANNOUNCED IN A COMMUNIQUE, DEALING WITH THE MEETINGS OF MR. CHURCHILL, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, AND MARSHAL STALIN, AT WHAT IS OFFICIALLY DESCRIBED AS THE…

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Returned Men and Women Government Determined on Preference

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 2

The Federal Government is determined to pass the bill providing for preference to returned servicemen and women despite opposition of the…

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Nazi War Camps Overrun

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON Feb. 13—The Minister for War (Sir James Grigg) told the House of Commons that 12 prisoner of war camps in…

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Tax Yield Eases War Borrowing

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 6

CANBERRA Wednesday,—Due to the great increase in the yield, of taxation, borrowing for war in the first seven months of 1944-45…

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Conspired to Aid Nazi War Prisoners

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 1

BAY [?] (MICHIGAN) Feb 13.— Charged with conspiring to aid the escape of two German war prisoners with whom, it was…

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Japanese Invoke Their Ancestors Waging War to Realise Ideal

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 2

A Tokio broadcast said that the Japanese observed their Empire Day on Sunday, praying to their ancestors for victory…

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No Mercy for Germany in "Big Three" Plans Russia May Enter War Against Japan

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 2

After eight days in conference at Yalta, on the Black Sea, Mr. Churchill, President Roosevelt and Marshal Sta in announced that Germany will be completely occupied after the Germans have been forced to surrender unconditionally…

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Stones In Soldiers Drill Packs

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 4

BRISBANE Wednesday—It was stated at the Royal Commission Investigating court martial sentences on three soldiers that…

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Reaction of Polish Soldiers Crimea Conference

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 3

LONDON Feb. 13—The Exchange Telegraph correspondent in Italy says that the reaction to the Crimea declaration is…

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War Hampers Tennis Activities

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

“The activities of the association have been very restricted during the current year owing to war conditions generaly,”…

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War Damage

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 4

"It is not our purpose to destroy the German people and Germany, but only when Nazism has been exterminated will there be hope for a decent…

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War Snapshots

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 3

Spinning the propeller, an aviation machinist's mate of the WAVES, the U.S. Women's Naval Reserve, starts the…

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War Memorial Housie

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

In response to many demands the War Memorial committee’s housie, which proved so successful in January, will be repeated…

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Danes’ New War Dance

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 3

The Germans forbade a performer, in a Danish circus to appear any more, because the launched what he called “a new…

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At War with Axis

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 1

MONTEVIDEO Feb. 16. — The Uruguayan Government has declared war on the Axis…

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War Facts in Brief

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 4
Also in The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder

By the end of October last, Can[?] dian shipyards had launched mo[?] than 1000 vessels, including 500 co[?] bat vessels and naval craft, over 35…

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War Eagle Should Win

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 6

Of the twenty-one horses nominated for the Sydney Turf Club Handicap, run at "Canterbury to-morrow, only eleven have survived the scratching…

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Branxton Assists War Memorial Appeal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 5

A Branxton committee, headed by Dr. Hurst and Constable McDonald, is making a big effort to raise funds for the treatment of returned soldiers at…

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