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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

2,299 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 115

Sidelights From Sydney War

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 1

THE WAR in Europe should be over in from six to 12 months, and will probably be won from the Eastern front,…

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Australian Prisoners Of War Appreciative

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday — Mr. J. T. Maddey, YMCA National Secretary, said in Melbourne that the large number of Australians…

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No Civil War in China Settling Differences

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 1

CHUNGKING -January 18. — Marshal Chiang. Kai-Shek, in an interview, predicted that the government differences with the…

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Suggestion to Miners See War industries At Work

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 3

CESSNOCK Friday — Addressing the Cessnock Rotary Club last night, a former secretary of the Belibird Miners’ Lodge Mr…

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Greatest American Battle of War Mr. Churchill’s Tribute

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 4

LONDON, January 18.— United States troops had done almost all the fighting and suffered almost all the losses in the terrific battle on the Western Front since Tuesday, Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons…

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No Civil War in China1 Chiang-kai-shek's Assurance

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 5

General Chiang-Kai-Shek, in an interview, predicted that Government differences with Communists would be settled peacefully. He added, that '…

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No Work on Scheme Until After War. Statement at Singleton Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 1

Statements made by the Minister, for Conservation (Captain W. F. Dunn, M.L.A.), and Mr. Brewster, a member of the Water Conservation and…

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No Water Conservation Till Post- War Minister and Commissioner Address Large Singleton Meeting Gathering Not Impressed, But Know Position

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 3

The Commissioner of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission (Mr Brewster) yesterday told a gathering of more than 40, representative of all parts of the Hunter Valley, that there could be no hope for a scheme of water conservation for the Valley until the post-war period…

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Brutal Savagery of German Soldiers. a Thrilling Russian Story. Tragedy in the Kalinovka Mining Town

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 1

Mr. George Morozov, Press attache of the legation of the U.S.S.R. has forwarded the following graphic story, by A. Borisenko, to the "Eagle." The story is one of the most horrible acts by German…

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Soldier Preference In Abeyance

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 2

CANBERRA Friday. — It is unlikely that Federal Cabinet will again discuss the subject of returned soldier preference until…

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Soldier For Four Years Shares In Lottery

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 1

KURRI KURRI Friday.—Second prize to-day’s lottery was shared by two Kurri miners. The ticket was called “What a Blow,”…

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Preference to Soldiers Move to Shelve It

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 5

High ranking Victorian members of the A.L.P. are fighting hard to have the Federal Government shelve preference to soldiers in employment…

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Sub-branch at Dungog Returned Soldiers’ League

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

DUNGOG, Saturday. — Income of the Dungog sub-branch of the Returned Sailors Soldiers and airmen’s League for the past…

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Soldiers Take Charge of Camp

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 1

QUEBEC January 19— The Quebec “Chronicle Telegraph” in an article passed by the censor, says that Home Defance…

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Returned Men Out of Work Complaint at Soldiers' Meeting

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 1

There was some discussion at the annual meeting of Singleton sub-branch of the R.S.S. and A.I. League on Friday night in…

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Shooting at Lismore One Dead and One Wounded

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 1

The body of a man, who committed suicide after shooting a soldier on Friday night, was found early en Saturday morning in the bush near…

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Gravest Period Since Outbreak of War Australian Associated Press

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, January 21.— “No mat ter when or where the enemy may attempt to invade Japan we must promote a spirit of de fence of our Empire, Japan is now the dividing line between survival and death. It is fac ed with the gravest period since the outbreak of war,” declared the Japanese Prime Minis ter (General Koiso) addressing the Diet…

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Maitland Won’t Co-operate in Post-war Water Scheme

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 2

Maitland Council was the only body not prepared to assist in any way the association’s campaign to obtain a grant or…

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Thinks War Zone Safer Than Home Airman Who Aroused Ire of American Girls

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK, January 21.—The America airman who created a [?] by going home, after three year in Australia and the Pacific, and telling the Press that the “current crop” of American girls was too artificial and that Australian girls…

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War Notes

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 2

The big news from the war fronts is the irresistible advance of Marshal Zhukov's. First White Russian front troops, who have…

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