Welcome to Soldiers
Immediately after the proceedings recorded above, a welcome was accorded to soldiers on leave. The Mayor explained that the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
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Late War News
"One of the hardest blows ever struck at the German air force" is how General H. H. Arnold (U.S. Air Corps Chief) describes the huge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Upper Bowman Boys Wounded Private Russell Grant Dangerously Ill
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grant, of Upper Bowman, recently received word that their son, Russell Grant, of the A.I.F., had been wounded, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Expenditure on the War
At the end of the first six months of the financial year Australia had spent £281,694,000 on the war. The budget estimate of war expenditure…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Rome Bombed
London: It is announced by Rome Radio that Rome was bombed at noon on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News in Brief Heavy Fighting on River Bug
Moscow correspondents report that German resistance in southern Russia has stiffened with the arrival of reinforcements on the line of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Post-war Works Address by Mr. A. H. Voisey Armidale As Centre
Addressing the Macleay Shire Council on Monday, Mr. A. H. Voisey, MSc., lecturer in geology and geography of New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News Of Our Soldiers
Sergeant Martin Ashton, AIF, was home in Wingham on leave last weekend. Squadron Leader J. M. Glass had…
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Russian spearheads have thrust 115 miles west of the old Polish border, Berlin spokesmen state. The German announcement adds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waste and the War
Waste paper and cardboard go to war these days. Repulped and reprocessed, it can be made into a host of articles necessary to the war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London
Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law, and four other members of former Fascist Grand Council, were shot by a firing squad at 9.20…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War 700-Bomber Raid
London, Thursday (A.A.P): "One of the hardest blows ever struck at the German Air Force." is how General H. H. Arnold (US Air Corps Chief)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Damage Commission Scheme Arrangements for 1944
It was announced recently that War Cabinet had decided to extend the contribution period under the War Damage Scheme, which ended…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Varied Verse a Soldier's Reverie
A soldier sat in quiet thought Of what was done and what was sought, His head upon his knees was bowed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Carnival
A meeting of the committee organising the soldiers carnival to be held in March, was held on Tuesday night, when there was a good attendance,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Air War
The R.A.F. started fires with which firemen were unable to cope on Saturday, when it made a record saturation attack on Brunswick, big…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia's War Effort
Australia's female labor force has increased by 205,000 since the outbreak oi the war, and there are now 849,000 women in full-time war or…
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Troops of the First Ukrainian Army killed 100,000 Germans and took 7000 prisoners in 20 days of the present Russian offensive (between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Other War News
Burma Front.—Although pressure by British troops on the Arakan front has increased, it cannot be described as a co-ordinated offensive by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War in Italy
Allied troops in western Italy have launched an attack from two directions on Monte Trocchio, last mountain barrier south of Cassino,…
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