Is Spain Going Into the War ? New York. March 29
The claim that the Spanish Government had instructed all Spanish merchantmen to return to home perts Immediately was made by Drew Pearson In the course of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1943
2,453 stories in Murray's papers · page 33 of 123
Progress of the War the Mareth Line Now in British Hands
LONDON, Monday.—The Eighth Army has smashed its way through the Mareth Line, and is now pursuing Rommel's retreating Axis forces…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News 8th Army Nearing Sea in Tunisian Push London, March 29
The British 8th Army is now advancing into the suburbs of Elhamma in a flanking move designed to close the Gabes Gap in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Soldiers Killed Mysterious Bomb Explosion
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When a mortar bomb exploded on a South Coast beach last night four soldiers were killed. The bomb was found by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Printer for the Senate
Mr. Frank Beech, who has been a linotype operator on the staff of the "Lachlander" newspaper. Condobolin for the last 21 years, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Young Soldier Refore Albury Court
Reginald Stanley Dickson, an 10 year-old Soldier, was triated at a first offender when he pleaded guilty in Albury spourt yesterday to having stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters From Soldiers
The Editor of the “Pastoral Times” will be pleased to publish extracts from soldiers’ letters received by local relatives and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What War Map Shows
Events in Tunisia are believed to be rapidly moving to a climax. The arrows (below) indicate the direction of the Eighth Army’s attack against Rommel, whilst those above show the direction of the advance by American and French forces…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Workers Idle. Sydney
More than 350 men and women war workers are now idle at a Government motor equipment annexe over a claim by shift-workers for a 25 per cent., instead of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Loan Rally. £3030 SUBSCRIBED
There was an excellent attendance at the War Loan Rally in the Memorial Hall on Friday evening, and as a result of the entertainment and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Smuts Warns of Long War Capetown. March 30
Adding his warning to those of many other Statesmen that the war is likely to laar a long time. General Smuts. South African Prime Minister, in the course of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“War on the Civilian” keeping Him Off the Trains CANBERRA
Further restrictions [?] inter[?]te passenger travelling may soon be dec[?]ed upon by the Federal Government. “This was indicated today by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Charged; Woman’s Skull Fractured MELBOURNE
With a fractured skull, Mrs Thelma Ann McClusky, aged 27, of Punt road, Richmond, was admitted to St Vincent’s Hospital tonight. According to medical…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Curtin Orders Soldiers To Work Ships Waterside Workers Reaffirm Decision To Reject Gang CANBERRA
Following the refusal of the wharf laborers to work ships at an Australian port, die Federal Government has ordered that the ships be handled by soldiers. In announcing tills today, die Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) said he [?]ad directed the Minister for the Army to provide the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Killed in Train Fall. Adelaide
Eric John Beard, about 28, of the AIF, a resident of West Australia, was killed when he slipped and fell between two moving carriages of a train in which he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COSTING £ Million Yearly To Keep Soldiers and Dependants CANBERRA
Pay and allowances alone for the fighting forces and their dependants will absorb £134 million this year. This was revealed by the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier and a Breastplate
An advertisement Which Appeared in yesterday’s “Mail” [?] plate allegedly removed from a horse in Townsend st was quoted by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wodonga Soldier Drove New Guinea Bride
All Australia read last week of the wedding of an army officer and a nurse in New Guinea, the first wedding of a serviceman or woman in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Senate Wins Again Govt. Backs Down on Soldiers’ Preference CANBERRA
Acceptance of the Senate’s amendment to the Repatriation Bill to provide for preference of employment to members of the forces…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Bonds are Negotiable
There is a generally held and entirely wrong view on the part of small investors in Australia that putting money into Government…
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