May Split A.L.P. Cabinet’s Soldier Preference Proposals CANBERRA
Split in the ranks of the ALP, which may shake the Curtin Government to its foundations, threatens over Cabinet’s decision last night to give preference…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,235 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 112
1878 Years’ Gaol for [?] U.S. Soldiers London, Feb. 1
Four more American soldiers convicted for train [?] and black marketing [?] states Refuter’s Paris correspondent, have been sentenced to terms of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First War Wedding At Aitape
Aitape celebrated its first war wedding on Saturday when Sister J. F. Wilson, of Neutral Bay, Sydney, married Major K. F. Russell, of Toorak,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Luxury Air Liners Planned After War SYDNEY
Large aircraft catering for both sitting and sleeping passengers, and also equipped with cocktail bars, lounges, observation compartments, hot and cold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£1,240,000 To Be Spent Development of Kiewa Scheme After War MELBOURNE
Of the State Electricity Commission’s initial post-war works programme of nearly £6,000,000, the Premier (Mr Dunstan) said today that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Committed For Trial On Rape Charge MELBOURNE
Charles Hornbuckle, 29. soldier, was today committed for trial at the Supreme Court on charges of rape and inflecting grievous bodily harm on an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brave Corporal Brought in Soldier Who Later Died (From Fred Aldridge, on Bougainville)
In this war of patrols and tracks, the latest act of individual heroism is by an Australian corporal, who faced intense fire to recover the body of one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia’s Part In The War “Americans Uninformed” San Francisco. Feb. 4
“Americans arc uninformed regarding the part the Australians are playing in the war and the blame lies mainly with the Australians’ lack of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Preference. Fireworks Expected At A.L.P. Meeting MELBOURNE
One of the liveliest meetings for some time in Federal Labor politics is expected on Monday when political and industrial wings of the movement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Round And Round Umbrella Tree Albury Soldier In Exciting Clash With Japs (From Gordon Holland with Forward Troops in Torricolli Mountains)
Six inches of thick umbrella tree separated two Australian infantrymen from five Japs in a sharp fight with pistols, grenades and a bren gun on the edge of a steep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hume Seat Mr. Mair Considering Standing Favors Soldier Member
Questioned last evening as to whether a suggestion that he would be in the field as a candidate for Hume seat in the next Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News
"The Riverine Grazier" is a subscriber to the Australian Associated Press which provides the overseas news in this issue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Corowa War Service Social Committee. Activities Appreciated
With the annual meeting of the Corowa War Service Social Committee advertised to be held on Wednesday, February 14, i is desired by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest War News Americans Capture Manila Luzon, Mon.--AAP
American troops have entered Manila. A wide encircling movement, under cover of darkness, took them into the city…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reinstatement of A.I.F. SOLDIER Railway Commissioner Fined
SYDNEY, Tuesday: In the judgment given in the special Federal Court to-day, Mr. Atkinson. S.M. convicted the Railway Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Soldiers Corowa Branch Annual Meeting
There was a large attendance at the annual meeting of the Corowa subbranch of the R.S.S. & A.L.L.A held at Fraser's office on Wednesday of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jindera Soldier Fined
A fine of £3 for possession of articles, most of which he described as souvenirs, was imposed on Arthur Henry Cook. 34, soldier, in Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Preference For Soldiers Federal Labor Advisory Committee Makes No Statement Melbourne
The Federal Labor Advisory Committee. co-ordinating body of the Labor movement in Australia, met in Melbourne today and discussed the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Preference Problems
Comment on the Federal Government’s bill providing for preference in employment to the members of the Services necessarily must remain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Massive Russian Forces Pile Up On Both Sides Of Oder for Decisive Battle of War Zhukov's New Drive To Split Defences Thaw and Fierce Resistance Slow Advance London, February 5
With massive forces piling up on both sides of the Oder for what one Moscow correspondent says may be the decisive battle of the war, Reuter’s correspondent in Moscow this morning reported that General Zhukov today…
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