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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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“New May Lose Post-war Meat Trade” Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 6

Estimate that 90 per cent of meat being [?]ported from NSW was below pre-war export standard was made today by the president of the [?]…

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Latest War News Reds Resume Drive on Berlin London, Thurs. -- AAP

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 3

Russian troops are again moving on Berlin, a Soviet frontline reporter said in a dispatch received last night…

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Final Stage of the War Russians About to Launch Key Battle LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 2

Indications are mounting that Marshal Zhukby is about to launch the key battle of the final stage of the war —the battle for Berlin—states…

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Soldier Acquitted in Albury Court Was Charged With Manslaughter

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 4

Judge Berne at Albury Quarter Sessions yesterday discharged the jury from giving a verdict in a case in which Elwin [?] Breust…

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“Put Politicians in N.G. PATROL” Alleged Suggestion by Wounded Soldiers CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 March 1945 · page 2

Opposition members who referred to Australian operations as “mopping up” should be put in the commandos, declared Mr Sheehan (Lab., NSW), in…

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Soldiers to be Released Alleged Past in Mutiny Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 March 1945 · page 1

The Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) is arranging for the immediate release from detention of Privates J. Wilson, J. J. Derrick. and…

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Attempt to Evict Soldier’s Wife Fails SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 March 1945 · page 4

Opposing an objective attempt in Paddington police court to evict a soldier’s wife and baby from a [?] Hill that defendant’s so[?]citor (Mr E. E. Jones) described…

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Soldier on Serious Charges. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 March 1945 · page 6

Alleged to be an escapee from military custody, Noel Robson, aged 21. was remanded by the North Sydney police court to March 16 on four separate charges,…

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953 Post-War Factories for China WASHINGTON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 2

Foreign Economic Adiminstration officials have completed a one thousand million dollar pest-war industrialisation plan for China which envisages…

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Before June? End of European War? New York

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 1

“Events during the past few days have caused a revision of the estimates of the length of the war,” says Drew Middleton New York “Times”…

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Nowhere to Sleep Plight of Soldiers And Dependants SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 4

Unoccupied army establishments should be handed over to house servicemen’s dependants, some of whom were living In appalling conditions,…

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Japs Burn Own Wounded MANILA

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2

A Spokesman for General MacArthur has slated that Oil February 8 the Japanese blew up a building in Manila in which there were approximately…

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War News

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2

"The Riverine Grazier" is a subscriber to the Australian Associate Press which provides the oversea news in this issue…

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War Facts in Brief

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2

In the five years of war to September, 1944, Australian women gainfully employed or in the forces had increased by 164,000—25.5 per cent…

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War Rages Near Famous Cathedral

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 1

German shell hits American tank (right) in a street leading to Cologne Cathedral. US soldier notes plight of comrade attempting to escape and starts in his aid…

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Spending Over £1 Million on War CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 1

War expenditure for February was £30,949,000 or approximately £1.105,321 a day. For the eight months ended February 28. 1945. war expenditure…

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War-time Wool Clips 25 Per Cent. Carry Over

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: In six war clips, Australia has produced 21,537,[?]000 bales of wool and only about 25 per cent, of it is awaiting shipment…

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Australia’s Wool Production in War Years SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 5

During the six war years Australia has produced 21,537,000 bales of wool. and [?]aly about 23 per cent, of it is [?]ing shipment or consumption…

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Latest War News Jap. Shipping Restricted San Francisco --Monday (A.A.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

"The time is almost at hand when Japan will be unable to operate any shipping to the Netherlands East Indies or other holdings in South…

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