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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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Dealing with Japan After the War Albury Rotarians Hear of Several “Plans”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

Albury Rotarians glimpsed the magnitude of the problems facing the United Nations in devising post-war treatment of Japan, when, at their weekly luncheon yesterday a member of the International Service Committee placed before Stem a selection of views on the subject from official…

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Lost Wallet: Soldier Stranded

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2

A disabled returned soldier who was on his way to Sydney has become stranded in Albury through losing his wallet. He has appealed to the Local…

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Land for Ex-soldiers

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2

“When this war is over the young men who here risked their lives for this country and for us will return demanding that they be given a stake in…

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Surgeons’ Fight for Soldier’s Life Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 4

Army surgeons, with the aid of penicillin, worked all night recently to save the life of one of a number of Australians wounded in a patrol…

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Former Soldier and a Pistol Albury Court Gives Him A Chance

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

Albert Joseph Morton aged 30 on remand on a charge of having been in possession of a military pistol pleaded guilty at Albury C[?]…

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Alleges Soldiers Used Disgusting Language Three Fined by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

Three soldiers from district camps —two of them on draft—will serve a term of Imprisonment if they are unable to find money immediately to…

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Ex-soldier to Get Farm Back Application To Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 5

A returned soldier of two wars, William Henry Sch[?]efer, was granted permission to re-occupy his 58 acre farm at Lavington by Mr R. M…

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Aid for Soldiers Employment Bureau Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 5

The Premier (Mr McKell) has approved the payment of £500 to the RSL as a grant towards the maintenance of its employment bureau,…

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War Has Changed the Physique of the Two Dictators

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 1

Top: Mussolini reviewing Fascist women soldiers in Northern Italy. Right: In a sombre mood, a sad-faced Adolf Hitler. hat in hand. survey the rains of an unidentified…

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Soldier’s Wife Assaulted and Robbed Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 6

Mrs. Phy[?] Williams, aged 23, of Ma[?]ville, [?] was assaulted [?] of [?] after [?] night. The…

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Soldier Drowned in Q’land Floods BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 3

As the resuIt of further heavy rain in the far north, many railway bridges are still under water and rail service has been seriously disorganized. A military truck…

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Refused Time to Pay Fines Ex-Soldier Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 6

The magistrate in Albury Court of Petty Sessions (Mr R. M. Stewart) yesterday refused an ex-soldier th[?] to pay lines after he had been…

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War Facts in Brief

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 1

Since the war in the Pacific began, Royal Australian Air Force squadrons in the South-West Pacific Area have been flown more…

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Released Prisoners of War LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 1

The second ship-load of repatriates from Russia arrived today of a Middle Fast post. They included 592 British officers and men, GG New…

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Famous Cathedral Stands Mid Ruins of War

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 1

Structurally undamaged, famous Cologne Cathedral stands out amidst ruins of captured Rhineland capital…

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Warning of Another War in Pacific MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 2

To prevent Japan involving Pacific countries in another war in 20 years’ time, the United Nations should make their first task tile restoration of…

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Alleges L.P. Not Giving Preference to Ex-Soldiers CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 4

The position of secretary of the NSW branch of the Liberal Party should be declared vacant [?] so that the Liberal Party could give preference to servicemen…

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Culcairn Returned Soldiers Annual Meeting of Branch

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 4

The president, Mr P. Holmes, presided at the annual meeting of the Culcairn sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League…

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War Victim

The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 March 1945 · page 2

This little French girl standing amid the snow-covered ruins of her former home in shell-blasted front line town holds broken…

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War News

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 March 1945 · page 2

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

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