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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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“Hitler’s Children” Problem for Norway Pathetic Aftermath of War CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 1

The greatest war problem with which Norway has to deal is children born of Norwegian mothers and German fathers during the…

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M.V.D.L. And Soldier Settlement Will Press For Acceleration

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 6

The chairman (A[?] D. G. Padman) said at the meeting in Albury yesterday of No. 1 Regional Committee of the Murray Valley Development…

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Bottle-Bashing Soldier Gaoled Cowardly Assault, Says Judge MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 6

“People who use bottles must not expect lenience,” acting Judge Cuss[?]n told a man in General Sessions today, who had pleaded guilty to a…

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Bigger Pension for N.Z. War Widows Auckland (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 4

War widows with two dependent children may receive £5/10/ weekly compared with £4/16/ previously, the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser)…

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Japs Defiant to the Last Two War Criminals Hanged Rabaul

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 1

Shouting “Long Live the Emperor,” two Japanese war criminals who were responsible for the deaths of 3000 Australian, British…

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Australia Also Had Its War “Miracle” “Drought Up North in 1941 Saved Us” Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 1

Not many people were aware that when the Japanese invasion was threatening in 1941, it was the driest Queensland season in…

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“Disgracing the King’s Uniform” Soldiers’ Behavior Disgusts Bathurst People Bathurst

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 4

Police here today described as the “worst type of hooligans” a section of troops training in Bathurst camp for the British…

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Ex-soldier Found Shot Dead Tragedy Near Rutherglen

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 2

Robert Charles (“Digger”) Humphries, aged 24, of Carlyle, was found shot dead in his bedroom at his parents’ home on Saturday. He had…

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Many Soldiers Forsal [?] Old Jobs CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 5

Little more than one-third of [?] and women discharged from the [?] vicer [?] General demobillation began on October 1 have returned…

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Bunnaloo’s Welcome Home Sports, Dinner, Dance Bunnaloo’s Welcome Home

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 6

About 300 people were present at the welcome home tendered to member of the forces by the Bunnaloo Welcome Home committee on Wednesday last,…

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Gave War Secrets Professor to Stand Trial

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 3

MONTREAL, Monday: Dr. Raymond Boyer, a professor at McGill University, was committed for trial on charges, under the Official…

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Soldier Settlement Policy in Western Division

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 1

Mr. J. A. Lawson, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Hon. J. M. Tully, Minister for Lands:—…

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The Forgotten Soldier

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 4

I watched him walking down the street, He was tall and straight and lean. I could see he was a soldier,…

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Last Minute News British Soldiers Walk Off Troopship Complain of “Hell Ship” Conditions LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 1

Complaining of “hellship” conditions, 700 British soldiers walked off the troopship Corfu, which was dur to sail for the Middle East…

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“Girl Soldiers Idling Away Their Time” Mr. Mair’s Critical Comments

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 2

“Manufacturers and other sections of industry are bitterly complaining that shortage of women workers is preventing increased production,”…

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Weapons for “Next War”; Frightful Possibilities Atlantic City, [?]

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 April 1946 · page 1

Mr Patterson (Secretary for War) addressing the American Chemical Society, said that the United States had developed a war…

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Albury Eisteddfod Opens Return to Pre-War Programme

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 April 1946 · page 4

Albury’s first five-day eisteddfod since before the war opened promisingly in the Plaza Theatre yesterday. At the official opening last evening the Eisteddfod Society president (Mr J. Orme) declared that in no other town in NSW was such a…

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Excuses for Soldiers’ Bad Behavior SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 April 1946 · page 4

Lack of amenities at Bathurst may have contributed to the bad behavior of Commonwealth occupation forces in camp there, said some of the older…

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Ex-Soldiers Sack Houses of Rich ROME

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 April 1946 · page 5

A mob of unemployed ex-soldiers today burned the court house and tax offices at Brindisi, and sacked the homes of two rich families…

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War Spending Down Drop Of £38 Million CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 11 April 1946 · page 5

War expenditure for the first nine months of the current financial year dropped by more than £38,000,000, compared with the same period of…

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