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Murray · The wars & local soldiers
576 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 29
Establishment of a National Security Council to gear like nation for war was agreed to by an emergency Premiers' conference here today. Council will comprise the Prime Minister and all Premiers, and will meet regularly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Fri: All Army leave was cancelled today at Ingleburn Camp. It is understood that this action was taken to ensure that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Squadron, 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles has received approval to enlist 25 cadets. A selection board will interview…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WELLINGTON (NZ), Friday: Timaru became one of the nerve centres of the waterfront dispute today when more than 90…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CANBERRA, Sun.: Lack of military training at present in the 18 to 25 age group was Australia’s great weakness, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →TOKIO, Mon.: Private J. H. Stafford, of South Perth, Western Australia, has been awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Evidence points to a returned soldier having an immediate use for his gratuity. A Commonwealth Bank pass book was found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The High Court’s decision on the validity or otherwise of the Communist Party Dissolution Act, to be given on Friday, will greatly influence the Federal Government’s plans to place Australia on a semi-war footing. The Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON (NZ), Tues.: The Drivers’ Union has instructed its members not to handle goods loaded or unloaded by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dangers of war had considerably increased, the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) told the House of Representatives in a statement on foreign affairs tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?]TTAWA, Friday.: General [?] former commander of [?] First Canadian Army, in [?]peech here declared that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Fr.: The State Full Court today ruled that the Crown could not sue for the loss of a man’s services…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →It may not be known that exemption from tax is granted by Section 28 of the War Gratuity Act 1945-47 for the amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKIO, Mon.: Japan’s largest labor federation, with 3,200.000 members, yesterday decided that Japan should notbe re-armed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MELBOURNE, Mon.: Plans for increased coal production in Australia were discussed today by the National Security…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Mon.: Two men armed with sticks keep watch half the night at the township of Boulia to kill rats…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KURE, Mon.: Army authorities today freed a 29 year old British army driver who had been sentenced to 10 years’…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Mon.: Eight young soldiers at Maryhill barracks prison, Glasgow, overpowered their guards and escaped over a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Tues.: A law “banning” war propaganda as a grave crime against humanity, and declaring that anyone guilty of it…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CANBERRA, Tues.: Australia is entitled to know on what grounds Mr. Menzies could say Australia had only three years in which to…
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