Treasurer to Talk To-night on Post-war Planning
A Government announcement of post-war policy plans will be made tonight by the Treasurer and Minister for Post-war…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1943
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No Wound Stripes for Soldiers
A request that "wound stripes" be issued to soldiers who have been injured in battle in the present war will not be granted…
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Mrs. L. G. Anderson, of Cook's Hill, has been advised that her husband. Private Leslie George Anderson. AIF. previously reported…
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CAMOUFLAGE NETS.—The Water Board camouflage net making circle has now completed a total of 300 nets and several are near completion. Miss M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post-war Home Building Scheme
CANBERRA.—Construction on a large scale is visualised by Ministers as the basis or the postwar home building scheme…
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LONDON. Monday.—"Twenty six Axis generals were captured in Tunisia." says Algiers radio, giving the final list of 16…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Keeping Soldiers Off the Street Plan Commended
Civic and church leaders to-day commended work being done by various Newcastle women's organisations in entertaining soldiers at night time and so keeping them from roaming the streets and "running into temptation."…
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After this war is over, many Australians now in the Army will get a shock when they try to readjust themselves to peacetime occupations, writes Corporal G. L. Griffith from New Guinea, in a letter to a Newcastle…
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SYDNEY Tuesday.—An amendment extending the provisions of the Returned Soldiers' Act of 1919 to cover returned soldiers of this war…
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Letters of thanks from servicemen overseas were read to the Dudley War Auxiliary last night for comforts they have received. It was decided to…
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Allied Forces moving Into Cape Bon area of Tunisia and crushing all remaining enemy resistance, look thousands of German and Italian prisoners. Here a German truck, loaded with German troops and driven by n. German soldier, rolls toward an Allied prison camp after their surrender to the Allies. (This radiophoto was sent to the U.S. from North Africa and then…
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NEW YORK. Tuesday — In a message opening the United Nations Food Conference at Hot Springs (Virginia). President…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Has Given £3,465,795 for Expenditure on War
In three years the people of Greater Newcastle have contributed £3,465,795 towards war expenditure — or approximately £25 per head of population, both adult and juvenile…
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SYDNEY.—Thirty men caught in the manpower raid on the Sydney Fish Markets have been directed to the rubber Industry, the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Four Australian soldiers were drowned when eight servicemen were washed off a rock on the South Coast of New South…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—All soldiers who have served in New Guinea will be granted southern leave at the earliest possible date…
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Lance Corporal Ronald Baxter, previously reported missing, has been reported prisoner of war in Malaya…
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HAMILTON YOUNGER SET.—Hamilton Send-Off and Welcome Home Younge[?] Set Committee last night expressed sympathy with the relatives of Mr. J. E…
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The Americans have refused to be hurried by the threat implicit in Japanese occupation of the westernmost of the Aleutian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anti-war Riots in Italy
LONDON, Wed.—Antiwar demonstrations have broken out in a number of Italian cities and many…
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