Turkey to Keep Out War Criminals
LONDON, Feb. 4.—The Government of Turkey is drawing up a decree forbidding Turkish embassies and consulate broad to issue visas…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
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Soldier Adoptions
Adoptions under the A.C.F. adopt-soldier scheme have passed 2000 since the appointment of Mr. F. H. Berry as organiser at the end…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Aid for Soldiers Postwar Training
CANBERRA, Friday.—Ex-Service personnel selected for training under the Commonwealth Government's reconstruction scheme, whose courses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gunner To Oppose Lang In Auburn Release Of Soldiers For Mine Work
SYDNEY.—Selected by the ALP Executive last night to oppose Mr. J. T. Lang. MLA, for the Auburn seat at next State elections. SYDNEY.—No miners will be released from the Army or Services for return to the coal industry unless on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Children's Record Sums for War
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The record amount of £10,550 for the war effort was raised by New South Wales schoolchildren in the last term of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Compete with Industry Federal War Plants
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Control by the Commonwealth after the war at the industrial potential now represented by the Commonwealth's vast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Planned Rural Economy "Continue After War"
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Measures taken by the Federal Government to organise primary production had resulted in farmers securing,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Govt. Factory Plans From War to Civilian Production
CANBERRA.—Competition by Government-controlled industries with private enterprise is a definite policy…
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An endeavour will be made in Newcastle to form classes for training of mothers, wives and friends of soldiers in home nursing and…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—A United States general court-martial on Thursday night sentenced to death Henry Benjamin Newton, 31,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Wins Diving Championship
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Tom Donnett, young Melbourne diver and swimmer, won the New South Wales senior diving springboard championship to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallsend Soldiers Hold Dinner
The Wallsend sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League held its first annual) dinner at the Wallsend Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →India's Part in War
LONDON, Monday.—"There is not one day to lose in preparation for launching what is above all India's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Threat to War Shipping
BRISBANE, Monday.—The movement of vital war shipping from North Queensland ports is likely to be affected by the decision of miners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Expects Women to Do War Work
SYDNEY, Monday.—The maximum contribution towards the war effort was expected from all women not fully employed on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sees End of European War in October
MIAMI (Friday) Feb 7.—Lieutenant Franklin Roosevelt, who is home on leave during repairs to the destroyer on which he is serving as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →30,000 Houses in First Year After War
CANBERRA, Monday.—Under the housing plan adopted by the Premiers' Conference last month, the Commonwealth Governments will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Soldiers' Meeting Was Brief
Newcastle sub-branch of the Returned Soliders' League last night adjourned its annual meeting and election of officers after a short…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Concerned About Memorial
Describing the condition or the war memorial in front of the former Wickham Council Chambers as a disgrace, Mr. C. Parrott…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain Warns Axis About War Prisoners
LONDON, Tuesday. — A German news agency report that five British prisoners of war, discovered by Italian police in the Piedmont Alps, have been sentenced to death, has drawn a sharp warning from Britain…
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