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The wars & local soldiers, 1947

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Anzac House Facilities

Northern Star · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 4

At a meeting of the Lismore sub-branch D.S.S. and A.A.A. the secretary (Mr. G. Cameron) read a letter from the State Premier's…

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Jews Proclaim Beginning Of War In Palestine Officers' Club Blown Up, 15 Killed; Haif a Docks Ablaze

Northern Star · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Sunday AAP). — "This is the beginning of war," said an announcement by the Jewish terrorist organisation, Irgun Zvai Leumi, soon after the renewal of acts of Jewish terrorism during which a three storeyed officers' club in Jerusalem was blown up with the loss of 15 lives…

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King Meets Former Boer Soldier

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 4

CAPETOWN, Sunday: King George, while inspecting ex-servicemen during the South African tour, questioned Lieut…

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China's Strange War

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 6

SHANGHAI, Monday: It is a strange civil war in China, where the headquarters of the Communists…

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Former Soldier's Death

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Injections of radioactive phosphorous flown from America failed to save the life of a former soldier suffering…

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Soldier Settlement

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: When the Soldier Settlement Bill is again, before the Legislative Assembly the Minister for Lands (Mr…

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Protests on Loan Quiz on Anzac Night

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 March 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Six other returned servicemen's organisations today supported the Queensland branch of the…

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War Crimes Court President Tells Of Japanese Cruelty

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 March 1947 · page 4

HORRORS of the Burma-Thailand railway, the inhumane and savage treatment of Australian and Allied prisoners of war, combine to make an absorbingly interesting yet revolting interview given by Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. E. Jennings to the "Northern Star's"…

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The Doctrine Of The "Class War" (By a Correspondent)

Northern Star · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 4

ONE of the most important of the foundations on which industrial Labour leaders base their ideas and activities is the doctrine of the class war. This doctrine was invented by Karl Marx about a century ago…

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Soldier Settlement

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 5

CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Commonwealth Government had no stranglehold on the question of soldier settlement, the Minister…

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Further Enlistments in Interim Army

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 2

Capt. S. B. Godwin, Area Officer, Area 41 Lismore, reports that enlistments in February approached the high number…

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Feb. Enlistments in Interim Army

Northern Star · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 4

The Area Officer, Area 41 Lismore (Capt. S. B. Godwin) reports that enlistments for February in the Interim Army approached the…

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War Widows Problem to Japan

Tweed Daily · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 3

TOKIO (AP): The Women's Repatriation Association has estimated that 3 million women and children have been…

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Lismore Anzac Day Plans Well Advanced

Northern Star · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 10

At Lismore R.S.L. meeting it was reported that arrangement were well advanced for Anzac Day and that, with favourable weather…

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Reps, to Sit in Anzac Day Week

Northern Star · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday. — The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) to-day rejected the suggestion that Parliament should not sit in the week in which…

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"Trade Isolation A Forerunner of Economic War"

Northern Star · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday (AAP).—A warning to the world that isolationism in trade would lead to economic war, in which all would…

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As a Soldier Sees Civilians

Northern Star · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 6

Sir,—Civilians should drop their critical mood of the ex-soldier and think, for one minute, how they look to him. Not so good Sir, not…

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Australian Metals Strategic Role In Allied War Effort (By a Special Correspondent)

Northern Star · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 4

During the war years Australia became an important source of several rare metals which had strategic value to the Allied war effort. One of the products which Australian mines were able to make…

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Heavy Machine Tools As War Reparations

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday.—Germany's first war reparations to Australia will be [?] consignment of heavy machine tools, states the…

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Britain's Worst Food Crisis Since War

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (AAP),—The Food Minister (Mr. Strachey) when he returns front America, faces a situatio n in which Britain is heading for the worst food crisis since the war ended, says the "Daily Mail."…

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