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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

488 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 11 of 25

Latest War News! the Sebastopol "Dunkirk."

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 3

LONDON.—Muscovites are gleefully counting the number of "Dunkirk' evacuation ships trying to slip away from Sevastopol, which the Bed…

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Post-War Emigration to Dominions LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 2

Emigration from Britain to the Dominions is a subject which Mr. Churchill has placed high, on the agenda of the Prime Ministers’…

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MICHELAGO War Loan Rally

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon last, 6th instant, a War Loan Rally, organised by a local committee to assist the First Victory Loan, was held in the…

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War Captives Rescued New Guinea

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 1

Allied forces operating in the Hollandia area, New Guinea, have liberated 621 former prisoners of war captured by the Japanese, announces…

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Women’s Part In Post-War Reconstruction struction

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

Mr.s Arthur Grenfell, O.B.E., vice President of the British Young Women’s Christian Association is at present in Melbourne as the guest of…

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Latest War News Germans Anticipate Big Russian Offensive

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 3

LONDON.—German military quarters believe that the fall of Sebastopol will be the signal for a Russian offensive in the southern sector…

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Over-Rosy View of War Prospects Censorship to Blame LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 1

The political censorship to which the Australian Press is being subjected was causing the people in that continent to have an over rosy view of…

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Ex-Soldiers' Car Purchases

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 3

The N.R.M.A. is co-operating with the Repatriation Commission by inspecting and reporting on secondhand motor vehicles prior to…

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Soldier Stabbed

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 1

During a brawl between a number of soldiers outside an hotel at Darlinghurst last night, Private John Peter Phillips, aged 19, received a…

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Latest War News Germany Jittery Over Invasion Reports

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 2

LONDON.—Reuter's Stockholm correspondent says that a Swedish news-agency quotes a Berlin message that alarming reports of the Allied…

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Distinguished Career Bruxner’s Work in War and Peace

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 3

Few men in Australian politics to-day have had such a long and distinguished careers as the leader of the N.S.W. Country Party…

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Humane Air War French Cardinals' Plea London, Monday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 3

French Cardinals, according to Vichy Radio, have appealed to the Roman Catholic clergy in America and the British Empire to-use their…

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“Stars of the Air” Stories of Vienna in Peace and London in War

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 4

WITH her husband and daughters, Rita Hope, the Australian pianist, was in London when war broke out and remained there for…

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War Weariness

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 2

At the beginning of this year General Eisenhower declared that the only thing needed for us to win the war…

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Prisoners of War Word of Braidwood Soldiers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 2

Mr. R. L. Lewin, whose two sons, Ian and Gerald, are prisoners of war in Japanese hands, received a letter from a Mrs. Marjorie Jones, of…

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New Phase in Pacific War

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 4

Our occupation of Hollandia and Aitape marks the virtual end of the Japanese in New Guinea, say the war correspondents. It is taken as…

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Telegraphic News Peace and Security After the War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 3

A declaration drawn up and signed at a meeting of Prime Ministers in Britain yesterday morning and released in Sydney last night by the…

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Novelist—a War Victim NAPLES, Wednesday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 4

Max Brand, 52, the well-known American fiction-writer and correspondent for “Harper’s Magazine”, was killed in action on the…

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Post-war Problems. (To the Editor of the "Dispatch")

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 3

Sir,— Parliamentary candidates are giving the electors many assurances of employment for the people when the war ends. There is to be land for…

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Australian Woollen Mills. Their Value in the War Effort

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 1

The Australian mills have forcibly demonstrated their great value to the Commonwealth. Similarly to the manufacturing establishments in the…

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