Latest War News the Western Front
LONDON.—German movements are still going on behind the battle area on the Western front, indicating that more reinforcements are being moved…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
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Australian Prisoner of War Meets Tutor Unexpectedly
Sometimes coincidence stretches out a very long arm.... An Australian Priscner of War, Sgt. Murray C. McConviLe, and a tutor with whom…
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LONDON, Monday.—The war had reached its final stage, Field-Marshal Montgomery said yesterday in a personal message to his troops. "There…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News Allied Western Offensive in Full Swing
LONDON, Thursday.—Great columns of smoke rose into the sky over the Rhineland yesterday as rocket and cannon-firing planes blasted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prince to Join War Savings Sydney Boy’s Idea
Eleven-year-old Lawrence Irwin, of Sydney, is just about the proudest youngster , in Australia. He has recruited Prince William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News Ousting the Japs From Iwo
GUAM, Monday.—The Japs are still fighting tenaciously on Iwo Jima, but nearly halt the island is now in American hands. The final, all-out drive…
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The first shipment of Red Cross supplies to camps outside Japan was made in the “Hosi Maru,” which was scheduled to unload relief supplies at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Argentina Wool Stocks. Post-war Aspects
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:- The importance of making worldwide arrangements for the gradual offering of accumulated, wool stocks…
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The importance of making world wide arrangements for the gradual offering of accumulated wool stocks in conjunction with growing clips is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News (Our special Cable Service Me. Churchill's Tritimph
LONDON:—Mr. Churchill scored a personal triumph in the House of Commons on Wednesday, when an amendment to his confidence motion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Belief Supplies for Prisoner of War In the Far East
The first shipment of Red Cross supplies to camps outside Japan was made in the "Host Mara," which was scheduled to unload relief supplies at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Conversion of Settlement Purchases And Soldier 'Group Purchases into Perpetual Leases
The Minister for Lands (Mr. J. M. Tully) has drawn attention to the fact that all holders ol Settlement Purchases token up before…
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"The proposal that the Government's plan of preference to returned soldiers should have a limit of even years, announced following a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News Russians Reach Baltic in Lightning Drive
LONDON, Monday.—After smashing through the German, defences east of stargard, Marshal Zhukov's troops have advanced 63 miles in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Gratuities
CANBERRA.—The payment of gratuities for overseas service, amounting to about £63,000,000, is recommended by the All-Party…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News Russians Moving on Berlin. London, Thursday.—Russian
troops are again moving on Berlin, a Soviet front-line reporter said in a despatch received last night.—A.A.P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers’ Club Rooms
Sir,—Kindly permit me, through the medium of your valuable paper, to remark upon the report of the R.S.S. & A.I.L.A., Queanbeyan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post-War Reconstruction
The Hon. J. J. Dedman, Minister for Post-War Reconstruction states: I regard as of real importance to succesful reconstruction the current…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greatest Bombing Attack of the War
LONDON.—The greatest daylight [?]ing attack of the whole war was made against Essen on Sunday, when [?] 1,000 heavy R.A.F. bombers, with…
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NEW YORK.—Five square miles or the centre of Nagoya, an important Japanese city, were converted into flames early this morning by 300…
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