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The wars & local soldiers, 1943

3,536 stories in Riverina's papers · page 27 of 177

Country Water Schemes Outlined by Minister Part of Post-war Reconstruction

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—Details of plans to provide water supplies and sewerage schemes for towns in all parts of the State, which…

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The War in Australia Single Women Survey Immediate Campaign Nursing Shortage

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.—"A survey of single women in Australia to provide workers for important jobs, such as munitions and aircraft…

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Soldiers' Pensions No Compromise for R.s.l

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—"We do not intend to accept any compromise in the request for a 50 per cent, pensions increase," declared the State president…

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War Crimes Must Be Punished

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 2

Britons would never seek to take vengeance by wholesale mass reprisals on the general body of the German people, Viscount Simon…

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Narandera War Loan Committee Savings Stamps Campaign Adopted Subscriptions to War Loans

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

At a meeting of the Narandera War Loans ana War Savings Certificates Committee there were present the Mayor (Alderman T…

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U.s. War Correspondents Big Death Roll

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK, Saturday.—It has been published here that the casualty rate of American war correspondents since Pearl…

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Red Tape Prevents Trot Meeting For War Funds

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 2

All hope of holding the patriotic trotting meeting in Junee on Saturday week has been abandoned. Recently the committee of the…

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Allied War Council to Plan for Victory and Peace

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Sunday: Representative Hamilton Fysh, urging that General MacArthur be placed in supreme command of all the Allied forces in…

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The War Desperate mo to Hold Crack Troops Rushed Up By Hitler LONDON

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 1

In a desperate attempt to save Or[?]el, hinge to the northern and southern German armies in Russia Hitler has sent His crack Jaegar regiments,…

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Red Army Day General Blamey's Message Russian Soldiers Prove [?] QUALITY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: The Commender-in-Chief of the Allied Land Forced in the Southwest Pacific (General [?] Thomas Blamey) in a Red Army Day…

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Gundagai Soldier Condemns Dehydrated Meat (To the Editor)

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 1

Dear Sir,—Since returning to the homeland from the New Guinea campaign, many things have interested and outstanding in these have…

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Junee Soldier Received Fatal Wound Attacking Ridge

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

Private Stuart D'Ar[?]ty, whose death from wounds received in the New Guinea fighting we mentioned in last Wednesday's issue, was…

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Wagga War Effort War Loan Committee

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

A meeting of the War Loan Committee will be held at the Wagga Town Hall at 8 o'clock to-night. The meeting has been…

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Daily War Diary

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 3

Axis forces have broken through the Allies' mountain defences in Central Tunisia. Heavy rain is falling there…

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The War

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

Addressing Congress on Thursday Madame Chiang-Kai-Snek said that it was contrary to the United Nations' interests to [?] Japan to continue…

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Increasing Number of Employees on War Work

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 1

The number of male employees in reta[?] stores has declined 26 per cent. in the past year, and the number of females [?] per cent. The total…

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To Win the War Food—and More Food

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 4

"Food is a weapon of total war fully as important as guns, 'planes and tanks... Already it is taking a lot of food to light the war. It is…

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Albury Cup Meeting War Savings Certificate to Replace Gold Cup

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 3

A £50 war savings certificate donated by Mrs. A. Waugh, of Albury, will this year replace the gold cup for the annual race meeting, normally…

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U.s. News Forecast of End of War Submarine Menace

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday: According to the American Associated Press the U.S. Under-Secretary for War (Mr. Patterson) to-day…

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War News Tense Situation in Tunisia. Germans Break Through Again

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

The situation in Tunisia is tense as a result of another break through the Allied line by the Axis forces in the mountain area which…

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