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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

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Wagga War Effort Christmas Parcels From R.S.L. AUXILIARY Acknowledged By Wagga Boys

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 4

Further acknowledgements of the Christmas parcels from the Women's Auxiliary RSSAILA, of Wagga, are shown hereunder…

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Soldiers' Mail Serious Neglect Alleged

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tuesday: Owing to the continued unsatisfactory handling of New Guinea soldiers' parcels by the Army postal service…

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Red Army's Increased Activity Continuous War From Leningrad to Kerch Drive for Baltic States Russians Using Ski Troops in the North

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): "The battles on the eastern front have developed into a continuous offensive from Leningrad to Kerch," declared the…

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Strike on War Job

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—All pattern makers engineers and copoersmiths employed at a large city defence project went on strike this afternoon because…

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How's the War Going ?

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 2

How's the war going? No need to answer says the "Wanderer" in "Lithgow Mercury." It isn't even necessary to read the news…

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China at War Price Inflation

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tues.—"Foreign observers art of the opinion that China is facing the bleakest year of the war against Japan because inflation has…

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Prisoners of War Move for Repatriation

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday: Replying to a question in the House of Commons regarding the repatriation of prisoners of war who…

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U.S. Safety Proposed Post-war Bases

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tues.—The "New York Times" military commentator (Benson Baldwin), commenting on [?]-war polices, declared: "The…

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Yugoslav War Partisans Face Fifteen Divisions Commons Statement

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday. (A.A.P.).—The importance of the Yugoslav resistance was emphasised in a House of Commons statement in…

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Seasonal Work by Soldiers No Tax On Wages

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1

Soldiers of a rank not higher than Sergeant who have been grant leave without pay to do seasonal work will be exempted from…

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Another War!

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday: The vice-president of the War Production Board (Mr. Charles Wilson), addressing the Army Ordnance Association,…

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Daily War Diary

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 1

The Russians broke through in two offensives near Leningrad. Further south the Russians captured 40 more towns…

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Latest War News

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

Eight Japanese cargo vessels three of which were sunk, two were left probably sinking and three others damaged, and 18 aircraft shot…

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What the War Costs Australia

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 7

Reviewing the monetary cost of the war, the latest edition of the Department of Information's official review of Australia's war effort, "Facts and…

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Cootamundra and Post-war Aviation

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

An air-minded centre like Cootamundra, whose handy drome is alongside one of our railway stations, has been the scene of aviation activity for…

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Messages From Prisoners of War

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

Mrs. E. A. O'Connor received the following messages from her two sons who are prisoners of war in Japanese hands:—…

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Australian Women in War Work

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Many of Australia's women, when peace comes, will be able to look back with pride on the part they played both in the services…

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After War Service Continuity of Pre-war Jobs [?]Rded for in New Regulation

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thurs.—Employers was now regard the employment the war service of any individual, a situation of previous…

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War in China Japanese Installations Attacked

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

CHUNGKING, Thursday (AAP).—The Chinese launched counter-attacks against the Japanese installations, penetrating to Kuchen in the…

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Pacific War Strategy General Kenney's Discussion

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

The sudden appearance in Washington of the commander of the Allied Air Forces in the South-west Pacific, Lieut-General Kenney, coincides with…

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