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The wars & local soldiers, 1941

18,559 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

War Profiteers Will Meet Short Shrift Canberra

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 7

If the State Governments will supply information indicating that wartime profiteering is taking place in Australia, the Federal Government will take swift and drastic action against the offenders…

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Twelve ideas for conserving war materials Contest Result

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 16

THE Federal Government's idea of pulling only one sinking side on…

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Britain Sees Turning Of Tide In War LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 3

"We know we are in acute danger, and face a worse three months than any yet," said Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Parliamentary…

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Blitzkrieged For Alimony Soldier's Wife Fails in Bid

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 20

"THIS application should never have been brought before the court. It is a barefaced attempt to get 3/- a day out of the Government." Solicitor J. D. Steed, appearing for A.I.F. Gunner Ralph Charles…

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ITALY : Good Soldiers But Bad Generals

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 11

THE Italians are marching into Egypt. In a long line, stretching from the Libyan border to Alexandria, they come, but not as Mussolini boasted, in the…

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Invalided soldier collapses, dies

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Driver Arthur Paul, one of the invalided soldiers brought back to Australia on a hospital ship several weeks ago,…

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"Women Playing at Soldiers"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 5

There has been too much "playing soldiers" in the Women's All Services Canteen, the senior vice- president (Miss Myra Dempsey) said yesterday. She said the stress laid on…

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Roosevelt Seeks War Powers for Swift Emergency Action "U.s. Fleet May Use Australian Ports in New Deal" New York

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 1

Following his request to Congress for the most sweeping powers a peacetime democracy has ever given its executive leader, President Roosevelt to-day made a dramatic statement on possible…

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War Correspondents Give Close-up Story How the Anzacs' Sons Took Their Baptism of Fire Sydney Battalion Smashes Path For Storm Troops

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 3

How a Sydney battalion smashed a path for other Australian troops through barbed wire and tank traps; how one Australian soldier has, as a souvenir, the gold-clasped ceremonial sash of a captured Italian general, these and other vivid close-up stories of…

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Washington insider says Roosevelt's Bill means Bases Here for U.S. FLEET "Aid Britain" plan will bring U.S. to verge of war

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Saturday. -- United States warships may use naval bases in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Canada…

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Death of A.I.F. OFFICER. First Killed in Action

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 7

The first A.I.F. officer killed in action is Lieutenant Peter Charles Jackson Taylor, 25, of Sydney. He was killed in the attack on Bardia, in which his…

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Water Sports at Toc H Camp — Officer Killed in Action — Rough Work for Machine-gun Carrier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 10

A morning of aquatic sport was enjoyed by these boys yesterday at the Toe H camp on the Grose River, in the Richmond district. Eighty boys from industrial plants and Great Public Schools began a week's holiday at the week-end. Canoeing was first…

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Vicar War Prisoner

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 2

LONDON, December 27.--The Rev. E. W. Gedge, vicar of Christ Church, Guildford, is a prisoner of war…

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Drive for War Savings

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 2

It is estimated that 40,000 people heard the War Savings Drive at Bondi Beach on Sunday afternoon. At the night show there was seating…

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Should Wives Go to War?

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 4

"The Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." Or are they?…

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War Service Group Has 1000 Members

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 7

THE Australian Service Movement, which has over 1000 members in New South Wales, has commenced work again after the holidays at its…

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War Risks Bonus Is Extended Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 5

The Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court, Sir George Beeby, has extended to ships' carpenters the provisions of the war risks bonus granted…

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£7000 Gift for War Purposes Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 4

When the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) arrives in Sydney to-morrow he will receive a cheque for more than £7000, subscribed by members…

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"Soviet Aims to Keep War Going" London

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 3

The Soviet desires to keep a balance between the British and German sides and prolong the war, says the diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" commenting on the Soviet's Nazi trade treaty…

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Declares U.S. Factually In War MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 2

"Most thinking Americans realise that the United States is factually, if not legally, at war with the totalitarian…

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