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The wars & local soldiers, 1941

18,559 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

Issue Of War Badges

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

War badges will be issued shortly to persons engaged in war service and to rejected volunteers, stated the…

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War Restricts Car Production

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 9

New model car production for 1941 will be restricted in Australia because of the war demand on tooling equipment…

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Palestine’s War Industry

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

An official announcement published after the return of the Palestine delegates to the New Delhi Conference declares that Palestine will be given an…

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Greek Jews And The War

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 8

SALONICA, Nov. 28th. Together with their non-Jewish fellow-citizens, the 75,000 Jews of Greece are enthusiastically responding to the call to arms in…

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Big Match for War Funds

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 10

New South Wales and Victoria will meet at the Sydney Cricket Ground tomorrow, and, despite the…

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Linking Science with War Effort

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 8

A year's trial is to be given to a plan for liaison between scientists and the Commonwealth Government. In January, 1942, a conference…

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Stevens Gets New War Job

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 7

Sir Bertram Stevens, ex-Premier of New South Wales, has been appointed Australian…

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Australia’s Impressive War Production

The St George Call · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 1

Australia is producing a range and quality of war materials and equipment that would scarcely have been accepted as practicable at the outbreak of war…

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To Capture Post-war Buffer Market

The Land · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 5

THE London Manager of the Australian Dairy Board (Mr. M. A. Tuohy) stresses the necessity for Australian producers to…

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Stocking Up for Post-war Holland

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--The Dutch Government in London is buying and storing food, fodder, and materials for the ultimate benefit of…

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Want Wheat Scheme Continued After War

The Land · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 3

A resolution, submitted by Gunnedah district council, that the present system of wheat marketing be continued after the war, was adopted by…

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Japanese As War Mediators London

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 2

Marshal Petain has asked Japan to mediate in the dispute between Indo-China and Thailand and Japan has…

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Red Cross War Appeal. Business Committee Appointed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 3

The New South Wales division of the Australian Red Cross Society has appointed a business administration sub-committee to…

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The World at War The Australians Again!

The Land · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 6

THE Australians have again taken the centre of the stage A this week by their sterling performance in the starming of Tobruk. They now farm an important and formidable part of General Wavell's Imperial Army of the Nile…

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Bathtubs Cut Into War Effort, Minister Declares

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 3

Employment of men in the making of bath tubs, or sinks, or doing anything that was not a war job, was to that extent a diminution of our war effort, the Assistant-Federal Treasurer (Mr. Anthony)…

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Palestine Jewish Industrialists Pledge Utmost War Effort

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 11

TEL AVIV, Nov. 18th. The 31st annual inference of Palestine Jewish Industrialists held here in conjunction with the permanent exhibition of…

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Maccabean Institute N.S.W. Jewish War Memorial

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 10

MARCH? MARCH? (For Members only). VARIETY CONCERT. A grand galaxy of talent, including “The Little…

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War Emergency Younger Set N.C.J.W.

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 10

The launch picnic last Sunday sociably was a great success and a swell time was had by all. Our first dance of 1941 is to be held at the Masonic Hall…

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War Savings. Mr. Fadden to Speak To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 3

The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, will speak at the lunch-hour war savings demonstration in Martin Place to-day on "Arms, Men, and Victory."…

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War Badges. Wives and Mothers Eligible. Conditions of Issue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 11

The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, said yesterday that badges for people engaged in war service, rejected volunteers, and female relatives of…

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