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The wars & local soldiers, 1942

19,549 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

War Post Sought for Mr. Lang

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 9

On behalf of the Australian Women's Party, Mrs. Pauline Budge. the president, has sent the following telegram to the Prime Minister, Mr…

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Transport Of Supplies Huge War Problem

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday.--One of the main problems which the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and President Roosevelt must have discussed at Washington is the transportation of men, machines…

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Transport Of Supplies Huge War Problem

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday.--One of the main problems which the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and President Roosevelt must have discussed at Washington is the transportation of men, machines…

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Transport Of Supplies Huge War Problem

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday.--One of the main problems which the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and President Roosevelt must have discussed at Washington is the transportation of men, machines…

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Transport Of Supplies Huge War Problem

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday.--One of the main problems which the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and President Roosevelt must have discussed at Washington is the transportation of men, machines…

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Empire Pacific War Council May Lapse

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday.--General Sir Archibald Wavell's appointment as Supreme Allied Commander-in-Chief in the South-West Pacific may result in abandonment of the…

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New Stamp Designs War Postage Rates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 6

The Postmaster-General's Department will place on issue new stamps of the denominations of 2½d,3½d, and 5½d to meet the…

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Transport Of Supplies Huge War Problem

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday.--One of the main problems which the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and President Roosevelt must have discussed at Washington is the transportation of men, machines…

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Games May Stop Inroads Made by War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 10

Military [?]all-ups and munition plants have taken so many members of the Moore Park Junior Cricket Association, that clubs may have to…

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War Causing Boom in British Divorce Cases

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--As in the 1914-18 War, British divorce cases have again gone rocketing to new high levels. DIVORCE actions in Britain from 1914 to 1919 increased annually…

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War Causing Boom in British Divorce Cases

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--As in the 1914-18 War, British divorce cases have again gone rocketing to new high levels. DIVORCE actions in Britain from 1914 to 1919 increased annually…

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War Causing Boom in British Divorce Cases

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.--As in the 1914-18 War, British divorce cases have again gone rocketing to new high levels. DIVORCE actions in Britain from 1914 to 1919 increased annually…

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War Causing Boom in British Divorce Cases

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.--As in the 1914-18 War, British divorce cases have again gone rocketing to new high levels. DIVORCE actions in Britain from 1914 to 1919 increased annually…

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U.S. Labour and War Motor Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 8

NEW YORK, Jan. 5. (A.A.P.). —The Congress of Industrial Organisations to-day placed full-page advertisements in New…

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War Causing Boom in British Divorce Cases

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--As in the 1914-18 War, British divorce cases have again gone rocketing to new high levels. DIVORCE actions in Britain from 1914 to 1919 increased annually…

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U.S. Army not equipped for total war

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 4

The U.S. now has 1,625,000 men under arms. How are these men…

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Extensive War-time Use of Radio Progress in Britain

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

Since the start of the war Britain has made remarkable progress in applying radio to war purposes…

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War Conditions for Militia More Realism In New Training Programme

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday.--Militiamen will be trained under more realistic war conditions in future, the Army Minister (Mr. Forde) said tonight…

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English Actress Is Doing A Theatrical War Job In Malaya

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 6

ENGLISH actress Mane Ney, who appeared in Melbourne and Sydney last year, is chief announcer…

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Women's War Work C.U.S.A. £1000 For Mobile Canteen

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 11

C.U.S.A.'s voluntary workers have raised £1000 and bought a handsome mobile canteen. In the event of an emergency here this canteen…

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