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The wars & local soldiers, 1942

19,549 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

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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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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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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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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Axis Forces Making Last Stand Our War Correspondent with the British Forces

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

NEAR JEDABYA, Jan. 5.—The smoke of gunfire hangs ovar Jedabya, where the retreating enemy has rallied for his last…

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The War, Day by Day Crucial Point in Malaya By Our Military Correspondent

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

The further falling-back of the defending forces in western Malaya can only mean strong and intensified Japanese…

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Money and Markets War Calls on Leather Trade Busy Year for Geo. Pizzey & Son

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 12

Principal feature of Geo. Pizzey and Son's report for the year ended June 30 is the extent to which the war has created…

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French War Prisoners The Nazi Game of Blackmail 1,500,000 Men Held As Hostages From a Correspondent

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

Probably no single factor has exercised so great an influence over the course of Franco-German relations since Marshal Petain's Government signed the armistice with France's conquerors in June, 1940, than the problem of the…

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Fight Against Bushfires Soldiers' Aid

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

Big bushfires which during the week-end swept through many thousands of acres around Sydney, menacing life and property…

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91 Nazi Soldiers Shot After Paris "Scandal"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Eight German officers and 83 men on leave from the Russian front have been shot in Germany for insubordination, said an announcer on the German Freedom radio last…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 11

LADY GOWRIE'S Red Cross Seals are selling successfully, and the Seals Competition among children has become very popular. There will be a prize of a £5 War Loan Certificate for the child who collects the greatest number of used or…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 11

LADY GOWRIE'S Red Cross Seals are selling successfully, and the Seals Competition among children has become very popular. The little ones seem to have entered into the spirit of the campaign with great zest. There will be a prize of a…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 11

LADY GOWRIE'S Red Cross Seals are selling successfully, and the Seals Competition among children has become very popular. There will be a prize of a £5 War Loan Certificate for the child who collects the greatest number of used or…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 11

LADY GOWRIE'S Red Cross Seals are selling successfully, and the Seals Competition among children has become very popular. There will be a prize of a £5 War Loan Certificate for the child who collects the greatest number of used or…

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War Service Waste

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 2

SOME glaring examples of the time-wasting methods adopted by the brass-hat fraternity administering our war services are…

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War's Great Lesson

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 3

THIS war is teaching us the supreme importance of the work- ing class in any scheme of things whatever…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 11

LADY GOWRIE'S Red Cross Seals are selling successfully, and the Seals Competition among children has become very popular. There will be a prize of a £5 War Loan Certificate for the child who collects the greatest number of used or…

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Late War News

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 7

The situation in Malaya is now more serious. On the Perak front, in the west, the Imperial troops have made a further withdrawal, apparently as the…

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War Moves in Malaya

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 2

LATEST developments on the Malayan front:--(1) Enemy activity reported in Kuala Selangor area. (2) British…

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The Human Side of War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 8

Apart from songs of this war and the last "Stand Easy" from 2GB on Saturday nights makes a feature of the dramatisation of episodes from all…

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