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The wars & local soldiers, 1942

19,549 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250

Soldiers and Indecent Language

The Biz · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

The defendants in several "language" cases at Liverpool Police Court on Mon-1 day last were soldiers. The P.M., Mr. Collins, lectured each…

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Soldier Honored

The Biz · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

As usual, the fortnightly dance of Liverpool comforts Fund, held in the Towr Hall on Friday of last week, was crowded with dance enthusiasts, and a happy…

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Generals Plot to Oust Hitler & Wipe Out Nazis Feel War Can't Be Won Saw Private U.S. Reoorts LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 4

An extraordinary story of a planned putsch by German generals against Hitler's regime has been cabled to "The Times" by its Washington correspondent, Sir Willmott Lewis…

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Anzac Club Now Mobile

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 6

Singapore's Anzac Club now works chiefly in the form of mobile canteens. Mrs. V. R. Bowden, wife of the…

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A.i.f. Wounded. Thank Dutch Friends

The St George Call · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

So grateful .were wounded members of the A.I.F. invalided home on the hospital ship “Oranje,” for the kindly treatment they received from the Dutch medical…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 11

WITH the war raging in Malaya, Sydney folk are wondering how their many Malayan pals, who visited this city last year, are faring. From his rubber estate, Mambau, F.M.S. Colonel W. A. Gutsell writes: "Mrs. George McCulloch…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 11

WITH the war raging in Malaya, Sydney folk are wondering how their many Malayan pals, who visited this city last year, are faring. From his rubber estate, Mambau, F.M.S. Colonel W. A. Gutsell writes: "Mrs. George McCulloch…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 11

WITH the war raging in Malaya, Sydney folk are wondering how their many Malayan pals, who visited this city last year, are faring. From his rubber estate, Mambau, F.M.S. Colonel W. A. Gutsell writes: "Mrs. George McCulloch…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 11

WITH the war raging in Malaya, Sydney folk are wondering how their many Malayan pals, who visited this city last year, are faring. From his rubber estate, Mambau, F.M.S. Colonel W. A. Gutsell writes: "Mrs. George McCulloch…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 11

WITH the war raging in Malaya, Sydney folk are wondering how their many Malayan pals, who visited this city last year, are faring. From his rubber estate, Mambau, F.M.S. Colonel W. A. Gutsell writes: "Mrs. George McCulloch…

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War Hits Property Market

The Land · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

According to a Queensland report, war in the Pacific has had a further stifling effect on the pastoral property market. It is stated that…

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Bulletin of War News

The St George Call · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 1

Government controls Empire Air Ser-vice.—The Federal Government has assumed control of -all outwards passenger freight bookings on the overseas…

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America Speeds War Output

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Friday.-- Thirty-eight new munitions plants are now operating in the United States and a further 28 will soon start…

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Heavier Smoking Due to War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 9

The contention of the Minister for Trade and Customs, Senator Keane, that Australians have been smoking more heavily since the war began, was…

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South America to Discuss War

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--Pan-American war policy will be discussed on January 15 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) at a conference of foreign…

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Staff Gives Second War Ambulance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 9

When members of the staff of Gordon and Gotch. Ltd., learnt recently of the loss of an ambulance which they gave to the A.I.F. in June, 1940,…

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Prisoner of War Day Cheque

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 5

The deputy chairman of the Red Cross Society and chairman of the Prisoner of War Day Committee, Alderman E. S. Marks, handed a…

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War and Health of Livestock

The Land · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 7

IT would seem from such evidence as I have accumulated that farm animals, no less than human beings, have of late had…

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War Fronts In China, Malaya

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 2

CHINA--(1) Trapped remnants of Japanese army. (2) and (3) Chinese forces. (4) Main Japanese base 300…

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Work for Prisoners of War

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

If the Government's continuing failure to employ prisoners of war on useful work has hitherto been an extraordinary…

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