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The wars & local soldiers, 1942

19,549 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250

Women's War Work

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 9

A TOTAL of 140 members of the Women's Emergency Signallers' Corps are now serving with the Navy…

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U S. War Finance

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--When the United States entered World War I in April, 1917,…

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World War The Shadow

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 27

Backing up in good order, taking their collections in casualties from the invaders, Douglas MacArthur and his…

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STRATEGY One Way to Win a War

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 26

Japan stood at the edge of the world gambling-table this week, watched to see whether her reckless bet would…

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Disney on war films for the duration

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 23

HOLLYWOOD, Saturday: Disney is shelving all full-length fiction cartoons for the duration…

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News of the war on all Fronts

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 1

Malaya: A blitzkrieg tank attack by the Japs has forced slight British withdrawals in western Malaya. Tokio radio…

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The World War The credit and debit in the two halves of the one world war

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 1

The two halves of the war that is one world war this week showed strange balances. In the West there seemed basis for the belief of FACT'S London correspondent that the end of 1942 might see Hitler's…

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Master says High School students need war training

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 8

High School students should be treated as the raw material for war work. The Assistant-Chemistry Master at Sydney Boys' High School (Mr. L. A. Basser), expressed…

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Argentina won't back U.S. in war

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--Argentina's attitude seems likely to create difficulties for the United States' delegates to the Pan-American…

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Americans In Favor Of War Council New York

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 3

EIGHTY per cent, of Americans believe that a joint Allied War Council should be formed,…

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Old String As Aid To War Effort CANBERRA

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 7

THE Commonwealth Government wants the public to use string, rope and cordage as many times as…

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Pattern of a Way to Lose War Handing It Back

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 17

OVER the Christmas holidays an anti-Fascist revolution occurred in the little French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon—a decent democratic revolution without violence. VICE-ADMIRAL EMILE MUSELIER, of the Free…

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War industry expansion to country centres Supply continuity is Government's aim

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 18

LISMORE, Saturday.--Australia's war industries in the future will be expanded in country districts, said the Munitions Minister (Mr. Makin) yesterday…

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Bride Of World War One 3 A.M. Catch by Husband

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 26

PEOPLE do queer things at times. Some won't walk under ladders because they think something will happen to them. Others won't go on…

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Published by Arrangement with Time the American Newsmagazine U.S. at War--the People Where is the Fleet?

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 25

U.S. citizens -- usually with an air of don't-look-now-but-don't-get-excited-- have been asking an astonishing…

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"Soldiers Without Uniform"

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 32

The Department of Information releases a striking short, dedicated to the munition workers of…

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Soldier's Wife Is Missing

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 3

Wife of a soldier now serving with the A.I.F. in the Middle East, Mrs. Ruby Bellinger, 31, has been missing since…

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The Soldier Portrait of a Japanese

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1942 · page 26

"We'll defeat the Japanese in the end," said War Secretary Henry L. Stimson. "But we shouldn't look at the war…

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War Loans

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 2

The Federal Government is expected to float two war loans this year to total between seventy and eighty million pounds. Apart from all other considerations, the flotation of these loans will…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 11

CAN voice nothing but admiration for small Kurraba Point community. With the idea that people should be able to look after themselves instead of waiting to be looked after, they clubbed together, gave donations, and set to work to…

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