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The wars & local soldiers, 1942

19,549 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

Nazis Shoot 62 Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.-- Sixty-two German soldiers have been executed at Besancon (France), following a riot among troops,…

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Education Scheme Needed Study for Soldiers Suggested

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.-- Immediate attention should be given to the problem of providing a continuation of…

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Nazis Shoot 62 Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.-- Sixty-two German soldiers have been executed at Besancon (France), following a riot among troops,…

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Education Scheme Needed Study for Soldiers Suggested

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.-- Immediate attention should be given to the problem of providing a continuation of…

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Nazis Shoot 62 Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Sixty-two German soldiers have been executed at Besancon (France), following a riot among troops,…

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Young Woman Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 9

Eddie Reginald Hawkes, 22, labourer, who pleaded guilty in the Quarter Sessions yesterday to a charge of having malicjously wounded a young…

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Dogs Or War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

THERE will be 19 dog races at Wentworth Parle on Saturday. There were 13 horse races at the meeting in Melbourne…

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Dogs Or War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

THERE will be 19 dog races at Wentworth Park on Saturday. There were 13 horse races at the meeting in Melbourne…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 11

BUSY as a bee is Mrs. Kit McPhillimy of Careel Bay. Answering the call by the services for camouflage nets, she set to work, went to town three times a week for lessons at…

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Post-war Recovery

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2

Despite some statements to the contrary, we are not going back to the go-as-you-please world of 1939 when present hostilities cease. Controls, possibly restrictions, will continue in evidence for some time; methods of…

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Dogs or War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

THERE will be 19 dog races at Wentworth Park on Saturday. There were 13 horse races at the meeting in Melbourne…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 11

BUSY as a bee is Mrs. Kit McPhillimy of Careel Bay. Answering the call by the services for camouflage nets, she set to work, went to town three times a week for lessons at…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 11

BUSY as a bee is Mrs. Kit McPhillimy of Careel Bay. Answering the call by the services for camouflage nets, she set to work, went to town three times a week for lessons at…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 11

BUSY as a bee is Mrs. Kit McPhillimy of Careel Bay. Answering the call by the services for camouflage nets, she set to work, went to town three times a week for lessons at…

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Dogs or War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

THERE will be 19 dog races at Wentworth Park on Saturday. There were 13 horse races at the meeting in Melbourne…

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Women in War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 11

BUSY as a bee is Mrs. Kit McPhillimy of Careel Bay. Answering the call by the services for camouflage nets, she set to work, went to town three times a week for lessons at…

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War Has Reaction Onnerves

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 6

NEW YORK. --Maintenance of the mental health of both the armed forces and civilians under the stress of war has placed…

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Sport and the War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

Sir,—In these days when everything should be done to avoid hurting the susceptibilities of those not fortunate enough to have the leisure to play…

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How Japs Make War

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 1

This timetable of events in the Pacific in the last 15 days shows how the bland Jap…

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War Strains Nazi Workers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).--Long hours are sapping the strength -of German workers, says The Times correspondent on the German frontier…

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