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The wars & local soldiers, 1942

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Women's War Work Trained Helpers Offer Services

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

Mrs. Pearl Maitland, commandant of the Coogee-Randwick R.S. & S.I.L.A. auxiliary, will offer the Government 100…

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Spain's Flocks Have Recovered from Civil War

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

SPAIN, from which some of the earlier Merino sheep pastured in Australia were obtained, is the one country in Europe self-sufficient in regard to wool…

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Women's War Work Trailed Helpers Offer Services

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

Mrs. Pearl Maitland, commandant of the Coogee-Randwick R.S. & S.I.L.A. auxiliary, will offer the Government 100…

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Women's War Work Trained Helpers Offer Services

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 3

Mrs. Pearl Maitland, commandant of the Coogee-Randwick R.S. & S.I.L.A. auxiliary, will offer the Government 100…

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Henry Ford on Jews in Post War World

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 2

Detroit.—The hope that the post-war world will be tolerant to the Jews was expressed here by Henry Ford. "There is need for the Jew in the…

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The Holy Father's Concern for Prisoners of War

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 10

THE news broadcast by the Vatican Radio Station regarding the welfare of Australian prisoners of war in Italy would have brightened Christmas week in many Australian homos. All these men, it was stated, were visited in their camps by the Papal Nuncio to Italy, who was acting…

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War Orders Held Up Serions Shortage of Labour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 10

A serious shortage of labour is holding up important war orders in amny engineering works in New South Wales…

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Trangie Leads State with Subscriptions to War Loan

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 2

TRANGLE led the State, on a per [?] basis, with [?]ipllons in the £100,000,000 war and conversion loan…

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Australia's New Pacific Role Important War Cabinet Decision

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Australian Government has accepted and will co-operate fully in the new Pacific joint defence plan evolved in the Churchill-Roosevelt…

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VAST U.S. War Programme Multiply Earlier Plans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (A.A.P.).—President Roosevelt, at a Press conference yesterday, said that the new war…

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War Tax, Not Yet Due, Paid By Some

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 2

"Employers are not legally bound to make deductions until after January 14, but we have no objection to deductions being made from January 1,"…

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On 500 Fronts. the Church, Too, Has a War

The Catholic Press · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 23

The Church is fighting for Christ's cause on more than 500 fronts across the world in ceaseless, planned and co-ordinated assault, Radio Vatican said recently. Her front-line…

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Marine Insurance in War-time Changing Position Sets New Problems

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 2

In war-time, the interests of shippers, ship-owners and marine underwriters come to a focus on the same problems. All of us are…

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Short Reviews Jews and the Post-war World, by Gabriel Haus

Australian Jewish Forum · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 34

This little work of fourteen pages is a welcome addition to the growing literature dealing with the resettlement after the war of the…

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Grave Threat to Manila As Japanese Advance Dutch War Chief's Call To Australia

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 1

MANILA, capital of the Philippines, is gravely threatened as Japanese forces continue to advance from the north and south. Tokio claims that the Japanese are within six miles of the city, but other…

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War Risk Benefits Begin To-day Compulsory Insurance Of All Buildings MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 4

A Commonwealth-wide organisation to provide war insurance on property is to be established without delay by the Commonwealth Government, the Federal Treasurer…

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Dutch War Chief Calls on Australians for Aid Enemy Advance On Manila Continues

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 1

GENERAL TER POORTEN, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, has issued a call to Australia for "all possible aid immediately in the defence of Java." A Batavia report says he has announced that the…

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Grave Threat to Manila As Japanese Advance Dutch War Chief's Call To Australia

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 1

MANILA, capital of the Philippines, is gravely threatened as Japanese forces continue to advance from the north and south. Tokio claims that the Japanese are within six miles of the city, but other…

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the WAR and the Colonial Peoples (Statement by the Communist Party of Great Britain)

Communist Review · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 11

The war of fascist aggression is war extending in the Far East, in the Middle East, in Africa. The criminal war plans of the Nazi rulers and their allies in…

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Pope's Christmas Message. Australasian Prisoners of War in Italy. Broadcast by Vatican Radio Station

The Catholic Press · Thursday 1 January 1942 · page 7

Vatican Radio Station broadcast the following Christmas message concerning. Australasian prisoners of war in Italy: In the name of the Holy Father, Pope…

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