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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

12,842 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Newsprint—"weapon of War."

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 9

OTTAWA,—Men working in the backwoods of Canada to-day are "essential supports of the American way of life in the United States" in…

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War Danger Stands Out

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 12

Chief attraction at the Harold Park trotting meeting tomorrow is the £250 Summer Handicap of two miles, and the race should be the…

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War Danger Stands Out

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 12

Chief attraction at the Harold Park trotting meeting tomorrow is the £250 Summer Handicap of two miles, and the race should be the…

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War Danger Stands Out

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 12

Chief attraction at the Harold Park trotting meeting tomorrow is the £250 Summer Handicap of two miles, and the race should be the…

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War Moving to Climax

The St George Call · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

People of the Allied Nations will enter 1944 with feelings of hope and optimism not untinged with a f ore to tie of tribulation. For the coming year will…

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War Danger Stands Out

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 12

Chief attraction at the Harold Park trotting meeting tomorrow is the £250 Summer Handicap of two miles, and the race should be the…

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War Danger Stands Out

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 12

Chief attraction at the Harold Park trotting meeting tomorrow is the £250 Summer Handicap of two miles,and the race should be the…

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War Supplies for Tito's Partisans

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. -- A Budapest message says that in the past few days the leader of the Yugoslav partisan forces (Marshal Broz-Tito) has…

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Kogarah Municipal War Savings Campaign

The St George Call · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

The Kogarah War Savings Campaign progressing most satisfactorily and the willing band of ladles representing the whole area of the Koga rah Municipality…

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Peak Reached In War Jobs

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 5

More than 90 per cent. of Australian men employed were either in the services or engaged in direct or indirect war work…

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Ready to Help the War Effort

The Land · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 3

Good Australians these, and they're playing an important part on the primary production front. Corriedale ewes on Mr. R. W. Peacock's stud property, "The Kurrajongs," Bathurst…

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Foundation Foe a Stable Post-war Economy

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

Wider Interest in Public Securities, Including State and Municipal, Should be Encouraged. It is evident that the Loan Campaigns and the general restrictions which have arisen and been developed by the war…

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Women in Jail Doubled Since War Started

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 5

There are twice as many women in Long Bay Jail now as there were before the war. The abnormal number of female prisoners has caused a…

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Returns From the War. Bexley's Health Inspector

The St George Call · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 1

Copy of a report from the Health and Building Inspector, of Bexley Council. Mr. A. G. Baker, on hi? return to Council's service, after approximately your…

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Girls Fight Beside Men in Yugoslav Guerrilla War

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 3

TYPES OF YUGOSLAV men and women guerrillas, who are now fighting the Germans in organised armies with Allied air support. In Yugloslavia the patriots have just begun an offensive on a 100-mile front…

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The War, Day by Day Fall of Berdichev

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 4

Apart from its intrinsic local importance as a centre of communications Berdichev was significant because it was a…

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CLUBS and ORGANISATIONS N.S.W Jewish War Memorial

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 6

Saturday afternoon, Library, —Chevra Midrash; evening Main Hall and Lounge, Maccabi Dance; Library N.S.W. Hebrew…

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War Prisoners in Far East No Next-of-kin Parcels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 6

The Japanese Government has not yet made provision for next-of-kin to send parcels to prisoners of war in Japanese hands…

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Sydney Pilot Scores on Timor Raid From Our War Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 6

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday.—Squadron-Leader R. L. Gordon, of Rose Bay, Sydney, shot down his sixth Japanese…

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These Junior Farmers Keep the Flag Flying for Their Soldier Father

The Land · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

FROM the North Coast comes an interesting story of how two Junior farmers on the Wallamba Rivedr are keeping the flag flying on the farm front while their father is on active service. The story is told by Mr. J. R. Paulett, junior farmer supervisor at Kempsey,…

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