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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

12,842 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 250

The War, Day by Day German Drive in Yugoslavia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 8

The intensified German push against the Partisan forces in Yugoslavia must be considered in conjunction with the…

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850,000 to Be Re-absorbed After the War

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 4

AT the end of the war there will be about 850,000 men and women to be re-absorbed, in civil occupation. That estimate is given by Professor L. F. Giblin. economic adviser to the Federal…

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Biggest Air Attack of War Made in Daylong Raids

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday. -- The biggest air attack of the war was launched against the Nazis on Thursday in an all-day offensive. GREAT formations of Allied planes swept over the English Channel…

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849,000 Women in Jobs Big Increase Since War Began

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 10

CANBERRA, Friday.—Since the outbreak of war in Europe, the number of Australian women in full-time employment has…

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Hun Admission of Defeat by Russians A. M. Pooley's War Commentary

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 6

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Kurt Dietmar, spokesman of the German High Command, in a broadcast on January 4, told the German people that the Russians had licked…

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Control of War Collections A.C.F.'s Support for Rationalisation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 11

The president of the Australian Comforts Fund, Alderman Click, said yesterday that the A.C.F. had made proposals to…

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Biggest Air Attack of War Hurled at Nazis Raids Go On Whole Day

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- The biggest air attack of the war was launched against the Nazis on Thursday in an all-day offensive…

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Biggest Air Attack of War Hurled at Nazis Raids Go On Whole Day

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday, -- The biggest air attack of the war was launched against the Nazis on Thursday in an all-day offensive,…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, Jan. 15, 1944 U.S.A. Summoned to Total War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 8

As seen in the mirror of two Presidential messages to Congress this week, America's war effort presents some curious…

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Trade, Finance & Produce Markets Future of New Guinea Gold Financial Situation Sound: Company Considers War Claims

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 12

"We have reason to feel that the company's financial position is sound," said "the chairman of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., Mr. J. Kruttschnitt, at the annual meeting…

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Gold From N.G. SMUGGLED Soldiers Accused by Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 10

Directors of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., had been "reliably informed" that quantities of gold are being illicitly brought…

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Sustenance for Ex-soldiers

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 13

MANY ex-servicemen of this war are not getting the sustenance relief they are entitled to while awaiting civilian employment…

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Soldier Found Fortune Here

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 4

NEW YORK. -- Life with the American Army in Australia was, to 23-years-old Richard St. George, of Simpson, Minnesota, something to…

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Pacific War Japan looted for a marathon war

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 3

The Japanese talked of carrying on the war against the white races by succeeding generations towards a final victory which,…

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World War The Prisoners

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 13

Just after noon on the second day a 20-year-old Austrian lieutenant stumbled from a cellar, surrendered the last organised…

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Women and War Work

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 25

NOW that it has become so important to make one pound of steak do the work of a few roasts of beef, the elementary nutrition lectures under the auspices of Red Cross will be doubly welcome to worried housewives. Lectures will be given by members of the N^S.W. Dietetic Association, and…

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WANDA the War Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 5

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India's War Bill London

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 1

War expenditure of India in the past five years has totalled £stg.164,000,000. of which, under the 1939 financial agreement…

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World War The Iron Core

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 12

Magnitogorsk was named after a mountain which contained 275,000,000 tons of 62 per cent. pure magnetic iron ore…

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In war's backwash, the little States

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 2

Still floundering in war's backwash this week were the five little Stales of Europe. Luxemburg, occupying 999…

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