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The wars & local soldiers, 1947

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Us. Fears Civil War in China

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Chinese Communists continued to refuse all peace offers, General Chiang Kai-shek declared to-day at Nanking…

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City Greengrocers Declare War On Racketeers

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 5

More than 200 city greengrocers, at a meeting at the City Markets today, decided to declare "war" on food racketeers. Speakers protested against rackets in…

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Many Hardships in War Neurosis Families

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 9

Wives and families of ex-servicemen with war neurosis suffered many mental and financial hardships, Mr. C. J. Austin said last night. Mr. Austin is Federal secretary…

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Shock For Man Home From War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 18

A man said in the Divorce Court today that on returning home after two years' war service overseas he found that his…

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Shock For Man Home From War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 18

A man said in the Divorce Court today that on returning home after two years' war service overseas he found that his…

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Shock For Man Home From War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 18

A man said in the Divorce Court today that on returning home after two years' war service overseas he found that his…

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Shock For Man Home From War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 18

A man said in the Divorce Court today that on returning home after two years war service overseas he found that his…

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Shock For Man Home From War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 18

A man said in the Divorce Court today that on returning home after two years war service overseas he found that his…

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Australian Nurse Honoured For War Service

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 15

News from Suez tells of the award of the Royal Red Cross in the New Year's Honours list to an Australian nurse, Sister Nora Heritage, for…

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Man-Hour Output Less Than Pre-war

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 26

Production per man-hour was now less than before the war, said the chairman of Standard Waygood, Ltd. (Mr. J. B. Nicholson), yesterday…

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War Patients Moved Hospital's Future Not Decided

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 7

All the repatriation patients at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, are being transferred to the 113th A.G.H., Concord,…

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They Still Suffer On The Rack of War

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 4

HUNDREDS, perhaps thousands, of Australian soldiers who were broken in body and maimed in mind the bitter years between 1942, and 1946 are still, in the peacetime year of 1947, broken and maimed…

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War Story Prize Winner As New Serial the Winds Are Still

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

"The Winds Are Still," John Hetherington's novel of the aftermath of the bartle for Greece, which won first prize in…

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Export Trade Shows Increase Of 50 p.c. On Pre-War Figures

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 26

Total export trade of 20 nations averaged over 1,500,000,000 dollars monthly in the first half of 1946 compared with 1,400,000,000 in the Jurly-December term and 1,000,000,000 in the 1936-38 period…

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N.S.W.Jewish War Memorial List of Functions for the Coming Week

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 8

Following is a list of functions to be held in the N.S.W. Jewish War Memorial for the coming week:…

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U.S. Soldiers Steal £5000

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 2

TOKIO, Thursday.--Six American soldiers have confessed to stealing about £5000 from the Siamese Legation at Tokio last…

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Bolivian Soldiers Killed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--Several Bolivian soldiers and policemen were killed in La Paz (Bolivia) last night, when mine-workers attacked nolice…

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Legion Critical Of Anzac House Grant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 3

State councillors of the Legion of Ex-Servicemen continue to express dissatisfaction about the granting of £100,000 by the…

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Employment or War

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 6

"What the new social mind has to be is plain. It is a mind which will at the same time abolish unemployment and abolish war; both together,…

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War Medal Awards Liberalised

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Friday. --Entry into certain short campaigns will be sufficient for ex-servicemen to…

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