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The wars & local soldiers, 1947

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Australians Execute Jap War Criminals

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 3

TOKIO, Friday.--Allied Headquarters has advised the Japanese Government of the execution of 44 Japanese war criminals by the…

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Australians Execute Jap War Criminals

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 3

TOKIO, Friday.--Allied Headquarters has advised the Japanese Government of the execution of 44 Japanese war criminals by the…

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44 Japanese War Criminals Executed

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 7

TOKIO, Friday. -- General MacArthur's Headquarters has advised the Japanese Government that 44 Japanese war…

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Long War In China Predicted

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK Thursday (A.A.P.).--Chinese political and commercial circles fear a long civil war in…

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Divorce Judge Deplores Insincere War Wedding

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 3

In many of the wartime marriages that had ended in the Divorce Court the ceremony had been merely "lip service to the law" and it might have been less immoral for the parties to have dispensed with it, Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow said today…

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"Airadiograms" Again Boac Pre-war Service

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

Passengers on BOAC aircraft may once more send "airadiograms" to any part of the world. This reintroduces a service popular…

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Mushroom Drug In War On T.B.

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

AT the laboratories of Adelaide's institute of Medical and Veterinary Science experiments are being continued with a new drug extracted…

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Level of Wool Prices. War-time and Present Costs

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

Indications continue favourable for the sale of wool at the advanced prices recorded this season, state Winchcombe Carson in their report…

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All-out Civil War Fear Result Of End Of China Mediation

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

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (A.A.P.)—Diplomats here consider that an all-out civil war in North China is now more likely because…

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Late News Phone: M2406 U.S. Move May Intensify War in China

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 20

NANKING, Thursday. -- The United States' announcement that it had ended peace efforts in China has removed another barrier,…

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Wool Sales To U.S. To Exceed Pre-war, Says Growers' President

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 12

SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday.--Australia would sell more wool in United States than in pre-war times, no matter what happened to the tariff, said the newly elected president of the National Wool Growers'…

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Broken War Marriages Shock Judge Vows Taken As Mere Lip Service Plea for Cheap, Quicker Divorce

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

"MANY of the parties might have been less immoral if they had associated without marriage," Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow stated in the Divorce Court today, commenting on the…

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Broken War Marriages Shock Judge Vows Taken As Mere Lip Service Plea for Cheap, Quicker Divorce

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

MANY of the parties might have been less immoral if they had associated without marriage," Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow stated in the Divorce Court today, commenting on the…

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Broken War Marriages Shock Judge Vows Taken As Mere Lip Service Plea for Cheap, Quicker Divorce

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

"MANY of the parties might have been less immoral if they had associated without marriage," Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow stated in the Divorce Court today, commenting on the…

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Broken War Marriages Shock Judge Vows Taken As Mere Lip Service Plea for Cheap, Quicker Divorce

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

"MANY of the parties might have been less immoral if they had associated without marriage," Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow stated in the Divorce Court today, commenting on the…

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Broken War Marriages Shock Judge Vows Taken As Mere Lip Service Plea for Cheap, Quicker Divorce

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

"MANY of the parties might have been less immoral if they had associated without marriage," Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow stated in the Divorce Court today, commenting on the…

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Broken War Marriages Shock Judge Vows Taken As Mere Lip Service Plea for Cheap, Quicker Divorce

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

"MANY of the parties might have been less immoral if they had associated without marriage," Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow stated in the Divorce Court today, commenting on the…

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Soldiers Want To Leave India

Tribune · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

BOMBAY. — About 150,000 of the 246,000 British troops sent here during the war are still here and are becoming increasingly sore about it…

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Ex-soldiers' Health "Getting Worse Daily"

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 9

The health of many former members of the Eighth Division in the repatriation section of the 113th A.G.H., Concord, was becoming worse daily, Private R, W. Bootes said last night…

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War Medal Awards New Conditions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Revised conditions for the award of the 1939-45 Star, the Defence Medal, and the War Medal were…

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