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The wars & local soldiers, 1947

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The Epic of a Thousand Years’ War

Australian Jewish Forum · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 17

Our Epic (the Bible) is like all other epics: one of struggle and war: wars with the Amalekites, the Philistines, the Egyptians, the Assyrians and the Babylonians. Yet how pale these wars appear when compared with the main war which is the back-bone of the Bible: the…

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Judge Suggests Easier Divorce Laws Blames War For Record In Actions

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 8

Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow in the Special Divorce Court yesterday said that divorce procedure should be recast, made more expeditious, and cheapened…

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First Instalment of the "Herald's" Prize War Story the Winds Are Still Illustrated by James Phillips Chapter 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 6

THE daylight was still holding when Roberts came down out of the mountains on to the…

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State Finds Land For Ex-Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 8

The State Government had placed 300 ex-servicemen on the land since March, 1944, the…

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Sweden Prepares To Square-Off Sweden, under a cloud for its neutral position during the war, is preparing, a White Paper to be issued this year which will at last offer Allied peoples a clear picture of political and economic happenings within the nation during World War 11

The World's News · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 21

ITS sponsors say the document will show that the Swedes did a great deal to aid the Allied cause. One highly dramatic item, it is said,…

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Plan Of War That Worked Out Right

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 3

TALK THAT WORKED OUT O.K. Jockey Ward and Marcon-tine connections had quite a little pow[?]ow (top) before Marcon-…

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Civil war threatened when a terrorist chose martyrdom

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 1

All Palestine waited anxiously this week for a word from a young Hungarian terrorist in a condemned cell in Jerusalem's Central Prison. It was agreed that his consent…

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For Your Information Dc3, workhorse of the war

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 5

THE British Government inquiry into recent fatal Dakota crashes will probably find that human error was the…

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Here's a war service medal the army can't wear--officially

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 5

THERE is much confusion in Army circles in Sidney over the wearing of the ribbon of a new war decoration--the War Medal. Although…

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Scientists fought hard to keep army-borne plagues from us, but You're in this malaria war

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 4

MEDICAL scientists and public health…

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Night-long Dash To Save Wounded Man

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Sunday.—A Kempsey ambulance last night made, against a narrow time limit, a successful 300 miles dash to Sydney…

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Wearing of War Ribbons

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A Military Board instruction authorising the wearing of the ribbon of the War Service Medal was issued…

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War Damage Claims in Malaya

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 6

LONDON, Feb. 2 (A.A.P.).—The Colonial Office has announced the terms of reference for the Malayan War Damage Commission…

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Surf Girls in Tug-of-war

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 7

MEMBERS of the Coogeo Girls' March Past team engaged in a tug-of-war with the Maroubra Girls…

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Views Vary On War Marriages Yesterday the Daily Telegraph asked people

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 9

Do you agree with Judge Rainbow's remark in the Divorce Court that many young people who…

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Second Instalment of the "Herald's" Prize War Story the Winds Are Still

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 7

MARIKA went back into the kitchen and presently returned with a long pointed loaf of bread, a…

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Soldier Fatally Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—Corporal Alan Francis Horton was fatally injured wh[?] an Army Provost truck overturned in Maitland Road, Tighe's…

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War bride's struggle

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 8

SIR,--I am a war bride. When I was engaged, I managed to get a dining-room suite, kitchen furniture, a bedroom suite,…

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War Service Medal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 8

The Military Board instruction authorising the wearing of the War Service Medal ribbon has not yet been promulgated at Victoria Barracks,…

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Admiral Mitscher Dead Pacific War Leader

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (A.A.P.).—Admiral Marc Mitscher, who was Commander-in-Chief of the United States Atlantic Fleet,…

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