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The wars & local soldiers, 1947

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 15

MARIKA went on with her bandaging, her strong, long-fingered hands moving with unhurried skill…

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There's Something About a Soldier "A Wanderer in Khaki," by Major S. E. C. Ponder.—Stanley Paul, London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 11

MAJOR PONDER shows his readers another and less publicised side of army life to that with which many of us have…

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Young Woman Wounded

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 1

Mrs. Jean Gill. 21, Military -road, Horsley Park, was admitted to Parramatta Hospital last night with a bullet-wound in her…

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Graziano Ban Causes Ring War

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 16

NEW YORK, Saturday.—With high hopes of restoring to Chicago some standing in the fight game, the Windy City's promoters are…

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War on food prices begins

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 8

HUNDREDS of people seeking cheap meat yesterday again crowded out the…

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Fashion Spotlight Paris waiting for new dress house to evolve typical post-war line

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 44

PARIS, Sat. -- The opening of Christian Dior's new dress house, scheduled for next Wednesday morning, is an event which every smart Parisienne has pencilled in her engagement book…

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Move to ban new war novel U.S. objection to story of Brisbane barmaid

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 47

NEW YORK, Sat. -- The Society for the Suppression of Vice is contemplating court action to have Basil Heatter's novel, The Dim View, declared obscene. Heatter is a former U.S…

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Soldier Had Nasty Shock

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 38

After serving with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, Set. Reginald Berkley Officer (38), returned to…

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Plea to U.S. for sick soldier Atom Bid to Save His Life

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 3

THE life of an Australian ex-serviceman in 113 AGH, Concord, may depend on prompt arrival…

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Girl keeps Army tryst in vain for soldier pen-friend she has never seen

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 2

A LONE civilian in the swarm of khaki outside the gate of the Marrickville Army Depot late yesterday afternoon, Claire Collins (19), of…

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War Brides Forming Club

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 9

Fifty wives of U.S. servicemen who went home to the United States after the war ended, but returned to Australia to settle,…

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Today's Peterson World War Iii

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

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Germans Charged With Profiting By War Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 1

NUREMBERG, February 9 (A.A.P.).—The United States yesterday formally indicted Friedrich Flick, Otto Steinbrinck,…

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Army to Issue War Ribbon Supplies Limited

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 5

The Army would issue the ribbon of the War Service medal shortly, an Army spokesman said last night…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 8

EMBIRICOS clawed at the hand that gripped his collar and slid, squirming from the chair to the floor…

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Judge Releases Aust. War Bride

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Australian war bride, Mrs. Iris Kemble (22), formerly of Sandringham, Victoria, who pleaded…

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Judge Releases Aust. War Bride

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Australian war bride, Mrs. Iris Kemble (22), formerly of Sandringham, Victoria, who pleaded…

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Chiang In Huge War Bond Racket

Tribune · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 2

YENAN.—Dictator Chiang Kai-shek heads one of Chinese families which have cut up 20,000,000 million dollars (approximately £A7,000,000 million) war profits between them since 1928…

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War's End for Five Axis Satellites Peace treaties of World War II have their danger spots Dr. Bares, political science expert, says reparations are too heavy, some of the frontier adjustments unwise

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 6

YESTERDAY the repre- sentatives of the five former Axis satellites--Italy, Hungary, Rumania,…

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[?] Ninth Instalment of the "Herald's" Prize War Story the Winds Are Still Illustrated by James Phillips

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 7

ROBERTS'S desire for Marika had been like a small hot flame inside him when he had sat in the…

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