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The wars & local soldiers, 1947

4,665 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 234

War Neurosis Costs £20,000,000 A Year

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 9

Australia paid war neurotics about £20,000,000 a year in pensions, Mr. B. A. Farrin said last night. This figure included about £5,000,000 for World War I…

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War Widows' Craft Guild Sponsored by W.V.S.

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 6

The War Widows' Graft Guild is an organisation of war widows to help other widows. In N.S.W. the Guild has been sponsored by the Women's…

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[?] Eleventh Instalment of the "Herald's" Prize War Story [?] [?] the Winds Are Still

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 12

ROBERTS and McGurk and Kosta let themselves out into the night. A breeze was blowing in from the…

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War Bride To Sing At New York Night Club From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—As "The Girl from Down Under," an Australian war bride will sing Australian songs in a radio…

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Attlee Orders 'War Measures' to End Coal Jam Fines up to £500, 2 years gaol for breaking fuel laws

The Sun · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--Sweeping new measures to conserve power and light have been ordered by a Special Emergency Committee set up by the Prime Minister. Warning that the situation…

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R.s.l. Advice to Ex-soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 3

The State secretary of the R.S.L. said last night:— "For a number of years, State Congress has directed their State Council…

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Soldiers Marched In Rain

The Sun · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 1

An officer at Greta camp made 30 soldiers march in pouring rain for half an hour because they said they did…

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'Atom' Cure Sought For Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 5

Red Cross officials have cabled America for radioactive sodium sulphate to treat a soldier who is…

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U.S. Soldiers Must Return Looted Art

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday (A.A.P.).--All American servicemen who brought back looted art treasures from war zones must surrender them if they are…

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Soldier's Body Found in Surf

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 14

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- Remains taken from the surf at Broad Beach, near Southport, on Sunday have been identified as those of…

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Soldier's Body Found in Surf

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 14

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- Remains taken from the surf at Broad Beach, near Southport, on Sunday have been identified as those of…

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Soldier's Body' Found in Surf

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 14

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- Remains taken from the surf at Broad Beach, near Southport on Sunday have been identified as those of…

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Burglar Uses Shotgun: Man Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 1

A burglar shot a householder in the face with a shotgun at Auburn last night and then struck him with the gun…

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Wounded Man's Fight; Police Hunt Burglar

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 8

POLICE are searching for a burglar who shot an Auburn resident in the face with a shotgun last night. THE wounded man, Leslie Pedrana (43), 162 Auburn Rd., Auburn, is…

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Wounded Man's Fight; Police Hunt Burglar

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 8

POLICE are searching for a burglar who shot an Auburn resident in the face with a shotgun last night. THE wounded man, Leslie Pedrana (43), 162 Auburn Rd., Auburn, is…

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Finance Canada's Big Contribution to War

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 16

IN addition to financing her own multi-billion dollar war effort, Canada contributed nearly £1,230,769, 231 worth of supplies, foods and war materials to her allies and liberated countries…

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Wouldn’t it Except For War

Tribune · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 5

A BILL designed to prevent gangsters from using atomic bombs will be introduced in the Indiana (US) Legislature by State Senetor…

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Finance Canada's Big Contribution to War

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 16

IN addition to financing her own multi-billion dollar war effort, Canada contributed nearly £1,230,769, 231 worth of supplies foods and war materials to Her allies and liberated countries…

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Sale of War-Time Dehydration Plants

The Land · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 2

The Commonwealth Dispose Commission has sold many dehydration plants constructed by the Federal Government as a war-time measure…

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Inflation Causes Government Check In China War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (A.A.P.). —One factor in China's sudden surge of inflation is a rumour that the Government's campaign against…

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