Signals Men Keep Lines Through New Guinea Terrain
Signal linesmen in New Guinea labor across jungles and rivers to maintain telephone and wireless links for advancing troops. They fight when needed, carry heavy gear, and work from makeshift operating rooms as they thread cable from tree to coconut palm. They come from varied civilian backgrounds and are trained by the Army to deploy hundreds of signal sections across terrain like the Ramo Valley and Finisterre Ranges. Dennis Smith and Bruce Cameron, aided by locals, deployed miles of cable overnight and resumed contact with the front at dawn, showing the relentless, untidy rhythm of field communications.
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Ani
PMG
New Guinea
Long
Ramo Valley
Finisterre
Cuinea
Ordnary
Dennis Smith
Queensland
Bruce Cameron
Sydney
Lia
Taft Quote on Crusaders and World War
US Senator Taft states that crusades for freedom or ideology lead to world conflict. He asserts both American and Russian crusades, including a Hitlerian frame for National Socialism, would drive the world toward war. The remark highlights warnings about ideological expansion.
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Russia
Hitler
Senator Taft
Ireland's Food Problem and Shipping Shortfalls
In Dublin, Mr. Lamiass warns of a hard year for food supply as farmers did not meet needs, wheat and four for human food are scarce, and penalties may imprison those feeding animals. Ireland's carrying capacity falls as two top ships are lost, reducing shipping and risking internal transport services.
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Lamiass
Dublin
Fish Bunglers and the Milk Board Price Fixing Debate
The piece critiques the Milk Board and price fixing, arguing producers gain at vendors’ expense and that fish retailers must organize to resist unjust wholesale retail splits. It claims centralized price control harms democratic fairness and profits, urging unity among retailers.
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Federal Star Chamber
Sealsmains
Union membership in Commonwealth rises to 1.18 million
At end of 1942 there were 1,182,417 union members across 792 unions in the Commonwealth after four years of war. Metal trades led with 199,698 members, railways and tramways 20,672, public service 115,954, while woodworking and furniture trades fell.
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Commonwealth
Metal Trades
Railways and Tramways
Public Service
German morale seen as unbroken by Allied officers
Allied officers quote German troops captured in recent battles as cocky and hopped up on Nazi propaganda, asserting there is no weakening of German morale and that they are unlikely to crack. Reported by United Press.
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United Press Nu Dou
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