WOOLGOOLGA Welcome Home A.I.H. TRAINEES
The weekly dance run by the Patriotic and Welfare Committee was postponed from Wednesday to Friday night in order to welcome home…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
947 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 46 of 48
Post-war Work Mr. Vincent in Charge
Hon. R. S. Vincent is the Cabinet Minister placed in charge of the work of planning for the absorption of men on active service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Won £5000--Joining Three Brothers at War. Canberra
Harry Prate, of Canberra, a relief worker, who to-day won the New South Wales State Lottery first prize of £5000, intends to use his good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canada's War Bill Million Dollars a Day. Ottawa
The Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King), broadcasting to the nation on the details of the air training scheme, revealed that 67 training schools…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nazi Lie Australia And War Didn't Want to Help Britain. Sydney
German propaganda that Australia entered the war very reluctantly and that the decision was by only five votes, amazed the Prime Minister. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nazi Planes Sink Small Ship One Raider Destroyed War in the Air London
Two German planes bombed and sank the Newcastle steamer Serenity of 487 tons in the North Sea. Fishing boats picked up all the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Sections? Canberra War Memorial This War and the Cost. Canberra
The War Memorial Board will shortly consider a proposal to divide the £250,000 national war memorial now being erected at Canberra into two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rubber Petrol Tanks in Nazi War Planes. London
The Australian Air Minister, Mr. Fairbairn, to-day made a detailed tour of the R.A.F. war station in France where he met many Dominion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bengal Govt. Full Support In War for the British Govt. London
The Bengal Legislative Assembly, by 82 votes to 42, decided to give the British Government full support in the war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Casey Home The War On The Sea Britain Dealing with Enemy. Sydney
Great Britain was tackling enemy raiders and submarines with the greatest efficiency and before he left England, he was assured that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CO-OPERATION In Our War Efforts C'wealth and New Zealand. Sydney
Intensification of steps to co-ordinate Australia's and New Zealand's war effort is expected to follow discussions between the Commonwealth War Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Battle Largest of the War 12 Nazi Planes Down British Lose Seven Terrific Clash at Heligoland. London
The British and German accounts of the air battle in the vicinity of Heligoland Bight widely differ in essential details, but it would appear…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Red Army Weakened by Terrible Purge Stalin's Political Spies Honeycomb Troops Lack of Discipline on Sea, Land and Air Finns' Heroic Defence Is Epic of War
It would appear impossible that Finland with a population only four millions should offer stout resistance to the armed might of the Soviet with a population of 166 millions to draw upon for man power, says an official commentary supplied by the Department of information…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shots Fired Man Commits Suicide Two Women Wounded Domestic Quarrel Sydney
After wounding his wife and his mother-in-law. Leslie Arthur Small. 29. of Leichhardt. shot himself dead i in a house at Camperdown to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blood Tank For Second A.I.F. Treatment for Wounded. Melbourne
When the Second A.I.F is abroad i will have the services of the mos modernly equipped mobile blood tan available for those requiring treatmen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This Is a Strange War Background To The News Sidelights on the Army of 1939
In this article a distinguished author-soldier, Major-General J. H. Beith, C.B.E., M.C. ("Ian Hay") analyses the opening weeks, of the war and in his picturesque way recounts some of the reasons for the apparent inactivity which has so far characterised the Western Front…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"In to Wit" Belligerent Partner Australia And The War Menzies Answers Propaganda First Short Wave Broadcast. Melbourne
The Prime Minister. Mr. Menzies to-night delivered the first short wave national broadcast conducted by the Australian Government. He said the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Shots Fired" Man Seriously Wounded Laborer Remanded in Sydney. Sydney
Bail was refused at the Central Court to-day when William Charles Grosvenor, 26, laborer, was charged with having shot at Thomas James Brennan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BROADCAST To Northern Europe Australia's War Effort. Melbourne
Australia's contribution to the war would be immeasurably greater than her shart of the Great "War in 1914-18 because she had been steadily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jobs Back After The War Federal Regulations Gazetted. Sydney
Regulations gazetted last night under the National Security Regulations ensure that men who enlist in the force shall get their jobs back after the war…
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