Spanish War Loyalists to Fight On. Madrid
The Defence Minister has ordered the reorganisation of the centre and south loyalist armies under the supreme cammand of Dr. Negrin,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
947 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 48
War in China Clash on Frontier. Hsinking
Eleven Soviet soldiers are reported to have been killed in two attacks against a Manchukuo western frontier post. Manchukuons did not suffer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sole Survivor Keeps War-time Pact. AFTER 21 Years. London, February 11
Twenty-one years ago four soldiers in London promised to meet again in Piccadilly Circus, on a certain February night in 1939. This week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boy Scouts Join War On Smugglers to Watch 20 Miles of English Coast. London, February 11
Boy Scouts began duty this week as coast watchers along a 20-mile stretch between Hastings and Dungeness, the most notorious bay in the History of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →R.S. AND S.I. LEAGUE Maclean Sub-Branch. War Veterans' Home Appeal. Memorial to Late A. S. HENRY
In the absence of the president, Mr. E. E. Phillis,. who is absent on sick leave, Mr. H. Hunt, vice-president, presided at the monthly meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Not Yet Over Negrin Flees New Govt. at Madrid Revolt At Cartagena Suppressed by Loyalists London
The Negrin loyalist Government has been replaced by a Nationalist Defence Council. It is reported at Gibraltar that Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Planes Speeding Up Essential Production In Aus. Air Mission Inquiries Sydney
Speed is essential in the interests of Australia's defence, according to members of the British Air Mission, who have almost completed their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War!
It may have been in a dream writes a contributor) but recently I met a man carrying a banner which he set up on one of Dorrigo's many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If War Comes Britain's Contribution Will Not Be Half-Hearted War Minister Candid Dominions Must Defend Themselves. London
The Secretary for War, Mr. Hore Belisha, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the British army plans an armed establishment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl Wounded Cartridge in Fire. Sydney
While Miss Edna Healey (18) was stoking a fire under a laundry copper at Parramatta yesterday a cartridge exploded, the bullet seriously injuring…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ports in War News
The map shows the position of Carta gena, Algiers and Bizerta. The Spanish Republican fleet after the fall of Prime Minister Negrin, was ordered [?] to Bizerta, and now has found refuge in the French Tunisian port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"We Are Doomed" Swiss Soldier's Message Snowed Up In The Alps Desperate Rescue Efforts Berne
"We are doomed. Do not waste lives trying to reach us,' was a message semaphored from the Wildhort hut, 6600 feet above sea level on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.S.A. Swing Roosevelt's Policy To Aid Democracies in the Event of War Washington
The American Institute of Public Opinion's latest nation -wide survey indicates that Americans are swinging in behind Roosevelt's policy of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.K. Policy on Major Issues Only One Possible to Avoid War London
Considered opinion that there was no occasion during the past few years when British policy on a major international issue could have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in Spain Twelve Killed in Air Raid. Valencia
Twelve were killed, including three women and four children, and many were injured in two air raids. REPRISALS BY REBELS…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Day Dawn Service
The State Governor, Lord Wakehurst, will again lead the march down Martin Place on April 25 for the Anzac dawn service, and offer the Anzac…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Anzac Day Poem
The friends of Mrs. A. E. Millar, of Wagga, who spent some months visiting her sisters, Mrs. D. C. Rayner, of Tyndale, and Sister G. M. Smith, then…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Veterans' Home Appeal
The first section of the War Veterans' Home. which is being jointly sponsored by the R.S.S.I.L.A. (N.S.W, branch) and the Legacy Club of Sydney, will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Defence Our Main Policy Premier's Broadcast "Full National War Effort" Sydney
The Premier, Mr. Stevens, in a broadcast address last night, u[?]ged Australia to be prepared for a full national war effort. Until the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unconvincing Hitler's Explanation Seizure Of Czechsland War Without Declaration of War London
Beyond stating that the House would he aware from the speech he made at Birmingham on Friday of the serious view which the British…
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