Gifts to Soldiers
Bellingen Shire War and Patriotic Fund Committee at last meeting decided to present every soldier, sailor, airman and nurse who leaves that…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
1,985 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 100
Safeguarded Re-employment of Soldiers. Melbourne
The Minister for the Army, Mr. Street, emphasised to-day that national security regulations safeguarded reemployment of soldiers in their former…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sales Tax Soldiers' Comforts Exempt. Canberra
Goods purchased by organisations for the use, comfort or recreation of members of the fighting services will in future be exempt from sales tax…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shooting Affray Man And Woman Wounded Brisbane Police Seize Rifle Brisbane
A man was critically injured, and a young woman who, until recently, had been a sister at the General Hospital, was wounded in a shooting affray, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Victims' Day on May 3
The executive committee of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund has agreed to make available May 3 for a joint appeal on behalf of the Polish,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Economies 10 French Decrees Conserving Foreign Exchange Paris
Cabinet has decreed food ration cards for France. Ten sets of decrees have been issued, designed to increase consumption and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Summary Russia's Handicaps Blockade Is Succeeding Germany Short of Supplies Melbourne
The Russian advance on Wiipuri continues. Soviet troops are now within medium artillery range of the town. Two Russian divisions are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Corio Seat Test for Government War Policy As An Issue U.A.P. Expects Narrow Win Melbourne
The U.A.P. should win the Corio by-election to-morrow by a slender margin. In this election the policy of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' Preference Act
Sir,--In Wednesday's "Daily Examiner" I read a letter by J. T. Smith, of Coaldale, referring to the Copmanhurst Shire Council not employing returned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →'World Crisis Is Now at Turkey's Door Saydam Broadcasts to Turks "Would Enter War If Threatened" "No Wish 10 Move Against Russia" Moscow Sends Out Call For Troop Assistance ISTANBUL
"The crisis which has covered a large part of the world is now at our door," said Dr. Refik Saydam, Minister for the Interior, in a broadcast to the Turkish nation. "Our participation and foreign policy will not be influenced by outside…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Cafe Man Fatally Wounded . Hay Street Brawl . Two Shots Fired Sydney
Alexander Miller, 27, of East Sydney, was shot and fatally injured during a brawl in a restaurant in Hay street, city, early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diary of a Soldier (Who, having enlisted as a Private, is now a Lieutenant.)
First Day: A little dog had a big day to-day. He was a tiny white puppy and he turned round suddenly in the roadway as he heard "Crunch!…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Roosevelt and War 'Leaning To Intervention' Taft's Campaign Speech. New York
Mr. Taft, in a campaign speech, said President Roosevelt had "not wholeheartedly accepted the manifest desire of the Americas to stay out of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fantastic Claim Germany Reviews War Six Months Operations "Enemy Puns Frustrated" Berlin
The German High Command, in a review of the first six months of the war, declares that the army manned the Siegfried line according to plan,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Summary U.S. Envoy's Mission Retreat Of The Finns Russo Turkish Relations Melbourne
Mr. Sumner Welles, U.S. Under Secretary of State,, arrived in Rome on February 26, and in Berlin on March 1. There is no reason to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bernard Shaw Pleads For Male Dancers Exemption for War Service Key Men of Theatrical Art. London, February 10
The exemption from military service for six months of one of the principal dancers of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, London, has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War on Sea Exchange of Fifty Soviet Submarines for Number of German Cruisers Persistent Rumor in Washington New York
There are persistent reports that Germany and the Soviet have arranged military co-operation in the form of an exchange of 50 Soviet submarines for an unnamed number of German cruisers, according to the Washington correspondent of the "New York Times."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Months of War
The first six months of the war have passed and in his broadcast speech at the week-end, in which he briefly reviewed the progress of the conflict, Sir John Simon, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, sounded a strong note of warning against being misled by the comparative quiet of that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Summary Flights Over Germany Struggle In Finland Nazis' War of Nerves Melbourne
The Royal Air Force has achieved further distinction by its recent flights over Germany. For the fourth time in one week British planes have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in the Air Fifth Flight Over Berlin. London
R.A.F. bombers flew over Berlin last night for the fifth time in six days. Anti-aircraft guns fired on them. The R.A.F. planes dropped leaflets and…
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