War Summary Finland Hits Back Aid For Small Air Force Blockade Is Succeeding Melbourne
Daily Examiner · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 5
Finland has again surprised the world by the vigor and courage of her resistance to the Soviet invasion. During the week renewed Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COLLISION Motor Car and Motor Cycle Soldier and Girl Injured. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 4
A member of the 2nd A.I.F., Reg Gillard, 27, of Newcastle, and Miss Joan Hawkins, 18, of Newtown, were seriously injured in a collision between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wild Brawl in Sydney Street Soldiers And Civilians Five Diggers in Hospital Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 4
More than 50 soldiers and 250 civilians fought in Campbell street last night, in Sydney's fiercest brawl for years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Abandon Russia" "Draw Italy Into War" Goering's New Policy. London
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 5
Marshal Goering, Herr Hess and Herr Frick are fighting the Von Ribbentrop group, with the object of abandoning Russia and doing their utmost to draw…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HOMESICK England's Tennis Exiles Caught in America by War. London, January 13
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 7
The outbreak of war found England's Wightman Cup team of lawn tennis players in America. Kay Stammers staggered her family and her friends…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Commentary Balkans Play Safe Position In Near East People Favor Allies Melbourne
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 5
As predicted, the meeting of the Balkan Entente tailed to result in a stronger, more closely knit union of the Powers represented…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mass Murders Throughout Poland Shock German Soldiers Nazi Extermination Puns Copenhagen
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 5
The newspaper, "Politiken," describes how German soldiers, re-, turning to the homeland from Polnnd, confess the relief felt after leaving the horrors they witnessed and shared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers Sentenced Stole Military Clothes. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 5
Kenneth Frederick Tunbridge and William Lauder Carruthers, both members of the A.I.F., were sentenced to one month's gaol by the Magistrate,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Council Meets In France Questions of Supply. Paris
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 5
It is officially announced that the fifth meeting of the Supreme War Council assembled this morning and afternoon. In addition to the French…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spring Push Preparing Germany "Sacrifice A Million" Germany's War Destiny London
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 5
Messages regarding, the German preparations for a great spring offensive are reaching Paris constantly. Neutral correspondents in Berlin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Migration Post-war Proposal Rural Areas Expansion Federal Government Plans Canberra
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 4
The resumption of migration on a larger scale than any previous scheme will probably be considered by the Federal Cabinet shortly among the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diary of a Soldier
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 3
(Who, having enlisted in the 2nd A.I.F. as a private, is now a heutenant.) FEBRUARY 2, 1940. First Day: The march through the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Disregard War Rumors." Melbourne
Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 4
The Minister for the Army, Mr. ?Street, again urged Australians to disregard war rumors. He stressed that in the past few weeks a certain rumor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Policy Queensland Labor Premier's Statement
Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 5
COOLANGATTA, Wednesday. "We never will end our duties to destroy Nazism and all it stands for, but we are also out to win peace. I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Cataclysmic Changes" After the War. Launceston
Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 4
"There will be cataclysmic changes after the war and one of the greatest reforms will be in education," said the Acting Federal Treasurer (Mr. Spender)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →May Be Dropped Australian Car Schema "Uneconomic War Industry." Canberra
Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 4
Reporth have been submitted to the Federal Government by its economic advisers, opposing the establishment of the motor car industry in Australia, or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nazi Onslaught on Oliver Stanley Viceroy And Mr. Gandhi War Supplies for China
Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 5
(Daily war commentary issued by the Department of Information.) MELBOURNE, Wednesday. The first speech by Mr. Oliver…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Power May Win War. Brisbane
Daily Examiner · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 5
"There will be few who will disagree with me when I say that in this war air power may turn out to be the determining factor." said the Director of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War, Day by Day Germany's Oil Problem
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 6
Even if Nazi Germany succeeded in transporting the whole of Rumania's oil output into her domestic reservoirs, it would be only a small…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Post-war Plans Larger Population Agricultural Conference. Hobart
Daily Examiner · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 4
The Minister for Commerce (Senator McLeay), speaking to-day at the Australian Agricultural Council Conference, indicated that Australia's post-war…
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