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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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A TUG-OF-WAR CONTEST between four teams representing the mines at Broken Hill was staged on the sand s yesterday at Semaphore where the miners are now enjoying their annual holidays. Miners in action during one of the heats…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOUR Italian and four Spanish Rebel divisions totalling nearly 100,000 men are attacking the Loyalists' line defending Borjas Blancas in what is described as the hardest battle of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PERTH, Saturday. —At the conclusion of the burial on Tuesday of the late E. H. Coleman, of Perth, a member of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →REPORTS from Spain today" indicate a comparative lull in the fighting, with both sides claiming successes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONFLICTING reports continue to come from the rival armies in Spain. Saragossa (rebel headquarters)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RUMORS, apparently officially inspired, are current that Britain in conjunction with France and the United States is on the verge of declaring an economic war against Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TWO Australian nurses were forced to leave a hospital at midnight carrying only the clothes they could pick up at a moment's notice. This was part of the thrilling story told by. Nurse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Remarking that a prisoner in General Sessions "evidently waged war on motorists," Judge Richardson sentenced him to 12…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Dr. T. A. Watson, a New Zealander, who arrived today from the East, gave a graphic account of his escape from the war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crazed with fear of war, a young German rushed in his pyjamas to the roof garden of a block of luxury flats where he lived in London and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Monday.—In a broadcast on "Democracy and War" the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Hughes) said that many people did not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GENERAL Franco's Navarrese division now looks down from mountain heights on doomed Barcelona. Barcelona citizens see in the rebel camp fires the first flames of war visible on the horizon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 24.—Mr. Hore Belisha today fired, 20 rounds from a Bren gun at a target 200 yards away. The Secretary for War was visiting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THIS is a scheme to make us ready for. war, but it does not mean, that I think war is coming," said the Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new kind of war we may have to face will differ in two ways from anything Britain has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Big City" co-starring Spencer Tracy and Luise Rainer continues its season, at the Ozone Theatre tonight. Also in the cast are such players as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE German Admiralty's January review contains a naval officer's assertion that the entire British mercantile fleet in war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRITAIN, France and Russia together possess 20,000 warplanes according to an article in "Volkischer Beobachter." This article is signed by Captain Von Zeska of the German High Command. Its publication…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Commonwealth has decided to appoint an expert committee to in vestigate the subject of Australia's self sufficiency in the event of war. Unquestionably, one of the subjects that will receive much attention will be that of petroleum supplies, etc., a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Treasury (Mr. Lawson) has enlisted with the Australian Army Veterinary Corps. Mr. Lawson…
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