Rush for Enlistment State Will Get Quota Sydney
FOLLOWING the announcement by Mr. Menzies of the intention to form a volunteer army of 20 000 hundreds of men went to the army headquarters…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
392 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 20
Germany Agrees To Polish Truce Request Poles Likely to Surrender, Says Agency Soldiers & Airmen Leaving Country
GENERAL CZUMA, Military Commander of Warsaw, has applied to the German High Command for a truce, states a report from the official German news agency in Berlin. It has been agreed to, and wireless…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Duke of Windsor at War Office
LONDON, September 17— The Duke of Windsor visited the War Office yesterday and saw the Secretary of State for War…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dr. Ross Leaving Broken Hill May Assist In War Work
BROKEN Hill will lose one of its best-known and most popular medical practitioners when Dr. J. McBain Ross leaves the city in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anxiety for Italy Fears That War Will Reach Balkans New York, September 18
THOUGH the Russian invasion of Poland has had no outward effect on Italian neutrality, it has added greatly to Italy's anxieties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wilcannia "Diggers" Want to Enlist Sydney
THE Returned Soldiers League today received a telegram from Wilcannia members which read: "Diggers here want to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germany Prepared For 7-Year War (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, September 19
Contrary to general expectations, Hitler, in a 75-minute speech at Danzig tonight, did not make any new peace appeal. He said that Germany was prepared to wage a seven-year war if necessary. Hitler reiterated his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War on Submarines Stirring Tale to Be Told British Secret for the Present (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, September 18
THE war on German submarines being waged from planes is described in a Ministry of Information communique today. The statement says: "Since war broke out a ceaseless watch has been kept by air…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Federal War Cabinet
THE AUSTRAIAN WAR CABINET which was chosen by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies). It will have power to act as a war executive without reference to full Cabinet. Top from Left-Minister for Supply (Mr. R. G. Casey), the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies), Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War News Scare On Ship
SYDNEY, Thursday.— English and Australian passengers on a British liner which arrived in Sydney today from London said they were well on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Comments Of Readers War and Capital
To the Editor, Sir— The war, coupled with defence measures, has brought in its trail the usual increases in taxation. Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Assassination of Premier of Rumania 8 Men Arrested and Executed by Soldiers (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, September 21
EIGHT men were promptly arrested in Bucharest following the assassination of M. Armand Calinescu, the Rumanian Premier, says an official broadcast. Press messages add that they were taken to the scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →America Wants To Avoid The War Roosevelt Has Plan to Avert Conflict "Dark Time Ahead, But Disaster Not of Our Making" (Special to "The Miner") New York, September 21
STRESSING repeatedly that his greatest desire was to keep America out of the war, President Roosevelt, in Congress today, introduced his proposals that the arms embargo under the Neutrality Act should be lifted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mobilisation Of Resources How Britain Is Meeting Needs for War New Demands For Labor (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, September [?]
AS a further step towards mobilisation of industrial resources to meet War needs where these resources are at present in reserve, the country has been divided into 18 areas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mystery Death of German General "Killed in Action Before Warsaw?" (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, September 24
NO details have been released about what General Von Fritsch was doing at the time of his death, and this combined with the fact that the obituaries in the German press are very small, have given rise to the belief…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press War Flashes
BERLIN.—Eight miners were killed and 46 seriously injured as the result of an explosion in a coal nine at Bochumhorded between…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dr. Panting's Daughter on War Duties
It was revealed by Dr. A. E. Panting today that his daughter, Dr. Roma Panting, has been placed in charge of a hospital in an English district…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flashes From The War Zones; Hitler Loses His Coffee LONDON, September 24
THE British Contraband Committee has seized two tons of coffee consigned from Aden to Himburg and addressed to Hitler personally. Announcing this, the Ministry of Information says that the coffee was contained in 20 bags, and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Loan
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—It is believed that the Federal Government will launch its first war loan about December on the internal market. At…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Allies May Fight Almost Whole World Mr. Menzies On War Position MELBOURNE
THE Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said in Melbourne yesterday that no Government with any sense of responsibility would say to Britain that…
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