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The wars & local soldiers, 1939

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Much Travelled Local Woman Real Taste of War Conditions

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 October 1939 · page 4

SINCE leaving Broken Hill about 12 months ago for South Africa, Miss Helen Dewhirst has traversed about 22,000 miles; she has had a real taste of war conditions for the Dominion Monarch, on which she returned…

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Unpopular War-Time Fashions

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 2

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Determination in Britain No War Fever SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 6

VICE-ADMIRAL Sir Ragnar Colvin, of the Australian Navy Board, who has just returned to Sydney from overseas, said he had never…

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Aim Of U.S. Leaders Is To Senator Borah's Fears "It Is Not Our War" Washington, October 3

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 3

EMPHASIS on the ever-present danger of the United State being involved in war was laid by the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee (Senator Pittman) in introducing the Amending Neutrality Bill in the…

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"Australia's War Aims"

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 October 1939 · page 6

SYDNEY,- Thursday—Australia's war aims had resolved into three points, declared the Prime Minister (Mr.1 Menzies) today. He said they…

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Continuation of War Pensions

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 October 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY. Thursday—The Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Harrison) has announced that war pensions at present being paid to former…

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Speedy Return to Enlist

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 October 1939 · page 3

LONDON, October 4—Australia House has announced that it will facilitate the return to Australia of Australians wishing to serve with…

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Control of Defence and War Expenditure

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 October 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—The introduction of a special system for the control of defence and war expenditure to ensure that the money expended on…

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London Changes Over To War Fashions

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 October 1939 · page 4

LONDON'S luxury dress designers have spent the first days of the war "glamorising" gas masks and [?] deglamorising" clothes. Crocodile, gold-fitted gas mask containers complete with brandy flash, torch, comb, powder and lip stick for night…

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War Flashes

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 October 1939 · page 3

PARIS.— Twenty-six Communist members of the Chamber of Deputies, the French equivalent of the Australian House of Representatives,…

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Dishonor Roll in Beer War

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 October 1939 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The president of the Lithgow anti-profiteering committee, Mr. Austin Burke, said today [?] although the committee considered…

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Moves Against War Profiteers

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 October 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Reports reaching Sydney indicate that moves are being made inall States against war-time profiteers. In the New…

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London Has War Laugh Abdication Rumor LONDON, October 10

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 October 1939 · page 3

LONDON is laughing heartily at an astounding message from Berlin which arrived through an American source…

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To Entertain Our Soldiers

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 October 1939 · page 3

LONDON, October 11.—Following a broadcast appeal op Tuesday for Australian women to join the Australian Women's Voluntary Service…

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Tried to Enlist at 74

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 October 1939 · page 4

PERTH, Thursday.—A man of 74, who walked three miles from the Old Men's Home to present himself for enlistment in the garrison. battalion…

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Advocates Mr. Spender for War Cabinet

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 October 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.— Mr. Beasley (Labor, N.S.W.) yesterday advocated the inclusion of the Assistant Federal Treasurer (Mr. Spender) in the War…

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"Big Willie" Has Grown Bigger Since Last War

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 October 1939 · page 4

THE noise of battle has a new note today, in that long narrow ribbon of Europe between the French and German frontier defences where the Allied troops are steadily moving forward to the main positions of the Sieg fried Line…

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Committees To Control Soldiers' Farms SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 October 1939 · page 3

THE Minister for Lands (Mr. Sinclair) said today that an announcement would probably be made next week regarding the establishment…

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Soldiers Stand For Wet Canteens

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 October 1939 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—The president of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. L. A. Robb) says that the decision to keep the militiamen's canteen dry…

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Enlistments in 2nd A.lf. at Darwin Two "Jumped The Rattler" DARWIN

Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 October 1939 · page 7

FOUR men have arrived at Darwn to enlist in the second A.I.I after having travelled from some the remotest parts of the Northei…

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