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392 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 16 of 20
THE war will cost Australia at least £59,500,000 in the first financial year, or £26,250,000 more than was contemplated before hostilities began. Details of this expenditure, which may be expanded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAVING waged an unsuccessful campaign for some time to secure an official statement of Britain's war aims, the "News Chronicle" has devoted two pages to an outline of suggestions by Sir Walter Layton, leading…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BROKEN HILL'S second contingent for the Second A.I.F. will leave by tomorrow night's express for Adelaide. The mem…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ABERLIN communique says that German reconnaissance units crossed the French frontier and brought back "as much war material as they could carry" German scouts before the Maginot line found sections of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CANBERRA, Friday. —The Minister for the Interior (Senator Foll) predicted that the new industries being created in Australia as the result…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE extent of Australia's war effort is reflected in the announcement by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) that Australia's war bill for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALREADY the Parisienne is taking inspiration from the precautions for home defence. From the A.R.P. signs, known as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the last two months decisions made by the War Cabinet have involved an additional expenditure of £26,000,000. In the first year of this war Australia will expend more than she expended in the first two years of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. Frank Brennan, former Federal Attorney-General, in a broadcast address last night said the integrity of Polaad had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—When the conference of State and Federal Treasurers assembles at Canberra this week it is expected that they will decide…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TWO additional recruits were enlisted for the Second A.I.F. at the Barrier Boys' Brigade Hall today making the total 16 for the second…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →APART from the war Germans talk most about food, says the.British United Press correspondent in Berlin.The Nazis claim that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"THIS war is Australia's job just as much as England's," declared Mr. R. G. Casey in a broadcast today. Mr. Caseys the Commonwealth Minister of Supply is representing Australia in the Empire War Co-Ordination talks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DARWIN, Monday—Soldiers yesterday unloaded a few tons of military equipment from a freighter, which could not be fully unloaded because…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"BRITAIN has entered the war with the firm purpose of ending for ever the torture of other nations by dictatorships, " said the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Arthur Greenwood) in a speech today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TYPICALLY laconic the official French communique tell of an exciting combat between French and German fighter on the Western Front, in which nine enemy planes were brought down and all the French…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the most outstanding impressions which Mr. and Mrs. N. Alsaker gained on their trip was the marvellous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Wednesday—Thc secretary of the Master Fish Merchants' Association and president of the Housewives' Association declares that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday—Members, of the Second A.I.F. camped at Rosebery have complained that while their dependants have received allotments…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) deelated yesterday that the war Would be to the end. He had no doubt, he…
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