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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
392 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 20 of 20
"ON the whole it may be asserted that the trend of the war is favorable to the Allies. It is true that the rival armies and air forces have not yet been engaged in strength. In both services the offensive rests with Ger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. J. Cranwell, chairman of the Commonwealth Council of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, said today that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Thursday.—Regulations to safeguard the employment of persons engaged either in extended militia training or in overseas ser…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PARIS, December 20.—With his right hand shattered by a German hand grenade, a French non-commissioned officer, Sergeant Bonis, con…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, December 21.—A munificent gift by a citizen of Toronto has enabled Canada to meet the cost of establishing her first war hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS is proving the blackest week that Germany has suffered since the war opened. Beginning with the disastrous loss of the Graf Spee, in circumstances so degrading to Nazi prestige, enemy sea and air forces have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CANBERRA, Saturday.—Since the outbreak of war there has been a large increase in savings bank deposits in Australia. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OTTAWA, December 22.—Between September 1 and November 21 the Canadian Government placed orders for war material totalling nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DEFENCELESS fisherman have become a Nazi target. History repeats itself upon the Dogger bank, famous sea area of fogs and shallows in the North Sea. Here for centuries bold fishermen of the English east coast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THOUSANDS of people cheered Corporal A. Cliff, of Widnes, Lancs, as he appeared time after time through the front entrance of the Indian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BUSINESS in the United States took a sharp upward turn in 1939, according to a survey by the Secretary for Commerce (Mr. Hop…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROME, December 27 — Herr Hitler has accepted the offer of Frau Martha Selves to place her villa at San Remo in the Italian Riviera, at the disposal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →James James (41), a visitor from Maryborough, walked into a shop in Surry Hills last night and slumped into a chair and asked the proprietor…
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