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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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THE war's biggest political sensation has been, caused as a result of an official announcement that Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha has resigned his portfolio as Secretary for War, and that Lord Macmillan has resigned his office as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A ruling on legal action initiated against members of the military has been given by military headquarters. Any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE confused situation in China and the dissension between the Japanese Army and Government is illustrated by the fact that while the British Ambassador (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr) is bearing Japanese Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DURING the past week the Finns have followed up recent successes along the Eastern Front with further remarkable victories near Suomussalmi. Kiantajarvi and Salla. The Russian position defeated at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →REPORTS that the Minister for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha) and the generals quarrelled are discounted in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News of the promotion of several Broken Hill members of the Second A.I.F. is contained in a letter to "The Barrier Miner" from one of the local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IRISH Republican Army gunmen ambushed a party of Eire soldiers yesterday, and in shooting exchanges one l.R.A. man was wounded. The gang escaped in a car, taking the wounded man…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 8.—Two thousand five hundred former Diggers of the A.I.F., living in England, after having striven by every means…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FINLAND is wildly jubilant over the third greatest victory of the campaign, the crushing defeat of the 44th Russian Division of 18,000 men near Suomussalmi. It resulted in the capture of four times…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE warning issued by Holland to potential aggressors was prompted by the renewed activity of German troops near her frontier and the campaign against neutral countries in the German press…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIRTY-TWO of 40 men aboard a lighthouse service ship were wounded, one fatally, as the result of bombs dropped by German…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PLANS are being made for the first war loan to be issued almost immediately after the Loan Council has approved the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHERE is Erika von Blomberg (Luise Gruhn), the woman without whom—according to Sir Nevile Henderson, Britain's former ambassador in Berlin, there might have been no war?…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE transfer of the German population from the Baltic States and Russian-occupied Poland and the South Tyrol is part of a gigantic resettlement of Germans which, if successfully carried out, will greatly modify the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHOEVER was responsible for the appointment of three Australian correspondents to accompany overseas the Second A.I.F. is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EMPHASISING the unshaken, confidence of the British nation in the strength of its arms and in its cause the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) said today that although the New Year had opened quietly, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AMATTER of vital importance to Germany is the maintenance of adequate stocks of minerals to fulfil the requirements of her war industries. The accumulation of stocks of materials likely to be unprocurable or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITH German searchlights stabbing the sky and sirens wailing almost without interruption, British planes early today dropped bombs on the Naxi naval base at Heligoland and the air base at Sylt in the Friesian Islands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Highly placed officials pay tributs to the war contribution from the Dominions and colonies. Apart from the great Dominions, Rhodesia, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TRANSPORT units from Cyprus have Joined the British force In France. They are the first colonial troops to arrive, and their, presence at the front has added Interest, In view of the fact that Cyprus has only become part of the British Empire since the Great War. The…
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