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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
1,076 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 54
DISCUSSING the suggestion by Mr. H. G. Wells and Mr. L. S. Amery, M.P., that air raids on Germany should be started the "Daily Mail" says that while they are wrong, their idea represents what many people in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A RAW recruit had been appointed camp cook. He did his best, but it wasn't very good. Getting dinner ready in a hurry, he made some soup…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE rout of the Russian forces north of Lake Ladoga is expected at any moment by the Finnish authorities. They say that the Soviet attempt to outflank the Mannerheim Line has not yet been completely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE million women war workers needed in England will be required to fill shells and cartridges, work lathes and drills, make machine guns, rifles, light tanks, army trucks, barrage balloons and equipment, pilot war planes and make uniforma…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUCKLAND, January 29.—Soldiers sailors and civilian men were involved in a series of disturbance which broke up street meetings held…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After Mrs. Muriel Melville, aged 21 years, had bidden farewell to her soldier husband at the end of his leave last week she went out at 6 p.m.;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tasmanian State Treasurer (Mr. Dwyer. Groy) said, yesterday that if existing methods of finance were continued and war lasted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TIME alone will enable an estimate of the monetary cost of the war to Australia to be made. That it will be high is certain, lt is equally certain that,whatever the financial burden may prove to' be, it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In spite of the great calls the war has made on the Southern Railway Co.'s plan for modernising the Waterloo City Railway, the original…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Having "Dog's Disease" (slightly sere throat and loss of voice) and being a sergeant don't go woll together. When Bluey sloped his rifle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"SOMEWHERE in France," Bill and Tom were eagerly reading letters from home. Suddenly Bill gave a shout…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAF SPEE GOES TO HER DOOM—Top—Aerial view of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee leaving the harbor of Montevideo, after zero hour had expired, to be scuttled five miles off the coast. BELOW—Graf spee enveloped in flames following expklosions aboard the worship just ofter she had been abondoned by her arew. The pocked bottleship sought refuge in Montevideo Harboor after a losing fight with three Britiish cruisers. Being a warship, she…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir Frederick Whyte, director of the American Division of the Ministry of Information, suggested in a speech today the possibility that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dreadful product of America's experiment with prohibition, Al Capone built up an underworld kingdom and reign of terror which might have served as a model for Hitler and Stalin. On the occasion of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first War Office casualty list has been issued. It includes all casualities to December 31. It is as followers— Killed— Five of ranks other than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SINCE the war began the output of British guns of all kinds has been doubled and in some cases increased eight-fold. The output of shells has also doubled and is now 10 times as great as after the first five months of the last war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A DRIVE will be launched for increased participation by science in Australia's war effort. The Australian Institute of Physics will discuss it soon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W.Cottman returned soldier and formerly a well-known Domain speaker on behalf of his Communist friends, has been discharged from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a meeting of the executive committee of the local branch of the Returned Soldiers' League held last night the resignation of Mr. T. E…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, February 1.—Summing up after a comparison of British and German resources, the Royal Institute of International Affairs states that…
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