Nazi 'Needs' Only Excuse for War Peaceful Road Could Have Been Taken
Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 6
EXPOSING the insincerity and falsity of the German "lebensraum" argument, Dr. R. A. Millikan, the noted American scientist and Nobel Prize winner, who recently visited Australia, declared in a recent address…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Von Papen Again In The News Amazing Career (Daily War Commentary Issued by the Department Of Information)
Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 8
ASTRIKING example of German methods is provided by the attempt to steal a Turkish submarine, which is understood to be the reason for the Turkish seizure of the German-owned Krupp shipyards at Istanbul last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aid The Y.M.C.A. To Help Our Soldiers
Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 7
On Friday and Saturday the people of Broken Hill will have the opportunity of buying a badge and of knowing that by so doing, they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Volunteers For Finnish War
Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3
SYDNEY, Friday.—Federal Cabinet will not make any early move-to permit Australians to enlist as volunteers in the Finnish war. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cold Dominates the War (Daily War Commentary Issued by the Department Of Information) MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6
EUROPE is still in the grip of the most severe winter in living memory. The straits around Denmark which linkthe Baltic with the North Sea are frozen over, and motor services are operating between various islands…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Will Cost Council £11,000 This Year
Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 3
SYDNEY, Saturday.—It would cost the Sydney County Council £11,000 this year to make up the difference between civil and military pay of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fury Of War In Spring WASHINGTON. February IG
Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 3
It is learned that the United States Ambassador to London (Mr. J. M. Kennedy), who returned recently to report to the President has warned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Interest Now Centred On (Weekly Commentary on the War Issued by the Commonwealth Department of Information) MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 7
WHILE the Finns are still offering firm resistance to the intense Bussian pressure on the Mannerheim Line and operations on the Western Front are restricted by the intense cold, the Middle East has replaced the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Details Of Air Scheme Training and Enlistment
Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 3
AIR crew trainees for the Royal Australian Air Force under the Empire Air Training Scheme, will be derived from two sources,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An American Looks On England At War Courage of a Quiet People
Barrier Miner · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 5
MR. OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, a distinguished American writer, recently concluded a tour of Germany, after which he remained for some time in London. In this article written for the London "Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers and Reds Again Clash Melbourne
Barrier Miner · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 5
Several stones were thrown at Communist party speakers yesterday afternoon as they drove away on a lorry from which they had addressed a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Modern Science And War Protection for Troops Hospital on Site of Battlefield (From A. J. Heatherington, Our Special Representative with the 2nd A.i.f.) Jerusalem, February 18
Barrier Miner · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 1
AFTER a visit today to the general hospital, I am convinced that the 2nd A.I.F. will be protected by the most modern and scientific methods. Situated on the sight of one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fifth Year As President Mr. T. E. Clark And Soldiers' League
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 1
MR. T. E. Clark, who resigned from the position of president of the Broken Hill Sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain Will Not Give Back Altmarck Case Holds Wald's interest (Daily War Commentary issued by the Department of Information) MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 1
THE Altmarck incident continues to occupy the world's press, almost to the exclusion of other war news Following the rejection of Norway's demands for the return, of the liberated British prisoners, the President of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain Grins At War
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 4
HEARD in the lecture room,N.C.O— What is the most outstanding contribution chemistry has made to the British Army?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Turkey Is Well Prepared President Inonu Is Able Administrator (Daily War Commentary Issued by the Department of Information) MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 2
THE determination of the Turkish Government to be fully prepared to meet any threat in the Balkans or elsewhere is shown by the decision to invoke a National Defence Law, which was passed by the. National…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier's Diary Day by Day with the Second A.lf
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 2
That feeling of "itis"which we used to get in civil life on Monday mornings persists, even in tho army. But instead of taking a "fizzy drink"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post War Stability
Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 4
SYDNEY, Thursday— The State Treasurer (Mr. Richardson) in an address last night urged immediate Commonwealth and State co-operation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fears of Turkey War Spread to Near East (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, February 20
Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 6
IMPORTANT moves by Turkey indicate that she fears that the war will soon spread to the near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →German Ships in Neutral Waters Britain Maintains Firm Stand (Daily War Commentary Issued by the Department of Information) MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 3
MR. CHAMBERLAIN, in his statement in the Commons, has censured Norway for showing complete, indifference to the use to which Germany might put Norwegian territorial waters, and has pointed out that this…
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