Exhibition Of War Planes
SYDNEY, Thursday— Warplanes and an extensive display of War equipment now being manufactured for Australia's fighting services, will…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
1,076 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 54
Empire's Effort In Great War
TOURING the great war, 8,000,000 men served in the Empire's armies. Of this total about one-third came from overseas. Nearly 600,000 men enlisted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War's Effect on Car Sales Positions Quite Satisfactory
It is now possible to note the effects of the war on the sales of new automobiles in Australia during the first four months of hostilities, says the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Anglo- Egyptian Conditions (Daily War Commentary) Issued by the Department Of Information.) MELBOURNE
EGYPT has given a remarkably enthusiastic welcome to the New Zealand troops. The policy of close co-operation with Britain which the Egyptian Government has pursued since the outbreak of war has the support of sll sections of the population,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Successes For Finns British Planes As War Supplies (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, February 21
FURTHER reports of Finnish successes in the air lend interest to the disclosure today that 150 British aircraft, mostly fighters, were among war supplies sent or being sent to the Finns…
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THE decision of the Blaxland Shire Council to ban, roadside hoardings by the end of this year, will at last enable us to see scenery instead of signery. Other shire councils please copy. As the poet said—…
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MOSCOW: "Pravda" predicts that America will enter the war this year or next, as she is "walking the same way as in 1915"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jobs for Artists in Time of War Great Pictorial Record Of Last War
Recently the British Government appointed Sir Kenneth Clark, Director of the National Gallery in London, and Sir Muirhead Bone, famous British draughtsman, to a committee to consider the pictorial recording…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enveloped in Tear Gas War Minister's Experience LONDON, February 23
THE Secretary of State for War (Mr. Oliver Stanley); who was not wearing a mask, was accidentally enveloped by tear gas while visiting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Y.M.C.A. Appeal For Funds For Helping Soldiers
The call for reinforcements for the Australian troops overseas and the thousands of young men entering the militia camps make even more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Can Finns Hold Out Much Huge Drain on Man Power (Daily War Commentary Issued by the Department of Information)
IN spite of the heavy Russian offensive launched at the beginning of February, the Finns and the Mannerheim Line remain unbroken. Yet it is doubtful whether Finland can hold out indefinitely despite the remarkable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Knitting Machines Busy on Socks Work for Soldiers
WHEN I heard that a member of the Central Group of the Red Cross had turned in 35 pairs of socks and six scarves in less than a month, I decided to pay her a visit. When I did so I found no modern Madame Defarge, but a pleasant-faced little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Americans Want To Enlist
LONDON, February 25. — Because of the large number of Americans who want to Join the British Army, the War Office has instructed recruiting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Soldier's Diary Day by Day with the Second A.I.F.
Doctors cannot take their own "medicine" as blandly as they can give it. Today saw the start of the X-ray, blood typing and inoculation…
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WASHINGTON, February 27. GREAT BRITAIN and France can easily finance their 1,000,000,000 dollar (£A333,333,000) buying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Well Treated," Say War Prisoners
LONDON, February 27. — The Red Cross has received letters from British prisoners of war in Germany stating that they are well treated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →featest Pictures From The War Zones
THEY SWEEP THE GERMAN SKIES-Remarkable photograph just released for publication of a flight of R.A. F. Vickers-Wellington long-range bombers or the type which regularly flies over Germany, and which has even penetrated as far as Austria and Czechoslovakia. The speed and range of this craft are in excess of the performance of German machines of similar type. This picture was taken from a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Policy Praised With Empire "To Last Man And Shilling"
BOTH the Federal AttorneyGeneral (Mr. Hughes) and Lieur.-Col. Bruxner, as leader of the State Country Party, affirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hitler's Wishful Thinking Another "Peace Plan" Daily War Commentary Issued by The Department of Information MELBOURNE
DETAILS of the fresh "peace plan" devised by Hitler and sponsored by Norway and Denmark are said to have been conveyed to Mr. Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's special envoy in Europe. It is not surprising…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Requirements for Canada
OTTAWA. February 28.—The Government has signed a contract with British Colombia Shipyards for 14 mine sweepers, costing…
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