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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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The first local mon on active service to return to Broken Hill on leave, Charles Leonard McGlinchey, torpedo-man on the H.M.A.S. Vampire, a destroyer attached to the British Eastern (Mediterranean) Fleet, arrived back in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Italian communique declares that the R.A.F. bombed localities in Sicily and South Italy last night. A German communique states that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Authoritative quarters in London predict that the Axis may soon compel Japan to throw her lot with them and enter the war against the Allies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British troops from Singapore are massing along the west coast of Malay Peninsula between Singapore and the Thailand border. it is informatively stated in the Tokio newspaper "Nichi Nichi": They are evidently preparing to march…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. Mair) has announced that a high officer of his department will be appointed shortly by the State…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. E. ward, M.H.H. (Official Labor, East Sydney) advocated the immediate withdrawal of Labor representatives from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAIRO. February 12.—All General Sir Archibald Wavell'g family are in the war. Lady Wavell is organising comforts for the wounded, working…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Curtin) today announced that Dr. Evatt and Mr. J. B. Chidley. M's.H.R., have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Private [?]mond Taylor, from Christchurch, New Zealand, was lost in London, [?] he stopped 19-year-old Miss Rose Harding, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, February 13.—The advisory committee to marine underwriters has reduced the war risk rates between a number of ports in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Balkans crisis nears a clima[?] Rumanian civilians are evacuating oil field areas fearing R.A.F. bombing. The Soviet Black Sea Fleet is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MEETINGS between General Franco and Mussolini at Bordighera and subseauently between Franco and Marshal Petain at Montpellier have roused a flood of speculation. The meetinsr may be designed, to get…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, February 14. — A scheme has been launched under which soldiers of the Scottish Commend will grow vegetable's on all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) said last night that there had been no further developments in the war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COLIN RICHARDSON, SONIA BECH, AND DEREK BECH, three children saved from a British liner torpedoed in the Atlantic. In all 83 children, bound for the safety of Canada, and 211 other people perished in this German U-boat outrage. Derek twice saved his sister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The war during the past week has remained at a transitional stage. The course it is likely to take is not yet apparent. The capture of Benghazi…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE visit of the Yugoslav Premier (M. T[?]etkovitch) and the Foreign Minister (M. Cincar-Marcovitch) to Berchtesgarden has caused some uneasiness in the Balkans, but diplomatic observers still believe that Yugoslavia is determined to resist the German pressure…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During this war the minds of the people are chiefly centred in its successful prosecution, but this war will not go on Indefinitely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN a broadcast from London on Saturday Mr. Irvine Douglas, London manager and editor of the Australian Associated Press, described difficulties…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) said last night that until Labor members of the Advisory War…
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