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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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A VAST scheme for closing down non-essential industries and transferring workers to war work was announced today by the President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Lyttleton told the Com mons that the industries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Red Craw Bureau has prepared a number of leaflets, giving detailed instructions about the procedure to be followed when writing to prisoners of war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE reported arrival of a special German courier at Ankara has intensified speculation about Turkey's probable course of action. Some commentators suggest that Turkey has already decided to intervene[?] and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Federal Minister for Labor (Mr. Holt) announced today that the Government was planning a system of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BROKEN Hill's part in the "Save Waste" campaign inaugurated early in the war has been substantial. In all, 2,550 bags of waste paper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great as has already been Australia's war effort, recent developments abroad have been so grave as to demand imperatively further expansion of war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The other day I was at a port in New South Wales and happened to meet the skippers of two fishing trawlers whose ships had recently been attacked by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Without incident on sea or land, two engine, packed in twelve packing cases and notching twenty-one tons, have just been safely shipped from Lincolnshire to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Britain is sending overseas £100,000 worth more clocks a year than she did in the last twelve months of peace, although 95 per cent, of those who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twenty-five million metallic bottle caps have been sent oversells by a single firm in England during the first 12 months of the war. It is more than twice the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →UNCONFIRMED reports suggest that British forces are constructing a canal across the isthmus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cardiff bore the brunt of the German air attack last night, when raiders flew over in waves, first dropping the greatest number of incendiary bombs the town has yet known. One London district was attacked and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"BRITAIN now has more naval ships in service than at any time since the outbreak of war," said the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Alexander) introducing the Naval Estimates in the House of Commons today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Returned Soldiers' League has suggested that parties of the new A.I.F., sailors and airmen, should march in this year's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SEVERAL special 4-wheel drive Chevrolets, specially built to War Specifications have been imported from Canada by General Motors-Holden's Limited. These…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EVERY General Motors-Holden's Plant in Australia is making a valuable contribution to the Commonwealth War Effort, the production ranging from small…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The war position is more seriously interesting than ever. It is not lessened in is immediate interest to Australia by virtue of what has transpired in the Far…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Saturday. —Ten Sydney seamen whose ship was sunk en route to the United Kingdom last September, have been liberated with other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT will never be possible to estimate the total value of Broken Hill's contributions to the war effort in men, labor, materials and comforts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE reason for Gen. Weygand's first visit to Vichy since his appointment aa military Governor of North Africa last year is not clear. Some commentators suggest that the replacement of the Italian Armistice Commission in North Africa by Germans has caused…
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