R.A.F. Weaves Web of Destruction Clogging Germany's War Machine
Barrier Miner · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 4
AVAST web of destruction has been woven night after night by British bombers, who have struck at over 200 military targets in Germany. This web is clogging Hitler's great industrial and war machine. More than 700 blows have been struck at Germany itself,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Crisis In War In Sixty Or Ninety Days" Opinion of U.S.A. War Secretary "Aid To Britain Needed To Save Defeat" WASHINGTON, Jamuary 19
Barrier Miner · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 3
THE opinion that a crisis in the war would arise within the next 60, or at most 90, days was expressed by Mr. Stimson, Secretary for War, yesterday. He was giving evidence before the House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee on President Roosevelt's "Total Aid For Britain" Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Convicts Do War Work 3000 Prisoners "Go To It" LONDON, November 2
Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 3
Three thousand prisoners in British gaols have joined for[?]s with factory workers in obeying Herbert Morrison's appeal to "Go to it."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Malta Attack As Invasion Prelude American Opinion (Dail War Commentary issued by the Commonwealth Department Of Information) MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 3
ATTACKS on Malta and the Suez Canal suggest an Axis attempt to bottle up the British Mediterranean fleet. This might represent the first stage of an attack on Britain. A warning by Mr. Stimson, United States…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australians In Egypt a Local Soldier's Letter
Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 2
Writing by air mail from "abroad" to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. Tregloan. Chappie Street. Mr. Jack Tregloan (A.I.P.) says:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Munitions Annexe Returned Men To Make Move
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 1
A conference of interested organisations will probably be called shortly by the Returned Soldiers' League to discuss the possibility of reopening…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Post War Reconstruction Education For Soldiers SYDNEY, January 20
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 1
The establishment at an early date of a new deportment of the Army charged with the education and re-education of soldiers to fit them for post-war life was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Personal War Messages Sydney, January 20
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 4
The Army Minister, Mr. spender, after conferring with the departmental officers, has decided on the type of messages to be sent to relatives of soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Warnings of Great War Crisis Hitler Must Strike Or Collapse Nazi War Council And Invasion Plans LONDON, January 19
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 1
Warnings have been flashed to britain that a great crisis in the war is fast approaching, says the London "Daily Express." This follows the statement yesterday by the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British War Victory Wilkie's Confidence A.A.P., WASHINGTON, January 19
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 1
"While I am in Britain I want to get the views of people or all walla of life on what kind of Government Britain will have after she wins the war. I refuse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Speed Up Of War Effort Urged (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, January 19
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 4
THERE is a growing demand that Britain's war effort should be speeded up to meet the great German spring offensive,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War In Albania Greeks Defeat Italian Counter Attack A.A.P., LONDON, January 19
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 1
The Italians today unsuccessfully counter attacked beyond Kllsura. The Greeks allowed the attackers to approach before firing. A sudden hill of bullets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Irish, Too, Will Suffer De Valera on War A.A.P., DUBLIN, January 19
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 1
Addressing the Dull yesterday, Mr. de Valera, the Prime Minister, said that the people of Eire would be affected by the sar as much as those actually engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldiers Urge Munition Works
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 2
At a well attended meeting of the Returned Soldiers' League last night a full discussion took place in regard to the establishment of a munition annexe for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pte. D. Adam Wounded at Bardia
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 4
Advice has been received in Broken Hill that Pte. Douglas Adam, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Adam, formerly of Broken Hill, has been wounded in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Threats
Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 2
The war on Britain may assume a new and even more desperate turn in the very near future. There is obviously to be closer and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trophies of War
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 4
LONDON, January 21.—Some idea of the huge quantity of material captured by the British at Sidi Barrani and Bardia can…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thailand War Spreading
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 3
BANGKOK, January 21.—Hostilities between Thailand and French Indo-China have taken the form of full-scale warfare, with fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →S.A. Digger To Be Official War Artist MELBOURNE
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 4
MR. Ivor Hele, the 28-year-old Adelaide artist, who is now serving as a private with a South Australian infantry battalion in the Near East,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Famed Athletes Cannot Enlist Reason—Flat Feet SYDNEY, January 21
Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 1
Because they had flat feet, many Australian athletes of world fame have been rejected as unfit for the army, the lecturer in charge of physical education at…
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