Anzac Service at Town Hall
Organised by the Ministerial Association and the Returned Soldiers' League, an Anzac Day Commemoration Service, will be held in the Tenn…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
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Ben Bowyang— There's War on, too!
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Sleep in Church
MELBOURNE, Saturday.âSoldiers have had to sleep in pews and on the pulpit of the Swanston Street Church of Christ owing to lack of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Church References To Anzac Day
Services were conducted in all churches yesterday to mark Anzac Sunday, and at several churches members of defence units paraded. In the…
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LONDON, April 19.—The Secretary for War (Sir James Grigg) told the House of Commons that plans have been formulated for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Railways in War Time
HOW are Britain's railways meeting the multitudinous transport needs of war? Visiting a vast goods yard in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Service at Town Hall Rev. A. C. Sanders Gives Special Message
TAKING as his subject "The Fruit of Sacrifice," the Rev. A. C. L. Sanders in a special Anzac address at the Commemoration Service, in the Town Hall yesterday said that the Anzac memorial service placed before the people a two-fold duty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier To Be Solicitor
ROBERT LEONARD COTTON, of Avenue Road, Highgate, S.A., now serving with the Australian forces at Port Moresby, has been…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—On a charge of having falsely imposed on the Adelaide Benevolent and Strangers Friends Society, a 20-year-old soldier,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Stabbed
SYDNEY, Monday.—A man has been arrested and charged with wounding with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, as a result of police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Social Highlights Happy Dance for Soldiers
THE Fighting Forces Comforts Fund Men's Committee held another jolly dance in the New Masonic Hall on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Desert Shangri-La Learns That War Is Raging (By J. A. HETHERINGTON, Special Representative of "The Miner" in the Near East.) CAIRO, April 17
SHANGRI-LA — the legendary idyllic place which formed the background for James Hilton's novel "Lost Horizon"—has been found. It is in the Libyan Desert far from the caravan routes which link up the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Firms Hampered War Production
WASHINGTON, April 20.—The War Production Board has officially charged America's largest steel producer, the Carnegie Illinois…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yippee-ing Soldiers Conduct Rodeo (From Norman Stockton, "The "Miner" War Correspondent in North Queensland)
FROM An Advanced Allied Base.—Yippee-ing cow-punchers from the Middle West of America vied with boundary riders and stockmen yesterday in an inter-army rodeo near this base. To many Texans, the sight of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Prisoners Need Extra Food
The vital need for food to be sent to Australian prisoners of war in Italy and Germany has been emphasised by the A.I.F. men who have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.e.u. Wants Extension of War Effort
To discuss the wider use of local workshops for the production of war machine tools and other equipment the executive of the A.E.U. will meet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Admiral's Idea For Running War Machine LONDON, April 20
A scheme for giving the command of the whole British war machine to a small branch of the Cabinet is put forward by Admiral of the Fleet. Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fought It Out on Island Pacific Epic (From Norman Stockton, "The Miner" War Correspondent in North Queensland)
HOPELESSLY outnumbered. a band of Australian guerillas fought it out to the last on a small Pacific island…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Notes Found in Boot Soldier Fined For Theft ADELAIDE
WHEN a soldier was searched at the city watchhouse on Saturday night. eight £1 notes were found concealed in one of his boots…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Club Rooms for Soldiers
To encourage men of the fighting services visiting Broken Hill to use the club facilities of the Y.M.C.A., which were recently offered for the…
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