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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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"MY men are going in with their chins up. Each man knows, as I know, that the task in front of him is not one man's job, or even two men's job. It is a job for 10 men," Maj.-Gen. Gordon Bennett told me today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—It is believed there are a number of injured Filipinos aboard hospital ships which have arrived at Darwin with 200…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 15.—Although 28 months of war have passed, evidence accumulates from many quarters that production is still far below…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 18.—The revival of a "dead" person is disclosed by Major-Gen. C. M. Finney, indicating that the army is using the medical…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MOSCOW, January 19.—A captured order of the day issued by the commander of the 29th German Army Corps said: "Under present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EIGHTEEN years ago Sgt. Keith (Peter) Edgar Ross Franklin left his home at North Broken Hill to become an apprentice jockey in Adelaide. His family had not heard from him for more than nine years until [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A DRAMATIC story of his 55 days' imprisonment in the inferno of Halfaya was told me today by a Royal Artillery man[?] With an officer and six others, he was captured by Gen. von Rommel himself…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— No decision had been reached by War Cabinet on proposals to employ prisoners of war in Australia in areas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALL-IN WAR, mobilising the whole civilian population of the nation, is the objective of the manpower plan announced last night by the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin). The Minister for Labor (Mr. Ward) said today that it would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Canadian Navy has received official information from Tokio that Japan, although not a party to the International Convention of 1929…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BETWEEN them, Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies produce most of the world's rubber. That is why it was announced yesterday that the United States was spending £A120,000,000 on factories to make…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IDEAS and inventions can reverse the tide of war and change history—or the stone axe would be a modern weapon. Events have shown that Australia's machinery for testing and adopting new inventions—now being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FTER an operation had been performed on him at the Royal Hospital this morning, the condition of Fred Davey (22), soldier, married,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The exploitation of a half-forgotten mica deposit in Central Australia has made the Commonwealth independent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, January 21.— President Roosevelt asked Congress for huge supplemental appropriations for 1942-3, including…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Friday.—A war loan of £35 millions is expected to be launched on February 17…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The war is beginning to show the ugly side of Berlin and other areas of the Reich, says George Axelsson. Stockholm correspondent of the "New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, January 21.—The "Daily Express" says that a revolutionary plan is being worked out to reward fighting men after the war by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SINCE the war began, 1209 sailors, soldiers and airmen returned from overseas and discharged from the Services have registered with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OTTAWA, January 23.—Canada has been stirred by a statement by Colonel, Ralston, Defence Minister, that war material destined for…
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