Soviet War More Points Captured; Nazi Looses (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, February 24
CTRONG Russian attacks are reported in the Donetz area and on the Leningrad front. Moscow radio announces the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1942
1,473 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 74
War Output Rising
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Commonwealth will soon have 36 Government[?] munition factories working at full pressure to turn out war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Risk Insurance Few Local Inquiries
VERY few applications for war risk insurance on lives and private property had been made in Broken Hill, said an insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"We Dare Not Lose This Asiatic War" New York, February 25
THE importance of the Pacific in the World War, to which President Roosevelt referred in his broadcast, is receiving ever-increasing attention from American commentators. There is strong support for the importance he attaches to the offensive spirit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Housewives Discuss War Measures
The first meeting of the year of the Housewives' Associati[?] was held yesterday. The annual meeting and election of officers will take place…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Treatment For War Nerves
LONDON, February 25.—Dr. D. K. Henderson, Professor of Psychiatry at the Edinburgh University today announced that a new system of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glass Saves Steel Novel use in War Factory Canteens
It is translucent, toughened glass which can now take the place of steel us the top plate of hot cabinets in cafes and restaurants, safety standing up to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Shipping Losses Far East War Responsible for Increase London, February 28
It is authoritatively stated that the extension of the war to the Par East was chiefly responsible for the serious increase of British shipping losses to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dr. F. S. Bonar Enlists
Last week Dr. Bonar returned from Sydney where he had been to make application for enlistment with the fighting services…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State War Effort
SYDNEY, Saturday. "I AM confident that the decision of the State Government to subordinate everything to the war effort…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wounded In Arm Shooting Party Accident
WHILE returning to their camp at Kudgee Lake on Saturday evening Albert James Frederick Doldissen, of 745 Beryl Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bank Staffs And War
The position in rogard to employees of local banks had not been fully clarified as yet, but by employing women in the place of staff men who had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wounded Darwin Girl Will Have Revenge Struck on Leg by Sharpnel While Running to Shelter Adelaide
"I'LL have some of their blood. I'm going to make munitions now to get my own back." This was the challenge flung back to the Japanese airmen who wounded her. by Miss Betty Page when she arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Wrong Way" Corrigan Enlists
NEW YORK, March 1. — Douglas Corrigan, who took the wrong turning in a flight from New York to California in 1938, and landed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Anzac" Week In Washington
WASHINGTON, March 2.—Leading hotels are displaying in their lobbies large hand-painted posters, including several by Mrs. Casey,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Output Bungling
LONDON, March 2.—Production is getting out of hand, especially in the aircraft industry, says the industrial correspondent of the "Daily Mail."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Women For War Industries
CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Special regulations issued last night removed all bans to full scale employment of women in Government munition and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goldfish Insured Against War Damage
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Although household pets are not "insurable War damage." commission officers decided today that a Sydney woman could…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys Look for Home Mail Y.M.C.A. Work In War Areas
"Boy, I have got four, that's how I like it," says one—"I'm doing all right," says another—while a third, having been missed out, hides his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canadian War Pensions
CANBERRA, Wednesday.— The High Commissioner for Canada, Major General Odium, announced today that arrangements had been made for the…
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