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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
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"THE Australia At War" Art Exhibition which is attracting much attention locally, was also one of the most popular war art exhibitions in Sydney. Mr. James Cook, who visited Broken Hill in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney, August 14.—Stopping a soldier at Rosebery yesterday a police constable found he was carrying a pistol with seven bullets in it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PARIS, August 15.—Peace among the Allies could not be furthered by ignoring repeated misrepresentations levelled against America from the floor of the conference, declared Mr. Byrnes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY—The Minister for Lands has advised that nine blocks on "Willeroo." Estate were gazetted-on Friday,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT a meeting of delegates appointed on the Western Oval War Memorial Committee held in the Town Hall last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. H. Isles, S.M., a discharged [?]dier applied for possession of an unoccupied house under the new National…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CALCUTTA, August 18. — Six hundred people are reported to have been killed and 2500 wounded, and damage estimated at £1,000,000 sterling caused in the rioting at Calcutta. Late today, after three days of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, August 19.—Many German-language newspapers in the U.S. are engaged in an earnest effort to save the Fatherland from the consequences of Hitler's monumental failure. Disclosing this, William Shirir,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, August 20.—It may be a strict necessity for the United States to wage war to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, August 20.—Generalissimo Stalin told the Russian people that in developing their peaceful Socialist construction they must not forget for a minute "the international reactionary front which is planning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, August 20.—A British woman, mother of three children, who during the war defied the most brutal Nazi tortures to save her special service comrades, has been awarded the George Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE selection of 45 pictures from the original "Australia at War" exhibition will be on view in the Art Gallery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paris, August 25—Did Italy "declare" war or "undertake" war? This was debated for two hours at the Paris Conference, after which the Italian political committee decided for the latter by 11 votes to nine. Thus four major Powers were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—The rantings and bellowing of the capitalist press concerning the Yugoslav incident, compels the Communist Party to warn the people of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, August 25.—The new headquarters of the United Nations is the 17 million dollars Sperry gyroscope plant at Lake Success, a few miles from New York…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kalgoorlie, August 24.—Discharged members of the 2/28 Battalion AIF have reformed the battalion in civil life—to-rehabilitate themselves in housing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE. — Labor would wage a savage war against the Communists at this election and there would be no arrangement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, August 26.—A gigantic network of industrial plants is being mobilised by the Army, Navy and Munitions Board ready to convert the U.S. to a war footing in 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MY colleague, the Minister for Lands (Mr. Dunn) has conveyed to me the pleasing information that an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Toklo, August, 27.—Captain Kaichl Hirate, former commandant of prison camps at Muroan on Hokkadate was hanged for starving, beating and…
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