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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1939

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America And War Endeavours To Keep Out

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 September 1939 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Monday: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee postponed until Thursday action on the…

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Western War Zone

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1939 · page 3

RELIEF MAP of the Western Front, showing the Maginot and Siegfried Lines…

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Survey Of War Dominion Aid Appreciated

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 September 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: The French continue to make progress in certain localities despite spite increasing energetic…

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Anti-Submarine War Churchill's Survey In Parliament

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 September 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: A great impression was made in the House of Commons this afternoon by a statement by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, in…

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Lesson of Last War Making an at Nation Work at Baby Health Centres

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1939 · page 2

The health of the people is at all times a matter of national importance. In war time it is even more important that the physical…

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Gunning Shire Council Will Keep Jobs Open for Men Who Enlist

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1939 · page 7

The September meeting of the shire Council was held last week, when the. President (Cr. J. E. Stone) occupied the chair. Others…

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Western War Zone

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 3

RELIEF MAP of the Western Front, showing the Maginot and Siegfried Lines…

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War Chests Abroad Allies' Great Position

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 2

War chests, as such, are out of date. No commander now carries his financial resources with him on his campaigns, as was…

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War Aims Synod To Seek Government Attitude

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 1

Speaking to a motion moved by him at the Church of England Diocesan Synod at Goulburn yesterday, Rv. Canon…

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Shearing Date Advanced Effects Of War At Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 1

CROOKWELL: Although the war is at present only in its initial stages, the first effects are already being felt in the…

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Horses in War Time Australia’s Supplies Breeders Need Encouragement

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 1

“As is was inevitable, now that we are engaged in war, the Government is looking around for horses of the various types needed for military…

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War Budget of Britain Income Tax Goes To 7/6 In £

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Wedne3day: Introducing the Budget to the House of Commons to-day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, said that Britain will be faced with…

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War on the Weeds Conference at Young the Noxious and the Harmless

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 1

A Conference of delegates, representing Burrangong, Demondrille, Narraburra, Jindalee and Waugoola Shire Councils and…

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Safety First War Time Is Caution Time (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 5

The Government has issued a plea to the public that they carry their duties as though there were no war. While most people are willing…

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War News In Brief

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 September 1939 · page 7

The head of the Bulgarian Civil Aviation has arrived in Moscow to discuss, so it is stated, the extension of civil…

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Germany and Russia to Ask for Peace Moscow's Dramatic Statement Allies Must Accept Proposals Or War Will Continue To The End

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 September 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: Germany and Russia Propose to call a peace conferene but "should the Allies not accept the proposals the war will…

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War Food Plan to Help Britain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 4

At Thursday night's meeting of the Goulburn City Council a letter was read from the Parramatta Council urging…

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Neutral Ships Trade Losses Through War

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 3

Since the outbreak of war the normal trade between Australia and neutral countries in Europe has been disorganised, and some neutral ships…

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Austria And War Conditions Are Appalling

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: The British official Wireless given the impressions of a recently returned traveller, described as a neutral from Austria…

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Not Aware a War Was on

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 2

A man has been discovered in the Crookwell district who did not know that Great Britain and Germany were at war. The man, who lives…

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