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

The wars & local soldiers, 1940

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War Loan To Open On Friday Tax Concession To Be Abolished

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Commonwealth Government's first war loan will be launched on March 1. The amount will be £18,000,000, of which £8,000,000 will be for war finance, about £8,000,000 for State works, and about…

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Available to Any Soldier's Child

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 2

A misunderstanding which had occurred concerning the typewriter that [?] sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League recently pur…

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War Loan Opens On Friday Success And Moral Effect On The War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The Acting Federal Treasurer, Mr. Spender, last night announced the formal terms of the Commonwealth Government's first war loan of £18,000,000, which will be opened for subscription on Friday…

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The War, Day by Day What Russia Demanded

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 7

While the world admires the resistance the Finns have offered to overwhelming Russian numbers, it is well that the extent of Russia's demands…

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Prisoners of War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 4

German prisoners of war. A lifeboat from a British cruiser takes two Germans of military age from the Portuguese steamer Quanza. The Quanza was stopped on its way from Portuguese Africa to Lisbon…

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War Victims’ Day on May 3

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 8

The executive committee of the Lord Mayor’s Patriotic Fund has agreed to make available May 3 for a joint appeal on behalf of the…

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War Victims' Day on May 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 3

The executive committee of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund has agreed to make available May 3 for a joint appeal on behalf of the…

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Can Win the War England's Industrial Resources

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 3

As between the nations of western Europe a soldier of one nation is the equal of the soldier in another with equivalent…

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Two Views Long or Short War? Farewell to Young Man

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 1

Mr. Roy Stonham, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Stonham, of North Yass, who is one of the second contingent of 10,000 of the 2nd…

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The War Day By Day Allenby’s Big Bluff Hotel Fast, Jerusalem

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 5

Men of the A.I.F. Light Horse, when they read that an hotel in Jerusalem will be converted into a club to accommodate leave parties of…

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How the Great War Started Shot Which Killed Nine Million Men Inside Story Of Assassination Plot

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 2

In the little Central European town of Osick, writes Garry Allighan in "Answers," lives a beautiful woman doctor, for love of whom a fanatical youth caused the deaths of nearly nine million men…

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Terrible Ordeal Lay in Fire, Wounded

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 7

LEETON, Wednesday: With ghastly wounds in his throat and left wrist, Arthur Herbert Wilson (29), is in Leeton Hospital…

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Britain And Six Months Of War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: On Sunday Britain will have been at war with Germany for six months and, in a review issued to-day the Foreign…

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Wool in War Time Canadian-america Position

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 8

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report on February 27th:— The wool world has seen some quick changes since the war…

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Turks Are Ready They Do Not Seek War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 5

ISTANBUL, Thursday: "I speak to you on the last day of our preparations," said an official spokesman to-day…

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The War Day by Day Hotel Fast, Jerusalem Allenby's Big Bluff

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 6

Men of the A.I.F. Light Hone, when they read that an hotel in Jerusalem will be converted into a club to accomodate leave parties of…

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Six Months of War

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 March 1940 · page 2

It is hard to realise that the war is six months old, and whilst all the terrible things that were predicted to take place immediately war was…

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Gunning and the War Patriotic Committee

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 4 March 1940 · page 2

GUNNING: On Tuesday evening a public meeting was held in the Industrial Hall at Gunning for. the purpose of forming a patriotic,…

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Raider's Threats War Has Not Started Yet

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: The head of he German Navy, Admiral von Raeder, in his broadcast address, issued another threat to Great…

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Must Wait Until After War Water Extension to Grenfell

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 4

Until the war is over at least, the efforts of Mr. J. A. Garry, of "Burramunda," Young, to obtain departmental action in regard to…

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