£155,000 Sold In War Certificates
CANBERRA, Wednesday: War Savings Certificates worth more than £135,000 have been bought by the Australian public…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
1,933 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 19 of 97
Comes Out of Silence H.m.a.s. Perth 52,000 Mile War Cruise Gala Welcome in Sydney
To a Harbour setting that the crew must have dreamed about during their long war service, H.M.A.S. Perth arrived at Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia's Part Enlistment of Railway Units
The enlistment of five railway units comprising 931 officers and men started on April 1. The units comprise a headquarters railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian War Expenditure
A Federal Treasury statement shows that the Commonwealth Government’s war expenditure up to March 31 was £30,773,000, of which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →China's Supply of War Materials
MARSHAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK, who claims that the Chungking Government has enough war materials to last until 1941 even if…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tax Lifted War Fund Race Meeting
The Taxation Department has agreed to waive all taxation claims in connection with the galloping and trotting meeting to be held…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Underground War? Tactics on Western Front
Military experts have not failed to realise that warlike operations between the French Maginot Line and the German…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opposing War Leaders Germany Cannot Equal Gamelin, Gort, Pound Hitler Was a Corporal in Last War
This war is universally rated as a contest between Britain and France, on the one side, and Germany die other side. It may spread; other nations become involved;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Last War's "Sister Susies" Where Are They Now?
"Where are the Sister Susies of the last war?" asked "Sister Susie" in a letter to the "Melbourne Argus." She cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Curtin and the War Statement By Labour Leader
CANBERRA, Thursday: Declaring that Germany's latest act of aggression destroyed any hope of an early peace by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accounts of the War Whom Are We To Believe ?
For the benefit of those who have doubts as to the authenticity of and what reports to believe, following is an extract from a noted American…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Metal From Mud Thames Discovery Will Help Win the War
Thames mud is going to play its part in winning the war. The secret lies with a panel of industrial chemists in the Home Counties, who have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →York, Not New York What The War Meant To It
NEW YORK: The last seven or eight Christmases have not been especially lush in York, Because of war and the fear of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian War Expenditure £30,773,000 Spent Up To March 31
CANBERRA, Thursday: War expenditure by the Commonwealth Government up to March 31 was £30,773,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Holidays For Soldiers' Sons
SYDNEY, Thursday: Sons of soldiers and sailors in outback districts of New South Wales will be given a holiday again this year at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.Z.'s First Soldier
Major-Gen. Freyberg, V.C., a hero of the 1914-18 war, who commands the New Zealand Expeditionary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers of A.i.f. to Attend Hospital Ball To-night
Forty members of the Ammunition and Supply Convoy, A.I.F., will be camped in Yass to-night and the Directors of the Hospital have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Digger's Final Leave of What Does He Think? War Is "The Great Adventure" How does a fellow feel about his last day's leave?
We wondered that as we watched him step out of the Showgrounds gate, bound for the last six days of freedom from officialdom that were to be his before embarking upon service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Day at Schools
As Anzac Day, Thursday, April 25, is a public holiday, the Director of Education (Mr. J. G. McKenzie) has invited all heads of schools to hold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Views of War
And war to them was an unknown quantity which even the most serious faced with complete equanamity. This cannot be said of the thousands…
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