Unnamed Soldier to Broadcast to World. MELBOURNE
An unnamed soldier will broadcast to the world, including Germany, a description of the camp life and training of the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,041 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 203
District Patriotic Fund Donation to Red Cross Society. Farewelling Soldiers. General Appeal to District Residents
At last night's meeting of the committee of the Muswellbrook and District Patriotic Committee it was decided to donate £10 to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Supplies Purchases in United States (“Mercury” Service) WASHINGTON. January 23
President Roosevelt has appointed a [?] committee, headed by the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Morgenthall to prerent the conflict of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Demand Soldiers in Civilian Hospitals SYDNEY
The, [?] for [?] Simons, and to-day that 150 soldiers were receiving treatment in one civilian hospital alone in the metropol[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Treatment of Soldiers in Hospitals Figures Indicative of Great Demand. Sydney
The Minister for Health (Mr FitzSimons) said to-day that 150 soldiers had received treatment in one civilian hospital alone in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Society Dance Cancelled Soldiers Could Not Attend
A dance which had been arranged at Grosvenor House (London) for Friday next, for which 1000 debutantes and members of society had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Ice Age” Grips War Fronts Bitter Cold Halts Activity (“Mercury” Service) London January 24
Known as “the return of the Ice Age” or “Hitler’s Secret Weapon,” the almost incredible cold still grips, all the fighting fronts, with many strange results. R.A.F. bombers, attaining heights of three, four and fivee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Knew It Was 109 Degrees
None felt the extreme conditions experienced in this Maitland district to-day [?] their the officers and non-commissioned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aprpreciations OF Soldiers’ Club
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →M.L.A. ENLISTS Joins Field Artillery SYDNEY
Having enlisted in the Field Artillery of the Second A.LF., Mr. Murray Robson, U.A.P, member for Vancluse in the Legislative Assembly,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Soldier Seeks More Adventure Prisoner in Last War Auckland (N.z)
Captain Francis: Voelker. who won the Military Cross at the age of 18 in tie last war, was severely wound and captured by the Germans while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Party Politics and War
TO-DAY, when the British Commonwealth of Nations is fighting for its very existence, party politics should be brushed on one side. We are in the midst of what is likely to develop into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Five Ships Sunk
No fewer than five merchant ships were reported to have been sunk by mines or submarines off the coast of Britain at the week-end. Two of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in Finland Prisoners
Finland has a problem in dealing with masses of Russian prisoners. The Finnish Army is well equipped, well fed and well housed, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Summary of War News Turkey and Germany
It is officially announced in Instanbul that Turkey will shortly sign a trade agreement with Germany, involving goods worth more than…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Latest War News Nazi Atrocities in Poland
Details received in Paris about the Nazi attacks on the clergy in Poland reveal that in the Bishop's Palace in one diocese only one priest remains. All the other clergy in the diocese, numbering 620, are either in concentration camps or in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Supplies From America Britain's Big Orders. Washington
Britain is preparing to spend 1,000,000,000 dollars on aeroplanes and other essential military supplies in the United States and is seeking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War at Sea. Explosion on Steamer. LONDON
Forty members of the crew and three passengers are missing from the steamer Biarritz, following an explosion in the North Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Check on Imports May Continue After War. Sydney
"It would be dangerous to assume that the restriction on imports to Australia will be lifted at once when the war ends," the Minister for Customs,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Trade. New Consumers for Australia Fresh Channels Opened in Britain. Post-war Chance
"Our butter and cheese are going into the households of people who never before have tasted it because the distribution in Great Britain is in the…
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