Car Overturns Soldiers Slightly Injured Hexham Accident
Five member of the such Battalion, 8th Division, now in camp at Rutherford, who were on their way from Sydney, were slightly injured…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,041 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 203
Tell the World Britain’s Cause in The War Empire’s Future From a special Correspondent (By Air Mail) LONDON. January 12
A Londoner who was [?] in South Africa and who last year completed a [?] and broadcasting [?] of Australian, New…
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All London is talking about a book by the Rev. Rees Howells, Director of the Bible College in Wales, containing some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia's War Effort
DAILY EVENTS in recent weeks proved the stern reality of Australia's war effort Announcements followed each other rapidly. Australians were told that Britain had ordered a record quantity of wheat; that she wanted nearly £3,00,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Reopen Soldier’s Recreation And Club Rooms War Bridge—cards
Arrangements have been completed for the reopening of the Campbell’s Hill Recreation and Club Rooms for Soldiers, on Sunday next February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Changes in Palestine
(One of the curious side-issues of the war is its sudden halting of Palestine. The position there, as depicted by Arthur Merton. in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Halts Immigration Perth
[?] has practically stopped [?] to Australia Lieut.-colonel [?] of the Salvation Army, who arrived in Perth, said that compared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News Russian Leader Ordered Home
The Russian High Command in Moscow has ordered the Commander of the trapped forces in Finland to return and explain. The Finns say that they shot down the Soviet plane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →America and the War (“Mercury” Service) LONDON, Jan 29
Sir Frederick Whyte, Director of the American section of the British Department of Information, to a speech, suggested the possibility of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cost More Cars Imported Since The War SYDNEY
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Effort of N.z. "Much in Advance of Australia."
The Victorian Minister for Education, Sir John Harris, who has just returned from New Zealand, states that the…
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"Two bonds unite England and her Empire together—affection and battleships," wrote Sir Geoffrey Callender. The course of the war so far…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Expenditure What Is Being Done With The Money Official Statement
Time alone will [?] of the [?] of the war to Australia to be made (says the Department of Information). That it will be high is certain. It is equally certain chat whatever the financial [?] to be it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.z.’s War Effort “In Advance Of Australia” MELBOURNE
Sir John Harris Victorian Minister for Education, who has been on a visit to New Zealand, stated on his return that the Daminton’s effort…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Empire Unity Emphasised Canadian View of War. (Commonwealth Department of Information: Official)
Australian unanimity in the prosecution of the war so definitely expressed in recent statements by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies), the Leader…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gateway of Peace Gibraltar Has Always Been a Place of War; But It Controls the Peace of the World
It took the English only three days' fighting to establish themselves on Gibraltar for the first time. They have since made the Rock famous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Third Place London’s population Reduced Effect of War From a Special Correspondent (By Air Mail) LONDON, January 12
Before the war the population of the world’s largest [?] were London [?] New York, 6,930,445; Tokio 6,000,000; Berlin,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Balkan Tangle Italo- Turkish Relation Press Attacks (Daily War Commentary [?] by the Department of information)
Present India Press [?] ON [?] give [?] of the difficulty ids the way of co-operation between actual power in the Ra[?] Turkey is occurred of having here decided from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Worst Air Raids Of The War Soviet Bombers Show No Mercy (“Mercury” Service) London, January 30
The worst air raids of the war in Finland took place yesterday. Soviet planes dropped bombs and turned machine-guns not only on towns but on smell villages and isolated farms…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“We Shall Fight To Conquer” ---Hitler’s Boast Caustic Criticism of Allies “They Wanted War” (“Mercury Service”) LONDON, January 30
“England and France started the war, and I can only say to them—they’ll get all the war they want,” declared Herr Hitler, amidst frantic cheering in a speech at the Sports…
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