Gifts for Sick Soldiers
The Kea Cross Society appeals for chessmen, draughts, crib-boards, mahongg sets, and playing cards for sick and injured sailors and soldiers in…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,041 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 203
Pension at 55 Returned Soldiers Mayor’s View
The Mayor of East Maitland (AID H. C. Morton) Expressed the view at a meeting of council last night that returned solders…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Make 130,000,000 CIGARETTES B.E.F.'s Eight Weeks' Effort
Britain is making sure that no fighting man goes short of his supply of "fags" in this war. It is in the hands of an industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Zealand Soldiers in Clash Four Australians Fined
Following a street battle between Australian slaughtermen and New Zealand soldiers in Christchurch on Saturday night, four Australians…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Bridge. Soldiers Recreation Rooms
A large number of friends and members gathered at the Recreation and Club Rooms for soldiers at Campbell’s [?] last night for the war…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Help for Polish War Victims
The Australian Women's Polish War Victims Relief Committee, 76 Pitt Street, Sydney, acknowledge receipt of gifts of clothing from Mrs. Windeyer, Raymond…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Contracts for Canada Ottawa, January 31
Contracts worth 25,000,000 dollars (£7,100,00 Australian) have been piaced with Quebec [?]pyards for the British and Canadian Navels, The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →YUGOSLAVIA At the Crossroads Difficult Foreign Relations (Club War Commentary, [?]by Department of [?])
In spite of [?] heavy finishing in Flan[?] and the investigation of creams [?] [?] on British [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chamberlain Reviews Allied War Effort Anti-submarine Campaign Powerful Forces In Action (“Mercury Service”)LONDON January 31
Reviewing the war effort at a Luncheon yesterday, the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, announced the destruction of another enemy submarine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russians Are Losing Heavily In Finland Third Month of War Begins 250,000 CASUALTIES (“Mercury Service”) LONDON, January 31
Finland enters the third month of the war with an official statement estimating Russian losses mace the outbreak of war at 250,000 dead, wounded and prisoners.“They cast to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldier Alleged Wrongful Dismissed SINGLETON
[?] are to be most by officials of the [?] branch of the [?] Larger [?] the [?] that a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lack of Interest Returned Soldiers’ Club SINGLETON
Bacan[?] of the last of Interest of members the Singleton sub branch of the Ha[?] solders Language will [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton District Annual Meeting Returning Soldiers’ Officers Elected Singleton
Officers affected at the annual meeting of the Station week of the Refused Solder’s Leisure told last sight, were: Federal, Mr. F. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Casualties in the War British War Office Releases First List
The first casualty list released by the War Office, covering the period from the outbreak of war to December 31, contains 758…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News In Finland
The second month of the Russo-Finnish war ends with another victory for the Finns. They have definitely gained the upper hand north of Lake Ladoga, after fierce fighting for a fortnight. Russian forces which had attempted to outflank the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Empire Unity Emphasised Canadian View of War
Australian [?] in the prose[?] of the war so definitely expressed in resent statements by the Prime Minister (Mr. Men[?] the leader…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Will Not Stop Tennis No Military Exemptions
At the annual conference of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia in Melbourne on Wednesday, it was decided unanimously to continue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£124 in Fines War on Newcastle Cyclists Many Cases Newcastle
Result of the police crusade against riders of push bicycles was evidences to-day when a crowd of men of all ages gather…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Neutrals Impressed by British War Effort (“Mercury” Service) London, February 1
“It is evident that Bri[?] is not mussling through,” was the summing up of an American newspaper, which commented on Mr. Chamberlain’s speech. Satisfaction was expressed by the Press of many European…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move to Stimulate British Exports Co-ordinating War Economies. (“Mercury” Service) LONDON, February 1
The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, speaking in the debate on the organisation of national and economic resources for war, declared that a Minister for Co-ordination of…
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