War Savings At The ’Brook
MUSWELLBROOK Wed. — The formation of new groups, and the sale of War Savings Certificates may result locally…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
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Mr. Baddeley's Plea for War Unity
NEWCASTLE Wednetday. -a statement issued this afternoon the Deputy Premier Mr. Baddeley, said ht as confident…
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MELBOURNE Wednesday —The leader of the Opposition Mr. Faden stated last night that members considered that direct…
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The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, at a civic welcome at Perth, said the Commonwealth Government intended to act immediately to close all non-essential industries throughout Australia, and to transfer the labour thus released to vital…
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One hundred and fifty-six delegates representing 130,000 workers in 51 Midlands factories demanded a sixpoint programme for speeding up…
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Twenty-two Polish railwaymen were collectively executed on January 14, according to a Gestapo communique published in a Breslau…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Debate In The Commons Australia's Demands For Help(AUSTRALIAN Associated Press)
LONDON Jan. 27—Mr. Winston Churchill’s motion of confidence, on which the Commom will vote at the end of a three-day war debate, reads: “That this House has confidence m His Majesty’s Government, and will aid it to the…
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BRISBANE Wednesday — Admitting that they has wreaked a [?] at Central railway station on January 17 seven A.I.F. men were in…
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Returned Soldiers and ex-Militia trainees have responded splendidly. Over 200 men have enlisted in the 8th Garrison Battalion in the last…
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Lieutenant-Colonel G. P. L. DrakeBrockman, D.S.O., M.C., who last March was court-martialled and dismissed from the British Army, has…
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Tributes to the feats of three blacktrackers, Sambo, Henry and Don, were paid by a rescue party which has returned to Darwin…
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LONDON Jan. 28.—An Australian [?]ieutenant John Steel Lewes of the Welsh Guards, has been reported killed in action…
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The news on Wednesday, that Warrant Officer T. Moody, husband of Mrs. Moody of Raymond Terrace, had been killed in Malaya, provoked intense sorrow from the…
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MELBOURNE Thursday.—Regulations are being prepared to provide for voluntary war risk Insurance covering furniture…
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OTTAWA Jan. 28—The Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, told the House of Commons yesterday that he was not yet in a…
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That America Is now engaged in an all-out war for an all-out victory Je evident from the radio announcement that that nation's…
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PERTH Thursday.—As a result of the temporary dominance of the Pacific by the Japanese navy, Australia has…
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This Minister for the Army, Mr. Forde, said that the Commonwealth Government had been advised officially by the Japanese Government that it has declared its…
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War has come ver much closer to Australia in t[?] past few months and, like every other place, is has been [?]ed topsy…
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CANBERRA Thursday.—It is pointed out in Parliamentary circles here that the moratorium regulations applicable to members…
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