CHILTERN Annual Meeting Returned Soldiers
Mr R. O. S. Wiseman (president) presided at the annual meeting of the Chiltern sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League. The secretary (Mr…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
1,440 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 72
Returned Soldier Downed Tweed Heads
Washed overboard from a fishing craft, while it was crossing the bar at the entrance to Tweed River this morning Edward Johnson, aged 42,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Veterans’ Home Appeal
The first section of the War Veterans Home, which is being jointly spon[?]ored by the Returned Soldiers’ League (N.S.W. branch) and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“London and Moscow Hold Key Too Peace or War” London, March 15
[?] war depends in the last resort [?] thing— the nature of the relations between London and Moscow,” said the Soviet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Mysterious” Sackings of Ex-soldiers on Road Job Near Albury
At the monthly meeting of the Albury sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League last evening, discussion on the mysterious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Firemen Advised Not to Enlist
Volunteer firemen in New South Wales will be discouraged from joining the militia. The chairman of the Board of Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Marching to War
Herr Hitler has marched again, adding the portion of Czecho-Slova he did not take in his last bite to his long list of “conquests.” It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Wounded Attempting to Escape Bratislava, March 17
General Homolka, former commander of the Seventh Czech Army, attempted to escape to Moravia by car. The car was held up and Shots were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many War Prisoners Burgos, March 18
Republican prisoners taken by the Nationalists to the end of the Catalan offensive totalled 431,351, of whom 253,34[?] have since been released…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Warning of War Basle, March 17
M. Herman Obrecht. a member of the Federal Council, in a speech declared that foreign countries must know that those attacking or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Stevens Talks on Probabilities of War Sydney
The Premier (Mr. Stevens) in a broadcast last night urged Australia to be prepared for a full national war effort. Until the European crisis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Veterans Home Appeal
The first section of the War Veterans' Home, which is being jointly sponsored by the R.S.S.I.L.A. (New South Wales branch) and the Legacy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.A. Premier Urges Organisation for War Conditions Adelaide
Organisation on the basis that war is inevitable was urged by the Premier of S.A. (Mr. Playford), when opening the Federal Conference of Provincial…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COROWA HOSPlTAL Old Sick Soldiers' Fund to Be Operated Again
The monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corowa District Hospital was held at the Secretary's office at the Hospital on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy’s Long Ride Ends in Albury Court “I Want to Be a Soldier”
“I cleared away from home because my mother is having a hard struggle to make ends meet, and besides, I want to be a soldier,” a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Veterans Home Appeal
The first section of the War Veterans Home which is being jointly sponsored by the R.S.S.I.L.A. (N.S.W. Branch) and the Legacy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Bruxner Must Be Excepting a War in Australia ! SYDNEY
Pleasure was expressed by the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) today, at the response by the public to the national emergency services…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Defence— Oil and the Farmer If War Comes Oil’s Part in Primary Production (Special Staff Writer)
[?]lTAL to the army, navy and air force for defence, oil also plays an important part for the man on the land. Without it modem agricultural methods would be impossible, necessitating back-breaking manual labor and undeveloped land holdings; undeveloped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Preparations Building Planes Here Railway Workshops to Play Important Part SYDNEY
The railway workshops will figure largely in the plans for the development of the Australian aircraft industry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →May Spend More Than £70 Million on Deface Heavier Taxation Certain Believes Next War Will be Prolonged. Coff’s Harbor
The Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle Page) predicted, to-night that if war developed the hostilities would be prolonged. He said the German territory had altered in the last six months. The German hope before that was to win out by a desperate gamble, but they were now…
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