Defence Compulsory Training Essential Prepare for Peace or War
Early last December, Mr. Lyons, speaking of Australia's position in the present world situation, said "Would that you knew, while there is yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
1,440 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 72
War in Spain. Split Between President and Premier Denied. LONDON
"I am for peace," declared the President of Spain, Senor Azana, on his arrival at Collonges Sous Saleve, near the Swiss frontier. He denied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Overseas News War in Spain. Government's Terms. Skeleton Cabinet Meets and Decides. PERPIGNAN
Gathering for the last time on Catalonian soil, a skeleton republican cabinet met in a tiny house at Leperthus, early this morning, after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-Day's Latest. Very Important News. End of War in Sight. British Action Resented in Berlin and Rome. LONDON
The "Daily Mail" learns that General Miaja, the defender of Madrid, has decided to abandon resistance. Forty thousand republican troops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Equipment Issued to Albury’s Volunteer Soldiers
A flashlight photograph taken at the Drill Hall on Wednesday evening, when Albury’s volunteer unit of the 59th Battalion was issued with its first equipment, including rifles, in the use of which they will now be trained. Some of the volunteers are shown standing at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War in China Heavier Fighting Expected Japanese Land at Hainan Hong Kong, February 9
Concentration of Japanese warships and transports in the vicinity of Pakhoi, including the flagship Idumo, suggests that the next…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rust-proofing Patent War Precaution Taken Sydney
In case war should interrupt supplies of a mixture produced in Canada for rust-proofing metal, the secret formula is bong held in Sydney by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia to Have 212 War Planes New Expansion Plan Melbourne
The decision of the Commonwealth Government to raise the first [?] of the R.A.A.F. to 212 aircraft was announced by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War in Spain. Retreating Troops. Fight Rearguard Action. PERPIGAN (Spain)
C ut off during the retreat of the Catalan army, 25,000 Republican troops are making a final stand in the snowy passes of the Pyrnees, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War on Tuberculosis Health Minister to Tour Learning From Overseas Sydney
During a world tour on which he will leave shortly, the Minister for Health (Mr FitzSimons) will investigate in Great Britain, Europe and America the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overseas News C Hina and Japan. the Cost of the War. J apanese Bomb Munitions Route. TOKYO
The army and navy accounted for one third of the budget expenditure of £215,000,000 approved by the Diet. It also approved of a special…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers and Cheap Beer a Woman Speaks in Albury
A century ago travelling was something of a hardship and women rarely undertook a journey abroad unless it was dictated by necessity. Today, the conditions of travelling are so comfortable that women may journey any part of the world, without having to experience the slightest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Food in Time of War Melbourne
Addressing representatives of statutory boards controlling meat, dairy produce, canoed fruit and dried fruit to-day, Sir Earle Page said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fleeing Homeless From the Horrors of Civil War
Refugees from the war-ridden areas of Spain have been pouring along every road to the frontier and France. These pictures, just received by air mail, show homeless women and children from the Barcelona area crowding to the frontier at Perpignan. At the top, a group is shown snatching a welcome, if frugal, meal by the roadside…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cawnpore Riots Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Cawnpore, February 13
Unofficial reports place the dead at 40 and the injured at 400 as a result of the Hindu and Moslem riots. Six hundred arrests have been made since…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Guard the French-italian Frontier
Recent events following on the tension between France and Italy have brought the activities of the military guard of the frontier well to the fore. It is well-known that for the past few years France has been strongly fortifying her position in the Alps by constructing deep lines of fortifications. In front of these fortified lines and just within the confines, of the frontier itself, the surveillance guard is continually active. This guard is entrusted to mobile…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Horrors of the Spanish War
Heartrending stories are being told by refugees who are literally pouring across the border from Spain into France. Top: A Republican soldier reaches Perpignan, and his first request of a gendarme is for a cigarette and a light…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Largest Meeting at Wagga Since War
Mr. Hughes’ recruiting meeting in the New Moon Gardens at Wagga last Mr W. M. Hughes Director of Recruiting evening was the largest and most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →200.000 CATALONlAN Soldiers in France Paris, Feb. 15
It is estimated that 202,000 Catalonian militiamen have crossed the French frontier. Refugees are now streaming back to Nationalist Spain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War on Grasshoppers Intensifying Research Experiments Canberra
Steps are being taken by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to intensify the campaign against the grasshopper pest. In the…
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