Daily War News. Mobile Recruiting Flax Scarcity Cartoon Success Navy's Ears U-boat Bafflers Troops' Food
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 1
Mobile recruiting units for the country districts, expanded recruiting facilities for the cities, and an intense publicity campagn, are to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Political Difficulties Should be Sunk During War Mr. McEwen’s View on Composite Government WANGARATTA
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 4
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Greta branch of the Liberal Country Party last night, Mr. J. MeEwen, M.H.R., strongly urged that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post War Planning for Agriculture Ministers for Agriculture to Meet All States Will be Represented SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 4
At a meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, to be held early next month, it is proposed to consider generally the question…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain and France Started the War Hitler’s Speech at the Sportspalast First Phase of Struggle Was Political “Bible Reading” Chamberlain and “Atheist” Stalin British and French Objectives Wrecked by Recognition of Plans BERLIN. January 31
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 1
“Britain and France started the war, and I can only say to them that they will get all the war they want,” declared Herr Hitler, amid frantic cheering, in a speech at the Sportspalast, which was broadcast throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Progress of the War
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 2
The fighting in Finland continues along the entire front, although the Finns are holding their positions. The Finns estimate huge Russian casualties in an official statement issued en the commencement of the third month of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Finnish Review of War LONDON
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 2
Finland enters the third month of the war with an official statement estimating the Russian losses since the outbreak of war at a quarter of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Demand-for-space Germany's War Aims
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 3
One assertion of definition in some form or another appears in almost every general statement of German war aims. It is that Germany is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War, Day by Day Wheat Yields
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 6
The Australian wheat crop for 1939-40 season is expected to approximate 204,000,000 bushels. In 1932-33 the crop reached the record figure of 214…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hay War Memorial High School Re-opening Next
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 2
School holidays are over, and teachers are hurrying back to their various posts. As a result of the opening, and particularly by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket During War Officials Ready to Carry on Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 6
Dr. R. L. Morton, chairman of the executive said to-day that, the Victorian Cricket Association would carry out its programme of Shield and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Empire Shipping Re-organising on War Basis SYDNEY, Friday Noon
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 2
According to a message from Canberra, important proposals for the rearrangement of Empire shipping services on a basis which will ensure…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Red Cross Society N.S.W. Division Progress Report of War Activities
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 4
The following will be of interest to Red Cross workers in the district: SECOND A.I.F. Red Cross workers at the Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cabled War Items Devil's Pact Some Italian Comment on Hitler's Speech ROME
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 2
The press throughout Italy publishes Hitler's speech, without comment, except "a-Venire' which referring to the Russo-German pact says:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrest of Soldiers Civil Law Supreme Ruling by Military Headquarters Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 3
Instructions have been issued by the Southern Command Headquarters to all units under its control that every facility is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japan Still Clinging to Axis Powers Minister’s Pro-German Speech “Relations with Soviet Better” Freedom of Action in European War TOKIO, February 1
Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 4
The Foreign Minister (Mr. Arita), speaking in the to-day, said that Italian, German and Japanese relations were increasingly cordial, since the conclusion of the Anti-Communist Pact. Japan’s anti-Communist policy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Africa Still Divided on War Issue Cape Town, February 1
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 8
The Senate, by 21 votes to 13, has approved of the Government motion confirming the war policy. It rejected an amendment by the Herirzeg…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War and Timber Position in Australia an Informative Analysis Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 7
The probable effect of the war on the timber Industry is discussed in a report of a medal N.S.W. State Committer, which was released by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ex-Kaiser Wants War stopped and Fight Directed Against Russia New York, February 2
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 1
The New York “Times” prints an uncensored letter from the ex-Kaiser to his friend and biographer, Mr. Poultney Bigelow. in which he expressed the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Handmaid to Fame” Crusade or Tragedy? Bishop on Present War an Interesting Analysis Goulburn
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 8
“This present war nay be viewed as a Crusade or a Tragedy,” comments Bishop Burgmann, of Goluburn, in a message to his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Germany Does Not Want War in Balkans, But the Allies May Force Issue London, February 2
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 1
A few hours before the meeting of the Balkan Entente Council at Belgrade, Herr von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →