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Murray · The wars & local soldiers
3,171 stories in Murray's papers · page 18 of 159
The Moscow radio, commenting on the Balkan Entente conference, says it is a severe diplomatic defeat for the Allies, who at first tried vainly to draw the Balkans into war against Germany and then substituted the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The men behind the men in the front lines. Workmen at an ordnance factory (Britain) taking projectiles from a hydraulic forging press…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Japan will drink less beer during the European war. and unless Australia can spare some hops—which seems unlikely during the warm weather—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In view of the fact that Captain (now Major) Colin Chisholm is in charge of the Light Horse al Torquay military camp, the picture (above) is of special interest. It was presented to me while on a visit to “Khancoban” by Captain Chisholm some years ago. The photograph is that of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“I wrestled with the Fuehrer as an equal,” M. Daladier (closest to the British Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain) told his people on his return to France after he signed the Munich Pact with Hitler. The faces of this group of statesmen, including Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini, depict their tenacious spirits—the first to the last ditch. Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier hoped by giving the Czechs to Hitler that this would appease him. His…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Viscount Craigavon, the Ulster Prime Minister, in the course of a broadcast declared that Britain’s difficulty was Northern Ireland’s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Looking over the, world, is difficult to discover a nation that is not openly with us, and I know, few that are with the enemy,”…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In this article a [?] author soldier, Major-General J. H. [?] C.B.E. M.C., (“Ian Hay”), analyses the opening weeks of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldiers stationed in Darwin have been advised when they attend a theatre to sit in the circle rather than in the stalls, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Characteristic of the Great War days are the scenes in London night clubs to which soldiers flock for amusement. There is no snobbery about the army in England, it is claimed, officers and men mixing freely in the entertainment,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Private Arthur Curran was farewelled by a large gathering in the Euchre was played and the winners were Mrs. T. Naughtin and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In discussing the financial needs of the State Department for the next fiscal year, the Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) told a sub-committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Australian wheat crop for 1939/40 season is expected to approximate 204,000,000 bushels. In 1932/33 the crop reached the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A member of the French Military Mission in an interview with Australian Associated Press states that Allied deaths on the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Paris correspondent of the New York “Times” states that news has reached Paris, via Rome, of nervousness in the Middle East, with Iraq and Afghanistan taking military precautions in expectation of a Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day's news does not contain many items relative to ac-tivity on any front except in the Russo-Finnish war, where, heartened by last week's successes, the Finns were taking the initiative on all fronts. To-day, however, a claim is made that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men. in whose hands the destiny of France has been placed, meet as a War Council in Paris. They are (left to right): Generals Requin, Blanchard, Georges, Doss:, Gamelin, Buehrer, Colson, Besson and Garchsry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →T[?]uokue, of "you're another," has usually been thought a form of argument worthy of adults and totally unsuited to persons engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The National Executive of the Labour Party's declaration of policy, calls on Britons to contribute to their utmost in an effort to overthrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Cabinet has discussed plans submitted by experts for the maintenance of the Second A.I.F. Since the Sixth Division was…
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