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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

3,171 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 159

“A Happy New Year” Soldiers Wish Each Other French and British Fraternise B.E.F. Headquarters in France

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 2

The password, “Happy New Year,” was flung back and forth on the western front in French end English as the Allied forces fraternised…

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Ex-soldiers Suspicious of Foreign Languages Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 1

A request that a strict censorship be exercised over every matter printed in a foreign language entering Australia has been made lo the Prime Minister…

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Many Soldiers Destitute in Sydney Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 1

Driving around the city in motor trucks last night, military police searched the parks and beaches for destitute soldiers and took them to…

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Constable Risks Life To Save Soldier SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 1

Early this morning Senior-Constable William C. Plummer saved the life of Sergeant John D. Honey, of Ingleburn military camp, by jumping in the…

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War Likely to Become Bitter in 1940 Belief Growing in Europe German and Russian Co-operation “Soviet Agreement With Japan An Important Factor” LONDON, January 1

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 1

Observers believe that the war will be intensified during 1940, with Germany and Russia more intimately linked. As a result of an agreement reached between Russia and Japan, the…

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Sweden’s Reply to Germany No Room For Fear, Spokesman Says Grim Warning From Berlin Scandinavian Countries Told to Keep Hands Off Russo-Finnish War LONDON, January 1

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 1

The Swedish Foreign Minister (M. Munther), in a new year message to the Swedish people to-day, replied to threats by Germany. He declared: “There is a threat of annihilation against our possessions and…

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Still Hopes War Will Soon End

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4

The President of the United States (MR. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT). who, in a recent statement, expressed the hope that the warring nations would soon compose their differences…

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Believes War Will-impoverish the Workers Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 6

“Those of us who remember the last war must believe that the net result; of this present war will be the impoverishment of the people,” said the…

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X-ray of Soldiers Proceeding Rapidly Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 6

X-ray operators at Ingleburn military camp are making rapid headway with their examination of the men for signs of T.B.. Yesterday 2000 soldiers…

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Soldiers Fined for Throwing Tomatoes Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1

Two soldiers, George Stevenson, aged 22, and Robert King, aged 23, were fined £1 each at the Central Police Court to-day for throwing tomatoes at…

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Punch Costs Soldier £14/10/ SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 2

Jack Parmentier, aged 30 years, a member of the Second A.I.F.. was fined £7, with £7/10/ costs, at the Central police court to-day for assaulting…

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Back to Camp 2nd A.L.F. Men Farewelled Complimented on Enlisting

The Pastoral Times · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3

Echuca and Deniliquin members the 2nd. A.I.F. departed on Wednesday December 27, to [?] join their q units after spending Christmas leave…

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Farmers Urged to Wage War on Hoppers Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6

Landowners were urged to-day by the chief agricultural instructor (Mr. H. C. Stening) to make free use of the distribution of poisoned baits to…

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Slums to Remain While War Is on Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6

Owing to lack of funds, the Government is not likely to proved with its pre-war plans for the clearance of slums and housing schemes. The…

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DAY by Day War News Our Airmen in England

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 3

Two events in the last two weeks have demonstrated to the world that assertions made by ingenious radio announcers in Berlin about…

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Leading the 2Nd A.I.F Sir Thomas Blamey Has Had Brilliant Career Soldier and Administrator

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 3

When it was decided that Australia should form a 2nd A.I.F. “For Service at Home or Abroad,” no belter choice of a leader than…

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Music to Soothe Nerves Of Soldiers in the Lines LONDON, January 2

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

Madame Clara Novello Davles, whose organisation sent 50,000 mouth organs and tin whistles to soldiers in the last war, has launched, at the…

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Matron’s Praise Nurses For the Soldiers Fine Response to Call for Volunteers Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

Paying tribute to-day to the enthusiasm of the girls who volunteered for service with the Second A.I.F. Matron Kearey, matron-in-charge of the N.S.W…

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Blood of All Soldiers Being Classified Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6

Employing a technique with several distinctive Australian features and equipment of entirely local manufacture, the Army Medical Corps is…

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Training Abroad of English Soldiers London, January 2

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

The “News-Chronicle” states that large numbers of the 2,000,000 men due to be called up in the next few months will be trained in France, Africa,…

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