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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

3,171 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 159

Amazing Italian Rumor Concerning Anzacs “To be Used to Start War in the Balkans” End of March Seen As Start of Spread of Conflict Turks Anxious to Fight LONDON, February 15

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 4

According to the “Times” correspondent in Bucharest, despite the official censorship, the arrival of the Anzacs aroused much interest and speculation about the use to which they will be put…

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Woman Shot Dead; Man Critically Wounded Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 1

Mrs. Evelyn Grace Cabell, aged 47, who was staying in a flat at Bondi, was fatally wounded when she was struck twice in the head…

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War Aids Australian Trade in the East Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 3

The Minister for Commerce (Senator McLeay) expressed the view [?] that if Australia festered her trade with the East during the war she…

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Graziers to Talk About Wool, War and Politicians Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 10

Over 200 resolutions are on the agenda paper for the annual conference of the Graziers’ Association of N.S.W., which opens in…

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Revolution Faces Balkans As War Clouds [?]Ather Ominously London, February 16

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 1

[?] hit by the war, which has reduced the stan[?] to a very low level, Balkan countries are [?] revolution. Already riots are becoming [?]…

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Police Seeking Two Soldiers Who Left Darwi[?] Darwin

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 2

Two [?] of the Darwin mobile force who disappeared from headquarters and left for the south by a Guinea Airways airliner…

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Beauty in “Black Out” War Brings Nature Nearer

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 3

“Neutral Observer,” a well-known American Press correspondent in London, sees beauty in a black-out, and a back to Nature…

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Woman Doctor for War Husband and Son Left at Home Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 4

Leaving behind her husband and 13-year-old son. Graham. Dr. Mary Thornton, radiologist, will [?] for London soon to join the Royal Army…

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“America Wants to Keep Out of the War” Wellington (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 2

The United States was definitely anti-German, but was not completely pro-British because she had been bewildered by British foreign policy in…

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British Forward Area Visited by War Minister Forecasts Severe Struggle Paris, Feb. 17

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 2

The Minister for War (Mr. Oliver Stanley) to-day inspected troops in the British forward area. Interviewed he said “We must fight…

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Soldiers Clash with Police Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 2

Hundreds of people completely blocked traffic in George street. Haymarket, last night when police and soldiers clashed…

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[?]Oman Shot Dead [?] Seriously Wounded

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 1

Mrs. Evelyn Grace Gabell, 47, was [?] dead as she was leaving a block [?] flats in St. Thomas Michell Road, [?], on Friday afternoon…

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Progress of the War

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 2

Another stirring, tale—the seizure of the German prison ship, Altmarck, and the rescue of 400 prisoners by the British destroyer, Cossack, has been unfolded over the week-end. There has now begun a legal battle over the rights of the British ship to…

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War Savings Certificates Out on March Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 2

The acting Federal Treasurer (Mr. Spender) stated to-day that war savings certificates would be available to the public on March 1. Mr. Spender…

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The War and the Kilt. Scotland Ready for Tartan Drive Overseas

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 3

Scotsmen and Scotswomen all over the world will feel a twinge of disappointment when they hear that this workaday war has caused the War…

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Furs for Guns Britain's Rising Exports Help to Pay for War

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 3

British Empire furskins will play a specially prominent part this season in maintaining the dominant position of London's fur market, when has…

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Snakes Come Up the Thames War Brings Business to London's Unique Tannery

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 4

A cargo of snakoskins, glant anacopdas from Uruguay, glides down the River Plate steams up through the South and North Atlantic, the…

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Cabled War Items Huge A.R.P. Test Realistic London Exercises LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 2

The world's largest A.R.P. tests were carried out to-day, in London and regional areas. Explosives shattered masonry, fires ignited derelict…

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Allies in War, Not in Trade Australia and France Import Restrictions Applied Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 2

The inclusion of France among the countries whose goods were subject to restrictions under the import licensing regulations, was regretted…

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Post-war Problems Collaboration Between Italy And America “Welles Not on a Peace Mission” New York. Feb. 18

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 1

The United Press correspondent who is accompanying the American Under-Secretary of State (Mr. Welles) on his trip to Europe, wirelessed from…

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