Five Soldiers Hurt When Armored Car Overturns Wollongong
An armored car attached to a regiment camped near Dapto overturned on Prince’s highway to-day, resulting In the crew of five being injured, one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
3,171 stories in Murray's papers · page 28 of 159
Turkey’s Policy “Not Preparing for War Against Russia” Prime Minister’s Speech British Warships for Buck Sea? Italy Vitally Interested LONDON. February 29
Setting forth Turkey’s attitude to the crisis in the Balkans, the Prime Minister (Mr. Saydam) in a broadcast speech declared that Turkish…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Youth Fatally Wounded While Duck Shooting MILDURA
Raymond Percival Beer, aged 17½, of Lake Cululleraine. was fatally wounded when out duck shooting on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Broken Romance Ends in Double Shooting Man Dead; Nurse Wounded Brisbane
Miss Gladys Sophie Masters, a nurse, was shot In the back on Friday night by her former sweetheart, John Balmer, aged 29, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Preparations Former’s Big Army London, March 2
With the calling up of 200,000 men. Rumania now has 1,660,000 under arms, which is the largest force in the history or the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Disagreement in Labor Ranks Over the War London. March 3
The German radio alleges grave disagreement in the ranks of the Labor Party over the war. It claimed that 80 per cent of the members were not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Archbishop Would Like to See War Against Russia LONDON. March 3
A largely attended meeting which was held in the Mansion House, under the auspices of the British Finland Fund addressed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Allies Say That War Has Favored Them; Big German Losses LONDON, March 8
A preliminary British survey of the first six months of the war leaves the impression that so far the balance of success tends to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Germany Claims War Has Favored Her Arms in First Six Months LONDON, March 3
Reviewing the first six months of the war, the German High Command claims that German naval losses have totalled only one cruiser, two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canadians Can Enlist for Finland Ottawa, March 2
The Government has announced its sanction for Canadians to enlist for service in Finland, but it has stressed that it will not permit the oath of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army Chief’s Sudden Death Lieut.-General Ernest Squires Served in the Great War “A Kindly Man and a Man of Action” MELBOURNE
The Minister for the Army (Mr. Street) to-night announced the death of Lieutenant-General Ernest ,K. Squires, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Chief of the General Staff of the Australian Military Forces, which occurred early today. Lieut-General Squires recently underwent a major…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Corio’s Answer on Vital War Issue Labor Candidate Certain to Win Severe Blow to Government Did Herr Hitler Listen-in? Mr. Menzies’ Reasons For the Defeat MELBOURNE
Made a battleground for the rival war policies of the Menzies Government and the Labor Party—Corio has spoken, and if the vote can be taken on its face value then the majority of the electors of this industrial-rural…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Against Neutrals
Reports of merciless Gorman attacks upon neutral shipping, with bombing and machine-gunning of crows, continue to come in. How the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Economic War
Appointment of Goering as supreme dictator of the Reich in economic affairs provides a further indication that it is intended to raise Germany's [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Progress of the War
In a desperate struggle to hold Wiipuii, it is estimated that the Finns lost 17,000 men. Great forces were thrown into the defence of the city to delay the Reds, whilst new defences were being built. The Russians also sustained heavy losses. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in the Air
Following upon their spectacular flight of Vienna ans Prague, the Royal Air Force has carried out further reconnaissances over Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American War Film Banned by Censor Sydney
The film “The Fighting 69th,” Warner Bros,’ picture telling the story of the 69th New York Regiment during the World War, has been banned by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Liner Enters War Trade First American Ship to Sink U-boat in the Last War New York, March 3
After five years of idleness, the 15,000-ton liner, President Fillmore, renamed the Panamanian, will enter the war trade on March 8…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →How Allies Will Win Air War Planes From United States
How German air superiority -- which is not grant enough to be decisive -- is rapidly being overtaken by British, French and American factories, is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We Are Buying More British Cars Australia Sets Up Record in First Three Months of War
Australia bought more British motor cars during the first three months of the war than in any corresponding period in the…
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