Unions and the War Their Position Stated Government Supported London, January 6
The secretary of the Trades Onion Congress (Sir Waller Citrine) speaking in Manchester yesterday said that the purpose of the T.U.C…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
3,171 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 159
Extending the War Possibilities Are Seen New British Guarantees Norway and Sweden London, January 6
Extension of the war to northern Europe as a remit of the Invasion of Finland by the Soviet, is seen as a possibility, following the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Envoy’s Speech Interpreted As Paving Way for Entry of U.S.A. Into the War Washington. Jan. 6
Senator Holt said to-day that the address given yesterday by the British Ambassador (Lord Lothian) was [?] attempt to pave the way for America…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Had Amazing Escapes When Cars Are Wrecked a Soldier Among the Injured Melbourne
Nine persons, the occupants of two packed motor cars, had remarkable escapes from serious injury when the cars collided,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chiltern Returned Soldiers Want Bush Fire Look-Out on Mount Pilot
At a special meeting of the Chiltern sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League, at which the president (Mr. R. O. S. Wiseman) presided, members…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the Editor Albury and the Soldiers
Sir,—Treatment accorded members of the Second A.L.F. in the Albury municipality has been the subject of comparison with what has been done in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russians Mass 600,000 MEN Big Battle Believed Planned Finns Still Successful Moscow Has little to Say About the War LONDON, January 6
The “Sunday Times” interprets activity on the Karelian Isthmus in Finland as indicating that the Russians are planning a big battle in that area in which they will use 600,000 men, most of whom, says the paper, are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Army Forces War Chief Out of Cabinet” Chamberlain Bows 10 PRESSURE Hore-Belisha’s Resignation Refuses a Minor Portfolio Two Outsiders Brought into the Government LONDON, January 6
The Army is said to be responsible for the exit from British Cabinet of the War Minister (Mr. Hore-Belisha), whose resignation has caused a first-class political sensation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Greater War Man's War Against Disease
Man's war against disease has been described as the "greater war" great or even that the present war and greater than the conflict of 1914-1918…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reminders of War
Every train traveller on the Southern Railway in England receives with his ticket one of the many grim reminders of war which fortunately do…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Progress of the War
The sensation of the week was the resignation of the Minister for War for England, Mr. Hore-Belisha. Although there has not been much information released on the exact cause of the resignation, it is said that it was brought about by a growing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Major War in the North ?
From the welter of reports concerning the official status of Russo-German relations it is difficult to find a perspective that will give some idea of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Drives Visitors to Australia Sydney
Australia will receive a larger number of visitors from the Straits Settlements and China than usual owing to the war in Europe. A Dutch liner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British War Minister Mr. Hore-belisha Resigns
A big sensation was caused at the week-end by the official announcement that the British Secretary of State for War (Mr. L. Hore-Belisha)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Fervour Rapidly Growing in N. Z. Wellington (N.z.)
Angry scenes which occurred in the Auckland Domain when two men were speaking against the war were described by the police in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Must Think War is Going to Last for 10 Years SYDNEY
Nearly all members of the A. I. F. at Ingleburn are now back m camp. Only a small number ha[?] reported, but officials are con[?]ent that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Day by Day By the Department of Information Finland Gains Ground
Three significant reports of the Russo-Finnish situation have reached Australia almost concurrently. The first is that the Finns, a handful of people,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Overturns Two Soldiers Killed SYDNEY
Staff-Sergeant-Major Eric Alphonsus Doorey (32), of the second. A.I.F., was killed, and Thomas Innes (32), a militia man was critically injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Turkey’s Hour of Trial Floods and Earthquakes Soldiers Fighting Through Blizzards LONDON, January 7
The Istanbul correspondent of “The Times” reports that thousands of soldiers are fighting their way through snow-drifts, across…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Soldier Groom
The marriage was celebrated at the Methodist Church, Albury, by Rev. H. S. Doust on December 29 of Dorothy Margaret younger daughter of Mr. and…
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