Secret War Plans Outlining at Canberra CANBERRA
Members of the Loan Council were told by the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) of the secret war plans of the Commonwealth, framed in…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1941
3,664 stories in Murray's papers · page 16 of 184
No Money for War Prisoners London, January 30
The Treasury has withdrawn permission to send money to prisoners of war. because it involves too great a dram on Britain's American dollar exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thinks Bill Will Keep U.S. Out of War Aid to Britain Washington, Jan. 31
The House Foreign Affairs Committee in a majority report declared: “So far as the human mind can evaluate the situation the probable effect of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After The Ball; Treat for Soldiers
Some [?] men from the showground camp were resting at Lavington during a route march when they were espied by members of the Younger Set of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Advisers Urge Japan To Enter The War Vital Talks In Tokio Chiefs of Armed Forces and Cabinet Malaya Expects Developments LONDON, January 31
Moscow radio to-day said that the chiefs of the Japanese armed forces had consulted with Cabinet and that far-reaching developments were believed to be imminent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge War Spending b[?] Japan in 1941 TOKIO. Fe[?]
C[?]bin[?]t has ap[?]d [?] N[?]vy extraordinary military exp[?]re in the es[?]mate[?] for the [?] 19[?] totalling 4,880,000,000 y[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£7 a Head More To Finance the War Effort SYDNEY
To finance the war effort Australians are paying £7 a head per year [?]te in taxation than they were two years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sidelights of the War How Australians Fare in Egypt Glimpses of Native Life and Customs
In a letter from Egypt dated January 12. Cap[?]ain C.A. Mo[?] forme[?]ly C.O. of the Albury Battery, gives some of his experiences. The convoy in which he s[?]iled from Australia reached well up into the Indian Oc[?]an. when it was diver[?]ed, and proceeded round the Cape to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thai War Ends Armistice Signed on Japanese Warship Clash After Cease Fire Order TOKIO, February 1
An armistice agreement between Thailand and Indo-China has been signed aboard a Japanese warship off Saigon to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers in Clash Johannesburg Police Chase Rioters JOHANNESBURG. Feb 1
More 10 were injured, including 60 soldiers, when police with batons charged a crowd of rioters. The charge followed a clash…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Worry For “Musso” Australian Soldiers Arrive in Middle East From Britain Had Been a Tonic to England Sydney
Six months of strenuous training and battle practice in England in the atmosphere of air raids and invasion threats, have welded the men of the A.I.F., who have now reached the Middle East, into a formidable fighting body. Their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier’s Fall from Train Slept Past His Stopping Place
When returning on leave to his wife at Boorowa on the Melbourne express on Saturday morning, Sergeant Charles Dick, of the A.J.F,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another District Man Wounded
Private L. D. Leslie, of the 2/8th Battalion, and the first man to enlist from Rand, Ins been reported wounded in action. His mother, Mrs. Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wounded in Action Private William Garlick
Mr. W. T. Garlick, of Walla Walla, yesterday received advice by telegram from the Minister for the Army that his son, p[?]e. William…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Progress of the War
Chief interest in the operations of the past few days has been centred in the British pushed in Africa and the valiant efforts of the Greek forces in Albania In the former the Italians are being hard pressed on three points, while it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rotarians and War Effort
At yesterday's luncheon of the Albury Rotary Club, the president (Rotsrian S. H Henry) announced that the club had decided to give £10…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Summary of War News
British successes in Libya and East Africa have brought Italy within measurable distance or complete defeat in Africa, and, added to Greek…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Offical War Artists Well-known Here
MR. Harold Herbet, of Melbourne (right), has been appointed as an official war artist. He is well known in Albury and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War on Two Fronts in Africa
Italy now has a war on two fronts in Africa against troops whose supplies and communications are ss[?]ured and who are well equipped for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General War News Attitude of Eire Towards Britain
Mr. J. L. Hodson, author and journalist, in an article in the "Sunday Times," states after a recent visit to Eire that he found little or no…
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