Milk War Flares Up Carts Overturned; Milk Tipped Out ELBOURNE
Attempts to break the ban an Sunday milk deliveries in Melbourne flared up into a war in some suburbs to-day. Carts were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1942
2,843 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 143
Soldier Fatally Injured MELBOURNE
Donald Innes, a soldier at Fishermen’s Bend Camp, was fatally injured when struck by a tramways bus in Normanby street, port Melbourne, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eviction of Soldiers’ Dependants Canberra
Members of the forces, their parent and dependants, are given increased protection against eviction by the amending of Die National Security…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Wounded In Australia
The Minister for the Army. Mr. Forde, announced on Friday that a hospital ship carrying more than 200 wounded American soldiers from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Japanese Fake Money in Malaya British Wounded
Top Left: Helping British wounded is among the jobs being done by Malayan Chinese. A wounded soldier, who has arrived by train from the Malayan front, is carried to an ambulance by Chinese stretcher bearers. English and Australian officers give…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Progress of the War
The fortunes of war continue, it appears, favourable to Axis in the Pacific and unfavourable in the Russian and Lybian theatres. Australians have been engaged against and have held up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News in Brief
A Spanish newspaper has reported that a Free French destroyed entered the harbour at Santa Isabel, on the small Spanish Island of Fernondo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Work in New Guinea
The evacuation of women and child[?] from New Guinea was a model of [?]ganistation, according to Lady Mc Nicoll, wife of the Administrator of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scrap for the War Effort
Mr. G. Fuller’s utility and trailer loaded to capacity with scrap metal and other waste products for the war effort…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smash Japan Now ! War Against Civilisation
“Asia for the Asi[?]tics” is Japan’s battlecry. It is the slogan with which the Japanese are endeavoring to stir up racial animosity against the white…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Peacetime Hero Goes to War
On February 28, 1937, Bernard O’Reilly walked into the tiny village of Lamington at the foot of the McPherson Ranges in Queensland, announced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Driving at Night War-time Precaution
New problems now confront the motorist who is compelled to drive at night. No longer will bright electric headlamps light up the road for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Care Urged in Letters to War Prisoners
The Army Minister (Mr. Forde) has emphasised the necessity of not mentioning, in letters to Australian prisoners of war, anything about droughts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daysdale War Auxiliary Letters From Daysdale Diggers
The hon. secretary of the D.W.A. has received the following letters:-- From VX 32441, Pte. J. W. Kerr, H.Q. Coy., 26 Battn. A.I.F.:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Damage Insurance Scheme to Be Widened
The Federal Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) announced that there would be a widening of the scope of the war damage insurance scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parcels for Prisoners of War. (To the Editor.)
Sir.—I have noted in your paper of recent dales some doubts expressed in letter re parcels for prisoner of war from the Red Cross Society. I would like you…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tell-tale Figures How Nations Prepared for War
An analysis of national debt Increases for five major nations during 1930-40 published recently by the U.S. Federation of Tax…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Commentary Japanese Drive -- Allied Strength Grows in Burma
The Japanese continue to push ahead on both claws of their great pincer- movement. In Malaya they have advanced over 70 miles from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest War News Hellfire Pass Surrenders Italian Generals Taken Prisoners LONDON--Monday
With the surrender of two Italian Generals in the Hellfire Pass area, Britain now has 79 Italian Generals prisoners of war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers’ Letters
Writing from Syria, W.O. M. L. Molt says: Since writing to you last I have shifted to a nice house, but am still sleeping on…
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