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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

2,452 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 123

The War Day by Day Modern T.b. Detecting

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

The nation will save a large amount of money in payment of pensions for tuberculosis because of the careful examination which the Army Medical…

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The War Yesterday's News

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 4

The Finns before the interise cold aninobihsed activities faced three Russian onslaughts on the Salta front which is famihar to the Finns as a…

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War Material Increased Production Quantities for Britain MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 1

Approval has been given by the War Cabinet to a capital expenditure or £500,000 to expand local resources for the production of new types or…

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Mounting Toll of Lost Ships War On Neutrals Continues London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 1

Several more ships have been torpedoed and sunk by mines with further loss of life…

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South African Wool War Time Sales Advantage Over Australian Clip Saving on Shipping

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 8

The wool market in the United States and elsewhere has not shown signs of booming. The New York Futures top market…

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Pagan Goddess Asked to Stop War Guernsey Rectors Discovery By Air Mail.) LONDON, December 30

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 7

When the Rev. Richard Coulthard, rector of St. Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands, arrived at his church at 7 o'clock on…

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23 Soldiers Serving Sentences Complain Bitterly of Treatment No Exercise Yard Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 1

Twenty-three soldiers of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force are prisoners in die disused Bourke-street police station…

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War's Impetus to Missions

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 2

An impetus was given to mission work after every war. said the chairman of the Australian Board of Missions Canon J. S. Needham. in an…

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The War Day by Day Super Battleships

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 3

The evolution of the modern capital ship affords an excellent example of scientific progress. Capital ships until recent years were either…

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South Africa. Premier Proceeds With War Measure CAPETOWN

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 1

The South African Parliament, with an entirely new complexion, met with the galleries crowded. The recognised leader of the…

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Japan Her Fears War Office Pamphlet New York

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 1

The United Press Tokio correspondent states that a Japanese War Office pamphlet which has been…

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The War "We Can Lose" Sir Henry Gullett's Warning

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 3

This is a war we can lose." said the Minister for External Affairs, Sir Henry Gulled, yesterday, criticising Australia's response…

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Hundreds of Planes Used Against the Finns Fiercest Fight ing of War HELSINKI

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 1

An attack by 450 Russian bombers was Russia's reply to the reinforcement of the Finnish air force and punishment which the Finns inflicted on them on the Salla and Lake Ladoga fronts…

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Back in Camp "French Leave" Soldiers

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 4

Privates Humphreys Stonham, Loney and Newman, who recently visited Glen Innes on "French leave" from the Second A.I.F…

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The War Yesterday's News

The Inverell Times · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 6

The severe weather has not checked the clockwork arrival of British reinforcements, which continue to arrive on the Western front, states a…

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Purchase of Sewing Machine Be Used by Soldier's Family Patriotic and War Fund Committee Meets

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 4

The committee of the Armidale and District Patriotic and War Fund decided at a meeting on Friday afternoon to buy a sewing…

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How War Relics Are Faked

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 3

A careful observer who has visited many of the world's great battlefields declares that the greater part of the mementoes, of which there seems to…

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Australia's War Apathy Mr. Menzies Warning Fate of the Poles Australia's Future if Germans Win Melbourne

The Inverell Times · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 1

Prime Minister Menzies, addressing a gathering in the Kew drill hall, said this war was no mere affair of the theatre, but the slow beginning of a great and…

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Why Are We at War?

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 5

"Ignoramus" writes to the editor:—The Archbishop of York is reported to have said, "It is indeed, in the real sense, a war for Christian…

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Britain's War Effort Speed-up in Spring

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 7

The British Cabinet has planned a biff intensification of the war effort in the spring: The plans include the…

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