War Deals a Severe Blow to Vatican London
Except for Poland, the war, both spiritually and materially, has struck the Vatican harder than the majority of the combatants (says the Rome…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 75 of 129
Renounced Holy Orders Cleric Protests Against War LONDON, October 8
As a protest against the attitude of the majority of the Anglican clergy towards war, Canon Stuart Morris, a former honorary canon of Birmingham, will…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Indian Congress Leaders War Support For Dominion Status, LONDON
Three hundred Indian Congress leaders will meet to-morrow at Delhi. It is expected that they will express their willingness to cooperate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Austrian War Pilots Hostile to Nazis Two Escapees in Sydney SYDNEY
At least 60 per cent. of the personnel of the Austrian Air Force was hostile toward the Germans, declared two former members on their arrival in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Health Plans May Be Curtailed Money Needed for War Effort Federal Control Shelved Canberra
Important projects planned by the Commonwealth Health Department this year may have to be postponed or seriously curtailed because of the need for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War's Effect on Imports £3,000,000 Fall Last Month Smaller Gold Shipments Canberra
The impact of the first month of the war on Australian oversea trade was revealed by a statement issued to-day by the Commonwealth Statistician…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trials of Soldiering
Hauling a limber home after a practice shoot is not easy work. Here members of B Company, 1st Sydney Regiment, who are in camp at Long Bay, show how it should be done…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →60,000 VOLUNTEERS Enlistments in Canadian Militia TORONTO, October 8
Sixty thousand men have joined the Canadian militia since the end of August. This number does not include men who hove joined the navy or the air force…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Annual Reunion Returned Soldiers' Sub-Branch
Old comrades in arms assembled on Saturday night at the annual reunion organised by Cessnock Sib-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Not a Red Soldier to Help Nazis Stalin's Reported Reply To Ribbentrop LONDON
The Moscow correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reveals that on his last visit to the Soviet capital the German Foreign Minister (Herr von Ribbentrop) asked Stalin whether, in the event of the worst, Hitler could count on being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War on Neutral Ships Oslo Powers May Protest to Reich Sinking of Gun Evidence at Stockholm Inquiry (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, October 8
The Paris wireless states that the Oslo Powers are considering making a joint protest to Germany against the torpedoing of neutral…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hitler to Get Some Bad News Allies To Give War Aims No Parley Till They Get Them Chamberlain to Make Full Reply London
When answering Herr Hitler's loosely-phrased plea for a truce and a conference, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) may make a full statement of Britain's war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Cabinet Meeting Melbourne
The War Cabinet will continue its sitting to-morrow, and will meet again on Monday and Tuesday of next-week. On the following day a meeting of the full…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Gifts to War Fund Melbourne
People continue to send cash to the Federal Government to assist in the war. At the week-end, a business man called on the Minister for Commerce…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Avoiding Waste in Man-power Modern War Methods
Profligate waste of man-power such as the carnage of Passchendaele, Neuve Chapelle, Loos and Fleurbaix cannot he repeated in this war. That is the one great lesson learned by both the Allies and the I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sinews Of War: The Baltic States and Germany
WITH the British Fleet blockading the entrance to the Baltic, Germany is now looking to the Scandinavian countries to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Book Review: Heroine of China's War: "Mother of Guerrillas"
ACCORDING to correspondents who have been in touch with the Chinese back of the Japanese occupation, Japan is hammering the rest of China into a new…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Back on the Old Job Again Famous War Correspondents London
The first group of war correspondent left to-day to Join the R.A.F. in France. War correspondents who were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Deal Jointly on War Problems Australian and British Manufacturers CANBERRA
The establishment of a joint advisory committee by the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia and the Australian Association of British…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Control in State During War Works, Transport Activities SYDNEY
The Commonwealth Government is considering taking over State works and transport organisations at least for the duration of the war. A STATEMENT to that effect was…
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