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In an official communique the Finns claim to have dispersed a battalion of Russians killing 200 men and capturing 40. The enemy, they state, lost nine planes on January 5. Commissioner Lamb, of the Salvation Army, announces…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miss Fay Elliott of New Lambton, who recently returned home from England, where for the past two and a half years she has been completing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Indications ate increasing that Scandinavian tolerance of German bullying and Russian aggression in Finland ia at breaking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →His pilot dead, himself dying from n bullet wound in the head, an heroic French observer grounded his crippled plane safely in a ploughed field…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A ZEPPELIN and three aeroplanes flew over Calais on January 9, in the direction of Dover. Sixteen hostile aeroplanes were flying…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Twenty-one years after the end of the Great War the Ministry of Pensions is still spending £38,000,000 each year on ex-soldiers and their dependants…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →IT is generally accepted in official circles that, if the Allies encounter serious difficulty in prosecuting the war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Conscientious objectors among the compulsory trainees may be allotted to the Army Medical Corps, or to clerical or camp…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soviet surgeons have found new methods for treating wounds in the RussoFinish war, according to the Moscow Press…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the foreground a christmas postcard scene—in the Background war. Black clouds of smoke rising from the firing just around the corner. A Finnish contrast. ALLIED CHIEFS…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For the second day the French Press pays great attention to Mr. Chamberlain's speech of Tuesday, which is interpreted as meaning that Anglo-French…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In future, all charitable organisations in the Greater Newcastle area working for patriotic purposes will come under the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The impossibility of keeping up the same rate of borrowing by States with the increased defence expenditure had to be faced, said the Acting Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Italy has agreed to give military aid to Hungary if the latter is threatened by the Soviet with invasion. This was stated on the Rome radio yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Some of the soldiers who visit the Victoria League's buffet are keen music lovers and enjoy a session of community singing. Often they can supply a pianist…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →READY FOR ACTION. A British anti-aircraft gun crew in France prepare to meet attackers. Right: INSTALLING AUTOMATIC traffic lights at the corner of Glebe-road and Pacific Highway, Adamstown, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Various war veteran organisations are already working to ensure that no injustices shall befall those who serve overseas,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day saw the most widely spread air raids since the beginning of the war. Nazi planes crossed the coast at various points from Scotland to the Thames Estuary. No bombs were dropped, but several towns were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The first batch of British wounded have arrived in England. Most are suffering from bullets and hand grenade splinters, received while patrolling the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Not a man escaped when Red parachute troops in groups of 50, were carried by planes over the Mannerheim line in an attempt to…
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