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The Government's official list of "reserved occupations" in case of war gives an impression that there will scarcely be anyone to do the fighting. Hundreds of occupations are listed as indispensable—jobs from which men may not be called for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, Monday:—Australia's unofficial representative, Miss Ruby Rich, at a conference on the causes of war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"It is a scheme to make us ready for war," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain), inaugurating the national service campaign. "That does not mean that I think…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Ramsbotham, Minister of Pensions, in his annual report, stated that the pension bill from the great war still costs £40,200,000 a year, although…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE world was saved from being plunged into the greatest war in history by the action of the British Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) in meeting Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden, on September…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SAN FRANCISCO, Monday:—Harry Bridges telegraphed Mr. Roosevelt that Nazi agents and sympathisers working on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday.—The correspondent of the British United Press at Rome says it is stated, on most trustworthy authority, that Signor Mussolini has already taken military steps to meet the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday:—In a broadcast address inaugurating an intensive drive for national service, the Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) said that, though it was necessary for war, that did not mean that he thought war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday:—Mr. F. M. J. Baker, M.H.R. (Labor member for Griffith), enlisted to-day and joined the 14th Light Horse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. F. M. J. Baker, a Labour M.H.R., joined the light Horse (machine gun section). Mr. Baker is believed to be the first Federal member of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Enlistments for the Casino unit of the Byron Regiment will be made at the Casino drill hall an Thursday night between 7.30 o'clock and 9.30 o'clock. A…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"The new kind of war we may have to face will differ in two ways from anything Britain has known for a thousand years, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →H. C. Baywater, writing in the "Daily Telegraph," drawing attention to naval officers' assertions in the German Admiralty's January review that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday:— "The new kind of war we may have to face will differ in two ways from anything Britain has known for thousands of years and there may not be time to complete our preparations after this outbreak,"…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Good progress in enlisting militiamen was being made in the area from Tweed Heads to Burleigh Heads, Lieutenant R. E…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →NEW YORK, Thursday:—It is confirmed, says the Washington correspondent of the "New York Daily News," that France is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Thursday:—A War Book containing the details of plans of campaign in the event of a certain situation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CANBERRA, Thursday:—It is expected that the Duke of Kent will be invited by the Commonwealth to open the National War…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The long drawn-out struggle in Spain is in its final stages. France's forces have reached the outskirts of Barcelona, and the city is being heavily bombarded…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Wednesday:—A Berlin message states that Britain, France and Russia together possess 20,000 war planes, according to an…
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