The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore. N.S.W. P.O. Box 3. Telephones (2 lines) Nos. 2 and 48 Wednesday, January 3, 1940. We Are In This War To Win
Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 6
COMMUNISM aims at the overthrow of the present system of government and social order by revolution. Australia is fighting a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Toy Soldiers Help to Win War Big British Export Trade LONDON
Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5
Oversea children had more British toys this Christmas than last. Toy soldiers and guns shipped to the world's nurseries are helping to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Inventors Suggest "Radio Tanks"
Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 10
Radio-controlled tanks, the use of chain-shot against aeroplanes, and decoy lighting to deceive German pilots are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War Time Industries When Peace Secured MELBOURNE
Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6
Replying to fears by the apprenticeship commissioner in New South Wales (Mr. McIntyre) that the process industry to be established by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →U.S. Aid for War Victims Washington
Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 9
The American Red Cress has spent 858.881 dollars (£268.400) on war relief since the outbreak of the war. Of this amount, more than 138,000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Red Attack on Mannerheim Line Fails. 200,000 Russians Held At Bay War in Blizzard London
Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 1
THE re-organised Russian army, under General Stern, numbering 200,000, launched a great frontal attack on the Mannerheim Line in a blinding blizzard, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.Z. Contingent Marches Behind Returned Soldiers Wellington (N.z.)
Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 7
Excitement ran high through the streets of Wellington to-day when the New Zealand contingent for abroad marched behind the returned soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortage of Hospital Accommodation for Soldiers Melbourne
Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6
Many matters affecting all arms of Australian fighting services will be considered when the War Cabinet again assembles in Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Music for Allied Soldiers
Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 7
LONDON, Tuesday:—Mle. Clara Novello Davies, whose organisation sent 50,000 mouth organs and 10,000 tin whistles to the soldiers in the last war,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Affects Building Kyogle Shire Figures
The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 8
The outbreak of war with the automatic tightening up of finance is reflected in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The War, Day by Day Still More 'Planes
The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 6
Australia's defence demand's have turned what was a sandy waste at Port Melbourne (Vic.), two years or a little more ago, into one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War, Day By Day Russia's New Threat
The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 7
News that Russia was reported to be massing troops on the border of Afghanistan is a reminder of the enormous expanse of Europe and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Round Table" To End War.. the Hague
Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 1
The Premier (M. De Geer), in a New Year's broadcast, appealed to belligerent Powers to realise that it was a better…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Post-war Problems Agenda for Agric. Council Canberra
Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 1
The first steps in post war economic planning will be taken by the Federal Government next month, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"War Bubble" Industries Should Be Guarded Against Sydney
Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 10
The Government should ensure that "war bubble" industries were not created suddenly, employing thousands of workers, and as suddenly throwing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Nazi Press Prepares Public Forentry to War in Finland
Tweed Daily · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 3
BERLIN, Wednesday:—For the first time the German Press acquaints the public that Germany might be involved in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Cabinet Discusses Air Force Resignation of Staff Chief Considered
Tweed Daily · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Thursday: On completion of the detailed survey of Air Force administration, the War Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol Without Trial Erin's War on I.R.A. TERRORISTS
The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 4
DUBLIN: At a special session the Dail voted the Government emergency powers to deal with terrorism…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Activity In Finnish War Stalin Calls for Utmost Effort
Tweed Daily · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 3
LONDON, Thursday:—To-day's news from Finland tells of aerial activity both by the Finns and Russians. According to the Helsinki correspondent of a Swedish newspaper, Finnish planes flew over Leningrad and dropped leaflets…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vastness of Dominions' War Effort Mr. Bruce Speaks to the Empire
Tweed Daily · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 5
LONDON, Wednesday: — "where Australia stands, there stand all the Dominions—young democracies, masters of their own destinies, sprung…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →