Hardest Battle In Spanish War Italy and Germany Assist Rebels Barcelona
The Defence Ministry describes the present conflict in Spain as the hardest battle in the war. It adds that the Loyalists captured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
540 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 27
Effect of Meat War
James Godfrey, a drover, who was formerly a Lismore butcher, told the Deputy Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. H. Hawkins) in the Bankruptcy…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →New Zealand Trip For Australian Diggers Anzac Day Celebrations in 1940
The R.S.S.I.L. has circularised sub-branches with a view to ascertaining the number of ex-servicemen and women who are bent on making…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pathetic End of Returned Soldier Drank Hydrocyanic Acid Only Married a Fortnight Was Unable to Locate Wife
Several weeks ago a returned soldier named Newby Harris (41), who has relatives in the district, arrived in Coonabarabran and established himself in business in Cassilis Street as a cabinet maker and French polisher. He was a first-class…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spanish War Franco's Successes London
The Burgos correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that as a result of his latest attack in Catalonia, General…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Evacuating Children If War Comes Shelter for 3,000,000 Move in Britain Voluntary Census London
"However remote the possibility may be, we must prepare in good time against it," says a Government circular to local…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Zealand Trip for Australian Diggers Anzac Day Celebrations In 1940
The R.S.S.I.L. has circularised subbranches with a view to ascertaining the number of ex-servicemen and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Spanish War Rebels Continue Advance London
Spanish Rebels, starting from the village of Blancaford, broke the second Republican field fortifications defending the right bank of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Economic War Against Japan Will Britain Act London
Rumors, apparently officially inspired are current that Britain, in conjunction with France and the United States, is on the verge of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Defence Scheme Five Main Points War Believed Inevitable
Asserting that the American people believed that war is inevitable, Senator Walsh, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Growers Will Fight Result of War by Milling Combine
The General President of the Wheatgrowers’ Union of New South Wales, Mr. G. A. Gibbons, told the “Central Western” (Parkes) that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If War Comes Organisation to Protect Population in N.S.W. Government's Scheme
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner'r has been appointed to undertake the work of establishing complete organisation to give…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aborigines as Soldiers (To the Editor)
I see where an individual named J. T. Pratten, who styles himself president of the Aborigines' Progressive Association of Sydney, has promised…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Desperate Fight Detective Wounded SYDNEY
Detective Jack, of Darlinghurst police, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital last night suffering from a deep…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Spanish War Rebel Successes London
The Spanish Republican forces, advancing towards the important industrial town of Igualada, captured the adjacent hydro-electric works. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese War Zone Doctor's Escape Sydney
Doctor T. A. Watson, a New Zealander, who arrived to-day from the East, gave a graphic account of his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →If War Comes Organisation to Protect Population in N.S.W. Government’s Scheme
The Minister for Transport (Mr Bruxner) has been appointed to undertake the work of establishing complete organisation to give…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pathetic End of Returned Soldier Drank Hydrocyanic Acid Only Married a Fortnight
Recently a returned soldier named. Newby Harris (41), who has relatives in the Coonabarabran district, arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bourke Branch of Soldiers League
The annual general meeting of members of the Bourke Branch of the R.S. & S.I.L.A. will be held in the Council Chambers on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Civil War Aid From the Fleet London
The "London Times" Hendaye correspondent declares that several units of the Nationalist fleet are reported to be waiting oft the Mediterranean…
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