War Clouds Helped German Cyclists British Team Recalled
Not since the Great War has such a dramatic experience befallen a British contingent in a world classic motor cycle reliability…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
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The Red Shield War Welfare Work Of Salvation Army
When Lt.—Commissioner W. R. Dalziel returned last week from London, where he took part in the High Council election of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Migration From Federal Capital Departmental Transfers War-time Arrangements
If present intentions are adhered to, the Federal Parliament will resume its sitting's on November 15. In the meantime, it would appear…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Royal Show as Usual to Be Worthy of War Effort
The Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales has determined to make the 1940 Royal Easter Show fully worthy of the national effort…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Expenditure Australia Will Spend £60,000,000 in First Year
In the first year of the last war, Australian defence expenditure was £15,000,000. During the first year of the present war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What Happened in Last War? a Valuable Survey 1914-18 and To-day
We have been asked by many of our clients and business associates just how the War will affect Australia's economic position. The only competent way of answering this question is to take the period of the Great War…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Shower Bombs On England" War To Death Strong Outburst by German Press Berlin
Hitler to-day conferred with Generals von Brauchitsch and Keitel and other high military officials…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labor’s Duty in the War Where We Stand and What We Have to Do
Mankind no longer owned tut guided, such is the new aspect of things which must be the purpose of Labor as it contemplates all that is involved in this war. It may appear a strange thing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dubbo Cricketers Enlist in 2nd A.I.F. Luke McGuinn and Viv. Dawson Resign from D.D.C.A.
Moving that the resignations of Messrs. L. McGuinn and V. Dawson he accepted with regret, Mr. W. A. Bell (president Dubbo District…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More British Ships Sunk Rescuers Ordered Not to Pick Up "Soldiers U-boat Captain Gloats Over Victims
Three more British ships and a Greek steamer have been sunk by German submarine action. Several members of the crew of one ship are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War In Europe
There has been no major developments in the war in Europe during the last week. Very little activity has been reported from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers Warned
The Senior Military Officer at Victoria Barracks last night issued a warning to single men who joined the second A.I.F. against being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Purchases
Britain's bulk purchase of Australia's surplus primary products will have a tremendous influence in achieving a degree of national stability…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dutch East Indies Mission to Australia Effect of the War
Writing from Batavia, the Australian Government Commissioner in Netherlands India (Mr. H. A. Peterson) states that the war has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Products Huge Sales In First Week of War Sydney, Friday night
Within the first four weeks of the outbreak of war, Australia had completed negotiations for the sale of Australian products to the value…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destruction Of Enemy U-Boats Menace Will Be Overcome War Review by Mr. Chamberlain German Shipping Arrested By Allies London
Germany's submarine warfare was being waged with growing lawlessness at which Britain could feel nothing but detestation, said Mr. Chamberlain in a weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War News Western Front Quiet Very Little Activity
The latest communique from the western front reports that everything is quiet, due to rain and snow. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers on Leave
The arrival of the Sydney mail at Wellington on Thursday evening had every appearance of a troop train. In every compartment men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diggers' Pensions What Returned Soldiers' League Is Doing Officer at Dubbo
"That the R.S. &. S.I.L. pledges itself not only to carry on with its obligations to all exservicemen and women of the war of 1914-18…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This Slow War
How often does one hear the expression that this war is not like the last war; that it is so terribly slow that one would hardly know there…
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