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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

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The War Day by Day Roumanian Navy

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 February 1940 · page 4

Roumania's small defensive navy is to be reinforced by three torpedo beats built at Portsmouth. Roumania's small coastline on the…

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War Aims and Peace

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 2

ALTHOUGH it has been suggested that the American Under-Secretary for State (Mr. Summer Welles) is visiting Europe in the…

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War-time Needs Utilising "Waste" Scrap As Raw Material

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 6

When the waterside workers at Port Kembla held up the shipment of scrap iron to Japan Mr. Menzies, then…

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Britain's War Aims Independence For Poles And Czechs Stirring Speech by Mr. Chamberlain

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 4

Britain's war aims were recapitulated by the British Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) in a speech at…

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War at Sea British Vessel Sunk by U-boat Warship Takes Quick Revenge London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 1

The steamer Loch Maddy was torpedoed in the North Atlantic on Thursday. Thirty-five survivors were picked up…

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Labour Win As Censure Of War Policy View Of U.A.P. Candidate For Corio Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 1

The U.A.P. candidate for Corio, Mr. Vinton Smith, addressing a meeting at Geelong, declared that a Labor win in Corio would infer a…

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News in Brief Italy and War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 2

Italy would enter the war if it spread to the Balkans because the Danube, in addition to the Mediterranean was the keynote to Italian security, said…

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War Victims' Day Special Appeal May 3

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 4

The executive committee of the Lord Mayer's Patriotic Fund has agreed to make available May 3 for a joint appeal on behalf of the…

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Wool in War Time Canadian- American Position

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd report:— The wool world has seen some quick changes since the war started. In January Canada suspended for four…

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Commercial Wool in War Time Canadian-American Position

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 7

The wool world has seen some quick changes since the war started, reports Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., In January, Canada…

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The Real Finance of War Diversion of Resources

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 8

The phrase "war finance" is apt to conjure up an idea of money, or the spending of money…

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Agricultural Changes Since the Last War. Some Future Possibilities

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 3

In the momentous years between the oubtreak of the last war and this there have been many changes in the rural…

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Housing in War Time Influence on National Life Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 1

The ex-Premier at N.S.W. (Mr. B. S. B. Stevens), in an address before the Institute of Building Society Secretaries…

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War on Hoppers C.s.i. R Has "Munitions" Probing Pests' Habits

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 6

A Canberra message states that the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research hopes to secure an early solution to the…

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Agriculture Vital Importance in War Plans Prime Minister Urges Supreme Effort London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 1

The great importance of agriculture in the national war effort was stressed by both the Prime Minister and Mr. Lloyd…

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The War—day by Day Topical Items Hotel Fast, Jerusaleum Allenby's Big Bluff

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 8

Men of the A.l.F. Light Hor[?]e, when they [?]d that an hotel in Jerusaleum will be converted into a club to accomodate leava parties of…

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Digger's Body Found in River Had Over Four Years' War Service Medals in Hut

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 1

Herbert Lowe (66), a returned soldier with over four years' service with the A.I.F. in the Great War, was found…

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War News To World Talk To Journalists Time for Women to Come Out Energetic Bride

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 8

How journalists love to talk shop! There has not been such a roll-up of eager-faced scribes to an Institute of…

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War at Sea Near Death in Open Boats Surviving Victims Of U-boat Rescued London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 1

When the captain of the steamer Glenorchy saw what apparently was an empty boat 80 miles from Spain, he…

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New Zealand Soldiers in Palestine

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 1

Men who put the N.Z. into Anzac. Members of the New Zealand overseas forces gaze on Palestine as their transport arrives at its destination…

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