EDITORIAL War Unpreparedness
THE British Press has echoed Australia's call to Britain to take a realistic view of the war in the Pacific. In consequence, London…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
1,154 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 5 of 58
Curtin's Critics Answered in Review of War
When the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) "looked to America," pursuing a policy of realism which promises already to react to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Desert War Initiative Regained By Rommel London
According to an authoritative source, the initiative in the Libyan campaign has passed temporarily to General Rommel, who has moved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cafe Window Smashed: Soldier Remanded
The sequel to an alleged stone-throwing and the breaking of a plate glass window in front of the Vogue Cafe premises, in Macquarie Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News in Brief War Certificate Sales
Sales of war savings certificates at Dubbo for the week ended Monday amounted to £153, which was a reduction on the figures for other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Resolute Sydney Girls Preparing For Advent of War Quiet, Thorough Training Fits Them for Big Job
Thousands and thousands, mostly women, appear to congregate at the Fire Brigade headquarters in Castlereagh Street, Sydney, these nights. A demonstration of fire fighting makes it all so much clearer than just reading about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Enlistments for the Week
Mr. J. B. Sword, Recruiting Officer, advises the following [?] listments at Gilgandra during the past week: For the A.I.F.:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sick Soldiers Embroider Curing Nervous Ailments
London doctors are to day prescribing embroidery for soldiers with nervous troube. Knitting, explains Lady Smith-Dorrien, head of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier's Death Accidentally Killed Sapper Jim Smith, Of Collie
News was received in Collie on Tuesday afternoon from the Defence Department that NX 1170 Sapper J. H. Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jack Renshaw to Enlist
Mr. J. B. Renshaw. M.L.A., for Castlereagh, was in Orange on Friday, says the Dubbo “Dispatch,” for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Men Wanted Returned Soldiers and Ex- Militia Trainees
Returned Soldiers and ex-Militia trainees have responded splendidly—over 200 men have enlisted in the 8th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Loan Committee
The former local Committee for War Loan purposes has again beep asked to meet to deal with the new War Loan to be launched shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daily Summary of the War Highlights of the War This Week
The British Parliament has carried a vote of confidence in the Government by 464 to 1. The large Japanese convoy in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dubbo’s War Savings Certificates
Progress sales of War Savings Certificates in Dubbo for the week ending 26th January, amounted to £15[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Black Wool Wanted. Appeal by Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund
Mr. A. J. Wedlock, Secretary of: the Bourke sub-branch of the R.S.S. & A.I.L.A. has received an urgent appeal for black wool from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dubbo’s War Effort Important Organisations Moving Need for Community Co-operation
The question is often asked “What is Dubbo doing in regard to preparation for war?” It is only right to say at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers Letters
In addition to our request of Parents and Relatives to let us have anything interesting in the letters they receive from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stealing Charge Ex-soldier at Dubbo Court Committed for Trial at Quarter Sessions
At the Dubbo Police Court this morning, before Mr. D. S. Parker, P.M., Ray Eric Vincent, an ex-soldier, who was arrested on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cafe Window Broken Soldier Freed of Charge But Fined for Insulting Language
Henry James Belcher, a soldier attached to the Military Camp at Dubbo, was charged in the Dubbo Police Court to-day with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Service Homes Rentals to Stand
Writing to last night's meeting of the Dubbo sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, Mr. J. J. Clark,…
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