The War Day by Day Finland Gains Ground
Three significant reports of the Russo-Finnish situation have reached Australia almost concurrently. The first is that the Finns, a handful of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
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T.B. Infected Soldiers Thirty-One Discharged
Thirty-one men of the 16th Brigade, Second A.I.F., were shown by, re-examinations by X-ray to be suffering from tuberculosis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First War Loan
Details for the issue of Australia’s first war loan are expected to be agreed to when the Loan Council meets in Melbourne on Friday. The amount…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Ruins Hamburg
There could be be no more striking commentary on rule in Germany than the spectacle presented in the country’s principal ports, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Polish War Victims Relief Fund
From all parts of New South Wales, gifts of money and clothing have been received by the Polish War Victims Relief Fund…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Warship Sinks Seventy Fishing Boats
SHANGHAI.—Chinese reported that a Japanese warship off Swatow on Thursday Bank 70 fishing boats, resulting in the drowning of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War Day by Day. New Air Chief
Air Chief Marshal S[?] Burnett, who is coming to Australian as Chief of Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force, has the [?] rank of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War-Day by Day Poor Nazi Bombing
Unable to match their skill against the ships of the British and French navies Nazi planes have turned once more to a campaign of bombing and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air War Not Yet Started Britain Is Confident LONDON
Watchers from a lightship on the East Coast of England described how German plane bombed and machine-gunned a homeward bound trawler,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Losses in Finnish War London
According to French radio reports the Finnish losses so far total 20,000 dead and wounded, and the. Russians have lost 150,000 dead and wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War Day by Day Wireless Trainees
Part of Australia's contribution to the Empire Air Scheme, a wireless, training school, will be opened at the Melbourne Technical College…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War Italy May Be Forced to Fight
ROME.—After a conference of Fascist Party leaders Italians were warned that they might be compelled to fight in the European war at any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Financing the War" (To the Editor of the "Dispatch")
Sir,—We have been told that the war expenditure for the current year is estimated at £62,000,000, and that the vote for the year 1940-41…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Button Day Appeal Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and War Fyrjd
Never before has it been so essential for those with the welfare of Australia and the British Empire at heart to cooperate in every possible direction in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Another Ship Sunk
LONDON.—The Admiralty has announced that the destroyer Grenville (1485 tons) was sunk by a mine or torpedo in the North Sea. Eight…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TheWar-Day by Day Wheat Prices
The British Government has acceded to a request from the Australian Wheat Board that the price of the 1,500,000 tons of wheat sold to Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Day by Day Super Battleships
The evolution of the modem capital ship affords an excellent example of scientific progress. Capital ships until recent years were either…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Patriotic and War Comforts Fund Committee Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and war Fund Committee was held at the Municipal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Range War”
“Range War,” the newest and best of all Paramount's popular “Hopalong Cassidy” outdoor films, brimming with action thrills and romance, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Day by Day Wheat Prices
The British Government has acceded to a request from the Australian Wheat Board that the price of the 1,500,000 tons of wheat sold to…
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