Latest War News London, Monday (A.A.P.)
While hundreds of RA.F. planes blitzed German, bases and Industrial centres in the West, Germany in the east threw all types of tanks and…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1941
573 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 15 of 29
Australians Take Sidon (From Kenneth Slessor, Official War Correspondent)
After four days and nights of bitter fighting, Australian troops took [?] of Sidon. Patrols from a South Australian [?] entered the town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News Germany Attacks Russia LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P,)
The German armies invaded Soviet Russia in the early hours of Sunday morning. Fighting is taking place along the entire frontier and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post War Wool Problems to Be Overcome Dr. Clunies Bosses Views
Dr. I. Clunies Ross, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, told the Stock Inspectors' Conference recently that, although the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Timber and War (By the Premier of New South Wales, the Hon: -W. J. McKELL)
War has cut off half of our timber supply—the halt that was imported from overseas to meet our domestic building…
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Objectives in western and northern Germany were attacked by the Royal! Air Force on Tuesday night for the, fourteenth night in succession. Heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War—and After
Recognition of the riches and the commercial possibilities of Australia is growing apace in Great Britain. Capital from the motherland and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Germans and Russians in Tremendous Battle
LONDON (A.A.P.)— Russian and German armies continue to grapple on an enormous front, but there is no proof of a decisive German thrust at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Braidwood District Patriotic Fund Annual Meeting District's Fine War Effort
The annual meeting of the above was held on Saturday afternoon, the President, Mr. John Grigg, being in the chair. There were present…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russo-german War Heavy Engaments With Tanks and Planes LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)
Thousands of tanks are now battling in the Russo-German war. These tanks are engaged in many independent battles spread along a great front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News Soldier Crushed to Death
Thomas H. Colley (24), of Bathurst, a military trainee attached to Wallgrove Camp, was killed at midnight when he was caught between two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canteen Orders Soldiers’ Thanks
At the meeting on Tuesday night of the Queanbeyan and Yarrowlumla Shire Patriotic and War Fund Committee, a further batch of letters was read…
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The Royal Air Force has appealed to Frenchmen to sabotage French factories being used by the Germans for the manufacture of war materials…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Serious German Losses
LONDON, Monday. (A.A.P.).—A Russian communique early this morning claims to have inflicted "heavy losses on the Germans. "Germans in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Materials Huge Quantities Will Be Available Through Curtailment of Car Production
Latest reports from U.S.A. show that the whole automobile industry has decided to cut its scheduled output of cars and trucks for 1942 by 1,000,000,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War News at Rome and Abroad Wounded Evacuated by Air
An extremely interesting development in the handling of Australian casualties in the North African campaign was the rapid evacuation of…
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With the conf[?]ct between Germany and Russia now at a critical stage, the fighting in the next few days will probably determine the outcome…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agriculture and the War
Last week the Australian Agricultural Council met in Canberra. They were discussing one of the most important of Australia’s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Food Stocks in War Time
The State Director for Emergency Supply, Mr. W. B. Hudson, has announced that the first stocks of food in the Federal Government’s scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Germany Will Never Win the War"
A Russian communique, to-night says there is fierce fighting in the Murmansk, Dvinsk, Borison, Slutsk, Bobriusk and Luck…
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