War Work Praised British Mission Impressed
High praise for Australia’s industrial war effort is contained in the report of the British Supply Mission, which visited Australia last year…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1941
573 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 23 of 29
War News London, Sept. 11. (A.A.P.)
Britain is believed to be preparing to launch in Libya the most powerful land offensive of the war, reports the Capetown correspondent of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News Bulletin of News in Brief Australian Mortar is Efficient
The 3-inch trench mortar which to-day is being assembled in Victoria and New South Wales is a successor to the Stokes mortar which was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fine Art for the War Chest Britain Shipping 500,000 Dollars Worth a Year
America is a steady and increasing buyer of British fine art reproductions —mezzotints, wood-cuts, etchings, dry-points, colour-collotypes, lithographs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in the Pacific
The opinion was expressed to-day by a well-known American newspaper correspondent, Hallett Abend, who is in Sydney, that war will break…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →“Prisoners of War” Day
It has been decided to bring forward the next Red Cross Day to November 28. It will be known as the “Prisoners of War” Day and all the proceeds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Textiles and the War
More than 26,000,000 single items of clothing have been delivered by Australian textile manufacturers since the outbreak of war. The “digger” of 1941…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Affects Australian Motor Industry
The extent to which Australia’s motor industry has suffered owing to war sales returns of cars in July, 1941. conditions is tragically revealed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Axis Raider in Pacific
NEW YORK (A.A.P.).— An Axis raider has been operating in the Pacific sea lanes leading to the Panama Canal, according to reliable sources…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War News London, September 15 (A.A.P.)
Fresh instances of unrest in German occupied territories are reported. A series of serious-revolts has broken out in several parts of Yugoslavia. One…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Breaking Charge Soldier Committed For Trial
When John Reginald Sloss, aged 28 soldiers, was asked by police if he had broken windows in David Jones’ Castlereagh Street store, he allegedly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interesting Soldier From Middle East
Much interest was taken in the visit of Colonel E. O. Milne who has returned by clipper from the Middle East. He was closely in touch with the Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War Allies in Teheran
LONDON (A.A.P.).—British and Russian staff officers entered Teheran this morning, while Allied mechanised units surrounded the capital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parcels for prisoners of War
Next of Kin parcels may now be sent to Prisoners of War in Kokinia (Hospital ) Camp, Italy. It is possible that some men interned in this camp may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest War News London, Thursday (A.A.P.)
General Von Leeb has launched a new drive against Leningrad, where the Russian counter-attacks are growing in frequency and fierceness…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War News Bulletin of News in Brief Marine Engines to be Built
Large Government marine engine workshops to be established at bane and Melbourne will prove a valuable addition to the general…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Indian Soldiers in the Sudan
Troops of an Indian Infantry Brigade stationed in one of Britain's outposts on the Eritrean border. They have been in several recent successful actions against the Italian forces. In this picture they are crossing the River Atbara (Dept. of Information Phota)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Enlisted on the Spot
At an exhibition of war pictures shown in Sydney by the Legacy Club two young men were so impressed that they announced to those in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News
An Australian fighter squadron shot down six German fighters on, Saturday when the Command had its busiest day since the R.A.F. took the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Russia and Germany
LONDON (A.A.P.).—The Russians to-night admit the loss of Kiev. They state that the city was evacuated after many days of fierce fighting…
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