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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
483 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 25
Allowing that all undertakings must play a secondary role in the war effort, there still should be thought and time and money for approved schemes of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sincere regret was expressed in Braidwood when word was received that Pte. "Bill" Spooner," who was attached to the staff of the Commercial…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →While our attention is naturally focussed on the all-important question of winning this war, we are apt to overlook a most important side of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Since the start of the war Britain has made remarkable progress in applying radio to war purposes. Radio-location is, of course, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It was simultaneously announced in Canberra and Washington at the weekend that all anti-Axis sea, land, and air forces in the south-west Pacific had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rangoon Radio says that thousands were killed or injured when the Japanese heavily raided Rangoon on Christmas Day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Active Service,” which has been published in Australia under the supervision of the Board of Management of the Australian War Memorial,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Commonwealth Government in the next six months will raise war loans totalling between £70,000,000 and £80,000,000 to complete requirements…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON.—It is authoritatively timated in London that the Germans have lost between 6000 and 80O planes on the Russian front since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German prisoners of war, captured by the Soviet Army in fighting lighting cigarettes which have been given them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The engineer’s prints without which Britain could not produce a single battleship, tank, or aeroplane or even the smallest nut or bolt, are changing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After two years’ continuous research, Great Britain is today able to introduce pottery into many new fields of British industry to take the place of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oranges are urgently needed by the Red Cross, which supplies them to convalescent men and to sick dependents of Australian soldiers. Please…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Treasury figures released at Canberra yesterday show an acceleration in war production. War expenditure from loan funds for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) pointed out that all letters sent through the Red Cross to prisoners of war in enemy countries had first to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON.—The Soviet Anny newspaper says:—"The hour is not far distant when, the Siberian Army will be called upon to deal a new crushing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →National Security regulations were gazetted last week to give effect to the Commonwealth Government's compensation proposals for civilians…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain is using glass to save steel. It is translucent, toughened glass which can now take the place of steel as the top plate of hot cabinets in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The authorities are making an urgent appeal for the collection of old aluminium, which is urgently needed in the making of aircraft. One ton from each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increases in prices for lubricating and other oils, to take effect from today, were authorised yesterday by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner,…
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