China War Total Japanese Casualties Estimated at 870,000 CHUNGKING
The military authorities estimate that the Japanese casualties since the beginning of hostilities are 870,000. They say that the Japanese estimates of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
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The Latest Second Edition Britain Ready for Any Contingency Lord Nuffield on War "If Any Want to Fight, Now Is the Time" London
"If any nation wants to fight, now is the time," declared Lord Nuffield, who was a guest at the New Zealand Society luncheon to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Far East War British Shipping Japanese Right to Stop Vessels
The Minister for External Affairs (Sir Henry Gullett) explained in the House of Representatives on Tuesday the conditions under which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Wounded at Junee
John Paton, who resides at a boarding house in Broadly, Junee, was admitted to the Junee Hospital on Thursday night with a wound in his back,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Palestine Many Bombs Thrown Four Arabs Killed and Twenty Wounded Jerusalem
Four Arabs were killed and 20 wounded when a bomb was thrown among the bites at the Jaffa Gate. Three more bombs were thrown in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Missionary Leaves War Zone in Plane Sydney
To live through an era of almost incessant bombing by Japanese planes, and then to escape from the town of Chungking the day before it was laid…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Foreign Club Brawl Man Wounded by Bullet Stiletto Produced During Fracas Melbourne
Robert Homfray, aged 30 years, laborer, of Collingwood, sustained a bullet wound in the groin after a quarrel in the Foreign Club in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Border Traffic in War Time Canberra
Plans have been prepared by the Defence Department to cope with the carriage of freight between New South Wales and Victoria in the event of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heirs of Famous Fighters Kitchener, Jellicoe, Haig What They Think of War London, May 20
"War and fighting do not attract me in the least", declared Earl Kitchener this week. He is the 20-years-old grand nephew of the famous soldier who raised an army of over a million volunteers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Naval Ratings May Seek Re-Enlistment Training for Civil Life CANBERRA
The Minister for Defence said that naval ratings may seek re-enlistment after their term of service expired, and that they were entitled to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Zealand Defence Appeal for Militia Enlistments Wellington (Viz.)
"I am not here to create a scare or magnify world events, but New Zealand may soon be called upon to defend her shores," said the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burglar Fatally Wounded Melbourne
A married man, Owen Harold Anstee, 44, on parole from a mental hospital, was shot dead by a policeman to-day at Whattlesea township, 26 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Material in Spain British Government Criticised London
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. R. A. Butler) replying in the House of Commons to-day to a barrage of questions regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arrested Britisher Had Been Wounded by Japanese Sentries Guard Operating Theatre Shanghai
It is revealed that Mr. R. M. Tinkler, a British employee at a finishing mill at Pootung, who was arrested by the Japanese, was wounded by a Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hitler Thanks Spain for Neutrality in Great War Berlin
Herr Hitler, addressing German soldiers who returned from Spain, declared to-day that in answering General Franco's appeal to himself and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.A.F. Put On Strong War Footing: Giant Boats As Coast Patrol
Short Sunderland “flying fortress” in the air. Arrows indicate gun turrets in the nose and tail of the machine, which weighs 20 tons fully loaded. The Commonwealth Government has ordered from Britain an unspecified number of Short Sunderland Flying Fortresses for long-range reconnaissance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hitler's Accusation Mr. Duff Cooper Urges Enlistment London
The former First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Duff Cooper), making an appeal for national service at Finchley to-day, declared that Britain's answer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Soldier Tortured and Flogged London
A number of Arabs, vainly trying to obtain military information, flogged and tortured Private Boylan, of the Worcestershire Regiment, whom they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With Little Discussion Griffith Soldiers' Memorial Hall Decided On
A DIFFERENT position to that at Leeton obtains in Griffith, where, with very little discussion, a meeting of the…
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