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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
4,075 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 204
The Finns have won a smashing victory on the 150-mile front from Suomussalmi to Kemittrask, in Finland's bottle-neck, where a fierce battle raged for a week. Russian forces, 18,000 to 20,000 strong, were hurled back across…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After training 10 years to be a war nurse, Sister Florence Thomas nearly missed her chance to sail with the 2nd A.I.F. Fifty-one nurses from New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Children overseas had more British toys Oils Christmas than In 1938. Toy soldiers and guns shipped to the world's nurseries are helping to defray…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The victory of the Finns near Suomussalmi in Central Finland carries the fighting on to Russian soil in third sector, and marks the complete…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A plan for the introduction of unemployment insurance may be placed before the Federal Cabinet about the middle of this year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War had always meant hardship and sorrow for women, said Mrs. Chamberlain, wife of the Prime Minister, in a broadcast yesterday to the women of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The German supply ship Tacoma, which failed to leave port by 630 this morning as ordered by the Uruguayan Government, has been Interned for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the last meeting of the old year, of the Gundagai Returned Soldiers’ Association, the old diggers entertained some of the district boys…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Berlin wireless this evening announced an exchange of messages in which Herr Hitler wished Signor Mussolini success in the guidance of Italy,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News that Russia was reported to be massing troops on the border of Afghanistan is a reminder of the enormous expanse of Europe and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many matters affecting the fighting services will he considered when the War Cabinet again assembles in Melbourne to-morrow One of the main…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Finnish fortification in the Karelian Isthmus, known as the Mannerheim Line, consists chiefly of lines of anti-tank obstacles filling the gaps…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australia is telling the world in no uncertain voice that facing Nazi Germany, there is a united Empire, and more than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →According to a Chinese army spokesman. Japan's losses in 30 months have been 1,464,400 men. of whom 585,760 were killed or wounded' in battle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →President Roosevelt's annual message to Congress to-day is expected to give the United States not only an interesting account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pregrati[?] of Lene and ether events coundeted under the auspi[?] of the Tumbaremba members of the Returned League,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With the time rapidly approaching for the departure of the Second A.L.F. for overseas, Australia should at once assure itself that sufficient hospital accommodation is being made available for soldiers who will be invalided home. The steps so far taken, however, are found to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 20 years' ban on the publication of Fled Marshal Earl Haig's war diaries ended on January 1; but it is uncertain whether the diaries will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The official radio announced that French patrols penetrated nearly two miles into German territory and brought back very valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There are signs that the war may yet spread with a conflict between Russia and the Allies. There is greater evidence of…
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