The New War Plane Sydney
The Minister for Air, Mr. Fairbairn, after a flight from Mascot to Richmond and back in a Lockheed Hudson warplane, said the machine behaved…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,075 stories in Riverina's papers · page 24 of 204
War Commentary Changes in Palestine Situation Transformed
The arrival of the Australian troops in Palestine emphasises the transformation of the situation in the Middle East as compared with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cost of War to Normal England
The moving or Die ordinary channels of trade and activities from London and large English cities to the country centres, means that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German War Plans “March to the East”
A new war theory is hinted at in the cables, based on the idea that the whole Allied conception of the war should be fundamentally changed,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Patriotic and War Fund Darlington Point and District
The committee of the Darlington Point and District Patriotic Was Fund held its monthly meeting at the Shire Office on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News Summary Finns Repulse Russian Attacks Helsinki
A Finnish communique declares that the Russian attacks across the ice in the Gulf of Finland were repulsed, 1000 killed and 13 tanks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Grumbling Comment Tn Britain and Germany London
"Sometimes I am somewhat amazed at what Lord Snell describes as grumbling. Sometimes the enemy mistakes grumbling as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Motor Plant Opened by Prime Minister Industrial Development in War Time Sydney
The development of Australian economic and industrial resources in time of war will lay the foundation for post-war rehabilitation, declared Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Military Occupation of Germany Several Tears After the War "Prevent the Hitler Lie" London
Professor Denis Saurat, director of the French Institute in London, in the course of a speech, said he believed that it would be necessary to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Save the World From Chaos Roosevelt Has New Plan Stop "Total" War or Aid in Peace Can Lend Gold
History and the course of the war may well turn on the results of the sudden and mysterious visit to Europe of Mr. Summer Welles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Allowed to Remarry Decree Made Absolute
Mr. Justice Roper, in the Sydney Divorce Court this week, made absolute a decree nisi to issue forthwith in the case of a member of the Second…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Manslaughter Charge Returned Soldier with Limbs Amputated Melbourne
Finding that Edward Stanley Hicks, aged 10 years, of Casula, had been killed on December 8 in a collision between his cycle and a car driven by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Returned Soldiers' Meeting
The annual meeting of the Wagga sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. will be held in the Soldiers' Hall to-night at 8 o'clock. The business will comprise…
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Those returned soldiers who are registered at the Labor Exchange and who are unemployed or on relief work at Tumblong, are requested to report…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Returned Soldiers' Preference "Un-christian" Leeton Councillor's Attack; Support for Amendment Move
"I HAVE always looked upon this as the most damnable and unchristian act ever struck by any set of nonentities who were ever in Parliament," said Cr. F. C. Mountford, referring to the Returned Soldiers' Preference Act at the meeting of the Willimbong Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Double Shooting at Bondi Woman Dead Man Found Wounded Sydney
Mrs. Evelyn Grace Cabell, aged 47 years, who was staying in a flat at Bondi, was fatally injured when she was struck twice in the head by pellets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scouting Notes Scouts and the War
Sir Phillip Game, Commissioner of the London Police Force and a former Governor of Mew South Wales, in an article in a London scouting paper…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Sector Visited by War Minister
B.E.F. HEADQUARTERS, Thursday.—The Minister for War (Mr. Oliver Stanley) to-day visited a number of secret pill-boxes along what has begun…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldiers' Preference Act Criticised at Leeton Young Men Victimised Leeton
"It is a criminal thing to deny any man the opportunity of earning his bread and butter by the sweat of his brow, and you are robbing him of his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wagga Returned Soldiers Record Attendance at Annual Meeting Excellent Year's Work Reviewed Mr. John Graham Elected President
Mr. John Graham was last night elected president of the Wagga sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League. The annual meeting was attended by a record number of members, and various speakers referred to the…
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