Letters from Soldiers From L/cm A. J. BLACK
NKS0431 £/Cpl. A.J. Black . H.Q. Coy., 2/1 [?] Bath. A.I.F. Abroad.[?] from [?] under date December [?] a few…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
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Big War Rally To Be Organised For Tumut, Adelong and Batlow Competition Between the Towns Broadcasting Station to Be Engaged for Big Night
A big war loan rally is to be held shortly in the Tumut Shire when an appeal will be made for loans towards the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →China's Aid War Minister's Assurance
LONDON, Friday.—According to the "Dally Mail" special correspondent at Chungking, General Ho Ying-Ching. War Minister and Chief-of-Staff of the Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australia Day Holiday Cancelled for War Industries
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The [?] of the Australia Day holiday in war industries was ordered by the Federal Government to-day. The deputy Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga War Effort Salvage Collections Baling Activities More Helpers Required
There is a luge quantity of salvage at the WAgga depot waiting to be baled, and the committee hopes to get this baled over the week-end. On Thursday night four…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Commentary the Week Reviewed Threat to Australia Whole Allied Strategy Concerned
The long expected threat to our own Australian territory has now become a reality. Based on the Caroline ana Marshall Islands—formerly German…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Young Soldier Killed Mother Seriously Injured
A fatal motor smash occurred near: Young in the early hours on last Sunday morning, when a young soldier, Pte. Walter Madden, of Monteagle, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain Lags in War Production
LONDON. Saturday (A.AJP.).—"This country is a long way from being organised for total war," Bald Mr. David Brown, one of Britain's leading…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga War Effort Packing Salvage This Morning
A working bee for the packing of salvage has been arranged at the salvage depot at the Wagga gasworks the morning, and it is requested that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Cabinet Receives Message From Mr. Churchill
MELBOURNE. Sunday.—The War Cabinet during its three hours' meeting this afternoon received an Interim reply from Mr. Churchill, stating that Australia's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blunt Demand by Mr. Curtin Imperial War Cabinet Australia Must Be Represented
PERTH, Sunday.—A blunt demand for Australian representation on an Imperial War Cabinet, and the formation of a Pacific War…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Song of Libya Composed by English Soldier "Bull Burrows' Bomb-happy Boys"
Pte. B- H. E. Thompson, of a battalion of the A.I.F., abroad, has sent to hits parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, of 20 Berry-street, Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Items of News Papers for Soldiers
A parcel of papers for the district soldiers overseas is despatched from Wagga every Monday by the Women's Voluntary Services and the Comforts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Risk Insurance
NEW TORS, Sunday (A.A.P.)—W[?] insurance rotes hare risen [?] 4 per cent to 7½ per cent for [?] shipments via the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Council Important Discussions
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Opposition members at a four-hour meeting of the War Council to-day endorsed in principle the steps taken by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japan and Prisoners of War
The Minister for the Army, Mr. Forde, said that the Commonwealth Government had been advised officially that the Japanese Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Time Shopping in England
THE following extract from a letter dated November 16, received by Mr. G. U. Judkins from his relatives in West Bromich, tell of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorised War Colossal Land Armies
Out of the pioneering horseless carriage era of 50 years ago has come to-day's colossal armies that are engaged in a motorised war in which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Friday. Evacuation of Rabaul Reported
It is believed that the wireless stations at Rabaul, former capital of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, have been demolished by the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Cabinet Receives Message From Mr. Churchill
The War Cabinet during its three hours' meeting in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon received an interim reply from Mr. Churchill, stating that…
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