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Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 4
BRITISH PREMIER Is tin Air Commodore of the R. A. F. Mr. Winston Churchill. Britain's Prime Minister, wore his uniform of an Air Commodore when he paid a visit to No. 615 Fighter Squadron, R. A. F. He has been honorary air commodore the squadron since April,…
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The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 2
Those who visualise a quickly beaten Germany and swift peace as a result of the smashing Russian victories on the Eastern front are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Must Have Planes and Men Empire War Conference Urged
Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 1
LONDON. Saturday: "It is our plain duty to tell the Ministers that we look to the Government to see that planes and men arrive in Malaya quickly and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Industries in Country Favored by Minister Queensland's Defences
Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 1
LISMORE, Sunday.—Speaking at Lismore yesterday, the Minister for Munitions (Mr. Makin) said that war industries had been concentrated too…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Story of Treatment While A Prisoner of War in Germany
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 4
By CORPORAL W. J. THOMAS, (formerly Methodist Pastor at Gundagai) No. 6829, 13th Battallion, “C” Company, 10th Platoon, A.LF., and also an original member of the 1st Australian Light Horse of the A.I.F…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News Japanese Battleship Ablaze Enemy Lands In Dutch Possessions SINGAPORE
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 3
Highlights of to-day’s news in the Pacific war are that another Japanese battleship has been bombed by United States…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fire Quelled Bt Soldiers
Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 3
Splendid work by 500 .soldiers from Bencgilla military camp was responsible for preventing the spread to an extensive area of a grass fire near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Becord A.i.f. Enlistments
Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—There have been record enlistments in the A.I.F., in the past few weeks, particularly since Japan entered the war, the Army…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Sydney Letter War
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2
Those who visualise a quickly beaten Germany and swift peace an a result of the smashing Russian victories on the Eastern front are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Council Discusses Pacific Plans
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The War Council to-day spent fire hours making a detailed examination of plans for the execution of new strategy in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warships and Modern War Conditions
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2
ALEXANDRIA, Monday. (A.A.P.).—Rear-Admiral Rawlings, commander of the 7th Cruiser Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet, told a press…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Radio and the War Locating Aircraft
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2
Since the start of the war Britain has inside remarkable progress in applying radio to war purposes. Radio-location is, of course, the…
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The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2
After a brief recess, during which most of the members did work at home, the weekly sewing afternoons of the Leeton Women War…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Stamp Designs War Postage Rates
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3
The Postmaster-General's Department will place on issue new stamps of the denominations of 2½d, 3½d and 5½d to meet the position created by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Radio in the War (From a Research Worker)
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2
Since the start of the war Britain has made remarkable progress in applying radio to war purposes. Radio location is, of course the outstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post-war Plan The Part of Primary Production
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4
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Allowing that all undertakings must play a secondary role in the war effort, there still should be thought and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Council Meeting Canadian General To Attend Unusual Invitation
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 1
The new High Commissioner for Canada (Major-General V. W. Odium) has been asked by the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to attend the meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Popular Cannery Employee Farewelled To Engage in War Work
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3
ON Friday last opportunity was taken to express best wishes to Mr. Fred Gosper, who had retired from the services of the Leeton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Secret Anti-hitler Radio Urges German Uprising Post-war Independence
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 1
NEW YORK, Sunday. (A.A.P.).—The Columbia broadcasting system to-day intercepted a broadcast from the secret anti-Hitler station in Germany urging "Germans…
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