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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

316 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 16

The War. Mobile Recruiting

The Bega District News · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 3

Mobile recruiting units for the country districts expanded recruiting facilities for the cities, and an intense publicity campaign, are to be…

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The War, Day by Day Mobile Recruiting

The South Coast Register · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 6

Mobile recruiting units for the country districts, expanded recruiting facilities for the cities, and an intense publicity campaign are to be…

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War Ace

The Bega District News · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 4

General Vollie[?]in, Commander in Chief of the French Air Force, was [?] French ace in the last war. His squadron was involved in 101 air…

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The War

The Bega District News · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 2

The Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, in a speech to the National Defence of Public Interest Committee, said that prodigious war efforts were…

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War Will Kill the Corset

The Bega District News · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 2

Lecturing on “Fashions and War,” Mr James Laver, assistant keeper of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, prophesied [?]at corsets and…

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The War Split Second Bombing

The Bega District News · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 4

The crew of a bombing plane must be accurate to the hair’s breadth if they wish to be successful, and that is no mean task at 300 miles an hour…

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Kangaroo Valley Patriotic and War Fund

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 13

About 30 citizens were present at a special meeting of the Patriotic Fund on Monday night to make arrangements for their forthcoming sports…

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It Has Been Said of War

The Bega District News · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 6

War is the business of barbarians. —Napoleon. The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle won.—Wellington…

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The War from Day to Day. Germany’s Oil Resources

The Bega District News · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 4

Even if Germany succeeded in transporting the whole of Romania’s oil output into her domestic reservoirs, it would be only a small…

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Marshal Gamelin. A. Soldier with the Tongue of a Diplomat Is This Man in Whom We Trust

The Bega District News · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 6

To the British Empire and France to-day the most important man in the world is a little grey Frenchman, 67 years old, a philosopher, an…

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The War

The Bega District News · Monday 12 February 1940 · page 2

The Russians, with their overwhelming man power and continuous fighting, are reported to have made progress at Su[?]a, Finland, and are…

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The War, Day by Day the “Rising Sun”

The South Coast Register · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 6

Australian fauna has given great opportunities to Australian war units in the designing of unit badges. The kangaroo, the emu,…

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The War from Day to Day. “Sick Man” Becomes a Heal Thy Friend

The Bega District News · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 1

The sick man of Europe, as Turkey used to be called, is a sick man no longer. Shorn of its decay log Empire, which had been sapping its…

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The War, Day by Day Nazi Productions Are These the Super Men?

The South Coast Register · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 4

Statistics provided by the doctors and scientists of the Reich uncover the tragedy of a nation which is breaking down physically. The…

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The War

The Bega District News · Monday 26 February 1940 · page 3

British warships are reported to cruising near the-Finnish Arctic port of Petsamo. Soviet authorities are reported to have decided that any…

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Schools’ Library Movement Old-time Department Delay Blocks District Scheme Now Outbreak of War Strangles It

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 3

Just about two years ago the Education Department sent an officer from Sydney to Nowra to advocate the establishment of a district schools’…

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The War, Day by Day Hotel Fast, Jerusalem Allenby’s Big Bluff

The South Coast Register · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 6

Men of the A.I.F. Light Horse, when they read that an hotel in Jerusalem will be converted into a club to accommodate leave parties…

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Australia’s Part In War. Magazine Will Publish Historical Record

The Bega District News · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 4

Among the many war magazines being published is one that will record in word and picture the story of the new Anzacs, “War History…

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Australia’s Part in War Magazine Will Publish Historical Record

The South Coast Register · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 6

Among the many war magazines being published is one that will record in word and picture the story of the new Anzaes “War” History…

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Soldiers Farewelled

The Bega District News · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 2

On Tuesday afternoon Bega V.A.D. Detachment farewelled the following members of the A.I.F.: Privates J. L. Lee and G. B. Reason (Bega), and…

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