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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

328 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 17

The War, Day by Day Germany's Oil Problem

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 2

Even if Nazi Germany succeeded in transporting the whole of Rumania's oil output into her domestic reservoirs, it…

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The Latest War Aims

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 February 1940 · page 2

In quoque, or "you're another has usually been thought a form of argument hardly worthy of adults and…

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The War, Day by Day Beginnings of the Tank

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 February 1940 · page 2

Tanks as a British military weapon are the comparatively recent development. When the Great War broke out in 1914…

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Empire Short of Flax War Time Necessity

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 4

Flax fibre is invaluable in war time when tarpaulins, canvas, cordage and ropes are at a premium. The British…

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The War, Day by Day the "Rising Sun"

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 2

Australian fauna has given great opportunities to Australian War units in the designing of unit badges. The…

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The War, Day by Day What Is a Digger ? Historians Version

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 2

Without waiting to speculate on the origin of the term, men of the Second A.I.F. address one another as " Digger," and…

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Returned Soldiers. Mittagong League Helps Finland. (Contributed.)

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 2

The monthly meeting of If Mittagong Returned Soldiers' League was held in the School of Arts on Thursday night. The President (Mr. A. N…

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The War, Day by Day Nazi Productions

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 2

Are These the Super Men Statistics provided by the doctors and scientists of the Reich, uncover the tragedy of…

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Anzac

The Southern Mail · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 1

I'M GLAD to see the Returned Men are protesting against the cheapening of the royal name of Anzac by some of the…

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The War, Day by Day British Forces Grow

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 February 1940 · page 2

Figures from London show that the British army strength has doubled in one year. Excluding the Indian Army…

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France Vast War Effort Cheerful Acceptance

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 4

While the British Navy rules the waves, the French Army, entrenched in its millions behind the Maginot Line,…

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The War, Day by Day What Russia Demanded

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 2

While the world admires the resistance the Finns have offered to overwhelming Russian numbers, it is well that the…

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Vested Interests in War

The Southern Mail · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 1

ARE the nations but puppets in a greater Zaranoff game. Zaranoff is dead, but the munitions combines he created are…

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The War, Day by Day Graf Spee and Cruisers Leander Type Success

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 March 1940 · page 2

Naval experts are delighted with the performance of the Achilles in the Admiral Graf Spee action as this ship was…

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Through Neutral Eyes How Other Lands View the War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 March 1940 · page 4

Increasing respect for British diplomacy as well as Britain's strength is being expressed by authoritative neutral…

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The War, Day by Day Finland, the Pivot of Europe

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 March 1940 · page 2

Heroic resistance to Russia by Finland may exercise a vital influence upon the future course of the general European…

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Gifts for Soldiers. Women's Voluntary Service Meeting

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 3

A committee meeting of the Bowral Branch of the Women's Voluntary Services took place at the C.W.A. Rooms on Wednesday. Theresignation…

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Australia's Part in War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 2

Among the many war magazines being published ia one that Will record in word and picture the story of the New Anzacs. "War History…

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When France Goes to War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 1

Compared with conditions in France the life of a British mayor is a little short of celestial, for is is on the French mayor that the…

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The War, Day by Day Death of General Squires

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 2

Every Australian under arms will feel a sense of loss at the death of the chief of the General Staff (Lieutenant-General…

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