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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

13,407 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 250

A Progressive Paper for Australian Homes Hitler's War Aims As Set Forth in His Book of Revelations

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 3

IF there is considerable uncertainty about the war aims of the Allies, Adolf Hitler leaves us in ho doubt as to what HIS war aims are…

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Accurate Aim. High-altitude Bombing. War in the Air. (British Official Wireless and A.a.p.) London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 14

A highly placed aviation official declared yesterday that bombers, attacking an objective from 30,000 feet on a clear day, could achieve a 50 per,cent…

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Bullet-resisting Mirrors for W'ville Soldiers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 1

In his tunic pocket directly over the heart, every Wentworthville man in the fighting forces will carry a wallet in which is inserted a steel…

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Prayers for Hills Soldiers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 8

Prayers for the safety of local lads on service with the fighting forces will be said at Sunday services at St. Paul's. Castle Hill,…

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Liverpool 'Sister Susies' Sew for Soldiers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 3

Weekly sewing bees at Ingleburn Camp is the latest Job of work being carried out by Liverpool Ladies' Comforts Fund…

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Machine-gun Regiment. Keen Soldiers. Drawn From All States by Our Special Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 15

From all corners of the Common-wealth, and from every infantry battalion in the Second A.I.F., men have been drawn to form the 2/1st…

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Native Soldiers In France...Italy's Drive For Babies

The Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 8

EAST IN THE WEST Barefooted native soldiers from French Indo-China exercising on snow-covered…

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Mr. Hore-belisha and Army Chiefs. No Conflict on Policy. Only Thought to Win War. Prime Minister Refuses Details. LONDON, January 16. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 13

Mr. Hore-Belisha, the former Secretary of State for War, in a statement in the House of Commons to-day, about his retirement from office, said there had been no conflict in policy between himself and Army chiefs or the rest of the Cabinet…

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Stop Press Wounded Freeze

Daily News · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1

LONDON,--Temperature of 63 below zero has paralysed Finnish war activities. Both sides report that wounded are freezing to…

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Fatally Wounded Aboard Graf Spee Montevideo

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1

Kermith Bargenda aged 23, a sailor from the Graf Spee, who was wounded in the battle with British cruisers, died to-day…

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Training Dogs For War War Dog

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 13

One of the dogs being trained England for war work, leaping a stream with a first-aid kit strapped to his…

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Training War Pilots

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 5

In sixteen weeks the R.A.F. can make a war pilot out of an inexperienced groundling. In that time, trainees learn…

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Women and War Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 16

THE sewing and comforts depot of the Waverley Red Cross branch will open to-morrow at 2 p.m., in Tudor Lodge, 224 Edgecliff Road Woollahra, near the comer of Old South…

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Will he get big war job?

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 6

NOW that Mr. Hore-Belisha has quietly yielded the portfolio of British War Minister, what next? It is a good bet that George Ambrose, first…

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Load on State Train War Mechanics

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 3

The intolerable burden which the cost of technical education has now become upon the finances of the…

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Who's Who Among the War Workers

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 32

MOTHERS, wives, sisters and friends of men in the A.I.F. have been working at top speed during the last few weeks making…

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P.M.'s War Review London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 3

British bombers have enforced a rigid blackout on German seaplane bases. They have dropped bombs whenever…

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War Service Homes. Can Council Compel Sewerage?

The Broadcaster · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 3

Mr. J. H. Gander, M.H.R., forwarded to Granville Council a letter received by him from Senator Collett, the Minister in charge of War Service Homes, in…

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Governor to See Film of Great War

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 18

"We of the A.I.F.," an Australian film of the Great War, will be shown at the Town Hall from January 20 to February 10, in aid of A.I.F. charities…

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Fear "Religious Revival" as Result of War

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 26

Vatican City.—Fear of a "religious renaissance" in Soviet Russia as a result of war is expressed in an issue of "Antireligionsik." atheist publication…

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