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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

13,407 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 250

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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War Trends Whither is the World Going?

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1

THE man who could say to-day where and when the war will extend would be a wizard with supernatural knowledge of the…

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War Loan Likely to be Launched Soon

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 3

NEXT Friday's meeting of the Australian Loan Council in Melbourne is almost certain to decide to launch a £15,000,000 loan on the…

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Summary. Oversea News. The War at Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1

The three British submarines, which, as the Admiralty announced on Tuesday, must now be regarded as having been lost, are the first submarine losses by enemy action in l8…

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Best Brains On War Inventions LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1

The best brains in Britain and France are now concentrating on testing new inventions and increasing supplies of weapons…

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Over-subscribed War Loan Our Own Cable Service

Daily News · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.--The Canadian war loan has been well oversubscribed, it was announced to-day. Fifty-five millions have been…

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A Holiday Under Difficulties War-Time Travelling Irishman's Adventures

The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 5

On Sunday, the 3rd of September, I got up at 3.30 a.m., as the one and only train to the former Austrian frontier en route to Prague was due to leave Vienna at 6.30…

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"Feed the Enemy" Bishop Urges War Charity LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1

The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes, at a convocation at Canterbury urged that a petition be sent to the…

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Warnings On War Fighting for Our Lives Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 7

Three warnings on the seriousness of the war were given to Australians today…

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From Day to Day in Sydney. Meeting of War Unit

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

ALL New Zealanders are invited to attend a meeting of the New Zealand Auxiliary War Unit, which will be held to-morrow afternoon at the New Zealand Association…

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Easing Tendency. Industrial Shares. War Savings. by the Financial Editor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 6

Though advances in rates in the investment market yesterday, exceeded the number of falls, a definite weakening of high-class industrials was…

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Film Record of Great War "We Of The A.I.F."

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 36

"We Of The A.I.F.," a film which records the progress of the Australian soldiers through the first World War, has been…

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The War Hore-Belisha Mystery Belgium and Holland Ready For Attack

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

IT was expected that some light would be thrown on the mystery of Mr. Hore-Belisha's compulsory resignation from the British ministry in which he held the portfolio of war, by speeches in the Douse of Commons on Tuesday. After the…

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Quick Response. Canadian War Loan Oversubscribed. OTTAWA, Jan. 17. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 10

The Bank of Canada has announced that the Canadian War Loan'has been over-subscribed. The subscription in two days amounted to 248,804,000…

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Street and N.Z. Envoy Confer Joint Problems Of Defence And War

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9

Defence and war problems of common interest to Australia and New Zealand were discussed at a conference to-day between the…

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War Before Sport. N.Z. League's Attitude. "No Offer to Send Team." AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 13

"We are more concerned with the war than with football. We do not want the public to think otherwise," said the president of the New…

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Easing Off in Over Production Accompanies Increasing War Needs for Wheat in European Importing Countries

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 10

CROP figures from wheatgrowing countries indicate an easing-off in over-production, especially when taken in conjunction with the increased needs of countries at war. In the United States the 1939 crop exceeded consumption…

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Why did Hitler Clasp Hands with Stalin? When the Soviet Wanted War the Great Miscalculation

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 21

In that extraordinary book, "Mein Kampf," which Hitler began in prison in 1924 and completed in 1926, there is one sentence in regard to German…

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The War, Day by Day. Balance Sheet at Sea. Answers to Menaces. by Our Military Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 8

While the war halts on land, the campaign at sea goes on with unrelaxing intensity. The watch-and-ward maintained by the Navy and the…

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Cold Stops Fighting. Finns' Respite in Air War. Red Planes Grounded. LONDON, Jan. 17. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 10

Cruelly cold weather brought military activity to a virtual standstill and paralysed naval operations in the Eusso-Finnish war to-day…

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