Allied War Imports From U.S.A. Big Increase in December. Aid for Finns. Washington, Jan. 17. (A.A.P.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 10
Shipments of oil, aircraft, and metals for the Allies boosted United states exports in December to 358,000,000 dollars (£111,875,000), the highest monthly total for a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sweden Cautious on Help for Finns Vital Speech by Premier Passage Of Foreign Troops Barred Peril of War London
The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1
"Finland has our sympathy, but caution must be exercised if we are to avoid becoming a party to the conflict." This declaration the Premier of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Cabinet Flutter. Soldier and Statesman Clash
The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 20
Readers of the press cables should not overlook the fact that they chiefly come from "candid friends" of Mr. Chamberlain who have not forgiven him since he…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mail for Soldiers
Nepean Times · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 6
In order to facilitate the delivery of postal articles to members of the Commonwealth defence forces, it is of the utmost importance that the articles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Send-off to Soldiers Donations Received
Nepean Times · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1
The Mayor (Ald. D. Fitch) supplies the following statement of moneys received by him for the recent send-off to local members of the A.I.F.:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Supply News Organising Correspondence Unit of Soldiers. Two Women Have Gone Overseas
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 20
A LTHOUGH two women will organise the scheme, a man actually suggested the formation of a "correspondence unit" for the benefit of Second A.I.F. men and their…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mail for Soldiers. Special Boxes at G.P.O.
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 4
Two special posting boxes have been provided at the G.P.O., Martin Place frontage, for mail being sent to the military forces. All ordinary letters, packets, and newspapers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.L.P. Branches Keep Soldiers Here
Daily News · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 6
A STRONG protest to the Prime Minister against the action of the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Home-Made Pasties For Soldier Prisoner
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 5
A woman living in Camden Road, Ingleburn, makes Cornish pasties every day for a soldier imprisoned in the camp guard house. The soldier has been in prison…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hosts Wanted For Soldiers
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 7
Thousands of soldiers in camp want a temporary home and mother when they are on weekend leave…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Well-known Liverpool Digger Enlists
Liverpool News · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1
One would have thought that service in the last war, which entailed the loss of a leg, would be enough for any normal individual. But not so for Dick Alchin,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comforts Fund Sewing Bee for Soldiers
Liverpool News · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2
The ladies of the Liverpool comforts Fun had a big day in Ingleburn camp last week. One of the huts in the lines of the 2/4th Battalion was placed at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Apathy, at Cabramatta Soldiers' Welfare Committee Formed
The Biz · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 5
Although only a handful of people attended the public meeting held in the Cabramatta Town Hall on Wednesday nigat, those present decided to form a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air-Mail News from the Motherlands Items From Ireland, Great Britain and Europe Communism Caused War. Archbishop's Scathing Attack. Manila, December 27
The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 16
A scathing denunciation of Communism is the ideology which is responsible for the present European war and which threatens to engulf Christian civilisation was…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fortunes of the War at Sea. Submarine Losses Compared. No Holding Back of British Craft. Mr. Chamberlain Surveys Progress. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, January 17
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9
The three British submarinesâSeahorse (640 tons), Starfish (640 tons), and Undine (540 tons)âwhich, as the Admiralty announced yesterday, must now be regarded as having been lost, are the first submarine losses by enemy action in 18…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Official War Correspondent
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 7
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Applications are to be called for the position of official war correspondent with the 2nd A.I.F…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Applications for War Job
Daily News · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzles, announced to-night that the Federal Government intended to call for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adverse Effect Of War
The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 5
JERUSALEM, Nov. 26th. (J. T. A. AirMail Service)—The deterioration of the economic conditions in Palestine during the first month of the war is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Loan Boom Ottawa
The Sun · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 1
The war loan of 200,000,000 dollars (£57,000,000 Aust.) has been over-subscribed by 25 per cent. It is likely that the final allotment will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Brides Flock to Liverpool
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 2
Ingleburn A.I.F. camp has turned Liverpool into a wartime honeymoon town. Soldiers' brides have packed hotels,…
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