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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

13,407 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 250

Risked Life To Save Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 5

Constable Bill Plummer risked his life early yesterday, to save a soldier from the wheels of a train at Town Hall Station…

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Odd Meeting Of Three Soldier Newly-Weds

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 7

Three A.I.F. men from different States sitting at a table in the Hyde Park Anzac Buffet yesterday discovered that each was a very new bridegroom. Sailors and soldiers in the…

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Vivid War Pictures

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1

Dramatic pictures from the Finnish war front appear on Page 8. Incredible rigors of the…

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Europe After The War

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4

M. DALADIER'S vision of a better Europe after the war is one which will appeal to all peace-loving men…

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Ban on War Diaries Ends

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The 20-year-ban on the publication of Earl Haig's war diaries ended yesterday. Earl Haig was Commander-in-Chief…

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Toy Soldiers Helping to Win War. Big British Export Trade. LONDON, Jan. 2, (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 12

Oversea children had more British toys this Christmas than last. Toy soldiers and guns shipped to the world's nurseries are helping to defray the cost of the…

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Must Eat Well to Win War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--"To win the war, the people and soldiers of the Allies and the Dominions must be well fed." Sir John Boyd Orr, leading nutrition…

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War Pilots Are to Be Grouped

Daily News · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Tues.--While Australian war pilots abroad will be grouped in distinctive squadrons there will be no separate Australian…

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Natives Near to War Darwin

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 2

How near the aborigines of Arnhem Land came to open tribal warfare at the Christmas season after the…

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War Hits the Greek Raisin Industry

To Ethnico Vema = Greek National Tribune · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1

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Canteens Near War Front London

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 2

Voluntary organisations are working at full speed in establishing canteens as close as seven miles to the Western Front…

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War Risk Charges Optimism Of Brokers

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 2

A steadiness in war risk insurance rates on cargo and a reduction of 50 per cent, in the rates of…

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Social Justice Now, Not "After The War"

Daily News · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4

Mr. Spender, Acting-Federal Treasurer, employed an outworn technique in his New Year broadcast To sugar-coat the pill of worse conditions for the…

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China Estimates Japan's War Losses CHUNGKING

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1

According to a spokesman of the Chinese Army, Japan's losses in 30 months of war have been 1,464,400. This figure, said the spokesman,…

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Should Allies Make War on Soviet? London

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4

TO fight or not to fight Russia -- this question of future Allied policy has suddenly gripped public attention here, as commentators have begun to discuss it, almost to the exclusion of events in…

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War Notes of the Week. Comparisons With 1914

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1

The following notes compare war movements in 1914 with those of the present day. Column 1 is reprinted from "Commercial Australia," December 29, 1914. 1914…

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Cut In U.S. War Risk Insurance LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3

United States marine insurance underwriters have reduced war-risk insurance rates by 10- per cent., to £2 per cent…

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Gallant Finns Repulse The Aggressor ....... War Amid Arctic Snows

The Sun · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 8

Finns Fight Back Outnumbered by their Russian enemy, Finland's fighting forces have made a…

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No Cash in Last War Song Hit London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1

The author of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres," one of the greatest song hits of all time, did not make a penny out of it…

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Women and the War. Importance of Cookery. Many Receive Tuition

Construction · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 7

Lectures on institutional and convalescent cookery conducted in the suburbs by the Home Service Dept. of the Australian Gas Light Company have been largely attended. Up to the end of this…

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