To Co-ordinate War Funds States To Confer Next Week
At a meeting to be held in Melbourne on Tuesday, it will be proposed that all State patriotic funds should appoint representatives to a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
13,407 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250
The War, Day by Day. Manpower of the Empire. Widening Demands
While it is true that the extension of fixed fortifications and the growth of mechanisation have tended to reduce the number of men engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Reason Should Prevail A Britain Labor Member's View on the War
Speaking recently in the House of, Commons (London) on the debate on the war situation, Labor member. Alex. Sloan said:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australian Labor and the War World-Wide Broadcast by Federal-Leader J. Curtin
IN a broadcast address to the world last Sunday night through the short-wave wireless station operated by the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rigors of War in Arctic Hardy Finns Carry on Many Russians Die LONDON
In a vivid despatch from the front in north Finland, the special war correspondent of "The Sun" describes the almost incredible rigors of the struggle being waged in the Arctic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Choir's Gift for Soldier Singer
Shortly to go overseas with the 2nd A.I.F., Mr. D. Burn, a young tenor, sang at a Messa Cantata in St. Patrick's Church, Parramatta,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Riot in Sydney Domain Soldiers Attack Communist Meeting
At the Sydney Domain last Sunday afternoon an organised body of soldiers sought to take the law into their own hands and break up a meeting held by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Without a Friend
ONE of the youngest Australian soldiers in the last war, Corporal James Barry, of the Second A.I.F., is without a single friend or relative. A single man, he is a member of B Company of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers III With Ptomaine
CESSNOOK, Tues.--Suffering the effects of ptomaine poisoning, four members of the Second A.I.F. in camp at Greta were admitted to Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Fined for Assault
Jack Spencer Parmenter, 30, attired in military uniform, appeared at Central Police Court yesterday, on a charge of having on December 23,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Soldiers Fined Domain Tomato Barrage
Three soldiers were fined at Central Police Court yesterday for having thrown tomatoes during…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Compulsory Training. Enlistment From To-day. All Men in 21 Glass
The compulsory enlistment for military service of men whose 21st birthday is between July 1, 1939, and June 30, 1940, will begin to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Soldiers Fined. Tomatoes Thrown. Charges After Domain Incidents
Three soldiers were convicted at the Central Police Court yesterday of charges of having thrown tomatoes to the annoyance of persons in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →We Were at War 25 Years Ago Out of "The Argus" file for January, 1915, comes to life again district history that today is being repeated
Out of "The Argus" file for January, 1915 comes to life again district history that today is being repeated. Parishioners of St. John's Church, Parramatta, have sent £10 to the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Complete Co-operation of Allies. New Year Embarked, Upon With Confidence. War Odds Are Favourable. Joint Efforts and Sacrifices. From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, January 2
The British and French Cabinets believe that their greatest achievement since the outbreak of the war has been the rapidity with which Britain and France have merged their national interests. Diplomats are frankly amazed at the suddenness and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Range War."
"FACING the [?]ury of a lynch-mad mob" is just one of the troubles which confronts our old friend, Hopalong Cassidy (played in the films by William Boyd) in the Paramount…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Oil For War Means War Against Whales
THE war is spreading its economic tentacles to the ends of the earth. The present race to supremacy in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kogarah War Nurse
Sister Eileen Heathcote, of Brooklyn Private Hospital, Kogarah, has been selected as one of the 138 nurses to leave for overseas service with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Finnish War Leader
THE fact that Finland already had as many as 140,000 men under arms at the first threat from the Soviet was clue to her "grand old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Warns of War's Aftermath
A STRONG attack on the just-win-the-war and let everything else look after itself attitude was made by the Right Rev. E. H. Burgmann, Bishop of Goulburn, last night…
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