Lady Blamey Flies to Husband in War Zone Brisbane
Lady Blarney passed through Brisbane by flying-boat today to join her husband. Sir Thomas Blarney, Commander-in-Chief of the Australian forces overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1941
18,559 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250
N.Z. War Effort Hampered. Employees Absent Without Leave. AUCKLAND
The Dominion's war effort has been retarded because many factory employees did not return to work after the holidays. At Wellington, many factories are seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Using Friendly Aliens in War Effort. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 10
The Ministry of Labour has set up a central agency to make the best use of the services and labour of Allied and other friendly allens in Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Books of the Week. Diplomatic Mistakes That Caused the War.—No Place for Marxism
"Twenty Years' Armistice—and After," by Sir Charles Petrie, Bl.— Eyre and Spottiswoode. Since we are once again…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Among the New Books Faith in Time of War. By Dr. Carpenter, Dean of Exeter
Worthy to be ranked amongst the best religious books of war time is this one run off in a few weeks. In the words of the author it is not a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →How James Kirby Came Right to the Front First Speedway, Then Crisis, Then The War
In 1924, or thereabouts, James N. Kirby, a young engineer in his early twenties, with a small amount of capital to spare, was looking around…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Singer Took Part. The "A.B.C. Parade."
FRIENDLY rivalry between two of the Services was responsible for an impromptu public performance from a member of the A.I.F.,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£1091 Federal Tax Bill For Soldier
A garrison battalion private earning 35- a week will be faced with a Federal tax bill of £1091174 at the end of June this year. If weekly tax Instalments were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A.I.F. Gets Rest. Casualties Now 600. Salvage Work. From Our War Correspondent with the A.I.F. BARDIA, Jan. 6
The nine Australian battalions which fought the Battle of Bardia have now had some rest, and the men are much fresher. Total casualties are now…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →War Worries Drive Goering Back To His Old Vice—Drugs Marshal Hermann Goering, Germany's would-be sky Napoleon, has returned to his old vice of drugging. He is gaunt of cheek, with deep-set dull-looking eyes, and his tunic is almost hanging upon him in a photograph taken by an American cameraman, who got it smuggled through Czechoslovakia
THE heavy, full jowl is sagging and there is nothing of the pot-bellied braggadocio that character…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Anzac Buffet Art Union
NOT one penny, from the sale of tickets in the Anzac Buffet Art Union, launched last week, will be needed for prizes, all of which, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Trots and War Funds
The Chief Secretary (Mr. Tonking) has been asked to permit night trotting meetings with…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Soviet's 'No War on Nazis'
LONDON, Saturday. -- Russia won't allow herself to be driven into war or political enmity with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Post-war plans urged at once
GOULBURN, Saturday. -- "For the sake of ourselves and the rest of the world, we cannot afford…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labor's Part in War Vancouver
"The only peace which means anything to British Labor to-day is the peace it enjoys with capital, so that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOBRUK Centre of the war in Libya
THE CAMEL MARKET (Sukh el Mehara) at Tobruk, which is now being assaulted by the A.I.F. and British forces advancing into Libya. THE PORT IS GUARDED with guns at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.S.W. lagging in war savings
New South Wales has contributed 68 a head of population less than Queensland, and 12 a head less than Victoria for War Savings…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Make the Rich Pay for Their War
Seamen know that monstrous profits are being made out of the war. They know that British Shipowners held up their ships to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Money and Markets War Flops Insurance Hazards Shirked
ONE of the greatest flops in wartime is insurance. Take the fire and marine offices. Although most of these are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War Profiteers Will Meet Short Shrift Canberra
If the State Governments will supply information indicating that wartime profiteering is taking place in Australia, the Federal Government will take swift and drastic action against the offenders…
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