Directing the War From Dutch Indies From Our Own Correspondent
SINGAPORE, Jan. 9.—The establishment of the Allied Far Eastern headquarters, under General Sir Archibald Wavell, in…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
19,549 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250
Questions on War Critical M.P.s Our Own Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. 9.—Not, for a long time has so much dissatisfaction invaded the House of Commons as that which…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New Zealander's Experiences Attitude to War in U.S.A.
Miss Heather Washbourn, daughter of Dr. H. E. A. Washbourn, of New Zealand, who is at present in Sydney, on the way home, was in San…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australia's Most Urgent Need Change From Peace to War Footing
MOST urgent need of Australia af the moment is to effect the change from peace to a war footing. Nothing clogs the machinery of defence so much, at the outset, as persistence in the requisitions of peace, instead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.S. Girds for War Far Eastern Balance-Sheet Hitler's Pressing Problems
From a long-ranged point of view, President Roosevelt's opening message to the second session of the 77th Congress was unquestionably the outstanding event of the past week, because it gave the measure of an industrial mobilisation…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The War, Day by Day Dangers in Malaya By Our Military Correspondent
One of the most disconcerting features of the enemy advance in Malaya is that both the western and eastern arms are now…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Babies in Textiles 12 Co.'s Earn 43 Per Cent. More
DEFENCE activity has made a few war babies out of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Middle-class Cruelly Battered by War Incomes Fall While Living Costs Rise
IS the middle-class in process of being liquidated? Those whose energy, ability, and thrift lifted them out of the ruck may not fit into war economy. Or their small incomes from investments may…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Books of the Week What Is To Be Done With Post-War Germany? — Mongolian Adventures
To those "who reflect on the settlement of Europe after this war no aspect of it looms so menacing and difficult as the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pacific Position A. M. Pooley's War Commentary : Has Become Extremely Dangerous Elsewhere, Events Are Encouraging
NEWS from the Pacific has become more grim, and the position extremely dangerous. There have, however, been compensations on the other side of the world, while in Libya General Rommel and his remaining tank force, which has not yet been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. War Supplies for Australia Priority Ranking New Procurement Methods From Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, January 8.—Until recently four or five different agencies have been concerned with the procurement of supplies in the United States for Australia, but the appointment by Canberra of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →1942 Will Bring More Drastic Controls Forecasts E. S. SPOONER, Former Minister for War Organisation of Industry
THE year 1942 will bring conditions that are strange and new to Australia. For Australia is not merely at war. She faces the dangers of invasion by an Eastern race that her people have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GOSSIP Soldier-Grazier
STRENGTH of the Volunteer Defence Corps on the Southern Tablelands (N.S.W.) is due in no small measure to Major F. V. Weir, D.S.O.,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Soldiers Spar with Patrick
Vic. Patrick, Australian lightweight champion, is in Walgrove Camp, where, with militiamen as sparring partners, he is training for his next fight…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ascot (Vic.) Soldiers Cheer Edmonton Home
MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- A party of soldiers cheered lustily when the heavily backed Edmonton ran home a good winner in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ascot (Vic.) Soldiers Cheer Edmonton Home
MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- A party of soldiers cheered lustily when the heavily backed Edmonton ran home a good winner in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ascot (Vic.) Soldiers Cheer Edmonton Home
MELBOURNE, Saturday. --A party of soldiers cheered lustily when the heavily backed Edmonton ran home a good winner in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ascot (Vic.) Soldiers Cheer Edmonton Home
MELBOURNE, Saturday. --A party of soldiers cheered lustily when the heavily backed Edmonton ran home a good winner in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →This Man Blittes Nazi Home Front Most brilliant, ruthless, subtle and simple propaganda war in history is being waged by the Russians against the German Home Front
DAY after day merciless shafts are hurled against the morale of the civil population—a population already suffering in the knowledge that the worst news of the fighting fronts is being hidden from it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →These Troops Are Spearhead of Blitz In "The World's News" of December 20, Stanley Johnstone, noted American military authority, described tank war tactics. In this article he tells how reconnaissance units operate
ONCE a war begins, the questions of prime importance to all armies are: Where is the enemy, where is he strongest,…
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