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The wars & local soldiers, 1934

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Anzac Memorial May Be Opened by Prince George. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1934 · page 5

The Anzac Memorial Committee, at a meeting to-day, presided over by the Premier, decided that an invitation be issued to Prince George to open the memorial…

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Hero of War Dies in Poverty

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1934 · page 4

Brigade-Major Sydney Howell ward, D.S.O., M.C., who died after a collapse recently, had a distinguished career. Before the war he was captain…

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For War 'Japan Feverishly Preparing' Soviet General's Outburst Russia Ready Preparations in Far East. Moscow

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1934 · page 5

Japan is feverishly preparing for war, declared General Bluecher, Soviet Commander-in-Chief in the Far East, addressing the Communist…

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Riots at Drogheda. Mob Attacks Blue Shirts Soldiers Use Tear Gas Bombs. Dublin

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1934 · page 5

There was rioting at Drogheda, when a party of Blue Shirts marching to the station to take train to Dundalk where Mr Cosgrave was addressing a meeting,…

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War in 1937?

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 3

An old soldier has been doing some mathematics and thinking:--"The Zulu War began in 1880. It lasted one year, making 1881. Add the separate figures…

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Tithe War 18 'Black Shirts' Arrested Dug Trenches and Felled Trees. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 5

'Fifty police raided a farm near Diss (Norfolk), where "a tithe war" is in progress, and arrested 19 black-shirted Fascists on a charge of unlawfully…

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Financial Relief State Premiers' Requests Fed, and State Differences Petrol Tax and War Debs Savings. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 5

Members of the Premiers' Conference appear to entertain the idea that the Federal Government may eventually he prepared to make some…

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AUSTRIA 'War Will Result' View of Socialist Leader Workers' Hatred of Dollfuss Government. Vienna

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 5

The Austrian Socialist Democrat Leader, Dr. Otto Bauer, declared to-day that whether the Minister for Public Safety Major Fey, succeeded…

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Butter War Importations From Victoria Injury to Local Producers. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 7

A butter war is in progress in Brisbane, due to about five city firms importing heavy supplies from Victoria. These have selling to the public at 11½…

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German Spies in Britain. War Time Espionage How They Were Trapped

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 4

There is profound merit in the claim of the British counter-espionage service that it did most to win the war. It seems that back in 1910 the…

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'Run the Country' Judge on Public Officials Case Against War Pensioner. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 5

"I think that the country is run by public officials now." Justice Macrossan made this observation in the Brisbane Supreme Court to-day,…

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Woman Spy's Love. Wife of Brave Soldier Romance Op Cemetery Wonderfully Happy Couple

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 4

What is stated to be the truth about one of the War's greatest love romances is told by a woman correspondent of the "Sunday Chronicle."…

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Anzac How Word Originated Recalled by Death of Major-general Wagstaff. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 5

The death has occurred of Major-General Cyril Mosley Wagstaff, Commandant of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, in his 56th year…

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War Heroes Celebrations in Germany Like Military Ceremonial. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 5

Coinciding with the fourteenth anniversary of the foundation of the Nazi party the National Hemes' Memorial Day, honoring Germany's two million…

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Hunger Marchers In London IMAGINARY Conquest Of England 'Germany Prepares for War' a New Book. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 5

The newspapers are giving prominence to a jingoist book, "Germany Prepares For War," published to-day…

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BERMUDAS Payment Of War Debt Britain's Alleged Offer U.S.A. Story Revived. Washington

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 5

Did or did not the British Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, offer to transfer Bermuda Islands to the United States in part payment of…

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Coroner's Inquest Returned Soldier's Sad End

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 2

At the Grafton Courthouse yesterday an inquest was conducted by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. F. M. V. Earle, into the death of Harry Wise, a returned soldier,…

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19 KILLED New Guinea Natives Seventeen Wounded Official Party Repulses Attack. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 5

Nineteen natives were killed and 17 injured in a fight which took place in the Morobe district, 800 miles from Rabaul…

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Order for Possession Verdict for Complainant War Service Homes Case

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 2

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., application as [?] the War Service Homes Commission for possession of a dwelling…

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War Debts No Payment by Possession Prime Minister's Statement. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 5

A virtual denial of American reports to the contrary was the Prime Minister Mr. Macdonald's assurance in the House of Commons to-day that in no…

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