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The wars & local soldiers, 1935

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Sobering Effect On Italy Check to Mussolini Money Problems and Japan's Move Will Think Carefully Before Declaring War Italian Newspapers Launch Scathing Attack Litvinoff to Fix Date for League Council London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 July 1935 · page 5

As a result of the consultations between Britain and France the League Council will meet next week to consider the Abyssinian situation, under Article 15 of the League covenant. The Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs, M. Litvinoff, will fix the…

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War Graves Report of Imperial Commission 917 Bodies Found Last Year. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 July 1935 · page 5

According to information received by the Returned Soldiers' League from the Imperial War Graves Commission in London the bodies of 872 British soldiers…

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Avoiding War Rush for Naturalisation Papers. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 July 1935 · page 5

Europeans, mostly Italians, living in Australia, have recently applied for naturalisation to avoid being called up for military service in the event of war…

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N.r.r.a. Officials Casino R.s.s.i.l Seeks Preference Ex-soldier Applicants

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 July 1935 · page 2

The matter of the impending appointment of officials of the Northern Rivers Racing Association was mentioned at the monthly meeting of the Casino…

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'Abyssinia Condemned To Death' Rome Paper's Statement 'Pope Is Not Taking Sides' Half-Million Italian Troops In War Zone by End of September Special League Council Meeting Position Is Still Obscure Vatican City

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 5

The Pope broke his silence about Abyssinia when speaking in connection with the preliminary beatification of Justin de Jacobis, Apostolic Delegate to Ethiopia, who died in 1860, he urged his hearers to hope for peace. He expressed the belief that nothing would occur contrary to justice…

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Playing at War Two Boys Killed by Rocket Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 5

List night's rocket tragedy was the result of boys playing at war. Italy versus Abyssinia. It was arranged between eight boys, and rockets were used to give a…

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Abyssinian War In Balance League Council Meets International Mandate Suggested Close Suez Canal to Passage of Arms Abyssinian Crown Jewels Sent to England, Italian Attack May Commence in Few Weeks London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 5

Realising that war or peace may depend on its decision, but not yet willing to believe that Signor Mussolini will proceed to extreme measures until every expedient is exhausted, the world anxiously awaits the outcome of the League Council meeting at Geneva at 5 o'clock this afternoon…

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Border "War" Night Dashes Ulster—free State

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 3

"War" with the gun has been declared on rhe 170-mile Ulster-Irish Free State Border between the British Customs patrols and the Free State…

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Formula Hunting At Geneva Arbitration or War ? Momentous Meeting of League Council Hopes of Compromise Agreement Resumption Of Conciliation Commission Suggested By Anglo-French-Soviet Delegates LONDON

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 5

The League Council, called to consider the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, held a special meeting at Geneva this evening but, as is usual on the opening day, it was held in private, only delegates and their Secretaries being present…

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Riots in Crete Six Killed, 40 Wounded Martial Law Declared. Athens

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 August 1935 · page 5

Martial law was declared sit Crete a the result of disturbances, fallowing a strike of mine workers, who sacked the administrative offices at Candia and…

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Skeleton in the Bush Missing Returned Soldier? Mclruya

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 5

A portion of the skeleton of a man believed to be Sydney Copeland, of a returned soldier, who disappeared from the Moruya Hospital in February last year,…

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Color Line General Smuts' Fears Serious Repercussions If Italy Goes to War. Capetown

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 August 1935 · page 5

General Smuts, interviewed, said the considered the whole system of civilisation would be shaken to its foundations if the League failed to…

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To Be Governor - General N.S.W. GOVERNOR Sir A. Hore-Ruthven Brilliant War Record Perrage for Sir Isaac Isaacs? Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 5

Matters of produce which remain to be conducted between King George and the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons will prevent the official announcement…

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Infra Red Rays In Place Of Searchlights Protection From Planes "War Office Not Interested." London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 August 1935 · page 5

Commander Paul MacNeil has invented an apparatus for detecting aircraft and other moving objects by longer infra red rays, as a substitute…

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Pathetic Stories Ovada Dam Victims Eighty Bodies Recovered Soldiers Bridge the Rivers. Ovada

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 August 1935 · page 5

Among the most pathetic of flood stories is that of a peasant who was caught in the fields near Ohiaie. He took his little daughter in his aums,…

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Ethiopia,' Blacks' War Cry Close Suez Canal ? Suggestion From Abyssinia Italian Troops Streaming Through British Cabinet to Consider Paris Failure Italy Will Attend Geneva on September 4 LONDON

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 August 1935 · page 5

The breakdown of the Three-Power Conference in Paris on the Italian Abyssinian dispute has had immediate repercussions in British Cabinet circles, and it is anticipated that a meeting of the Cabinet will be called within a week to receive a detailed report from Captain Eden, and to…

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Horrors of War Known to British Ministers Hasty Action Unlikely. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 5

"The horrors and the cost of war are well known to members of the British Cabinet, all of whom have visited the graves of the fallen in France, more than…

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War Against Insects London Council Of Action Havoc by Pests One-tenth of World's Crops Destroyed. London, August 3

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 8

Government scientists from all parts of the Empire are to meet in London in September for the Imperial Entomological Conference…

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"The Cause of Modern War."

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 4

As advertised in our columns of to-day, the Rev. D. A. Clarke will address a public meeting in the Town Hall, Grafton, on Wednesday evening at…

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Influenza Serum War Office Tests 80 Per Cent, Successful. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 5

The "Dispatch" says the War Office is testing a new influenza preventive discovered by Professor Besredka, expert on tropical fevers. It contains natural…

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