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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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Spanish Civil War Approaches a Climax Merciless Plan Death From the Air Big Push For Madrid Peninsula to Be Devastated London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 August 1936 · page 5

If the claims of the leaders on both sides of the Spanish revole can be accepted, Spain is threatened with a merciless aerial warfare…

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A.L.P. WAR Series Of Conferences Miners Locked Out. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 August 1936 · page 5

Conference follows conference in the A.L.P. internal war, with the bitterness increasing as the fight progresses, and with no apparent…

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Shelled Englishman's Yacht Off Coast Of Spain Owner Killed--wife Wounded London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 August 1936 · page 5

Captain Rupert Seville, 45, retired Air Force officer, was killed by a Spanish rebel shell when his yacht, Blue Shadow, was fired on by the…

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Welcome Home Australian Warships. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 August 1936 · page 5

Hundreds of people gave the crews of the Australia and the Sydney a warm welcome when they steamed into Sydney Harbor to-day after an absence of…

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"End in Sight" Both Sides Say So Civil War Leaders Each Expects Early Victory Madrid

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 August 1936 · page 5

Both the Government forces and the rebels claim that the end of the civil war is in sight, and each is forecasting an early victory and, from…

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Disabled Soldiers to Be Reinstated in Federal P.S. CANBERRA

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 August 1936 · page 4

Permanent occupations tor disabled soldiers who previously belonged to the Federal public service are to be provided by the Federal Government,…

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In Three Years National War Memorial to Cost £250,000. CANBERRA

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 7

The Federal, Cabinet decided to-day to authorise the completion of the National War Memorial at Canberra. Costing £160,000, the work, which…

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War Wheat Crops How They Were Captured Soldiers Who Turned Farmers. London, July 18

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 August 1936 · page 9

Wheat was grown just behind the lines in France during the war. It was a scheme of the British and French Governments to meet the food shortage…

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British Soldier Shot by Arabs. Jerusalem

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 August 1936 · page 5

With two sentries posted, eight British soldiers bathed naked in a pool in the. eastern valley of Esdraelon today. Shortly after, two Arabs crept up…

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"War Next Month" Rosicrucian Order's Fears Asbestos Tower Sanctuary. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 August 1936 · page 5

Members of the Rosicrucian Order, established at Sublaco, are perturbed at the delay in the issue of the necessary permit to proceed with the…

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Still Causing Alarm Civil War the International Aspect Italy And Germany No Final Reply Yet Anglo-french Agreement. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 August 1936 · page 5

It was officially announced tonight that full agreement Has been reached between the British and French Governments on the text of…

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Books I Wave Read War, Wisdom and Folly

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 August 1936 · page 1

Most of us have already thought or spoken of various possible suspects, and I need hardly go into all these details again. The kitchen staff seemed…

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211 DEAD In Arab-Jew Struggle OYER 1000 Wounded. Jerusalem

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 5

The beginning of the fifth month of the Arab strike brings no sign of relaxation. The Government, Arabs and Jews seem equally unmoved from their…

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Returned Soldiers' League

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 3

Woolgoolga Branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has been advised that the Rural Bank is willing to finance the erection of the proposed memorial…

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Britain's War Wounded Pensions Will End In 1955 Costs Fall Every Year. London, August 1

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 August 1936 · page 7

The British Ministry of Pensions hopes to finish paying for its. share of the cost of the Great War by 1955--41 years after its outbreak…

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Spain International Reaction Germany And Russia End of Civil War Not in Sight London

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 5

A correspondent summing up the situation in Spain considers that after five weeks fighting neither side can be said to be winning. The end of…

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Deferred War Leave Payments

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 4

Though the Great War ended nearly 18 years ago, deferred war leave payments are still being made. Several men in the Byron Bay district have…

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"Worse Than in 1914" Situation In Europe "No War in the Next Six Months."

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 August 1936 · page 4

Mr. Marcus Ashton, son of the Bishop of Grafton, who returned to Sydney on Sunday on the s.s. Rabaul, spent the last two years studying…

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Memorial Park New Entrance Gates Names of Soldiers Wanted

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 August 1936 · page 4

As was mentioned in our columns recently, it is intended to place in the gables of the new entrance gate now being erected at the Memorial Park,…

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British Soldiers Fired on in Peiping Street Peiping

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 August 1936 · page 5

While three British soldiers were returning to their barracks in rickshaws through the main street of Peiping, a fast car passed and the occupants…

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