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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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Bar War Profits President Roosevelt's Appeal Neutrality Act. Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1936 · page 5

A new appeal to American business not to capitalise foreign wars by increasing exports to the belligerents for the sake of additional profits was…

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Lusitania Sinking Defended By British Admiral a Few Other Words About War. London, February 15

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 March 1936 · page 6

The Earl of Cork and Orrery said this week that he could scarcely subscribe to the general view that the Germans were wrong in sinking the…

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Opinions of Our Readers Soldiers' Preference

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 March 1936 · page 6

Sir--Permit me, as one with a right to a say, to deprecate the circumstances of the dispute between Ald. Flaherty and your contributor signing himself…

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First Victoria Cross Awarded Since Great War Heroism in India

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 1

The first V.C. to be won since the war was announced on Christmas Eve, states the "Daily Herald." It Was awarded--posthumously--to…

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War Bullet Appears

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

Mr. Hall, a returned soldier, at Mount Browne, Karangi, went to Sydney this week to have a bullet he has been carrying since the war…

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Motorists War Reserve

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 6

The British War Office has introduced a scheme under which drivers motor cars and motor lorries are invited to join the supplementary…

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"War Only Starting" Strong Men All Ordered to Front Abyssinians Not Beaten Emperor's Declaration London

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 5

Italy's indulgence in the hope that Haile Selassie may agree to peace negotiations within the framework of the League and spirit of the…

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Alleged Spy German on Trial War Methods Described Information From Pilots London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1936 · page 5

After the court had heard three Crown witnesses in secret to-day, Hermann Goertz, a German, who is standing his trial on charges of…

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On the Continent Ex-Grafton Girl's Visit Soldiers for Abyssinia

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1936 · page 6

A graphic account of a Continental trip is given by Miss Edna McDonald, daughter of Mrs. A. J. McDonald, of Bacon street, Grafton, in recent letters…

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£1,000,000 at Stake In Wood Experiments War on White Ants

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 6

Experiments which may save the Postmaster-General's Department, the railways, and various other enterprises more than £1,000,000 annually in the…

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Truce Story No Confirmation "War Is Still On' Surprise in London London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 5

There is no confirmation of the reported truce by Italy in Abyssinia. An official of the Ministry for Propaganda in Rome, when shown an…

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Veterans of S. African War Claim Of £27,000 Against State Government Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 5

Claiming that there were between 1000 and 2000 South African war veterans in New South Wales and only eleven receiving benefits from a fund…

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BLOODSHED Riots In Spain 11 KILLED, 24 Wounded. Madrid

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 March 1936 · page 5

Riots in various towns resulted in eleven being killed and 24 wounded. Troops are preserving order at Cadiz after week-end rioting in which the…

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Hitler's Offer Non-aggression Pacts No Time Limit Seeking Peace-not War London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 5

"My proposal for the conclusion of non-aggression pacts on the east and west of Germany applies equally to Czecho-Slovakia and Austria," said…

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Italians Bomb Town British Missionaries Wounded Addis Ababa

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 5

Five civilians were killed, and nine others wounded, and two British missionaries were wounded, and 28 houses were burnt, and many sheep destroyed,…

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France Insists Withdraw Troops a Stiff Resistance "Germany Not Ready for War" London

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 5

France insists on the withdrawal of German troops from the Rhineland as the first essential to any negotiations with Herr Hitler…

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OLYMPIA Games At Berlin Effect of War Clouds. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1936 · page 5

"Nothing short of war will prevent the Olympic Games being held in Berlin this year," said the president of the International Olympic Committee,…

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Army Estimates War Secretary's Statement British Force May Be Needed. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1936 · page 5

Introducing the Army estimates, in the House of Commons to-day, the Secretary for War, Mr. A. Duff Cooper, said there was no certainty…

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PREFERENCE Employment Of Ex-Soldiers Important Proposals by Local Government Executive

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 8

At a meeting of the executive of the Local Government Association in Sydney important recommendations were submitted governing preference to…

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EXCITEMENT At German Consulate "Down with Hitler's War Plans." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 March 1936 · page 5

Excitement prevailed outside the German Consulate this afternoon, following the refusal of officials to receive a deputation from the Movement against…

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