First Troops Cross Sudeten Border Czechs Evacuate First Zones Prague Grants Poland's Cession Demands Warsaw To Guarantee The New Frontier British Soldiers for Czecho-slovakia? Hungary Wants Immediate Negotiations LONDON
Daily Examiner · Monday 3 October 1938 · page 5
Complete agreement was reached to-day by the military committee regarding the procedure for the evacuation of the Sudeten areas, the most important being the decision to establish a neutral zone, approximately a mile and a half wide, in front of each zone while the evacuation is proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers Maclean Branch Meeting
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1938 · page 3
The Maclean sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. held its monthly meeting on Saturday night. There was an excellent attendance, including…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spanish War Volunteer Issue. London
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 5
Despite semi-official statements that the British Ambassador to Rome (the Earl of Perth) and the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Ciano), during a 60…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Defence Forces to Be Strengthened Increase In Militia More Permanent Soldiers Canberra
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 6
Immediate steps are to be taken by the Federal Government to strengthen Australia's land defence forces the Minister for Defence, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wanted to Enlist
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 8
"In the event of a declaration of war accept my enlistment in the 34th Battalion. Sergeant G. C. Grace." From Cunnamulla, Queensland, Colonel E. T…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wife Wounded Husband Charged. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 1
William Whitehouse. (49), commercial traveller, to-day denied at the Quarter Sessions that he had raised a pea-rifle against his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War in Spain Planes Bomb British Ships. Barcelona
Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 5
Fifteen Savoia planes bombed the waterfront, setting fire to two British ships. The steamer, Gothic, was struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shooting Mystery Woman Teacher Wounded. Coonabarabran
Daily Examiner · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 4
Mystery surrounds the shooting of Miss Peggy Drysdale a 20-year-old school teacher, of Coonabarabran, who was found unconscious 20 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Kicked by Horses
Daily Examiner · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 13
Two members of the 1st Field Brigade in camp at Anna Bay were kicked by horses within a few minutes and within a few yards of each other on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"I Do Not Believe War Is Inevitable" Chamberlain Answers Critics "Saved Czechs From Destruction" "Peoples' Universal Aversion to War" House's Overwhelming Vote Of Confidence LONDON
Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 5
After the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) had replied in the House of Commons to-day to criticism expressed during the debate on the Munich pact, a vote of confidence in the Government was carried by 366 to 144, The Labor amendment, expressing criticism, had previously been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Shoot Yesterday's "A" Series Fine Win by Lismore Youth Australia's Best Shots Meet. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 October 1938 · page 6
Australia's best shots clashed at today's "A" series in the National Rifle Association's prize meeting at Anzac range…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Wakened Up" I England and Defence a Vigorous New Policy War Minister's Announcement London
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 October 1938 · page 5
"We have done the right thing. One day, perhaps, we will erect a statue to Herr Hitler because he has wakened as up," declares the "Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Enlisted When 14
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 October 1938 · page 8
To have enlisted with the Allied forces when 14 was the record of Earle Desmond Robson. 36, who was killed when his car collided with a tram on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Escapes Recalled
Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1938 · page 2
The escape of 24 men from a German prison camp at Holzminden during the war was described in a talk given at the luncheon of the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Fleet On A War Basis No German Demobilisation. London
Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1938 · page 5
Despite Germany's new anxiety for peace official circles in London have not yet received any indications of German demobilisation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Won Double at Anzac Rifle Meeting. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 17 October 1938 · page 7
The youthful Claude Platt, Western Suburbs shot, won the big double at the N.R.A. meeting which concluded on Saturday. He took the grand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nearly Killed Hitler War Incident Recalled Machine-gun Jammed. London, October 1
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 October 1938 · page 2
Pointing with his finger at a newspaper photograph of Hitler, Antoine Barraud, ex-sergeant in the French Infantry Regiment, cried, "That is the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An "Anzac" Lives In Pig Pen Destitute Men at Abattoir
Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 October 1938 · page 4
Unable to find shelter elsewhere, a number of workless men have made their homes in the pig selling pens at the Newcastle Abattoir. Five of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blind Victims of War
Daily Examiner · Friday 21 October 1938 · page 7
The number of blinded soldiers, sailors and airmen under the care of St. Dunstan"s Hospital for the Blind in London is still nearly 2000, and their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →If War Had Come—
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 21 October 1938 · page 2
But it didn't, and apart from all political opinions a wave a relief swept over the whole world. Why? Because, in spite of twenty years…
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