Too High War Risk Rate Down. Melbourne
As the result of protests by the Dairy Produce Board to underwriters against the high war risk insurance rates ruling, the War Rate Committee has…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1938
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At Grips Poland and Germany Ruthenian Problem War Fears Aroused London
A situation of the greatest complexity is developing in Ruthenia. Well-informed quarters do not exclude the possibility that it is leading…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →World Trade Complete Freedom Urged Remove War Causes Labor Members View Canberra
In the House of Representatives. Mr. Blackburn (Lab., Vic.) urged the complete freedom of world trade and the establishment of a system…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Staff Soldier Deserts To Fight Amnesty for Frenchman. London, November 5
A French soldier, who deserted his post 24 years ago, has confessed his "crime" and has been granted an amnesty. He deserted in order to fight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wounded Man Found in Hut on Farm. Melbourne
Found lying on a bed in a hut on a share farm at Mooroolbark to-day, an Italian, Peter Lombardi, about 50. of Lilydale, was taken to the Bush…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Next War "Come to Australia" Hughes At Newcastle Recruiting Campaign Newcastle
The next war would come to Australia and every section of the community would be involved, said Mr. Hughes, chairman of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Support Drive Grafton Returned Men Universal Training Wanted Preferred to Voluntary System
At a meeting of the Grafton subbranch of the R. S. and S. I. L. A. on Monday, the secretary's action in pledging the support and co-operation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coff's Harbor Diggers' Effort for War Veterans' Home
On Friday night last, in the Memorial Hall, Coff's Harbor Jetty, the Coff's Harbor sub-branch of the R. S. and S. I. L. A. conducted a social evening, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Plans Expansion In Japan British Aid to China. Tokio
The Vice-Minister for War. General Tojo, said that Japan's armament preparations must envisage the possibility of simultaneous warfare against China…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Emergency Plan For Secondary Industry in Case of War. Canberra
An examination of the steps necessary to convert Australian secondary industry from peace time to war time, production with the minimum delay, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First Shot Fired By Bandsman Britain's Entry to War Commissionaire's Story. London, November 12
The Englishman who fired the first shot in the war this week told how he did it. He is Ernest Thomas, then a private in the 4th Royal Irish…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Battle with Arabs Two British Soldiers Killed. Jerusalem
Two British soldiers were killed, two seriously wounded and five slightly wounded in a hand to hand battle with Arabs south of Haifa. Twenty Arabs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →UNEASINESS The European Situation Spanish Civil War. London
Uneasiness regarding the European situation is growing even officially, says the "Manchester Guardian." Some observers anticipate a double…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Defence Policy Precautions In U. S. A. "War Schedule" Production. Washington
"I do not want a lapse of 14 months between the declaration of war and the day our first division is capable of being placed in the firing line. I do…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nation, Not Party, Calls for Volunteers National Broadcast by Prime Minister and Wife 70,000 Men for Home Defence "War Is Not Inevitable" "But Peace in Australia Far From Assured" Canberra
"War is not inevitable, but in the existing state of affairs I would be unfaithful to my trust if I did not tell you that, in my opinion, the road to peace is a very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Name of Humanity War Against Germany Justified. Bombay
Gandhi, in a newspaper article, declared: "If ever there could be a justifiable war in the name of humanity, a war against Germany in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →France and Germany Sign "No War Pact" Good Neighborly Relations Recognition Of Frontiers Third Powers Not Involved Paris
The German Foreign Minister, Herr Von Ribbentrop, and the French Foreign Minister, M. Bonnet, signed a "no war pact," under which the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Army Voluntary Enlistment No Compulsory Register. London
Opening the debate on the Government voluntary register of service, Lord of the Privy Seal, Sir John Anderson, in the House of Commons, referred to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Call to Action Spirit of Anzac
Why marvel that a land so wondrous blessed Should be the cradle of this fearless breed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crisis in Feby. Italian Colonies Grab Carefully Arranged Has Germany's Backing Hopes of Averting War. London
According to the diplomatic writer of the Australian Associated Press, a Dominion official calling at the Dominions Office informed it that the…
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