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The wars & local soldiers, 1935

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Wounded Man Improving 'Plane Flight From Interior MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 August 1935 · page 5

Medical treatment secured for Mr. Trevor B. Kilvington, lecturer in physiology at Melbourne University, who was accidentally shot in the chest…

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Britons Not Advised to Leave Abyssinia Foreign Office Warning Against Britons Enlisting Australia Opposed to Sanctions Against Italy (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, August 30

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 August 1935 · page 1

British Legation officials at Addis Ababa have denied a report which was circulated early this weak that instructions had been issued to British subjects to leave Abyssinia…

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Britons Not Advised to Leave Abyssinia Foreign Office Warning Against Britons Enlisting Australia Opposed to Sanctions Against Italy (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, August 30

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 August 1935 · page 7

British Legation officials at Addis Ababa have denied a report which was circulated early this week that instructions had been issued to British subjects to leave Abyssinia…

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Mayor of Randwick Dreads War

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 September 1935 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Mayor of Randwick (Alderman Foote), in placing, into position two foundation stones of the Coogee returned…

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War Prepartions Go On Italy to Send 300 Bombers to Abyssinia Concessions Add To Tangle (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, September 1

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 September 1935 · page 1

Italy is [?] 300 modern bombine planes to East Africa, and general mobilisation orders have been issued in Abyssinia. Meanwhile the news that the Emperor has…

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War Declared Against Council Against War Move by Victorian A.L.P. Executive Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 5

The executive of the Australian Labor Party will be called upon to make an important decision when it meets on Friday—whether it shall…

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Labor Against War Campaign Opened In Sydney SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 4

The Australian Labor Party last night launched its campaign against war, the principal speakers being Messrs. J. T. Lang and J. A…

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Soldier Opens Fire On Comrades

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 September 1935 · page 4

While 70 men of the Highland Light (Infantry were at rifle practice at Fort George (Eng.), one of them, when his turn came to go to the range, instead…

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Archbishop Mowll Here To-day Community Welcome at Civic Reception Visitor Lauds. Work Of League Of Nations Expressing the hope that a united front at Geneva would ayert the threat of war between Italy and Abyssinia, Dr. H. Mowll, Archbisnop of Sydney, at a civic reception in the Town Hall to-day made an earnest plea for Australia to stand behind, the League of Nations in its efforts to preserve world peace

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 September 1935 · page 1

Dr. Mowll, who, with Mrs. Mowll, arrived from Sydney this morning, is making a brief visit to Broken Hill— the first ever made by an Anglica…

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Boy Wounded by Revolver Adblaidb[?]

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 September 1935 · page 3

Thinking that a seven-chambered fully-londed revolver was a top pistol, Ernest Leo Suck (11). of Gilbertstreet, Bowden, pulled the tiigger,…

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Boy Wounded by Revolver Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 September 1935 · page 3

Thinking that a seven-chambered fully-loaded revolver was a top pistol, Ernest Leo Suck (11), of Gilbertstreet, Bowden, pulled the trigger,…

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Subsidiary of Communists Victorian Council Against War MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 September 1935 · page 2

The Victorian Labor party executive has declared the Victorian Council Against War and Fascism a subsidiary, of the Communist party. The…

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Monarchist Plot Greek General Wounded ATHENS, September 10

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 September 1935 · page 2

A new monarchist plot suddenly blew up yesterday and led to a fight on the threshold of the building in which the Cabinet was sitting. A…

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Reducing Risks of Surfing Company To Make War On Sharks With Nets

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 September 1935 · page 4

Sydney is eagerly anticipating the arrival of the surfing season, and the sharks are perhaps just as eagerly anticipating the arrival of the 1935-6 surfers. Already one monster, cruising off Little Coogee,…

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Italy Backs Mussolini Country United For War

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 September 1935 · page 3

IN his plans for Italian colonisation of Abyssinia, Signor Mussolini at the moment has Italy virtually united behind him, says Vernon Bartlett,…

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War Preparations Intensified Feared Mussolini Will Defy League (Special to "The Miner.") GENEVA, September 11

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 September 1935 · page 6

While the committee of five is still discussing the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, speakers in the League Assembly are avoiding the subject, lest they should add to the difficulties, declared the Australian…

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Italy Preparing for War

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 September 1935 · page 1

ROME, September 15.— Following a meeting of the Italian Cabinet, a communique was issued announcing that war preparations were…

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War Service Homes Vigorous Protest By Purchasers

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A mass meeting convened by the War Service Home Purchasers' Association carried a motion declaring: "That the…

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Why Council Passed Over—Ex-Soldiers WELLINGTON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 1

Reasons why the Wellington Municipal Council appointed Mr. Kearns health and sewerage inspector and passed over four returned soldier…

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Lloyds' Cancellation of War Risks (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, September 16

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 4

For the first time since the Great War Lloyds, the noted insurance underwriters, have given merchants 10 days notice of the cancellation of…

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