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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Speedy Cure Of Disease Defied for 18 Hours Native Wages War on Twenty Police (Special to "The Miner"). Cape Town, January 22

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

JIM Mboya, a native, for 18 hours waged war against 20 police who were attempting to arrest him. Mboya, clad only in a leopard skin…

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Barrier Miner Monday, January 25, 1937. Russia's Increased War Strength

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 2

RECENT reports indicate that Russia's man power and war strength are increasing at such alarming rates that more than one…

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Lord Nuffield to Make War Material

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 1

LONDON, January 26.—Following the registration of Nuffield Mechanisations Ltd. as a private company, with Lord Nuffeld as chairman, the…

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Bitter Fighting In Civil War (Special to "The Miner"). LONDON, January 27

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 6

Violent fighting on the Aranjuz front yesterday is announced in the Madrid Defence Committee communique. It declares that the loyalists…

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Menindee Soldiers Elect Officers

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 1

A meeting of the Menindee sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, was held at the Menindee Hotel…

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Book Review "Australia During the War"

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 6

TO those who have the slightest interest in Australia's part in the Great War, "Australia During the War" by Ernest Scott, professor of…

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"Leave It to Italians" Germain Attitude In Spanish War (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, February 9

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 4

According to the diplomatic correspondeht of the "Daily Herald" (Labor), parents, wives and sweethearts in Germany resent the sending…

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Rebel Gains in Spanish War Forces Moving on Madrid (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, February 9

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 1

WHILE rumors of massacres in Malaga are discounted by British press correspondents, the Rebel administration has created three special tribunals consisting of 38 judges to try 5000 Loyalists…

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Coronation Contingent At War Memorial

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 3

THE SCENE ROUND THE NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL in North-terrace, Adelaide, when the coronation contingent halted during the march through the city to lay a wreath on the memorial…

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Coronation Contingent At War Memorial

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 3

After the ceremony the contingent continued on to the Town Hall…

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Dominions Must Help Britian Attitude in War (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, February 23

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 February 1937 · page 3

WHILE Whitehall would not in any way seek to dictate the Dominions' attitude in the event of war it is believed that circumstances would…

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Soldiers Act Repeal Urged By U.A.P. Younger Set

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Delegates of the U.A.P. Younger Set's convention decided almost unanimously that a bachelor tax would be inadvisable…

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Bread War Starts at Manly

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday.—A bread war started at Manly to-day when one baker sold bread over the counter and delivered at 51d. a loaf, a…

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Bread War Starts at Manly

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday.—A bread war started at Manly to-day when one baker sold bread over the counter and delivered at 5½d. a loaf, a…

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War Fear Deprecated by Mr. Chamberlain Defence Loas Bill Passies Second Stage in Commons (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON. February 26

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

IT would be unfortunate if fears that war is imminent were created at a time when there is no reason to suppose that there is justification for such fears, said Mr. Neville Chamberlain…

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War Fear Deprecated by Mr. Chamberlain Defence Loan Bill Passes Second Stage in Commons (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, February 26

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

IT would be unfortunate if fears that war is imminent were created at a time when there is no reason to suppose that there is justification for such fears, said Mr. Neville Chamberlain…

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Anzac Day on a Sunday Public Holiday On Following Day SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 1

THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) stated that in view of the intention of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League to conduct the usual…

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Man Who Received Note Which Led to War Dead

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 3

LONDON, March 24.—The death has occurred of the Yugoslavia Minister in London, Dr. Slavko Grouitch, who received the Austro-Hungarian…

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Teamster's Sacrifice to Soldier's Son

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—W. Hall, the son of a soldier killed in the war, has received a twenty-first birthday present ot £519. It is from his…

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Passes to Adelaide for Anzac

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 3

The South Australian Government and the Silverton Tramway Co. have agreed to grant rail passes td returned soldiers to Adelaide for the Anzac…

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