Keeping Out Of War Demand by Senators Washington. May 3
A GROUP of Senators led by Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep., California) has demanded that Congress remain in session…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
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"Ploughing-up" Campaign Growing Food In Event Of War Plans of British Government..... (Special, to "The Miner.") LONDON, May 3
THE British Government has decided to launch a "ploughing-up" campaign and prepare, land for sowing, thus increasing the area available for growing food stuffs and feed in the event of war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Punishment of Soldiers While Abroad Measure Before House CANBERRA
During the second reading of the Defence (visiting forces) Bill in the House of Representatives, the Government accepted the suggestion by…
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SYDNEY. Thursday—Sir Andrew Russell, who led the New Zealand troops in France during the Great War, said today it is possible that…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.— Following a mysterious brawl yesterday morning in a city foreign club. Peter Polltis (31) was charged on four…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Severely Wounded by Revolver Shot Believed Victim Of Gangster Feud SYDNEY
RICHARD Earker, or Mealing (34), of Bourke-street, Darlinghurst, who is a wharf laborer and barrow man is dying in St. Vincent's Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Fears In Dutch East Indies SYDNEY
Mr. F.K. A. van Esveld, representative of Australian exporters, on his arrival in Sydney today said that fearing that in the event of war they…
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Mr. Gordon Donkin, who returned to Sydney today from a trip through Europe, said that everywhere he went people clapped him on the back when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"The Drift to War" Address To Left Book Club
IN an address. entitled "The Drift To War" given to" the Left Book Club last night, Mr. Nevil Stuart, M.A., the State secretary, analysed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Men to Visit N.Z. Plans For 1940
MORE than 5000 returned sailors, soldiers and nurses from all States are interested in the proposed visit to New…
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BRISBANE, Monday—By 22 votes to 21, the State congress of the Returned Soldiers League rejected a resolution aiming at the prohibition…
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INITIATING the debate on international affairs in the Senate, the leader of Government (Senator McLeay) reaffirmed the Government's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Planes Are Too Fast German Lessons Front Spanish War Defects in Nazi Battleship London, May 19
THE Berlin correspondent of the "Times" today quotes Colonel Ritter von Xylander, an eminent military expert, as stating in a lecture on the lessons of the Spanish war that anti-aircraft guns have proved successful…
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DARWIN, Tuesday.—Quartered in Vestey's disused meat works, the 250 young men "comprising Darwin's mobile force are living Under such…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meat War Butchers Reduce Prices
ALL meat prices were reduced today and according to butchers they will remain down. "Although it is impossible to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tension In The Far East Japanese War Ships Are Responsible Britain, France And U.S. May Act (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, May 26
HONGKONG messages say that the possibility of Japanese warships stopping the incoming American liner, President, Coolidge, is being widely discussed. Such an incident may cause retaliatory action by Britain,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Keeping War Out of U.S. Secretary For State Makes Proposals WASHINGTON, May 28
SEVEN proposals for inclusion in any legislation designed to keep America out of war are urged by the Secretary for State (Mr. Hull) in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blockade Plans Modified Japanese Will Concentrate on Certain Ships Grim Toll Of War (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, May 29
THE Japanese naval spokesman at Shanghai has announced modification of the coastal blockade in South China. He said that such incidents as the boarding of the P. & O. liner, Rampura, and the French ship,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Losses in Spain's War Nazi News Service Makes Admissions (Special to "The Miner") BERLIN, May 30
BELATEDLY attempting to whip up public enthusiam for the German troops from Spain, special editions of the newspapers disclose that they went to General Franco's aid at the very start of the civil war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Communism's War Against Religion To the Editor, Sir.—
The Rev. W. W. F. Pratt has at last been compelled to make [?] to the Communist's diabolical war against religion. But is it to…
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