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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Wool Prices Still Show Decline War the Cause

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: Since the earlier selling days of last weak prices for wool have receded at the Sydney sales. That reduction was…

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Soldiers’ Club Billiard Championship

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 7

In the first round of the Yass Soldiers’ Club billiard championship last night V. Leonard beat W. Hatton by 300 to 222…

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Not Their War-but They Suffer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 September 1937 · page 7

The innocents of war in the shell-torn area of China rest with their children and a few belongings as they flee to any place which offers safely from aerial bombs. Scenes such as this are common among the Chinese refugees near shanghai…

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Found Wounded In Sydney Street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 September 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Joseph Manning, 37, was found in a gutter at the intersection of Palmer and Burton Streets, City, last night…

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Menace to Australia Stories by War Refugees

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: A number of war refugees arrived in Sydney aboard the liner Kamo Maru…

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Policing of Mediterranean Now in Operation Routes For Ships Under Protection of War Vessels Zones For Each Power

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: The measures for policing the Mediterranean against piratical attacks on merchantmen came into operation to-day…

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Yass Soldiers’ Club Billiards Championship Won by A. BRENNAN

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 7

Aub. Brennan won the billiards championship of the Yass Soldiers’ Club last night, when he defeated Archie Grosvenor,…

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Trainees for War Flying

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 5

R.A.F. short term cadets, photographed on their arrival at Tilbury from Australia. They are taking up a special training course at Uxbridge (Eng.)…

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The Greater War Health Department's Campaign for National Fitness

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 5

In a short address at the commencement of the screening of die Health Department's moving pictures in the local…

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Monument of Memories America In The War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 7

On August 1, American and French war veterans, including General John J. Pershing and .Marshal Petain, gathered at Montfaucon, north-eastern…

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A Virile Force Returned Soldiers' League Membership Totals 24,000

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 3

The R.S.S.I.L.A., by its branches and sub branches, is a virile force in the community of every city, town and hamlet, throughout the…

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Soldier Settlers Object to Parliament to be Asked to Act in Matter Diggers Suffer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The influx of Southern Europeans to Australia was viewed "with extreme alarm" by soldier…

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The Greater War Health Department’s Campaign For National Fitness Instructive Pictures

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 3

There was a large attendance of adults and children at the free screening of health films at the Memorial Hall on…

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No Use in War Submarine a Thing of the Past

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 10

Captain H. L. Upton, D.S.C., R.D., R.N.R., who was in command of Q ships during the war, and is now in command. of the Federal line mv…

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Had Enough of War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 September 1937 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday: Twelve more members of the crew including officers of the Spanish Government destroyer, Jose Luis Diez, deserted at…

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War Comrades Chance Meeting At Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 7

Commenting that it is a small world, the Braidwood Review states that on Friday, when driving up the Araluen Mountain,…

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A Visit to Spain Life In War Zone

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 2

Nine months ago I sailed the Mediterranean in company with a Spanish saffron merchant from a little town near…

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Are We Going Back to Before the War? What a London Correspondent Has to Say on Fashions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 September 1937 · page 3

LONDON: Now that it looks as if we really are going to wear the same kind of clothes that were worn before the war—the same shape, anyway—corsets can't be a mere cover any more. The "1900" line means bust and…

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War Risks Insurance Refused London Decides

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: Three hundred companies of all nationalities have now agreed to decline acceptance of insurance…

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Soldier Settlers. Vast Government Aid

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 4

Opening the annual conference of the Soldier Settlers in Sydney, the Minister for Lands (Mr Buttenshaw) said that soldier settlers, during the…

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