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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Chinese Did Not Sign Agreement War Unless Powers Mediate Dr. Wellington Koo Makes Statement

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 16 July 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: The Chinese Ambassador to Paris, Dr. Wellington Koo, states that unless the Powers mediate there will be a major conflict between Japan and China…

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Year of Civil War in Spain Both Sides Send Out Their Claims to the World

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 19 July 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday: Both sides in Spain, recalling that the civil war started a year ago to-day, sum up the results and discuss the future. "We have been flighting a cruel…

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Behind the Screens All Horrors of War in the Picture "They Gave Him a Gun"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 19 July 1937 · page 2

The cinema does not often pin on the wings of peace and [?]p them in eight reels of dove-like cooling. When it does, a last it too frequently becomes…

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Religious War "State of Alarm" In Belgrade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 21 July 1937 · page 5

BELGRADE, Wednesday: The situation, created by the opposition to the bill to ratify the Concorcat with Roma is becoming so serious that the…

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Gunning Shire War Memorial To Be Repaired Concrete Pipe Culverts Completed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 July 1937 · page 4

The monthly meeting of Gunning Shire Council was held on Monday morning, when the president, Cr. S. T. Starr, presided. Others present…

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Returned Soldiers' League

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 22 July 1937 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the above League was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Harden, on Tuesday night. Present: Mr H. Knight-Gregson…

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Labour Agrees To War Money

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: The Parliamentary Labour Party has decided, in view of the international situation, not to…

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A.L.P. and War Differences In The Party Mr. Graves' View

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: The secretary of the A.L.P. Mr. J. J. Graves, declared to-day that the Labour Party would have nothing…

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Why Britain Is At War in India

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 28 July 1937 · page 4

What is happening on the North-West Frontier of India? For months 33,000 British and Indian troops have been seeking to coop up an equal number of rebellious tribesmen, led by the turbulent Fakir of Ipi, in a square of land sixty miles by forty…

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A.L.P. and War Mr. Curtin States Policy A.C.T.U. OPPOSED

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 28 July 1937 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Wednesday: The leader of the Labour party in the Federal Parliament (Mr. Curtin) expressed his opposition to the A.C.T.U. Congress's…

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Successful Year Soldiers’ Memorial And Literary Institute Committee Re-elected

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 5

At the annual meeting of the subscribers of the Soldiers’ Memorial Hall and Literary Institute, held in the lecture room…

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Australia and War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 30 July 1937 · page 4

Labour in Australia does not quite know where it stands in regard to war. The A.C.T.U. declares that Australia has a duty…

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NON-INTERVENTION Nations Reply To Britain Spanish War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 30 July 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: Twenty-two replies have been received to the British questionnaire from which it is hoped to evolve a…

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War Songs a Night With The Diggers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 2

Every war in the past seems to have been the inspiration which produced songs, which have been handed down from campaign to campaign…

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Is It War Tension Continues In China That Integrity

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 5

NANKING. Wednesday: Dangerous Sino-Japanese lcnsion condinues, but the troops sent north by the Chinese Central Government…

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Soldiers’ Memorial And Literary Institute Letting Hall on Public Holidays

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 8

The monthly meeting of the council of the Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute was held on Tuesday evening. The president,…

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Duchess And Jewels Story Denied Duke Wounded By Traducers Statement by Friend

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: "The Duchess of windsor never had any of Queen Alexandra's jewels," states a correspondent of the London star, for whose reliability the star vouches…

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Visit to Anzac

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 8

Plans have been completed by the Victorian branch of the Gallipoli Legion of Anzacs for a battlefields and war graves pilgrimage to leave…

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Panic Crozier's Second Book Horrors of War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: Brigadier-General Crozier has caused a s[?]ir by the frank disclosures in his new book, "The Men I Killed."…

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Japan and China Hankow Now Evacuated War March Past In Peiping

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 5

NANKING, Sunday: The Chinese Christian General, Feng Yuh-siang, in a broadcast speech, predicted victory for China. "If Japan mobilises 28 divisions, China is ready to…

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