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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Begged Alms War Pensioner Sentenced

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 7

Convicted at the Goulburn Police Court on a charge of begging alms, Herbert Charles Wilmot, 64, a war pensioner, was sentenced to…

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War Seems Inevitable Between China and Japan, is Official Opinion Ultimatum Next Step Shanghai in Ferment Internationals May Be In Peril From Armies Yangtse Kiang Blocked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 5

ULTIMATUM NEXT STEP…

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Air Raids Over European Settlement Have Ceased Cruisers Shell Woosung Flagship Idumo's Good Luck War Time Basis in Japan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 August 1937 · page 5

SHANGHAI, Tuesday: Although there have been no further Chinese air raids over the International Settlement, there is no diminution of the tension resulting from the…

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War Guilt Doctor Defends Germany Canberra Speech

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 4

Speaking to 600 people who attended the public welcome to the New Educational Fellowship delegation at Canberra, the director…

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Returned Men's Meetings

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: The Soldier Settlors' Conference which will be held on September 21, and later the Returned Spldiers' League will…

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Peace War Means Waste World's Need

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 August 1937 · page 3

"War Is waste, of everything that is precious," said Rev. F. Hill, in the course of his sermon St. Saviour's Cathedral on…

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Man Wounded Altercation In Bus at Gundagai

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 27 August 1937 · page 1

Arrested in the early hours of Wednesday morning, following an alleged stabbing affray, Reginald Reuben Morton, alias Blucher…

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British Ambassador Shot by Japanese War Plane Travelling in Motor Car 50 Miles From Shanghai Union Jack Flying Britain to Protest to Japan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 27 August 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: Japanese aeroplanes bombed and machine-gunned a motor car in which the British Ambassador to China (Sir Hughe Knatchball-Hugessen) and Colonel Lovat Fraser, his military attache, and Mr…

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Scenes of Horror at Shanghai Railway Station Many Thousands Wounded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 August 1937 · page 5

SHANGHAI, Sunday: In a second artillery bombardment of South Station to-day the Japanese killed 300 Chinese civilians and wounded 700. South Station is now a mass of ruins and cannot be…

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American Liner Bombed by Chinese War Planes Prompt Regrets by Offenders Explanation Made Readiness to Give Full Redress

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 August 1937 · page 5

SHANGAI, Monday: The American linear President Hoover (21,936 tons), was bombed by aeroplanes bearing Chinese markings, two miles off the Woosung lightship. One bomb hit the president Hoover on the port side,…

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Bread War in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday: Mr. F. Catian, manager of Catlan's Bros. Grocery Stores, Marrickville business was surrounded by a crowd of 200 men…

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Council Criticises Returned Soldiers’ Preference Act Young Men Penalised a Grade Clerk Appointed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 1

The alleged injustice of the Returned Soldiers’ Preference Act to capable young men today who were in the cradle…

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Criticism From Yass Soldiers' Preference Act

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 3

YASS, Thursday: At a meeting of the Yass Council the Returned Soldiers' Preference Act was severely criticised, on the ground that it did…

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Next War Everybody Will Be In It British View

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 5

LONDON: "Whether you like. It or not, everybody must realise that a modern war affects the whole community," said Sir Thomas Inskip,…

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Picture of War Spain in Films

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 2

No fewer than four motion-picture studios have been fretting over a Spanish civil war theme. One, 20th Century-Fox, was first with on Idea…

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About a Stamp War May Break Out. TEGUCIAGALPA (Honduras)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 5

Monday: Relations between Nicaragua and Honduras are gravely imperilled owing to a dispute regarding a recent Nicaraguan…

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Spanish War Appeal Made to HItler Nazi Mother

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 3

LONDON: While Herr Hitler was holding another of his famous "open courts" in his summer residence at the beautiful…

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No Use in War Submarine a Thing of the Past

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 1

Captain H. L. Upion, 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 [?]ne m.v…

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War-torn China Background for Big Picture The General Died at Dawn

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 6

Modern war-torn China is the background for the fast-moving drama of romance, adventure and intrigue, "The General Died at Dawn," a…

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Europe Nearer Peace Than War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 4

ROME: None of the great western European powers has an intelligent reason or a real interest to provoke a war…

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