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

The wars & local soldiers, 1939

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“Good Cooks” Would Like to Be Brides Mayor Encounters Rush of Would-be Wives Amazing Response To Soldiers’ Request

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 June 1939 · page 1

Letters from would-be brides in all parts of the country are pouring upon Alderman Patrick Collins, the 80-year-old Mayor of Walsall,…

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Welcome-home Dance

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 30 June 1939 · page 4

Members of the Country Week team will be tendered a welcome-home dance at the Regent to-morrow night by the Goulburn Women's…

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"Aprons of Trade" Better Than War Kit

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 30 June 1939 · page 7

Sir Harold Bellman, chairman and managing director of the Abbey Road Building Society, in his presidential address at the Advertising Convention…

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Six War Planes Will Be Ready Next Week

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 30 June 1939 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday: Completely equipped and ready for military tests the first batch of six Australian-made Wirraway general purpose war…

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If Britain Is at War Australia There Also

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: The Prime Minister, Mr. Monzies, declared in Sydney on Saturday night that, even if Britain's policy led to war, that…

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Ready to Gamble All Government’s Attitude Towards Risking War

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 4

The tense pressure and temporary hardship under which present-day Germany is working are obvious. But let us not draw the wrong conclusion…

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Welcome Home to Hockey Girls

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 July 1939 · page 4

Although Saturday night was bitterly cold the welcome home accorded the victorious district hockey girls At a dance given in…

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Britain's War on Cancer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 July 1939 · page 8

A new stage in the British Government campaign against cancer will be reached shortly with the issue by the Ministry of Health…

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Ghost of War in Bulgaria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 July 1939 · page 8

Ghosts of the Balkan and World Wars, abroad in many lands, walked in Bulgaria recently as that nation, according…

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Japanese "Secret War" Annihilating Victory Claimed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 July 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: The Japanese claim that the Kwantung Army has annihilated 4000 Mongols in the "secret war" battle on the Halba…

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Bullitt Denounces Aggression Message From The Unknown Soldier To The World Of To-day

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 July 1939 · page 5

PARIS, Tuesday: The American Ambassador, Mr. Bullitt, speaking at Chalons-sur-Marne in commemoration of the…

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From Everywhere If War Comes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 July 1939 · page 4

The Federal Attorney-General, Mr. Hughes, speaking in Newcastle yesterday, said that there was trouble in the world and there might be…

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Message From The Unknown Soldier To The World Of To-day

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1939 · page 2

The American Ambassador, Mr. Bullitt, speaking at Chalons-sur-Marne on Tuesday in commemoration of the journey of the Unknown…

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Soldiers’ Memorial Purchase Of Right Of Way Legal Difficulty Arises

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1939 · page 1

The Council of the Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute learned on Monday night at its meeting that a legal difficulty…

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Soldiers’ Memorial And Literary Institute Ventilators for Soldiers’ Club

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1939 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Council of the Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute was held on Monday evening. The president was in…

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Doctors in War Casualties in Air Raids Surgeons Give Advice

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 July 1939 · page 4

The medical and surgival treatment of civilian casualties after an air raid is being exhaustively discussed in the English medical journel, “The…

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Will There Be War? August Is Critical Time

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 July 1939 · page 5

Questioned by a Post representative as to his views on the possibility of war, Colonel the Rev. F. Miles, World Secretary…

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Germany in Spanish War

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 July 1939 · page 3

THE NAMES of German airmen killed in the Spanish civil war were carried by standard-bearers at a victory parade in Berlin on June 6. Hitler and Goering (shown above) inspected members of the Condor Legion. (Daily Telegraph Block)…

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War on Kangaroos an Open Season Sought "Mightn't Do Any Harm"

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 July 1939 · page 4

In a letter to the Carcoar P.P. Board, read at last week's meeting the police officer stationed at Burraga, recommending an oepn…

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Germany in Spanish War

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 July 1939 · page 3

THE NAMES of German airmen killed in the Spanish civil war were carried by standard-bearers at a victory parade in Berlin on June 6. Hitler and Goering (shown above) inspected members of the Condor Legion. (Daily Telegraph Block)…

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