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

The wars & local soldiers, 1939

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Crookwell in War-time Not Likely To Be Attacked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 14 June 1939 · page 1

CROOKWELL: In a letter addressed to the president, which was read at Thursday's meeting of the Crookwell Shire Council, the…

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From Everywhere War Aircraft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 16 June 1939 · page 4

Serious delay has occurred in beginning the manufacture in Australia of the Bristol Beaufort war aircraft ordered for Australian…

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Fifth Day of Blockade by the Japanese of Tientsin Supplies of Meat for Two Days No Signs Of Compromise Act Amounts to Declaration of War—admiral Keyes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: Sunday, which was the fifth day of the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin, passed of quietly…

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King And Queen Welcome Home By Princesses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 5

LONDON,. Monday: The Empress of Britain entered the warmer zone to-day and Their Majesties, after spending the…

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Beware of Jitters Guard Against The War Complex

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzaies, in an address. to the Chamber of Commerce, appealed to members to avoid…

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War Will Continue Japan To Strike In The Autumn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: According to Reuter, foreign observers at Chungking expect Japan' to make a big push in the autumn, using her…

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Nipponese War Leaders

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 21 June 1939 · page 6

Commanders of Japan's land and sea forces invading China meet in Shanghai. Right: Lieutenant-General Otozo Yamada, new Commander-in-Chief, greeting Vice-Admiral Koshiro Oikawa on the flagship, Idzumo…

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War Materials Government Eye On Profiteers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 21 June 1939 · page 4

Members of the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce received an assurance at Monday night's meeting from the Prime…

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Returned Soldiers Sub-Branch's June Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 21 June 1939 · page 4

Owing to the absence of the president, Mr. D. A. Fowler, through illness, the vice-president, Mr. T. D. Godfrey, presided at…

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May Last For 100 Years Sino-japanese War Still No Nearer End Chinese Resistance Astounds World Japan Has Spent £650,000,000 to Date

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 21 June 1939 · page 6

SINCE the first rifle went off in July, 1937, the Sino-Japanese war--greatest Armageddon in Far Eastern history--has cost Japan £650,000,000, or more than five times the entire cost of the…

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Nipponese War Leaders

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1939 · page 2

Commanders of Japan's land and sea forces invading China meet in Shanghai. Right: Lieutenant-General O[?]ozo Yamada, new Commander-in-Chief, greeting Vice-Admiral Koshir[?] Oikawa on the flagship Idrum[?]…

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Working Up War Fever

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 June 1939 · page 5

BERLIN, Wednesday: One hundred and fifty thousand people hissed and hooed at the mention of the name of Britain during a tirade by the…

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May Last for 100 Years Sino-japanese War Still No Nearer End Chinese Resistance Astounds World Japan Has Spent £650,000,000 to Date

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1939 · page 2

SINCE the first rifle went off in July, 1937, the Sino-Japaneser war--greatest Armageddon in Far Eastern history--has cost Japan £650,000,000, or more than five times the entire cost of the…

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Goulburn Man Shot Drove Home After Being Wounded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 23 June 1939 · page 4

While hardling a pea-rifle at his office in Montague Street at about 9.30 this morning, Mr. Aubrey McShane, a well-known…

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Britain’s Soldier Sons How The New Armies Are Being Put Into Uniform

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 26 June 1939 · page 3

July 1st, the date when the first of Britain’s 200,000 militiamen are to be called up for Army service will mark a milestone in British industrial…

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Missing Soldier Is Found

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 June 1939 · page 5

DARWIN, Tuesday: Gunner John Harris, of the Darwin Mobile Force who had been lost in the bush 40 miles south of Darwin, was found…

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One of the War Hazards Warship In Dock During Air-Raid

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 28 June 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Sir Leonard Savile, who recently reached Australia to advise on the site of a dock capable of taking a capital ship,…

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What Does Hitler Want? Huge Scope of His "New Plan" Does Not Want War With England

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 June 1939 · page 3

Germany wants -- ? High up in his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden the Greatest German dreams of his Empire of to-morrow. What is it exactly that Herr Hitler wants? And what are his…

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England's Edison Is 94 Queen Victoria Smacked His Face Fought in Crimean War at Age of Eleven LONDON, June 10

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 June 1939 · page 6

Known as "England's Edison", Colonel Evelyn Rookes Crompton, the man who invented electric light, this week celebrated…

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“Aprons of Trade” Better Than War Kit Value of Advertising

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 June 1939 · page 3

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

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