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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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GLOUCESTER Returned Soldiers Christmas Tree Gloucester

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 2

The Returned Soldiers held a Christmas tree which was attended by about 250 children. There was a large number of…

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European War What It Would World Leadership Goulburn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 2

"It is almost certain that another European war will mean that world leadership will pass from Europe for over," said the Bishop of Goulburn,…

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Woman's Revenge Former Chinese War Lord Killed

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3

Revenge is believed to have prompted the assassination by a woman of Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, one-time war lord of China, and ex-Governor of the…

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Fine-record Spoiled Ex-soldier's Lapse at 72

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 7

Bespectacled and grey-haired, Edwin Turner, aged 72, petrol pump attendant, of Folkestone, pleaded guilty at Maidstone (Eng.) Assizes the other day to…

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Extension of Strike After the Week-end Feared the War Must be Relentless Press Demand London, Jan. 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 1

The Italian newspapers are continuing their demand for stronger action in the Abyssinian war. The…

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War Methods Italian Press Demand London

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 4

The entire Italian Press is demanding a harsher and more inexorable prosecution of the war in Ethiopia, "more in keeping with the sadistic barbarity…

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War Casualties Official Italian List ROME, Jan. 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

It was officially announced to-day that the Italian casualties in the East Africa military forces up to December 31 were 390 killed and 14 missing,…

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War Terrors of the Future [?]remendous Advance in Gasses and War Implements. Only Safety For The World a Combined World League

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

War planes droning above the wastes of Ogaden are bringing a new terror to the world. Hundred pound bombs hurtle earthward from the Italian planes like hawkes of destruction. They explode…

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Nothing to Hide Inquiry at War Front Italy's Assertion Rome, Jan. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 5

Asserting that she had nothing to hide the Government Spokesman said to-day that Italy would not oppose the Abyssinian demand to the League…

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Oil Sanction Position "War Danger Remote" London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 1

In the course of a lengthy analysis of the oil sanction position, the diplomatic correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" says: "President Roosevelt's message must appear particularly objectionable to Signor…

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"No Alteration" Soldiers' Preference BULLI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 4

The Bull Shire Council recently appealed to council throughout the State for co-operation in an appeal to the Government to have the…

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Pest War Expert Back New Moves Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 1

The steady fight which scientists are waging in an effort to overcome insect pests was revealed by Mr…

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AFTER 35 YEARS Letter in a Bottle Bower War Relic Perth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 5

Believed to have been thrown overboard 35 years ago from a troopship near Albany by an Australian Light Horseman from Melbourne, on his way…

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BRANXTON Returned Soldiers Year Reviewed Branxton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 2

The annual general meeting of the Branxton Sub-branch, R.S. and S.I.L.A., was held on Monday last. The president (Mr. F. G…

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MUTINY! Italian Soldiers Many Desert London, Jan. 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 1

Reliable information from Merano, in the South Tyrol, says the innesbruck correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph,"…

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Revenge of Whipped Girl Father Fatally Wounded

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 2

Whipped by her father because she stayed out late with her "boy friend," a 21-year-old school teacher, of Wise, Virginia, attacked him with her shoe,…

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Italian Soldiers Mutiny Mussolini Reviled and War Cursed. London

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 8

Reliable information from Merano, in the South Tyrol, says the Innesbruck correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," indicates that…

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Relic of Boer War

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 7

Believed to have been thrown overboard 35 years age from a troopship near Albany by an Australian Light Horseman from Melbourne on his way to the Boer…

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War Horse at Funeral Old Friend of Deceased

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 3

Thirty-three-yoar-old Warrior, the horse which served all through the Groat War, figured in a funeral at Bickley, Kent, the other day…

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Mark Train's War Prayer. Timely—Though 30 Years' Old

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 1

In giving new currency to Mark Twain's famous "War Prayer" at a time when war clouds lower and threaten to spill bloody wrath over a…

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