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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Film Romance Includes Spanish War "Shots"

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 October 1937 · page 8

Actual shots of Madrid under fire and fighting around the adjacent countryside are included in "The Last Train From Madrid," the first drama…

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War Opinion Against Japan Statement by Member of Japanese Consular Corps Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 October 1937 · page 6

Deploring the trend of war opinion against Japan, C. H. Iuichiro Harada, a member of the Japanese Consular corps, who arrived in Sydney to-day,…

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Preference to Returned Soldiers Local Government View

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 October 1937 · page 5

After an animated discussion, the Local Government Association conference, by 89 votes to 55, recently passed a resolution asking the Government…

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Polling Booth at Soldiers' Point

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 October 1937 · page 4

Mr. V. C. Thompson, M.H.R., has been advised that a polling booth will be established at Soldiers' Point, Port Stephens, for the elections on October…

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Coronation Medals Soldier Organisation's Protest

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 October 1937 · page 7

Claiming that Soldier Organisations had been di[?]sgarded in connection with the distribution of coronations…

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Milk "War" Footscray Dairymen Novel Campaign Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1937 · page 1

Footseray dairymen have banded themselves together to prevent a competitor' from another suburb, who is said to bo underselling the…

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War Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 3

On aid of the Hospital Women's Auxlliary funds, a war bridge evening will be held in the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Cub rooms, West…

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Spiritual War Forces of Anti-Christ Call to Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 7

The rector (Rev. Carlos Stretch) continued his series of addresses in st. Paul's Church in preparation for the parochial…

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War Machine for Mascot Flying Mile Adye Hardest to Beat

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 6

War Machine, a winner over a mile at a recent Kensington meeting would look like being one of the hardest…

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War Machine for Mascot Flying Mile Adye Hardest to Beat

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 6

War Machine, a winner over a mile at a recent Kensington meeting, would look like being one of the hardest…

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Returned Soldiers' Annual Dinner. Cessnock Diggers Make Merry at Masonic Hall Splendid Spirit of Comradeship Shown

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 1

Time marches on, and alhough the ranks of the men who fought in the Great War are thinning, the spirit of comradeship which existed between the Diggers during the 1914-18 armageddon has strengthened rather than…

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Annual Dinner Returned Soldiers Happy Function

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 6

The Northern, District State Councillor (Mr. W. H. Murdock) declared that the coalfields had the larger percentage of enlistments for the…

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Returned Soldiers' Annual Dinner. Cessnock Diggers Make Merry at Masonic Hall Splendid Spirit of Comradeship Shown

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 1

Time marches on and although the ranks of the men, who fought in the Great War are thinning the spirit of comradeship which existed between the Diggers during the. 914-18 armageddon has strengthened rather than…

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Gun Battle Two Gangsters Killed "G Man" Wounded New York, October 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1937 · page 1

Two gangsters were killed, and a "G man" wounded in a spectacular gun battle in the street of Bangor, Main, during…

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War Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 October 1937 · page 6

Proceeds of the war bridge evening to be held at Nille Infants' School at 8 p.m. on Monday, October 25, are in aid of the school children's…

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War in Spain

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 7

The long-expected Republican offensive on the Aragon front in Spain has been launched with 200,000 men, including men of the International…

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"No Hat" War

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 8

There is something of a hat war in Sydney, says "Cowra Guardian." It started a long time ago when men rebelled…

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Chemicals for Use in Case of War

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 1

According to Mr O'Sullivan, secretary of the factory department of the A.W.U., hundreds of acres of land in. different parts of N.S.W. are being…

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"War Cry" Banned in Germany Berlin, October 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 6

Nazi secret police have forbidden the sale in Germany of "The War Cry," the official organ of the Salvation Army. Sir Henry Braddon, M.L.C., at the…

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War Memorial Canberra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 October 1937 · page 3

A contract for completion of the National War Memorial at Canberra, at a cost of mere than £150,000 will be signed carly next week in…

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