Anzac Day Observance
The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) states that the State executive of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League has advised him that it proposed to…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1937
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War Imminent. British Secretary's Warning. Appeal for Recruits
Giving a warning of the imminence of war, the Secretary for War, Mr. Duff Cooper, speaking at Edinburgh, said even the most optimistic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Imminent. British Secretary's Warning Appeal for Recruits
Giving a warning of the imminence of war, the Secretary for War, Mr. Duff Cooper, speaking at Edinburgh, said even the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Risk Warning To Britain Great Danger London, February 15
Declaring that Britain was arming in the course of preparation, for wary Mr. Duff-Cooper, speaking at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War in Spain. Attack on Valencia. Rebel Bombardment at Dawn. London, Feb. 13
The suburbs of Valencia, the present seat of the Spanish Government, were bombarded by rebel warships at dawn yesterday. Coastal batteries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agonising Flight From Malaga the Horrors of War (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON
Aerial bombing of a children's refuge, resulting in the killing of 57, wits an isolated incident in a longdrawn agony of flight from Malaga,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Annual Meeting W.M. Returned Soldiers Apathy Deplored
Mr. W. Brecht, president of the West Maitland Sub-branch of the Returned Sailors anil Soldiers Imperial League of Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New Aircraft 28,500 War 'Planes CHICAGO, February 17
Mr. Howard Welch, manager of the Bendix Aviation Export Corporation, estimates that nearly £250,000,000 (Australian currency) will be spent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War in Spain
According to the Diplomatic Correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," the Italians are now conducting major military operations in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War Danger BY R. GIBSON, M.A., B.A.
Last Saturday night, at the Kurri School of Arts, Mr. Gibson delivered an inspiring address in which he described [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Submarine Men Meet U-boat Commander Who Evaded Dover Straits War Barrage
For the first time since the war, when they watched each other's movements through periscopes, British and German submarine men met in London…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"World Suicide Pact" Attacked by Labor Race to Arm "A Straight Road To War" Defence of Dominions London, February 18
Trenchantly criticising the Government's defence policy, Sir Stafford Cripps (Labor) declared that the House was witnessing the most magnificent subscription to a world…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers' Reference
Will all diggers please note that according to a recent ruling in one of the Courts, a digger, before he can claim preference under the Act for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attack on British Soldiers Tribesmen Driven Off (Australian Press Assn. Message) DELHI
Tribesmen attacked a British column on routine march west of Wana (Waziristan), and one British soldier and one Indian soldier were killed. Seven…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldiers' League Fortnightly Meeting
The Cessnock Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League held its fortnightly meeting on Wednesday night in the Memorial Hall,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PEACEMAKER Great Britain's Role Prevent War Canberra
In declaration that Britain's £1,500,000,000 armament programme was right in the circumstances was made to-day by Lord Nufield before leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strain of War Grim Situation In Spain Food Shortage Madrid, February 19
The Madrid correspondent of the "Times" says the war strain is beginning to tell on the populace. The food…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thousand Arrests Wounded Italian General ROME, February 21
Professor Cesaro Ambrett[?] leading surgeon of Rome to-day amputated the leg of General Lietta who was injured when an hand grenade thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet Bans Enlistments (Australian Press Assn. Message.) MOSCOW
The Soviet has banned enlistments abroad, including Spain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wildest Gamble in Post-war Business. Huge Deals on London Metal Exchange. LONDON
The dingy London Metal Exchange in Leaderhall Market was the scene to-day of one of the wildest gambles in post-war business, and the largest in the memory of the present members. The turnover amounted to the unprecedented total of…
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