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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

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War Correspondents Killed at Teruel Loyalist Shell British and American Victims Terrific Fighting London, January 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 1

When the car in which they were travelling together to the Teruel battle area in Spain, suffered a direct hit from a Republican shell to-day, Mr. E. R. Sheepshanks, special…

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Food Supply Forests in Britain War Emergency

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 2

In the event of war, Britain's forests could not only supply fuel but foods and clothes as well, for the entire population for several months…

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Foreign War Victims LONDON, Jan. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

The bodies of the journalists, Sheepshanks, Nell, and Johnson, who were killed at Teruel, have arrived at…

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Big Prizes Celebrations Events TUG-O-WAR

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 5

Arrangements for the first day of the Maitland celebrations to be conducted in conjunction with Australia's 150th anniversary will be considered by a…

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Spanish War Fighting in Snow MADRID, January 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

The Republicans claim that General Franco's offensive at Teruel has been broken. The Intensity of the attacks has been…

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Jap. War Planes Raid Hankow 75 Bombs Fall Spectacular Aerial Duels Chaos Reigns in City Hankow, January 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

Chaos reigned in Hankow when a large fleet of Japanese war planes heavily bombed the aerodrome for the first time since the Government offices were transferred from…

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Anzac Day Celebrations in Sydney 2000 War Veterans From New Zealand

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 4

The prelude to the Anzac Day celebrations in Sydney will be a dinner at which there will be 3000 guests, including 2000 members of the New…

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Tragedy at Broken Hill Man Killed and Woman Wounded

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 4

Just after shots were heard at the rear of an office in Oxide-street, Broken Hill yesterday afternoon, a woman rushed out into the street,…

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Japan Talks of War. "White Yoke Must Go." Control of East Asia

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 1

"The white yoke in Asia must go." This is one of the several statements attributed to Admiral Suetsugu. the Japanese Minister for the Interior,…

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Returned Soldiers' League Fortnightly Meeting

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 4

The Cessnock sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League held its usual fortnightly meeting in the Memorial Hall last night…

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Prison Camps "Help Our Comrades" War's Tragedy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 4

"Segitsuk haza vereinket." (Let's help our comrades get home!)—so roads the inscription on a series of postage stamps issued by Hungary in…

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Jap War Bill Reaches Enormous Total Heavier Taxes Sum of £223,000,000 Needed Plan to Capture Trade Tokio, Jan. 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 1

The "Asahi Shimbun" understands a sum higher than the whole of the ordinary Budget of Japan will be allocated for war expenditure in China. The fighting forces require…

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Birdwood of Anzac

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 1

The political correspondent of the London "News Chronicle" understands that Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, who was created a…

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Bullet Through Door Man Wounded at Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 3

On returning home from a weddings late on Saturday night, a party of two men and two women were fired at by a young man one of the men…

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Threat of Another World War Ex-ambassador's Warning

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 1

Mr W. E. Dodd, the retiring United States Ambassador to Germany, is of the opinion that another Great War is threatened because of the frenzied…

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Japan's War Drain on Nation New Taxes Ordered

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

The newspaper "Asahi" understands that a sum higher than the whole of the ordinary Budget for Japan will be allocated for war…

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Attacks on British Police by Japanese Soldiers Emergency Meeting of British Cabinet Expected

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

The Prime Minister (Mr Chamberlain), who is in charge of the Foreign Office during Mr Eden's holiday, is expected to call an emergency meeting to-day of such Cabinet Ministers as are in London, to consider the situation created by the attacks on British…

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Soldiers' Club. Annual Meeting, Saturday, January 15th, 1938

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 2

Owing to renovations being carried out at the Soldiers' Club, the annual meeting of the Muswellbrook subbranch of the R.S. and S. I. League…

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Japan Determined to Wage War. London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 2

The Emperor of Japan, at the Imperial Conference meeting, approved of the unshakeable policy to overthrow Chiang-kai-Shek unless he sues…

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"Japan Will Crush China" Imperial Will Long War is Inevitable Anti-british Feeling London, January 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 1

The Emperor of Japan, at the Imperial Conference meeting, approved of the unshakeable policy to overthrow Chiang Kai-Shek unless he sues for peace on Japan's terms, according…

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