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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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Whither? the Grim Terror and Horror of War. Plea for Peace by Military Man

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 4

The great question before the world at the present time, is, are we going to have another war to end war? Leaders,…

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Rumination -- Review -- Reminiscence. Youth Responds to Ruty's Call -- a Misapprehension Dissipated and a Misstatement Correct -- the Company Spirit As a Contribution to National Well-being -- Spanish Position Continues Disturbing -- No One Seeks an Aggressor Role in World War

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 3

I am glad to learn that there has been already a gratifying response to the call for recruits for the proposed militia unit for the Macleay, and…

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Red Army Warned. Danger of War. "Be Ready to Fight." London, August 26

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 August 1936 · page 7

Warning of the danger of an imminent war was broadcast to the Red army throughout Russia by the Soviet dictator (M. Stalin) at dawn to-day…

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Five Shillings for War Trophy

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 September 1936 · page 4

A man has offered the, Kingaroy Shire Council 5 for a mountain battery gun and carriage, which the Australians captured from the Turks,…

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War's Huge Cost Australia's Burden

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 September 1936 · page 4

War and repatriation expenditure has cost the Commonwealth of Australia; £945,000,000, or approximately £28,000,000 a year since…

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Fire Is War's Fiercest Weapon

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 5 September 1936 · page 7

Fire bombs will be far more dangerous weapons than poison gas in air raids of the future, according to Professor J. Enrique Zanetti, of…

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Rumination -- Review -- Reminiscence. Pence for Poor Peter -- a Man Who Struggled and Fell -- the Right to Employment of the Comfortably Circumstanced -- Indolence Results in Decadence -- the Right to Free Speech and a Free Press -- Violence the Child of Suppression -- Hitler's Nuremberg Speech a Deliberate Provocation -- Why the World Is Not at War

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 3

Many a man, were the necessary organisation created, would with pleasure put down his name on a shilling subscription list for poor Peter…

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Spain in a Blaze of War What It Is All About. a Republic That Has No Leader

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 2

Spain is afire in a dozen places. The fires began to smoulder more than five years ago, before King Alfonso fled from his kingdom, and…

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Rumination -- Review -- Reminiscence. Question Contains Answer -- Why Are Civil Wars So Ghastly, So Merciless? -- an Interesting Issue Considered -- While We Remember We Never Forgive -- No Personal Enmity in International Conflict -- the Spanish Civil War Still Takes Toll -- "Non-interventionists" Are Actively Intervening

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 3

The question has been submitted to me: "Why should civil war be a more ghastly and innocents-involving affair than wars between nations,…

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Wounded on Thigh

Macleay Argus · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 4

While working in the bush at Dungay Creek on Wednesday, Mr. John Allan, of Greenhill, sustained a nasty incised wound on the right…

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Lloyd Georges Views on Germany War Improbable. "No Desire to Attack."

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 4

"Germany does not desire to attack any country in Europe. Herr Hitler is arming for defence, not attack," declared Mr. Lloyd George in…

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American Civil War Lecture by Mayor. Some Interesting Facts

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 September 1936 · page 7

The Mayor of Taree, Ald. R. S. But terworth, further demonstrated his versatility on Wednesday night at the High School when he made his debut as a…

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Taree High School. Lecture by the Mayor on the American Civil War

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 September 1936 · page 11

The Mayor of Taree (Aid. R. S. Butterworth) taking as his subject "The American Civil War," delivered in the Assembly Hall of the Taree…

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Soldier Settler. "Burnt Out by Blacks." Sold Cow to Pay Fare

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 September 1936 · page 8

An unusual story of distress was told to the Soldiers' Settlers' conference in Sydney on Tuesday by Mr. H. Gardem, of Warwick, Kempsey, who, it…

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Scrap Iron. End of War Trophy

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 5

After reposing for a number of years in the yard at the rear of the Harwood Shire Hall, the large German howitzer, the wheels of which…

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The American Civil War To the Editor

The Northern Champion · Saturday 3 October 1936 · page 4

Sir,—I wish to publicly thank his Worship the Mayor of Taree for his most excellent lecture on the above subject. Your two column digest of it is…

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To Prevent War. Marriage of Science and Religion. Dr. Earle Page's Views

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 6 October 1936 · page 8

"I have just come back from Europe where one has the feeling that war is imminent everywhere because the goodwill towards men, the…

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Wounded on the Nose

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 4

While playing with some other children on Sunday last Morrison Fail, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Fail, of Corangula, was struck on the face…

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Scrap Iron. End of War Trophy

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 7

After reposing for a number of years in the yard at the rear of the Harwood Shire Hall. Grafton, the large German howitzer, the wheels of which had fallen…

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Scooping, Sweeping, Fighting. the Boer War Recalled. "Anything But a Picnic."

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 7

There has come to our hands a proof sheet of a diary dated 1901, printed at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, which graphically tells the story, of…

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