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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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The Spanish War Getting Nearer to an Agreement London

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 5

A substantial degree of progress toward an agreement on the main points at issue, was made at to-day's meeting of the Non-Intervention…

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British Housing Scheme 4,000,000 Homes Built Since War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 7

Special attention to British housing schemes was given by the president of the Rural Bank of New South Wales (Mr. M'Kerihan), who…

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News by Cable Talks on Spanish War Powers to Discuss French Plan Withdrawing Foreign Volunteers London

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 14

A slightly more hopeful view is being taken of the Spanish situation as the result of a meeting of the chairman's sub-committee of the…

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After 23 Years' Roaming Soldier Comes Home

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 33

"Well, I'm glad to be back," said Private E. W. Perkins, an Anzac, when he returned to his home in Kyabram (Vic.) after 23 years of varied…

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Soldier Settlers in Far South-west Extensive Crop Failure

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 31

A mass meeting of returned soldier settlers was held at Weethalle for the purpose of discussing the position of soldier settlers in the south-west. Mr…

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Soldier Settlers Meet Premier at Urana Sympathetic Reply to Requests

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 10

The Premier (Mr. Stevens) met a representative gathering of returned soldiers at Urana. Mr. J. M'Bean, the Tirana Returned Soldiers' League…

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Unique Soldiering Record

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 5

At Wallabadah, near Quirindi, George Paul, aged 94 years, died recently. He was born at Dornock, Scotland, having had a unique soldiering record, having…

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Returned Soldiers' League Branch Meeting at Yerong Creek Delegates' Report of Congress

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 5

There was a good muster of Diggers at the monthly meeting of the Henty Subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League, which was held at Mr. and…

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"No Fear of War" Hitler Only Concerned in Checking. Spread of Communism in Europe Sydney, Thursday. Mr. Schumacher. who arrived in

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 October 1937 · page 5

Sydney to-day from overseas to take up a position as managing director in Australia for Bayer Pharma Ltd., said in the course of an interview…

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The Spanish War. An Italian Plane Brought Down VALENCIA

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 October 1937 · page 3

Government fighters have brought down two three-engined planes on the coast, near Barcelona. One fell into the sea; the other on land. The…

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British Sentry Post Attacked Soldier-rifleman Killed Shanghai

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 26 October 1937 · page 2

A strong British protest is likely to result from the machine gunning of a British sentry post by Japanese planes. Involving the…

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Canberra War Memorial Contract for Completion

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1937 · page 28

With the placing of a contract for the completion of the National War Memorial in Canberra for an amount of £151,616, the project, which has…

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Postage Stamp May Cause War U.s.a. Intervenes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1937 · page 33

The United States have joined with Venezuela and Costa Rica in the effort to settle the threatened war between Nicaragua and Honduras. The…

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British Soldier Shot Plane Attacks Post Another Japanese "Mistake" Shanghai, October 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1937 · page 16

Another inexplicable outrage against the British forces in China has been committed by the Japanese—the shooting of a sentry in Keswick-road…

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Two Soldiers Killed Bus Crashes Into Gorge Christchurch

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1937 · page 11

A passenger bus, carrying a party of 12 Territorials from Roxburgh (Central Otago) to Queenstown (New-Zealand) for a week-end bivouac, ran…

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Identification Sought of Exhumed Soldiers' Bodies

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 October 1937 · page 3

Efforts are being made to identify two Australian soldiers, whose bodies were exhumed at a a spot approximately 500 yards north east of the village…

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Valedictory Banquet. War Memorial High School

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 2

The annual valedictory banquet in honour of the third and fifth year students, who will be sitting for the…

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Sino-jap. War Concentration of Warships London

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 1

A French destroyer escorting the steamer Imerethie fired several times at a submarine 20 miles off the coast of Shanghai…

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"Dictators Must Be Stopped" Even It Means War, Says Labor M.P. London, October 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 12

Mr. Richard Acland (Lab.) aroused Opposition cheers and Government cries of "war," when, while speaking in the House of Commons to-day…

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London a Vast Farm in Next War Shells that go round corners; guns that don't make a noise

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 27

DURING the 1935 English Aerial manoeuvers one of modern warfare's strangest defence weapons was tried out for the first time. An…

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