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Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 12
Taking still and moving photographs on the ocean bed is fascinating work, not without thrills for the operator. Some beautiful aquatic films have…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Musketry Course 40th Battery Soldiers to Shoot To-morrow
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 4
The 40th Battery will carry out annual musketry exercises at the Albury rifle range to-morrow morning. The present system of training provides…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Building Britain’s War Planes 3500 BY 1940 Government Assailed Even Own Members Critical Machines May be Built in Dominions LONDON, May 12
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 1
Intense interest centred in the debates in the Houses of Commons and of Lords to-day during the debate on the Air Ministry vote, and the Government statements left an uneasy feeling among all parties. Even many Government supporters expressed the opinion that the position was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War on S.P. Betting Drives People to Racecourse Reflected at Moore- Field Leger Patrons Hotels Feel Lost of Trade SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 4
The crowd in the Leger at [?] yesterday numbered [?], the largest for two years, and the improvement, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth Seriously Wounded Young
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 8
William Josephson, 19, was seriously wounded when a bullet from a rifle accidentally struck him on the Young rifle range. It passed through…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Allegedly Wounded Three Men Laborer Remanded Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 2
At Redfern police court to-day Stanley Cecil Raymond, 25, laborer, appeared on three charges of having Darlington yesterday maliciously…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wounded Three Men Labourer Charged with Stabbing Sydney
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 3
Stanley Cecil Raymond, 25, labourer, was remanded at the police court to-day on three charges of having at Darlington…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Greater Claim (All Rights Reserved.) a Fascinating Story of Love and War. Part 9
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 4
"Just do one more thing for me and I'll swear to be dumb." He held oat a pair of bandaged hands; he [?]reant io re funny, but the action…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To Drive S.P. Bettors to Sporting Fixtures Aim of Government “War” to Be Intensified Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 4
Inspector Keefe, referring to reports to stamp out S.P. betting, said to-day that the campaign was most successful on Saturday. He added:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Can Minority Be Appeased? Czech Crisis Deepens As Clashes Occur Germans Stone Police Soldiers Involved in Disorders Herr Henlein Returns to Prague LONDON, May 15
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 1
The Prague correspondent of “The Times” says that frequent minor clashes; between Germans and Czecho-Slovakians in the municipal election campaign indicate the possibility of graver incidents. The political parties are mendaciously exaggerating the importance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Making Our Own War Material
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 4
One of the bright spots in the new defence programme is that nine-tenths of the work is to be done in Australian workshops. The Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Memorial in France to Australians Is a Thing of Beauty London, May 18
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 4
Australia Rouse officials, who have returned after an inspection of theVullers-Bretonneux was memorial, report that it 18 almost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier — Playwright
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 1
FIELD-MARSHAL THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT [?] of the [?] King, who recently recovered from a serious Illness, and MR…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Soldiers' Meeting War Veterans' Homes Presentation to Ex-president
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 2
The monthly meeting of the Henty Sub-branch of the K.S.S.I.L.A. was held on Tuesday evening, the chair being taken by the president (Mr. A. R…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in Spain. Insurgents Claim Progress. LONDON
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 2
After a partial lull in the Spanish civil war for three weeks the insurgents attacked again between Teruel and the sea, and claim to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Should War Come Munitions Will Be Available Board's Report
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 31
The Munitions Supply Board's report for the two years ended June 30, 1937 was tabled in the House of Representatives. Mr. Curtin, leader of…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →300,000 Unionists’ Challenge to Federal Govt. Support Wharf Laborers War Materials for Aggressor Nations SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 8
A mass meeting of union delegates representing approximately 300,000 unionists at the Trades Hall to-night challenged the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Soldiers Killed When Planes Collide Singapore, May 19
Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 6
Corporal L. F. Stone and Aircraftsman W. J. Ashton were killed when R.A.F. machines collided in mid-air over Johore Straits late…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Women and Children Mown Down by Rebel Machine-gunners Spanish War Horrors Sister Home From Battlefront Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 1
Sister Sharpies, who arrived in Sydney to-day en route to New Zealand, after spending a considerable time in the Spanish war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ex-soldier Decorated by Late King Gaoled for 18 Months Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 7
Said by his counsel lo have been decorated for bravery by King George V. in 1916, Vinton Edgar Charles Thomas, of St. Kilda road, Melbourne, who pleaded guilty to four counts of forgery and four of uttering, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy in the Criminal Court…
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