Leakage of Secret Defence Information Select Committee to Probe Sequel to Member’s Query War Minister’s Explanation LONDON, June 30
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 1
A Select Committee of the House of Commons is to investigate the circumstances surrounding the leakage of secret defence information which was revealed in a question put by Mr. Duncan Sandys in the House recently…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Queen Among the Babies : Czar’s Niece Weds : Villers-bretonneux War Memorial
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 8
Top Left.—Queen Elizabeth at the Mothercraft Training Society, Cromwell House, Highgate Hill, London, showed interest in the babies. Top Middle.—Rome celebrates the feast of Corpus Christi, with its traditional floral carpet—A full length view of the Viale di Genzano, showing the complete carpet. Top Right.—Late Czar’s niece weds—Count Nicola Scheremetieff, descendant of Peter the Great, married Princess Irina Yussoupoff, a niece of the late Czar of Russia, and daughter of the man who disposed of Rasputin, the “Mad Monk,” at the Russian Orthodox Church, in Rome. The couple are shown leaving the church after the ceremony…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Overseas News China and Japan. Chinese War Planes. Raid Japanese River Fleet. SHANGHAI
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 2
The Chinese war planes raiding the Japanese river fleet at Nanking, are claimed to have sunk 12, including an aircraft carrier, and two destroyers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roosevelt Quotes Lincoln Speech to Civil War Veterans Battlefield Memorial Dedicated Cettysburg (pa.). July 4
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 5
“We are near to winning another conflict for the economic freedom of our common country,” Mr. Roosevelt told civil war veterans attending the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Greater Claim (All Rights Reserved.) a Fascinating Story of Love and War. Part 16
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 4
"I thought he might misunderstand if I wrote. I've ordered a supply of illustrated papers to be sent to him every week."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Preference. The Act Discussed by the Shire Council and the R.S.S.I.L.A.
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 4
At Thursday's meeting of the Waradgery Shire Council the question of the Returned Soldiers' Preference Act was discussed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Preference to Soldiers The Digger Without Work In the Words of C. J. Dennis (To the Editor)
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 8
Sir,—At a time when some of the councils of N.S.W. (regretfully I note the Hume Shiro and Albury Municipal Councils amongst them) are agitating…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Anzac Day Liquor—Breach at Children
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 2
At the Chiltern Court of Petty Sessions yesterday N. Miller, licensee of the Star Hotel, Chiltern, was fined £1, with £1/8/1 costs for having persons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Anniversary of War To-morrow Sydney, [?]
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 2
The present war in China will have lasted 12 months on Thursday said the Cons[?]-General for Chi[?] (Dr. C. J. Pab), in an address to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Signor Mussolini in an Angry Mood Temper Rises Over Spanish Stalemate Agreement with Britain Endangered Civil War Again Causes Misgivings in Europe LONDON, July 4
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 6
According to the diplomatic correspondent of the Australian Associated. Press, Count Ciano, in his talk with the British Ambassador (Lord Perth) last evening disclosed that II Duce was again in an angry mood, this time because Mr. Chamberlain will not modify his pledge in March…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrible Toll of Sino-japanese War 519,000 Chinese Killed in First Year of War Anti-Japanese Riots in Penang LONDON, July 6
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 July 1938 · page 1
On the first anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities between China and Japan, a Japanese review says that 519,190 Chinese have been killed and 800,000 wounded, while 36,629 Japanese were killed. It is claimed that the Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returned Men Almost Unanimously Demand Continuance of Preference
Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 10
Action recently by Albury Municipal Council and Hume Shire Council to support a proposal to have the Preference to Returned…
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The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 37
Work on the Australian War Memorial at Canberra has progressed sufficiently to warrant the tentative announcement by the Minister for the…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Patient Runs Amok Sets Ward of Negroes in Panic Policeman Wounded with Revolver New York, July 6
Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 10
A man who lunged head first through a plate-gloss window in a liquor shop, and while bleeding profusely, destroyed a large and valuable liquor display…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The War in China Swatow Shelled From Eea More Bombing
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 16
Fears that the Japanese are about to invade South China at Swatow have been revived by the news that Japanese warships have begun shelling the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →China and Japan. What the Year's War Has Cost. TOKIO
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 3
The estimated cost of the war to Japan during the first year, just concluded, was £430,000,000. The Japanese army is still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diggers on Parade Can Can and War Songs Smoko at Albury
Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 2
[?] war songs, almost a quarter of a century old, were revived last evening when the Albury branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hay's Fine School. a Practical Tribute. The War Memorial High and the Hostels
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 3
Among the visitors to Hay this week to witness the inter-school sports contests was the father of a boy now attending the War Memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1,300,000 Now Dead the Chinese War Japanese Far From Victorious No Engagement Decisive London, July 7
Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 10
Referring to the Japanese estimate of casualties on the anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities between China and Japan, the “Times” correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Post Mortems on Soldier Pensions Might Be Affected SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 6
The Minister for Repatriation ([?] Foll) stated to-day that instructions would be issued by his Departmental warning relatives of dependent of…
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