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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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RUSSIA-JAPAN War Coming Soon MOSCOW

The Inverell Times · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

Marshal Bluecher, Commander of the Soviet Far East army stated today that a Russo-Japanese war was coming soon, according to official…

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Spanish War More Volunteers British Warship Action LONDON

The Inverell Times · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

It is reported from Gibraltar to-day that an Italian ship arrived at Algericas this morning, carrying volunteers to participate in the Spanish…

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Russo-japanese War "Coming Soon," Says Soviet Leader Moscow

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

Marshal Bluecher, commander of the Siviet Far East Army, stated today that a Russo-Japanese war was coming very soon, according to official…

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Spanish Civil War Volunteers For Both Sides While Non-Intervention is Discussed London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

An admission that while the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee was consideration ways and means of preventing the [?] of volunteers to…

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Returned Soldiers Bouquet From Headquarters Welfare Officers Busy

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 4

At its meeting last night, the Armidale sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League received a letter from headquarters expressing…

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Shot by Youth Storekeeper Wounded MELBOURNE

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 1

Horace Hunter (35), of Herbert Street, Northcote, was shot in his shop last night by one of two youths who were armed with sawn…

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War Imminent British Secretary's Warning Appeal for Recruits London

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 1

Giving a warning of the imminence of war, the Secretary for War, Mr. Duff Cooper, sneaking at Edinburgh, said even the most…

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Spanish War Yesterday's News

The Inverell Times · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 2

Fifteen hundred rebel cavalry hurled themselves in a reckless half-mile charge across a wrecked bridge, their objective being loyalist machine-guns…

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Duelling Doctor Seventh Encounter Opponent Wounded In Fierce Sabre Fight Budapest

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 1

"I want to get them off my chest," declared Dr. Francis Sarga to-day, referring to three remaining duels, one of…

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Spanish War Big Fighting Rebels Advance on Madrid LONDON

The Inverell Times · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 1

The Arganda district, ten miles south-east of Madrid, on the Madrid-Valencia road, six miles from Vacla Madrid, on the…

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"If War Breaks Out—?"

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 4

This conditional phrase is becoming ominously familiar in much of the national and international talk of these days, suggesting a general apprehensiveness that leaves the world in a state of perpetual nervousness…

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Spanish War Yesterday's News

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 6

Insurgent attacks from the north and south on the roads leading to Madrid have been repulsed. The Spanish Government admits that…

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War Scenes Incredible Horror Fugitive Children Bombed LONDON

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 1

Aerial bombing of children refugees resulting in the killing of 57 was an isolated incident in the long-drawn agony of the flight…

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Spanish Horrors Children's Home Bombed From Air Flight From Malaga A Long-Drawn Agony Wounded Aviator Relates Graphic Story Terrified and Defenceless Refugees Slaughtered in Hundreds London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 1

The aerial bombing of a children's refuge, resulting in the killing of 57, was an isolated incident in the long-drawn agony of the flight from Malaga, says the Almeria correspondent of the…

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Famous Submarine Commander Secures Dockyard Job Admiral Talbot's War-Time Escapes —By Air Mail.) London, January 30

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 3

One of the most spectacular submarine commanders during the war, who had many hairbreadth escapes, has been appointed to one…

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£1,500 Million on British Defence - Horrors of War Colossal Defence Expenditure £1,500,000,000 by Britain Warships, Aeroplanes, Defences White Paper Disclosure Empire-wide Outlay. LONDON

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 1

The expenditure of £1,500,000,000 on British defences within the next five years is contemplated by the British Government. This far and away exceeds the proposed borrowing…

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Spanish War More Fighting Insurgents on Offensive LONDON

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

Fighting has been resumed at Jarama, which the Spanish insurgents occupied for two days, resisting counter attacks. They…

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Armament Will Prevent War Opinion of Lord Nuffield Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

Lord Nuffield said to-day, before his departure from Canberra, that Britain's £1,500,000,000 rearmaments programme would prevent war rather…

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Innocent Victims Of Rebels' Air Raid Spanish War Fighting At Jarama Many Victims Ultimatum to Basque Government London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

Fighting has been resumed at Jarama where the Spanish insurgents, occupied for two days in resisting…

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War Strain Beginning to Tell Shortage of Food Madrid

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 1

The whole of the south-eastern Madrid battlefront is aflame with loyalists' persistent counter-attacks, leading to terrific fighting…

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