Boy Scouts Join War On Smugglers New Preventive Service By Air Mail.) LONDON, February 11
Boy Scouts began duty this week as coast watchers along a 20-mile stretch between Hastings and Dungeness, the most…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
1,160 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 58
Sole Survivor Keeps War-Time Pact Arrangements For London Meeting By Air Mail.) LONDON, February 11
Twenty-one years ago four soldiers in London promised to meet again in Piccadilly Circus, on a certain February night in 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enlistments Encouraged Prominent Banker's Attitude
Training in military duties and preparation for home defence by service in the Mil[?] are just as necessary as it is for a Bank to have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Returned Soldiers Substantial Credit Balance
A financial statement presented to a meeting of the Uralla branch of the Returned Soldiers' League on Friday night disclosed that funds were £86/…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Armidale District Recruiting Enlistments Still Needed "No Man Must Be Refused" Rally on
"Any suggestion that sufficient recruits have been enrolled must be refused," declared Staff Officers of Armidale units at a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Returned Soldiers' Farewell. Mr. L. W. Turner Entertained
Mr. L. W. Turner, who left on Saturday to take up duty as Shire Engineer at Gloucester, was entertained by members of the Returned Soldiers'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japan Warns Britain and France Assisting Chiang Kai Shek Must Declare Silent War If Attitude Not Changed Japanese Erect Barricades NANKING
The Japanese Government has issued the following statement "We hesitate to brand English and French vessels on the Yangtse as enemy, but naturally there must be a limit to Japan's gentlemanly attitude. If France and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'We Must Declare a Silent War' Japan Hints at Limit to Gentlemanly Attitude Mention of English and French Ships Being Branded As Enemy Bases Of Hostile Operations Defined Powers' Relations with Chiang-kai-shek Must Alter Nanking
The Japanese Government has issued the following statement: "We hesitate to brand English and French vessels in the Yang-Tse River as enemy, but naturally there will be a limit to Japan's gentlemanly attitude…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fresh Outbreak Soldiers and Armed Arabs JERUSALEM
One British soldier was killed and two wounded in an engagement with armed Arabs south of Jaffa…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →America and War Constitutional Amendment WASHINGTON
The Bipartisan block of twelve Senators introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment requiring a national referendum for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Constitutional Amendment National Referendum Sought In War Declaration WASHINGTON
A bi-partisan bloc of 12 Senators introduced a joint resolution proposing a Constitutional amendment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£4,250,000,000 on War
A study of the military expenditure of the different countries dealt with in the new 14th. edition of the Armaments Year Book shows that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Feared War Committed Suicide Autopsy Reveals Poisoning MELBOURNE
Mrs. Emma-Turner (76) of East Melbourne, was worried out of all proportion by the recent' threat of war her daughter told…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Peace or War for Canada Prime Minister's Warning OTTAWA
The Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) warned the House of Commons that it might be called to decide on peace or war for Canada, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threat to Dail Ministers Civil War Danger Ireland's Internal Peace In Balance "Armed Force Must Be Put Down" LONDON
Sufficient evidence existed to prove that Ireland's internal peace would not last unless an armed force was put…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Democracies Head for War" Signor Gayda Unhappy ROME
"Everything proves that the democracies are heading more rapidly towards war. Their armaments are losing their defensive character and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Italy's Charge Democrats and War Britain Becoming Aggressive ROME
"Everything proves that democracies are heading more rapidly towards war. Their armaments are losing their defensive character…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Biggest Battle of Year Now Reaching Climax Sino-japanese War Ten Days' Struggle Along 350 Mile Front Chinese Pursue "Scorched Earth" Policy" Hong Kong
What both sides claim to be the biggest battle of the year is now reaching a climax after a ten days' struggle along a line 350 miles in length in Kiang-su Hunan and Hupeh Provinces, involving the isolation of the Japanese at Yoyang and the recapture of the Tungtin-Wu-Chahg railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clearing Up Troubles in Spain Communists Becoming Aggressive Strong Measures Taken Republican Fleet Surrendered End War Humanly and Honorably LONDON
Despite broadcasts from Madrid declaring that there is complete calm throughout the City, messages from Nationalists outside the capital report continued street fighting between followers of the new Defence Council and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Republican Fleet Surrenders Anchors at Bizerta Blood Flows In Madrid Nationalists and Communists Clash Defence Council Seeks Honourable and Humane End To War LONDON
Despite broadcasts from Madrid declaring that there is complete calm throughout the city, messages from Nationalists outside the capital report continued street fighting between followers…
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