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The wars & local soldiers, 1927

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The Chinese War Shanghai

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 June 1927 · page 5

Hsuahow a northern stronghold, is reported to have been capured by the Southerners, following a severe battle. The Shantung forces are retracting to…

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War Over the Tea Cups

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 June 1927 · page 1

Marshal Chang Tso-lin, war lord of Northern China, and his legal adviser. Dr. Chao Hsin Po, plan a counter-move against the Southerners…

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War Predicted Mussolini Urges Italy to Get Ready "Europe Unstable" An Army of 5,000,000 Men Needed LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 June 1927 · page 1

Signor Mussolini's assertion that Italy must be prepared for a conflagration in the 1935-40 period, and that she must be able then to muster 5,000,000 armed men and a commensurately strong air force, is being widely discussed, says the…

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European War Cloud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 4

The cable message which we publish this morning, announcing that Jugo-Slavia has broken off diplomatic relations with Albania, may…

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The Chinese War. Shanghai

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 5

The second battalion of the Border Regiment embarked for North China this morning, and the Middlesex Battalion will follow shortly…

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The A.l.p. War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 2

Sir,—The split in the A.L.P., with its political war in New South Wales, is quite sufficient to lead sensible thinking electors at this stage to ponder a little…

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Class War Labour Leader's View

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 9

"We have tried the class war in industry: we see the result of it to-day: staguation in wages, a million and more of unemployed, bad trade, and the arrest…

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The Chinese War Japanese View Northerners Retreating (Australian Press Association.) TOKIO

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 7

General Matsui, the Japanese military adviser to Marshal Chang Tse Lin, has arrived in Tokio, and reported to Baron Tanaka, the Prime Minister…

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"Red" Leaders Fan War Spirit in Russia Why We Won Haig Discusses Great War Empire's Effort Service Conference and Migration

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 1

The Empire Service League conference gave Earl Haig an opportunity to break his post-war diplomatic silence and show a little of the factors which contributed to the Allied victory in the Great War…

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"Reds" Blown Up Bombs in Club 26 Badly Hurt Russian War Spirit Grows LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 1

Two bombs were thrown in a Leningrad business club during a Communist debate. Twenty-six persons were seriously injured…

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Service League Earl Haig's Opinion Britain's Part in the War (Australian Press Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 7

Earl Haig presided at the biennial conference of the Empire Service League. The Dominions were fully represented. Mr. Amery, the Secretary of State for…

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Our War Memorial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1927 · page 12

After all the noisy talk and declarations of certain people that the people of Victoria demanded and would he satisfied with nothing hot a public square in the…

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"Hotel Imperial" Russian War Picture

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 June 1927 · page 2

"Hotel Imperial," which comes to the Theatre Royal next Monday, and will be shown all the week, gives Pola Negri abundant opportunities for…

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To Prevent War English-speaking Power San Francisco, June 11

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 June 1927 · page 1

Sir Harrison Moore, dean of the faculty of law at Melbourne University, who arrived here by the Tahiti, said to-day: "Americans and British…

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China's Yellow "River of Sorrow" Runs Red with Blood Thousands Butchered Ghastly Slaughter of Soldiery Chinese Horrors Huge Massacre Follows Treachery

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 June 1927 · page 1

Stories of horrible butchery of treacherous Northern troops and the plight of thousands of unattended wounded are filtering into Shanghai from the battle-devastated interior of China…

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Chinese War Situation Confused Troops Change Sides (Australian Press Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 7

The military situation in China was reviewed in the House of Commons last night by Mr. Locker Lampson, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign…

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Fired on Dancers Grim Outrage in Brazil Soldiers Arrested Porto Alegre (Brazil)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 1

Eleven merrymakers, mostly women and children, were killed, and 27 wounded, when a detachment of soldiers, who were refused admission to…

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Cost of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 7

In the House of Commons last night the question was asked if the United States Government has been approached with the suggestion that it should…

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Iron and Steel Pre-war World Costs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 7

In his presidential address to the British Iron and Steel Institute. Mr. Harbord stated that notwithstanding the enormous developments in modern…

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The Chinese War Atrocities in Haichow Japanese Residents Flee (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 7

Japanese residents are fleeing from Haichow, following the capture of the town by the Southerners, and have reached Tsingtao by steamer…

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