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The wars & local soldiers, 1935

1,395 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 70

Church and War "Bishops Not Christian" Uneasy Conscience Bishop Burgmann's Address GRAFTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 6

"The Bishops at the Lambeth Conference stated that war as a method of settling international disputes is incompatible with the teaching and example of…

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Speculation in Egypt Position in Event of Abyssinian War May Not Support Sanctions Definite Understanding with Britain Urged: Demand for Independence (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, September 16

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 7

The Egyptians are keenly speculating as to their country's position in the event of an Italo-Abyssinian war, states the Cairo correspondent of The Times." There is a disposition to assume that Egypt holds the key position…

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N.Z. BUDGET Restorations Promised Wages and Pensions Provision for Returned Men Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 8

Presenting the Budget to the House of Representatives to-night, the Treasurer (Mr. J. G. Coates) said it was estimated that revenue for the coming year would…

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Weston Anti-war Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 9

"The only light that is justifiable in the eyes of the working class is the fight for economic freedom, said Mr. J. M. Baddeley at an anti-war meeting at…

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"Not Blindly" British Labor on War London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 1

"Because Britain as a member of the League and a signatory of the Paris Pact has renounced war as an instrument or national policy,…

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War Service Homes Occupiers Ask for Review Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 5

"I am comparatively young in relation to the average age of the returned soldier, but can you imagine me working up much enthusiasm…

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War Menace Sends Wheat Prices Up Sudden Rise, But Few Want to Sell London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 1

The menace of war is stimulating the buying of wheat, and the same fear is causing potential sellers to hold their supplies. THE biggest rise in a single day for…

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War And Fascism

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 16

Maitland unemployed have convened a meeting for Wednesday night to form a branch of the National Movement Against War and Fascism…

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Mussolini, 1911 Speech Against War

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 12

"Because I am an Italian, and because I love the land in which I was born and whose language I speak, therefore in my capacity as a good…

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Skeleton Weed War H.A.C. Students' Tour Leeton

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 17

The Hawkesbury Agricultural College students touring party journeyed through yesterday and were shown over the Wagga Experimental Farm,…

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"Mean War" Mr. Lang on Sanctions Coming Conflict "Australia Must Keep Out" SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 7

"Sanctions mean war . . . Australia must keep out of the coming war," the State Opposition Leader, Mr. J. T. Lang, told a big audience…

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Wheat Soars War Fears Affect Market Sellers Hold Supplies (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, September 17

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 8

The menace of war is still stimulating the buying of wheat, and the same fear is causing potential sellers to hold their supplies. The biggest rise in a single…

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An Appeal Returned Soldiers' Auxiliary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 10

At the last meeting of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Women's Auxiliary, a number of distressing cases wore brought under their notice. The committee would…

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Church and War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 4

Sir,—The Dean of Canterbury (Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson). Bishop Burgmann and the Council of Churches are against war. I wish to compliment the Churches…

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Police Court Held At Hospital Evidence Given by Wounded Miner Attempted Murder Charge Made Young Man Is Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 7

Lying in his bed in a ward at Newcastle Hospital to-day, Henry Thomas Rees, of Nord's Wharf, gave evidence in the case in which Geoffrey Banks, 18. laborer, was charged with having shot at him on…

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A Gloomy Prophet Lloyd George's Warning "Close to War" London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 1

"We are within a week or a fortnight of as great a war of aggression as Germany's attack on…

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BIG A.C.T.U. Campaign Against War Keen Debate in Sydney Opinions Divided on Sanctions Issues Proposed Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 8

General hostility towards war by industrial organisations throughout Australia is the purpose of the Australian…

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Defence Needs Opinions of Ex-Soldiers Motions for Conference Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 14

When the Federal conference of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League takes place in Sydney in November, motions urging the more adequate…

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Cessnock Returned Soldiers' League

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 13

Mr. R. D. Hadfield, State Secretary of, the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League, is to be invited by the cessnock sub-branch to attend the…

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War Risk Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1935 · page 11

New Zealand underwriters have cancelled the war risk clause in shipping policies as from September 17…

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