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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 66

Shots Fired Man Wounded in Head Sequel in Police Court Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 5

Bail was refused Norman Stanley Gordon Smith, 25, a labourer, at the Redfern Court to-day, when he was remanded until January 11 on a charge of having shop…

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War on the Germs Forecasts for New Year Cure for Colds?

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 4

Will 1936 sec the defeat of the common cold, the discovery of a cure for cancer, the extirpation of infantile…

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Wounded Constable Critical Shot While Chasing a Youth Grim Sequel to Tram Scaling Incident Intensive Hunt by Big Force Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 3

Almost the entire Metropolitan Police Force to-day is seeking the youth, who last night shot Constable John Terbutt in the forehead, in Elizabeth-street, after an attempt to shoot another policeman…

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Condition Serious Wounded Constable Investigators' Appeal Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 5

Practically the whole metropolitan area is being combed by police in an attempt to locate the person who shot Constable John Terbutt in Elizabeth-street, City,…

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Fighting Chance for Wounded Constable Hunt for Gunman Police Appeal Is Renewed Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 7

While doctors at Sydney Hospital are staging a remarkable fight to save the life of Constable John Terbutt, 30,…

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Reduced War Risk Premium London, January 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 8

The war risk premium on cargo carried to and from the Mediterranean and Red Seas has been reduced to 3/4 per £100…

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War Time Conditions in Tuscany People Apathetic, But Resigned to Fate Great Patience of Italians

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 5

So far there is very little sign in Tuscany of war-time conditions. An exception is the rise in price of bread, flour, butter, oil, meat, wool, etc. This means great difficulty and distress among those classes which till now had just managed to get…

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Wounded Constable Is Improving Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 3

Constable Terbutt, who was shot in the head on New Year's Eve, was reported to-day to be slightly improved. Doctors hope he will soon be strong…

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'Fire & Iron' War Demanded Outcry in Italy Policy of Eye for Eye Scientific Killing London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 1

Declaring that "Italy must strike down the bloody slave traders," Mussolini's paper in Milan, "The Popolo D Italia,"…

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"No Mercy" Italian Press Demand War Methods Period of "Frightfulness" May Begin (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 9

The entire Italian Press is demanding a harsher and more inexorable prosecution of the war in Ethiopia, "more in keeping with…

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Soldiers' Point

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 3

Dance.—At the community hall at Soldiers' Point, Port Stephens, a "madhatters'" (lance was held. Mrs. Thelma Cunningham was responsible for the…

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Her Gift to Nation War Widow 'In Italy Pawn Tickets

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

A war-widow's gift to the Fascist party of her "sole treasure"— a bundle of pawn tickets — has provided the…

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Autocratic Dictators Denounced by President Roosevelt Foreign Policy Explained Permanent Neutrality: Possible Effect on Italo-Abyssinian War (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 8

The keenest interest has been aroused throughout Europe regarding the possible effect of America's foreign policy on the Italo-Abyssinian war, and practically on the application of an oil embargo against Italy…

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Seamen Declined Offers of Berths, Tanker for War Zone Cape Town

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 1

The captain of a Norwegian steamer, which is carrying 6000 tons of auction spirit from New Orleans to Mogadiscio, who called here to-day…

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East African Dead Italian Soldiers and Workers ROME, January 5

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 5

It is officially announced that Italian casualties in the East African military forces to December 31 were 390 dead and 14 missing…

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What War Would Mean to Industry London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 3

[?]Speaking at Cambridge to-day, the Secretary for War (Viscount Swinton) said that in order to prevent war it would be…

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Oil Sanction "War Danger Remote" Position Reviewed London, January 7

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 7

In the course of a lengthy analysis of the oil sanction position, the diplomatic correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" says: "President Roosevelt's…

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Morgan Money for Allies America's Entry Into the War Washington

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 4

Mr. J. P. Morgan to-day informed the Senate Munitions investigating Committee that his great banking house "turned…

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To Be Probed Causes of America's Entry Into War Bankers for Questioning Washington, January 6

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 8

The Senate Munitions' Investigation Committee, which has extended the scope of its inquiry to the causes of America's participation in the World War, will…

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A Duel in Paris Men Settle "Point of Honor" One Wounded Paris

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 1

A duel was fought in the Para Det Princes between two former schoolmates who are now members of a fashionable…

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