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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 66

Returned Soldiers' Council

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 March 1936 · page 2

A proposal to form a district council of the Returned Soldiers' and Sailors' League has been made by East Maitland Branch, to embrace all…

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Boy Wounded Rifle Accidentally Explodes SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 March 1936 · page 8

While showing a pearifle to a friend in Hurstville this afternoon. Chris. Hancock, 12, of Hurstville, was shot in the leg and right side. The gun slipped from his…

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Peace and War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 March 1936 · page 9

Sir,—I am pleased "Old Time Matron" knows "That each nation possesses its peace lovers, also aggressors who promote international strife." It is for this very…

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Deadlier Than Dynamite Scientists Preparing for Next War Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 March 1936 · page 5

In the great chemical laboratories of the world scientists to-day are playing with something far more powerful than dynamite. They are…

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War School Potsdam Again

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 9

Potsdam received recently the officers' training college that it has lacked for 18 years. With this addition the historic town becomes again…

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City's Growth Mr. J. R. Lee Impressed War Days Recalled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 6

Mr. J. R. Lee, M.L.A., who was Minister for Justice in the Bavin Administration paid a visit to Newcastle yesterday. In an interview with a representative…

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In Case Oe War Preparations in Industry Big Reorganisation London, March 6

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 6

While increases in land, air and naval armaments provided the most spectacular part of the Government's rearmament…

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Company Fined Did Not Employ Returned Soldier SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 7

Imperial Theatres Ltd., was fined £5 in the Central Summons Court to-day for having failed to employ a returned soldier as commissionaire. The Magistrate held…

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Ninth Brigade March on Anzac Day

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 6

The Mayor of Newcastle (Alderman H. Fenton) has received a letter from the custodian of Leichhardt Cenotaph (Mr. E. A. Richmond) commending…

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The War Cloud Grows Thinner

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 6

AMID the asseverations of the contending nations that they will never compromise and the speeches of the leaders that they will never yield, it is necessary to remember one thing, that it is not usual for the parties to a conference to go into that…

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British War Loan. London, March 23

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 4

British War Loan Stock, 3½. per cent., was quoted on the Stock Exchange to-day at £106/11/3…

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Negotiations for Peace League Committee Sees Parties Abyssinian War London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 1

Senor de Madariaga, following yesterday's decision of the League Committee of 13 (of which he is chairman), to seek a settlement of the Italo-Abyssinian…

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Peace Move Council Against War Reconciliation with A.L.P. MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 March 1936 · page 8

The first attempt at reconciliation between the Victorian Council Against War and the Australian Labour Party, in connection with the dispute which brought…

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Hotel Hours Anzac Day Closing Deputation Seeks Change Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 9

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. H. Main) told a deputation representing women's bodies and religious organisations to-day that he would refer to the…

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Jap.'s Foreign Policy Prime Minister's Views "Will Be No War" London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 1

The foreign policy of Japan will not be changed by the , new Cabinet, according to the Premier (Mr. Koki Hirota),…

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Mutilated Body Missing Returned Soldier Possible Shark Victim Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 10

Having been guarded all night by police, the nude, partly decomposed body of a man found by a youth late yesterday at Harness Creek Point, Kyle Bay, South…

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Preference Act for Soldiers Protest in House Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 March 1936 · page 12

A complaint that a returned soldier had been refused registration under the Returned Soldiers' Preference Act because he had refused to allow a…

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Unemployed Returned Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 March 1936 · page 12

The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. J. M. Dunningham), replying to Mr. J. T. Sweenev (Lab., Bulli) said that 5730 returned soldiers were registered as…

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The French Side of War "Wooden Crosses"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 March 1936 · page 3

It has taken the Hollywood film studios exactly eighteen years to realise that there was a French side to the story of the greatest war in the history of the world. WE have already seen the European…

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War Measures in Czechoslovakia State Control of Industry Prague

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 March 1936 · page 1

The Czechoslovak Government introduced a bill to-day providing for State control of key Industries for war purposes, a Government monopoly of…

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