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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

1,193 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 60

War Madness of Japanese Australians Home From China SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 September 1937 · page 7

"The war madness of the Japanese" was referred to by Mr. L. S. Cumming, who returned to Sydney to-day by the Changte after a tour of the…

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Points of View in War

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 1

The top photograph shows Vice-Admiral Yamamoto giving a group of Japanese his view on the Shanghai "incident" that Japan used last month as her pretext for drastic demands on the Chinese authorities. A naval sub-lieutenant, Isso Oyama, had been fatally shot, along with a seaman, near the Hungieo…

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A Visit to Spain Life in the War Zone London, July 31

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 10

Nine months ago I sailed the Mediterranean in company with a Spanish saffron merchant from a little town near…

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Address to Returned Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 8

The Returned Soldiers' League and the Railway and Tramway Returned Soldiers' Association, acting jointly, have arranged for Colonel A. W. Hyman, O.B.E., a…

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Federal Session Higher Pensions "Burned-out" Soldiers Bill Through All Stages Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 14

A bill increasing war service pensions from 10/ to £1 a week was introduced in the House of Representatives to-day by the Minister for Health (Mr. W. M…

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The Ruin of War

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 1

Photographs from the Chinese war area.—The top picture shows Japanese gunners in action. The bottom picture shows a shell-torn street, with Japanese troops in the background…

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Film Drama Based on Spanish War

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 3

Actual shots of Madrid under fire and fighting around the adjacent countryside are included in Paramount's "The Last Train From…

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Graphic Pictures From the War Area in China

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 6

The men who are directing the Japanese war operations in China photographed as they addressed the Home of Peers in Tokio.—Top row, from left: The Foreign Minister (Koki Hirota), the War Minister (General Molo Sugiyama), the Navy Minister (Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai). At left, below, is the Premier, Prince…

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War Risks Lloyds' Rates Revised Cargoes to Far East London, September 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 13

A notable feature of Lloyd's revised war risk rates is a reduction in the schedules for the Far East. The premium for a cargo to Darien and Manchukuo,…

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"The Powers Should Help Japan" "Cool" Request of Japanese Minister "We Are Not Making War on the Chinese People" London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 7

In a Press interview at Tokio the Japanese Foreign Minister explained that war had not been declared because Japan was fighting only anti-Japanese elements. "not the Chinese people." The Japanese spokesman at Peiping states that 70 Soviet…

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Photographs of War Devastation Around Shanghai

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 12

The photographs shown on this page are among the first received in Australia from the seat of war in China. They illustrate the…

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Chinese Workers' War Fund in British Columbia Vancouver

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 5

Ten thousand Chinese workers in British Columbia have pledged themselves to give one week's pay each month in order to raise a £250,000 war…

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War Pictures From China .. Havoc Caused by Bombs .. Huge Shanghai Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 6

BEFORE, and after.—The photograph above shows a lorry load of Chinese soldiers, leaving barracks. The photograph at right shows the result after an almost direct hit by a Japanese bomb. WHAT NEXT for these?—Men, women and children, menaced by death from the air, [?] and [?] the International Settlement…

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Soldiers' Monument Floodlighting Suggested at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 9

The Mayor of Hamilton (Ald. J. E. Wiggins) said yesterday that the local sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has suggested that the…

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Terrific Battle Japanese Forces at Lotien Badly Cut Up Soldiers Commit Suicide New Spirit Affects Chinese Troops: Unified High Command (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, September 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 11

Fighting at Lotien, at the mouth of the Yangtse, was fierce all day yesterday, and an artillery duel, in which Japanese warships participated, proceeded all night. One Japanese company was so cut up in the fighting that…

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Wounded in Chinese War

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 7

Chinese, wounded in the fighting against the Japanese, being taken away by [?]ickshaws after dressing at a held station. Then uniform: have been hall [?]carded for civilian clothes. The new Japanese warships, Iwati and Jatumo, photographed at Naples. The had been cruising in the Mediterranean, but were sent to Shanghai…

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Charge Against Man Woman Wounded at Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 6

Suffering from a knife wound in the abdomen and shock, Mrs. Marguerite Horne, 43, of Newcastle-street. Stockton was admitted to Newcastle Hospital on…

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Women and War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 3

The growth of this physical training movement throughout the world has given rise to much controversy on its suitability for women. In Germany and Russia…

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War on Pirates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 6

The submarines which have chosen the role of pirates in the Mediterranean have directed attention once more to the dangers which lie behind the facade of…

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Postage Stamp May Cause War TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras)

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 1

Relations between Nicaragua and Honduras are gravely imperilled owing to a dispute over a recent Nicaraguan postage stamp which bears a map of Nicaragua, said to include a section of Honduras territory. Honduras protested and Nicaragus retorted that the stamp portrays the…

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