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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

1,377 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 69

War Admiral versus?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 27

American racing interests have made great efforts recently to entice an Australian owner to taken, horse to America for a race against the outstanding horse…

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War Ministry Wants Snipers

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 10

Five thousand snifters are to bo trained by the British War Office The plan is to have at least 50 shipers for each battalion…

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Villers Bretonneux War Memorial Paris

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 9

French and Australian representatives decided at Amiens to-dfay against any bovious police guard on the occasion of the unvelling of the…

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Fleeing Refugees In War-torn China

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 5

TRADEDY OF CHINA. With his pillfully scanty belongings this aged and siling Chinese is carried from the danger zone by his sons…

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Russia Is Ready for War Labor Leader Sees. Preparations LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 1

Returning to London after attending the May Day celebrations In Moscow. a member of the Adelaide Labor Council (Mr. T. C. McGillick) said:…

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"War Remote" British Public's Feeling Visitor Saw No Panic During Crisis Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 3

There was hope among the German people and a calm steadfastness in Great Britain, said Mr. W. Letcher on his return from Geneva, where he represented…

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Aviation Britain Has Her Own Private War Royal Air Force on Indian Frontier

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 June 1938 · page 18

WHILE the civil war in Spain, and the equally menacing conflict in China, continue to be the most spectacular configrations in a world of smouldering…

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To Be Broadcast Royal Unveiling of War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 June 1938 · page 11

Arrangements have been completed by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to relay to all States the ceremony associated with all unveiling by the King of…

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Wounded Fatally Boy Accidentally Shot by Father SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 June 1938 · page 7

After he had accidentally shot ,his son. Desmond York, 13, through the chest with an automatic pistol lost night. Thomas Edward York of Lakemba ran some…

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Censorship Blindfolds Both Sides Facts of War Concealed Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 June 1938 · page 7

Owing to the extraordinarily efficient Press censorship and the dissemination of patriotic propaganda the general opinion of the…

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War Not Goal of Science Address To British Association LONDON, May 1

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 June 1938 · page 8

Natural vision and vision Aided by Science will be the subject of Lord Rayliegh's presidential address to the British Association at Cambridge on…

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Wants War on Rheumatism

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 6

THE for[?] in Au[?] of a similar body to the Empire [?] Council [?]…

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Gesture to War Dead Offer to Clean P.o. Monument

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 8

If the Newcastle Council makes a formal request, the contractors encaged in steam-cleaning the Post Office will clean the soldiers' monument…

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Eastern War People in Both Countries Deluded Efficient Censorship Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 8

People in Japan and China possessed a false opinion of the respective gains made by Japan and China in the war, and the general opinion Was that each side…

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Child Soldiery No Evidence in Russia U.S. Professor's Impressions Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 8

Professor E. S. Brown, of Michigan University, lo arrived in Sydney by the Nieuw Hollnand to-day, said he found no children being trained as soldiers in…

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Idle Youths and Migration Returned Soldiers' Protest

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 9

"Youths are kicking their heels about the suburbs because they cannot get jobs," declared Carrington-Wickham returned soldiers in a…

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War Memorial Request to City Council New Site Near City Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 8

Newcastle sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has decided to ask the Greater Newcastle Council to cooperate in a movement to provide a soldiers'…

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Spanish Bombings "Practice for German Airmen" Franco Coerced Threat to Withdraw War Material (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, June 7

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 9

The Gibraltar correspondent of the British United Press learns from a very reliable source that the recent air raids on Spanish…

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War Against Rats "Public Must Be Educated"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 8

Numerous complaints had been received about rats at premises in Newcastle, Merewether, and New Lambton, said the Chief Health Inspector (Mr. J. C…

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War in Pacific "Australia Would Not Stand Alone" PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 9

Speaking to-day on foreign affairs, ex-Senator Sir George Pearce said he was firmly convinced that if war broke out in the Pacific. Australia would not stand…

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