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The wars & local soldiers, 1935

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War Clouds Looming MR. W. M. Hughes on the War Situation

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 4

If signs count for anything, then the world to-day stands nearer the edge of war than it did in 1914 (writes Mr. W. M. Hughes, in the Sydney "Daily…

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Price-cutting Australian Wine Agents' Private War

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 3

Mr. A. E. Whitelaw, London agent for Preservine Pty., Ltd., Razella Preserving Co., and Seppelts Wines, who is visiting Sydney, says London…

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Sir Alfred Ewing Dead Played Important Part in War

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 2

LONDON, Monday:--The death has occurred of Sir Alfred Ewing, aged 79. From 1914 to 1917 he was in charge of the Department of the Admiralty…

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Bread War Begun Bakers Versus Government Price Proclamation To-day?

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY,j Monday:--The fight between the master bakers and the Government was launched by the master bakers to-day, when they…

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Passes for Returned Soldiers Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 4

So that every returned soldier desiring to do so may attend the Anzac Memorial Service in Sydney on Anzac Day, the State Government has…

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Bullock Was the Better Shot Man Wounded Had Gone to Shoot the Bullock

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 2

TOOWOOMBA (Q'land), Monday:--Angered by a man, a bullock took a running snap-shot at him, the rifle bullet wounding the…

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Anglo-irish Trade Pact May Lead to End of Economic War

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.-- The "Financial Times'" Dublin correspondent says: "It is now revealed that the negotiations for the Anglo-Irish trade…

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Greatest Move For Peace Since War Franco-italian Pact Signed Comprehensive Scope of Agreements

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 5

LONDON, Monday:--The Franco-Italian accord was signed in Rome this evening by Signor Mussolini and M. Laval (French Foreign Minister). Messages from Rome state that the pact, which was signed…

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Plane Crashes Into Platoon Maimed Soldiers Scattered Like Ninepins

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 5

KARACH, Tuesday:-- Eleven were killed and 11 seriously injured when an Air Force 'plane nose-dived into a platoon of Indian…

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Child Soldiers Italian Plan Organising Nation Rome

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 9

Italian babies will have no need to play at soldiers in future, for under Signor Mussolini's new citizen army plan, they will actually…

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King Zog Wounded? Obscure Situation in Albania

Tweed Daily · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 3

ATHENS, Tuesday:--The situation is obscure in Albania, where Greece has complained of ill-treatment of her nationals…

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Autogiro in War London

Northern Star · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 7

Discussing the feat of the British test pilot R. A. Brie in landing and taking off in a British built autogiro from an Italian cruiser not equipped…

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War on Rats Rodents Flee From Canefields

Tweed Daily · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday:--The war on rats which is being waged by the Health Department in the northern canefields, has caused the rodents, in…

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Remarkable Bomb Would Settle a War CLEVELAND, Ohio

Northern Star · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 11

A gas bomb, 40,000 miles long and 19,000 miles across, was given off by the explosion of a sun spot. A film of the explosion was…

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Sting Caused Heart Failure Portuguese Man-o'-War Victim

Tweed Daily · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 7

BRISBANE, Wednesday:--Having conduced a postmortem examination on the on the Italian, Salvatore Cantar[?], who was stung by a…

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Wardell Returned Soldiers BALLINA

Northern Star · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 10

A visitor to the annual meeting of the Wardell Returned Soldiers' subbranch on Monday night will be Mr. Ern Clark, who has been a patron…

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Coraki Hospital Returned Soldier Patients Repairs to Building

Northern Star · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 5

The Coraki Hospital Board held its first general meeting of the year on Tuesday. The Hospitals Commission advised that a communication had…

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Largest In Country Goal Reached Returned Soldiers

Northern Star · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 6

The Lismore sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has increased its membership to 227 and accomplished an objective which it…

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Radio Talk by War Pilot

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 7

"Combat," a former R.A.F. pilot will talk about flying in wartime from 2FC at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, January 15. He served four and a half…

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War Clouds Over Debate Mr. Churchill As a "Panic-monger" Yielding to Fear

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 7

There was a sinister hint of the atmosphere of the years preceding 1914 in the debate in the House of Commons on German and British…

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