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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Civil War in Spain Battle for Madrid

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday:-- A Madrid message states that fighting was resumed in the Jarama sector on the Madrid front, where…

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"Live with Gas Mask in Hands" "Straight Road To War" Re Armament Plan Condemned by British Labor Leader

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday:--Mr. C. R. Attlee (Leader of the Opposition), speaking during the defence debate in the House of Commons to-day, declared: "Every sentence in the Paper contemplates war not as a distant…

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Graziani Wounded Ethiopians Throw Hand Grenades

Tweed Daily · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 5

ROME, Saturday:--An official communique states that after distribution of gifts to Churches and mosques in Addis Ababa, a section…

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Gen. Liotta Gravely Wounded Eminent Surgeon Departs

Tweed Daily · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday:--The Rome correspondent of the British United Press declares that an eminent surgeon has left for Addis Ababa by air. It is…

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Italian Generals Wounded by Bombs Abyssinian Suspects Rounded Up Mass Trial to be Staged ROME

Northern Star · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 5

After a distribution of gifts to churches and mosques in Addis Ababa, a section of the crowd threw several hand…

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Conscription Plan Prepared Britain's War Machinery Cabinet's Secret Book

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 3

Britain's Minister for Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip) has declared that conscription in peace time will never be introduced. The Secretary for War (Mr. Duff Cooper) had previously given warning that the system…

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Ban On Enlistments MOSCOW

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 9

The Soviet has banned enlistments abroad, including Spain…

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European War Intervention By U.S.

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 24 February 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday:--A warning that the United States might be compelled to intervene in a European war…

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Civil War in Spain Battle for Madrid Loyalists Maintain Initiative

Tweed Daily · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday:--A Madrid message states that the loyalists have maintained the initiative on the southern and south-eastern…

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Can Dominions Remain Neutral? If Britain Goes to War Imperial Conference Problem Protection of ships Carrying Foodstuffs

Tweed Daily · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday:--The political correspondent of the Australian Associated Press says he understands that while Sir Samuel Hoare, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Sir Thomas Inskip and Mr. Stanley Baldwin have successively emphasised…

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Two Persons Killed; Three Wounded Gendarmes Fire on Miners And Wives

Tweed Daily · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 6

BUDAPEST, Wednesday:-- Two persons were killed and three were wounded, when gendarmes fired a volley into a group of miners and…

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War Precaution Storage of Food in Germany

Tweed Daily · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday:--Mr. John Mitchell, in his presidential address to the Incorporated Society of Auctioneers, said he had been, informed that…

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War Changed Him. Never Had a Chance Since

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 2

Lloyd John Morgan, who pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering a store at Dubbo, and stealing a large quantity of clothing, including 12…

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Soldiers on "Location"

Tweed Daily · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 2

Finding itself 50 per cent, under strength, and realising the urgency of making good the deficiency, a British Territorial unit is making not only…

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Anzac Day Observance Religious Aspect Casino

Northern Star · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 7

AT a meeting of the Casino branch of the Returned Soldiers' League last night a letter from the Casino Council…

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No Justification for Fears of War Chancellor's Horror of Rearmament LONDON

Northern Star · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 9

"IT would be unfortunate if any apprehension of imminent war were created at a time when there is no reason or justification for any such fears," declared the Chancellor of the Exchequer…

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Anzac Day in Lismore

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 10

Through the courtesy of the Commanding Officer of the Byron Regiment (Captain A. H. Boyes) It is expected that this year's Anzac…

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Pilot Boyden Was Wounded at Gallipoli Toowoomba

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 6

It was a miracle that Pilot Boyden did not die at Gallipoli when he landed there with the Australian and New Zealand troops during the Great…

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Soldiers' Preference. Question From Two Angles

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 4

At the U.A.P. Younger Set conference in Sydney Mr. Olsen, who proposed a repeal of the Returned Soldiers' Preference Act, declared that returned men…

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Anti-Nazi Critically Wounded BUCHAREST

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 6

The Rector of the University of Jassy, who is an anti-Nazi, was admitted to hospital in a critical condition to-day suffering from dagger…

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