China War Democracies Protest to Japanese Live Wire Entanglements LONDON
Britain, America and Prance protested to the Japanese authorities regarding the erection of live wire entanglements around the British and…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
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The Cause of War Raw Materials Aspect
Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, speaking at Plymouth declared that the British Government intended to adopt no…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in Spain Republicans Will Go on Fighting Madrid
The Defence Ministry has ordered the reorganisation of the centre and south Republican armies, under the supreme command of the Premier (Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →China War. Japs. Pay Damages to Hong Kong London
It is confirmed by the Colonial Office that the Japanese authorities have paid £1250 to the Hong Kong Government as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Democracies Heading Further Towards War' Signor Gayda's Gomment
ROME, Sunday:—"Everything proves that the democracies are heading more rapidly in the direction of war. Their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Unity In Tribute To Roosevelt" Evidence of Peoples' Support If War Came
WASHINGTON, Monday:— General Johnson, former N.R.A. Administrator, presenting Mr. Roosevelt with a medal awarded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Austn. Defence Organisation on War Footing Cabinet Sanctions Changes
CANBERRA, Wednesday: Sweeping changes in Australia's defence system were approved by the Federal Cabinet to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Control of Food Supplies In Event of War British Plan
LONDON, Tuesday:—Sir Henry French, Food Director, speaking at Manchester, declared that rationing and control of food…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War Against Drunken Drivers in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)
Although the safety-first campaign was instituted recently, the number of fatal road accidents continues to increase. The number of people killed by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Communists Cause Trouble In Madrid Street Fighting 'End War Humanely And Honourably' LONDON
Despite broadcasts from Madrid declaring that there was complete calm throughout the city, messages from the nationalists outside the capital report continued street fighting between the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Debts Adjustment Applications Returned Soldier Settlers
Information that applications had been called and were now coming in from returned soldier settlers who wished to have their indebtedness to…
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In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. A. E. Budd, M.L.A., asked a question about the promise to review returned soldier settlers' indebtedness to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Dominions to Say Whether They Would Join in Imperial War
LONDON, Wednesday:—During the discussion in the Commons on the War Secretary's statement of Britain's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'To Intervene On Continent In Time Of War' British Plans London
THE Secretary for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha) announced in the House of Commons to-day that the British army plans…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Swiss Soldiers Snowed in
BERNE, Thursday:—Seventy-six Swiss soldiers are snowed in the Wildhorn hut in the Berne Alps at an altitude of 7600 feet…
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The tragic scene outside the courthouse in Huelva, in Spain, after relatives of a local judge heard the news that he had been executed by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wesley's Chapel More Thrilling Than China War (Prom A Special Correspondent.) LONDON, February 25 (By Air Mail.)
AFTER weeks of dangerous rescue work on China's battlefields, an American Methodist bishop has come to London, to experience his…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bid to Save Snowed-In Swiss Soldiers
BERNE, Thursday:—Despite the snowed in soldiers semaphoring the message "We are doomed. Do not waste lives trying to reach us," the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heroic Message Sent by Snowbound Soldiers Berne
"We are doomed. Do not waste lives trying to reach us," was a message semaphored from the Wildhort hut, 7600 feet above…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Anzac Day Service in Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Sunday:— Because they declare that additions to the Anzac Day service are not sufficient to make it a Christian service,…
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