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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1938

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Wordy War

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 10

There was nearly a violent out break of hostilities at the Mudgee Council meeting last week, says the "Guardian." One alderman called…

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War and Aggression Synod Opposed to War

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 5

War was not inevitable unless made to by fierce patriotism. Yet, to-day the world was spending 3000 millions starling in…

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War in China New Japanese Offensive Shanghai

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 1

Checked on the Yangtse front, the Japanese are now carrying out an offensive in Southern Shanshi, in an attempt to reach Hangkow from the…

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Another Jap. Loan For War Purposes Tokyo

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 1

The finance Minister has announced the launching of another internal loan of £25,000,000, to meet war expenses…

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The Cost of War Deadly and Expensive Comparison With Old Days

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 5

With the entire world always edging closer to a seemingly unavoidable precipice, with national spirits smouldering and ready to…

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War Veterans Home at Legacy Park Address At Diggers' Conference By Major Jarman, O.B.E.

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 7

During a break at the recent Diggers' Conference, at Coonamble, Major Jarman, O.B.E., delivered an interesting address on…

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Wiping Off Arrears On Soldiers' Homes Canberra

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 1

The Minister for Repatriation states that acting on representations by the Returned Soldiers' League, the Government…

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Soldiers' Arrears. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 6

The Minister for Repatriation states that Acting on representations by the Returned Soldiers League the Government intends…

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Spanish War [?]Ebro as Greatest Battle London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1938 · page 1

The hostilities at Ebro may yet lead [?]the war's greatest battle. The [?]es" Barcelona correspondent states [?] as rumours of dissension in the…

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Trangie Returned Soldiers Sub-branch Annual Meeting Bursary to be Continued

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1938 · page 4

At the annual general meeting of Trangie sub-branch of the R.S. and S.I.L.A. on Thursday, Mr. W. R. G. Officer was in the chair. Others…

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Fires of War Will They Spread? Mr. Perkins' Opinion SYDNEY

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 August 1938 · page 1

Archbishop Mowll, speaking at a dedication festival yesterday, said that no nation wanted war, yet fires of war…

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Trangie Diggers at Work Helping Returned Soldiers. Encouragement for Rising Generation

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 23 August 1938 · page 8

While doing its best to assist Returned Soldiers, the Trangie Sub-branch of the R.S.S.L.L.A. has an eye for the rising generation, for it has decided to renew the Bursary which assists a selected Traogie child to go to Dubbo for High School education. The annual…

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Where Japan-soviet War Threatened

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 25 August 1938 · page 1

War between Japan and the Soviet threatened when a fight took place for…

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Spanish War Work of the International Brigade

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 August 1938 · page 5

One of the outstanding features of the Spanish Civil War has been the organisation of that amazing band of adventurers—the…

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War in China Japanese Victory Announced Shanghai

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 August 1938 · page 1

The Japanese claim that after desperate fighting in the sweltering heat, near Juichang, they captured the town thus breaching Hankow's first line of…

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If War Comes Smuts Says That South Africa Will Assist Britain Capetown

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 August 1938 · page 1

General Smuts declared in the Assembly that it was his personal opinion that South Africa would assist Britain if she were attacked, but the…

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Worse Than War. Road Accidents. 256 KILLED- 2135 INJURED

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 30 August 1938 · page 3

There were 2,059 street accidents in the country parts of New South Wales during the year ended 30th June, 1938, compared with 1,818 for…

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Preference of Returned Soldiers. (To the Editor)

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 5

Sir.—If we are to rely on reports contained in the daily Press, both at home and abroad, the world is now in an even more chaotic condition than…

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War in China Japanese Driven Back Hankow

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 September 1938 · page 1

The Chinese claim that on the south bank of the Yangtse River, west of Jiuchang, they drove the Japanese back four miles and inflicted 4,000…

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Radio War on 'Hoppers Rural Bank's Fine Initiative

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 September 1938 · page 4

The grasshopper hatching season has arrived and many men, as they ride round, their paddocks in the next few days, will wonder what…

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