Terrors of the Coming War Thermit Fires and High Explosives
"Nothing scares living beings, human or animal, more than fire. Without warning, perhaps without an official declaration of war, as happened…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1934
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Electric Kay to Avert War Effective for 250 Miles
Means of national defence against the armed forces of an invading nation have been discovered which will erect a defensive wall around a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia’s Defence Returned Soldiers’ Support SYDNEY
Addressing the annual Conference of the Returned Sold[?]ers’ League, the President, Mr. L. A. Robb, said the League was whole-heartedly behind the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Left Fortune for Missing Soldier Son Now Officially Reported Killed
A grant of £10,000, which had been set aside by a father in the hope that his soldier son, who had been reported missing, would return to claim it, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"No Real War Temper Anywhere
LONDON.—General Smuts, who was today installed as Rector of St. Andrew's University, in the course of his address, declared that he did not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cable News Remedy for War
LONDON.—Professor Haldane, in a speech, gave the following as a remedy for war:—"Pass an Act compelling on the outbreak of war the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cable News American War Debt
LONDON.—Regarding the American war debt, which is due on December 15, it is understood that the position is exactly the same as in June…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If War Came Vancouver
A questionaire put to students at the University of British Columbia reveals only 10 per cent. would enlist voluntarily if Canada declared war, while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gifts for Returned Men
The Federal Government has granted £2000 to the Returned Soldiers' League for Christmas gifts for necessitous returned men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poison Gas in War Not Worse Than Explosives LONDON
Denying that poison gas in a world war is any more inhuman than blowing people to bits with high explosives, Dr. Levinstein, poison—gas expert in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French War Debts No Payment to United States PARIS
The Government has notified the United States that there will be no payment of war debts due on Saturday and no more payments on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Service Homes The Devaluation Proposal Huge Cost to Community
Repeatedly requests are made that the value of War Service Homes should be written down. The effect of such a step would have upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Lessons
Nationalism, a sentiment which few disparage, has been responsible for the present race of armaments in Europe. The commissariat is one of…
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