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The wars & local soldiers, 1935

808 stories in Riverina's papers · page 32 of 41

Australia and the War Crisis Questions Asked in the House Nature of Sanctions No Instructions Given Yet to Mr. Bruce "Confidence in Britain" Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1935 · page 1

In the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) was met with a number of questions regarding the European…

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Abyssinians Holding Strong Italian Divisions in War Zones Sanctions Committee League Assembly Decides on Formation Export of Arms to Abyssinia Likely to be First Action of Powers LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1935 · page 5

With Hungary and Austria abstaining from voting, and Italy opposing, the League Assembly to-day carried a resolution by 53 votes to 1 in favor of constituting a sanctions co-ordinating committee consisting of all members of…

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The War! Italians Bomb Villages Infantrymen Buried Alive COMMUNICATlON Cut Off Italian Line 12 Miles Long London

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 14 October 1935 · page 3

Despatches from Harar state that eleven aeroplanes bombed Gerloghi. Thirty-six Abyssinian infantrymen, who had taken refuge in a dug-out,…

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"The War" Arms May be sent Abyssinia No Armaments for Italy London

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 15 October 1935 · page 2

The Functions Coordination Committee of the Lengue of Nations has ananimonthly lifed the embergo on the export of army to Abyssiunia and…

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Soldiers Preference (To the Editor)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 15 October 1935 · page 2

Sir—I wish to bring under your notice the way the Returned Soldiers' Preference Act is being used or abused in our town. Some…

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Holy War Proclaimed Emperor's Orders to Recapture Sacred City London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 October 1935 · page 1

The surrender of Aksum to-day and other indications of local Abyssinian disintegration suggest a development showing that the Italian military…

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Mr. Neville Chamberlain Hits Out "Britain Trying to Stop War" London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 October 1935 · page 1

"It is difficult to cram into one sentence a more mischievous distortion of the Abyssinian situation than that contained in Mr. L. S. Amery's speech…

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Abyssinia Battles in Ogaden Italians Capture Sacred City of Aksum Emperor Declares Holy War 200,000 Ethiopians to Advance LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 October 1935 · page 1

THE holy city of Aksum, in the north of Abyssinia, fell yesterday to the advancing Italians. Immediately on hearing the news, the Emperor…

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Liquid Flame and Poison Gas Hurled at Abyssinians Battles Raging in Ogaden Italians Capture Sacred City of Aksum Emperor Declares Holy War and Orders Huge Army to Be Raised 200,000 Ethiopians to Advance in South Against Invaders

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 October 1935 · page 1

The holy city of Aksum, in the north of Abyssinia, fell on Monday to the advancing Italians. Immediately on hearing the news the Emperor summoned the Abuna, head of the Abyssinian Church, and instructed him to proclaim…

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Whose Blame Is War ? Go Back to First Causes

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 October 1935 · page 2

Labor politicians and propagandists of the extreme Left and those who are inevitably tending Leftward (in Australia these include the…

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Munition Firms Are the War Makers Scathing Exposure of Their Methods in America

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 October 1935 · page 6

When the true history of the present Italian-Abyssinia crisis is written there will be shown that the real urge for hostilities came…

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Britain's Aim Abolition of War Mentality Foreign Secretary's Broadcast to New York London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 October 1935 · page 3

"We in Great Britain stand for war abolition of war and the mentality of war, whether on the field of battle or on the field of commerce, industry or…

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The War ! Will Not Reduce Mediterranean Fleet Britain Gives Straight Answer France’s Plea for Peace London

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 October 1935 · page 5

Britain to-day refused point blank to reduce her Mediterranean fleet to a normal footing. The British reply to a French…

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The War

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 18 October 1935 · page 7

Massed aeroplanes raining gas and high explosive bombs, and fleets of tanks belching liquid flame shells from quick-firing arms, spread death…

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Hitler Will Make War

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 18 October 1935 · page 4

As interesting forecast of the future of the present regims in Germany is made by Herr Gregor [?] can of Harr [?]…

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Overseas News War Zone Spreading London

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 October 1935 · page 2

A message from Rome say the latest reports of troops and aeroplane movements suggest Italy is preparing for trouble in…

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Whose Blame Is War? Go Back to First Causes

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 18 October 1935 · page 4
Also in The Murrumbidgee Irrigator, Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser, Cootamundra Herald

Labour politicians and propagandists of the extreme Left and those who arc inevitably tending Leftward [?]n Australia these include the…

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