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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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Returned Soldiers' League Function in Aid of T. B. Soldiers Social and Financial Success

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 3

On Monday night last O'Brien's Hall was the scene of one of the best functions, both socially and financially, ever conducted in Tuesday…

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King Edward to Visit France Canadian War Shrine Unveiling in July London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1936 · page 2

King Edward and President Lebrun will stand side by side on French soil on July 26, when His Majesty will go to Prance to unveil Canada's great…

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20-year-old Bomb Explodes in Soldier's Hand

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 May 1936 · page 13

Twenty years after it had been made a bomb which a returned soldier named Edwin Hollingsworth, 44, of Coogee, had brought back to…

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Japanese Officer's Death Allegation Against British Soldiers Peking

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 June 1936 · page 1

Japanese authorities have demanded that the British Embassy investigate the death of a Japanese army officer outside a Peking cabaret. The…

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Chinese Authorities Urge Declaration of War Against Japan CANTON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 June 1936 · page 1

The South and South-Western Chinese authorities telegraphed the Central Government at Nanking and also the civil and military leaders…

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War and Poverty Political Action Urged Professor Murdock Suggests a New Party Perth

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 June 1936 · page 8

The view that the time was ripe for a political party in Australia was expressed, by Professor Walter Murdock, of the University of Western Australia,…

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War Urged Against Japan

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 June 1936 · page 4

The South and South-West Chinese authorities have telegraphed the Central Government at Nanking, and all the civil and…

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Current Topics No Riches in War.—

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 June 1936 · page 5

IT is an open secret that many man on the land would welcome another war—from, a business point of view, of course—believing that it…

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National Mobilisation U.S.A. War Department Washington

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1936 · page 1

The War Department, it was learned to-day, is preparing to elaborate the industrial mobolisation plan to be instituted in the event of war…

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War Urged Against Japan by Southern Chinese Authorities Canton

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1936 · page 1

The South and South-West Chinese authorities have telegraphed the Central Government at Nanking, and all the civil and…

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Tallimba R.s.&s.i.l.a. Australian War Memorial Canberra

The Ardlethan-Beckom Times · Thursday 4 June 1936 · page 3

The transfer of the National Collection of War Relics and Records (better known perhaps as the War Museum) from Sydney and…

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Our Sydney Letter No Riches in War

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 June 1936 · page 3

It is an open secret that many men would welcome another war—from a business point of view, or course—believing, that it would mean a return…

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Barmedman Tragedy Returner Soldier Found Hanging to a Tree Barmedman

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 June 1936 · page 7

Late yesterday afternoon the body of James Lindsay Hogarth was found hanging to a tree. The deceased was a returned…

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Italian War Losses 4.359

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 June 1936 · page 9

A Rome official report gives the number of Italian deaths in the Abyssinian campiagn at 2313 soldiers' and 453 workmen. Of these 2148…

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Digger Found Hanged War Effects Worry

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 June 1936 · page 4

James Lindsay Hogarth, 52, was found hanged on Thursday, on the farm of his employer, Mr. George Maxwell, Barmedman…

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University Tutorial Class Interesting Lecture at Wagga School of Arts Raw Materials and War

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1936 · page 4

About 30 members of the Wagga Tutorial Class were present at the twelfth of a series of twenty lectures given at the School of Arts on Monday…

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China and Japan Rumored Declaration of War Japanese Forces Standing By in Tokio LONDON

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 June 1936 · page 1

Various stories of the acuteness of the tension between China and Japan include a statement from the "Telegraph's" correspondent at Hong…

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Chinese Mobilisation Defence, Not War! Forcing the Hand of Chang Canton

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 June 1936 · page 1

It is officially explained that Friday's dramatic mobilisation order against Japan was merely a warning to the southern commanders to be in…

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Abyssinian War Italy's Air Losses Hundreds of Raids Vast Supplies of Explosives Used ROME

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 June 1936 · page 1

It is officially revealed that 86 pilots were killed and 150 wounded in Abyssinia. There were 872 bombing raids in…

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Barmedman Tragedy Returned Soldier Found Hanging To A Tree

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 June 1936 · page 1

Late on Thursday afternoon the body of James Lindsay Hogarth was found hanging to a tree. The deceased was a returned…

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