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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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Governor of Gibraltar Warns Inhabitants Must Not Display Sympathy With Either Side in Spanish War Pope Protests Against Murder of Priests Rebels Surrounding Badajoz London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 August 1936 · page 1

The Governor of Gibraltar has warned every [?]tant of the Rock to retrain from abusing British hospitality by publicly…

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War on Rust

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 2
Also in The Gundagai Independent

Rust was once the greatest enemy of the engineer, but tens of thousands of present-day motorists drive for years, and are never troubled by the…

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Palestine Trouble Four British Soldier Shot by Arabs JERUSALEM

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 August 1936 · page 1

With two sentries posted, eight British soldiers bathed naked in a pool at the east of Esdraelon. Shortly afterwards two Arabs crept up on them…

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Palestine Trouble Four British Soldiers Shot by Arabs Jerusalem

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 August 1936 · page 1

With two sentries posted, eight British soldiers bathed naked in spool at the east of Esdraelon to-day. Shortly afterwards two Arabs crept up on them…

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Rotary and War "International Understanding"

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1936 · page 2

Dr. Inglis Robertson, who returned to Sydney after attending the International Rotary Conference at Atlantic City, U.S.A., said that the conference…

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War on Rust Special Materials and Resistant Coatings

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1936 · page 4

Rust was once the greatest enemy of the engineer; but tens of thousands of present-day motorists drive for years and are never troubled by the…

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Explosion of War Souvenir Evidence at Inquest Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1936 · page 5

Giving evidence to-day at the inquest into the death of Edwin Arthur Hollingworth, who was killed at his home at Coogee on May 28 when an…

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Militia Forges Strengthening the Units "Training Essential in Event of War"

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1936 · page 6

Invoking the aid of the Wagga sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League in recruiting the right type of youth and young man for service…

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Wounded Man's Condition Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1936 · page 7

Although Edward Rankin Gardner, aged 27 years, was shot four times in a street at Newtown on Saturday night, and received wounds which in…

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War on Rust

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 August 1936 · page 1
Also in The Tumut and Adelong Times

Rust was once the greatest enemy of the engineer, but tens of thousands of present-day motorists drive for years and are never troubled by…

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Mr. Rentoul's Statement Position Provocative of War

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1936 · page 4

"Unless we are prepared Immediately to begin to fill the north with white people the White Australia policy, morally and nationally, is indefensible,"…

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Could Great War Have Been Averted ?

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1936 · page 4

Just how easy it is for nations to slip into the abyss of war and, almost before they realise it, find themselves interlocked in a death struggle, is shown by Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Mr. David Lloyd George, in his published memoirs. The unorthodoxy of some of Mr. Lloyd George's…

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War on Rust

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 20 August 1936 · page 2

Rust was once the greatest enemy of the engineer, but tens of thousands of present-day motorists drive for years, and are never troubled by the…

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Long Range Policy Expert Advice From War Office Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

The Federal Government has decided that instead of adopting a second three-year defence expansion programme, a country development plan…

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"Madrid Now Safe" Says Minister Fob War Madrid

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 August 1936 · page 1

After a Cabinet meeting the Minister for War (Senor Sarabia) announced, that Madrid was now safe, the rebels having been prevented from…

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Cowabbie West Latest "War" News

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 3

"Mussolini" again made an advance and held a euchre party and dance in Cowabbie West Hall on Wednesday, 19th March. A fair number…

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Bugles of England Scouts and War Clergyman's Reminiscences

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 2

PICTURE the dark streets of London, the world's greatest city. There is not a glimmer of light from any window and no…

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