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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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British Legion Jewish Ex-soldiers at Reception Tributes to Sir John Monash Sir Isaac Isaacs LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 October 1936 · page 1

Tributes to Australia, Sir Isaac Isaacs, and the late Sir John Monash were features of the reception of the Monash section of the British Legion,…

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Echo of Abyssinian War

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1936 · page 4

Mr. A. F. Cooper, an ex-resident of Leeton who was a member or the crew that brought the new cruiser, H.M.A.S. Sydney, to Australia, is spending a…

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War Pensions More Liberal Scale Nurses Included Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1936 · page 1

A more liberal scale of pension payments to war veterans is provided for a a bill which the Minister for Health (Mr. Hughes) will introduce in the…

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Wine Production Murrumbidgee Area's Share Effect of Spanish War Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1936 · page 4

The annual report of the Federal Viticultural Council, presented at the annual meeting to-day, shows that in the season 1935-6 New South Wales…

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Returned Soldiers' League

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1936 · page 4

An invitation is extended to returned soldiers and the sons of returned soldiers over the age of eight years to attend a special meeting of the Wagga…

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War Tensions More Liberal

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 2

A more liberal scale of pension payments to war veterans is provided for in a bill which Mr. Hughes will introduce in the House of Representatives…

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Our Open Column Another View of the Returned Soldiers Preference Act (To the Editor)

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 4

SIR,--Through the aid of your columns I desire to draw the attention of the public to the gross injustice of the -so-called Returned Soldiers…

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Heroism in the War

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1936 · page 3

Captain Rupert James Lynn Hamilton, aged 45 years, was found dead on Monday on the premises of the Great Western Service Station with a gas…

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Abyssinian War Planned by Mussolini in 1929 LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1936 · page 8

General de Boni, who commanded the Italian forces in the early stages of the Abyssinian campaign, in a book on war entitled "Preparations and…

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Lighter Side of A.I.F. Told to Ex-soldiers' Sons Happy Function in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1936 · page 8

Grim realities of war were forgotten at the Soldiers' Hall, Wagga, last night and only the lighter side of that world wide conflict was touched upon. The…

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Fathers and Sons Soldiers' Re-union

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 October 1936 · page 3

A happy function was held last night at the Soldiers' Hall, when the monthly meeting of the R.S. & S.T. League took the form of a re-union…

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Europe Alarmed at Soviet Threat Intervention in Spanish War Would Involve Other Countries Bitter German Comment France May Ask for Inquiry Into Charges LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1936 · page 1

Serious concern continues to be felt in Europe over the Soviet's threatened' Withdrawal from the non-intervention committee in…

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A War Adventure London

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 October 1936 · page 1

The story of an amazing escape of C. P. J. Gilroy, wireless operator aboard the Monospar Croydon 'plane when he was serving with the R.A.F…

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South Wagga Win Against West Wyalong Soldiers' Club

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 October 1936 · page 2

South Wagga yesterday defeated a team from West Wyalong Soldiers' Club by 62 runs on the first innings in a match played on Bolton Park turf…

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Returned Soldiers to Over Control Local Greyhound Coursing

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 October 1936 · page 3

A special meeting of the Gundagai Returned Soldiers League was held on Friday evening last, when members were met by officials of the…

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Church and War Primate Declares for Defence Extreme Pacifism Attacked London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 October 1936 · page 5

Attacking extreme pacifism before the Diocesan Conference, the Primate (Archbishop Lang) said that it was idle to suppose that a State would not…

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Civilisation "Next War Will Not End It" London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 October 1936 · page 1

Declaring that the view that the next war would end civilisation was sheer nonsense, Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page-Croft, M.P., in a…

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War-time Romance Wealthy Girls Vow Never To Marry

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 15 October 1936 · page 3

Ill-fated romance of a wealthy girl has been revealed by the will of Miss Dorothy M. Carter, of Red Roofs, Holbearch, Lines. (Eng.)…

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Why Encourage War? (To the Editor "The Daily Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 October 1936 · page 7

Sir,—I would be glad if you would lind room to publish the following indictment against a ceremony that, for the majority, is little more than a…

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Catholics and Jews Wounded Warsaw

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 16 October 1936 · page 1

Twelve Catholics and 15 Jews Were wounded in Danzig street attacks Nazis…

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