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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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R.S.L Conference Preference to Soldiers Non-observance by Government Alleged Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1937 · page 6

Allegations were made at the annual conference of the Returned Soldiers' League to-day that the principle of preference for returned soldiers was…

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Returned Soldiers Greater Benefits Under Repatriation Act Indicated by Mr. Hughes SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1937 · page 8

Although detailed estimates of the expenditure will not be known until the Budget is submitted to Parliament next month, the Federal…

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Defence Expenditure No War Scare! CANBERRA

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 1

Important developments in Australia's defence policy will follow the submission to Federal Cabinet of the report of the Minister for Defence…

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To Prevent War Aim of New Education Fellowship Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 1

Wider recognition in educational practice of individual development, rather than standardised instruction, was advocated to-day by Mrs. Beatrice…

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Death From the Skies Disturbing Picture of Next War’s Horrors

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 3

Berlin : A warning that gas masks will be useless in the next world war is contained in the latest book “Death from the Skies,” by the well…

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War Zone Government Claims Successes £300,000 Seized From Bank Madrid

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 1

Continuing its drive to the westward of Madrid, the Government claims that its troops have entered Navalagella. Government 'planes continue to…

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Spanish War Non Intervention Deadlock Belligerency Rights Or Withdrawal of Volunteers? LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 1

Belligerency rights versus the withdrawal of volunteers is now recognised as the real issue in the non-intervention deadlock…

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Pithy Pars From Overseas “The Path of True Love’’ War Romance Ends in Second Marriage at 40

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 3

London: Because he thought his injuries would not allow him to maintain a wife, George Edward Wright, of Benwell, Newcastle-on-Tyne,…

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Basque Soldier's Exploit Captures Steamer and Puts to Sea Alone Paris

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 1

With one man for skipper, pilot, stoker and crew and flying a tattered Republican flag, a large steam sardine fishing vessel, has arrived at St. Jean…

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Labor's War Policy

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 2

Labor will have nothing to do with the war policy decided upon by Australian Congress of Trades Unions in Melbourne last week, declared the…

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Inventor of War Horror Dies Budapest (Hungary)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 2

Captain Gabriel Szakats, inventory of flame-throwers, has died poverty-stricken. He made a fortune out of his invention but lost it owing to inflation…

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Labor and War A.L.P. Secretary's Statement "Isolation and Neutrality" the Objective SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 1

The secretary of the A.L.P (Mr. J. J. Graves) declared to-day that Labor would have nothing to do with the war policy decided upon by the A.C.T.U. in…

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Correspondence (To the Editor.) A Soldier in Search of Work

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 2

Sir,—I am in the same position as many more men at present. I am single. Family circumstances compelled me to be left single. No…

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Returned Soldiers General Meeting

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 6

At a general meeting of the Lockhart, branch of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League of Australia on Tuesday night, the…

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Murder Charge Against Caretaker of Soldier Settlement Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 1

At the Kurri Kurri police court to-day George Renwick Bowditch, caretaker of the Weston soldier settlement, was charged with having murdered…

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Rumors in U.S.A. Trade Treaty Negotiations with Britain Settlement of War Debt ? WASHINGTON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1937 · page 1

A wide variety of rumors, all of which have been denied by the State Department, and all of which refer to Anglo-American negotiations, for a…

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Rumors in U.S.A. Trade Treaty Negotiations With Britain Settlement of War Debt? WASHINGTON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 July 1937 · page 3

A wide variety of rumors, all of which have been denied by the State Department, and all of which refer to Anglo-American negotiations for a…

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Labor and War “Isolation and Neutrality” the Objective

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 3

The secretary of the A.L.P. (Mr. J. Graves) declared in Sydney on Monday that Labor would have nothing to do with the war policy decided…

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Appeal to League of Nations To Stop Spanish War LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 1

Lord Cecil appealed to the Government in the House of Lords to endeavor to stop the Spanish war through the League of Nations…

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Full Scale Attack by Japanese Finally Forced to Take Independent Action" Cabinet to Launch War Loan of £5,600,000 Peiping Attacked on Three Sides British Legation Guards Standing By With Sandbags Filled LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 1

A full-scale attack on Peiping is now being made by Japanese troops, who are attacking the city from three sides simultaneously. Troops are being poured into Peiping. Colonel Matsui, envoy of the Lieut. General Katsuki,…

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