£2900 Stolen Man Sent to Reformatory War Record Considered Auckland
Godfrey Halse, aged 46 years, was sentenced at Palmerston North Supreme Court to-day to 18 months' reformatory detention for stealing £2900…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1938
1,157 stories in Riverina's papers · page 6 of 58
German Army Crisis General Goering As New War Minister Berlin
Although there are indications that the German Army crisis is subsiding, significance is attached to the arrival from Munich of the Nazi, General von…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three To Five Years Forecast of War in China London
Rev. George Shepherd, Congregational Minister and intimate adviser to Chiang Kai Shek,, predicts that the Sino Japanese war will last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Far East War Significant Russian Move New Railway to Outer Mongolia Connection with Peiping Moscow
Work has begun on a 200-mile railway from the main line skirting Baikalkyakhta to the Outer Mongolian frontier and connecting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spanish War (Continued from Page One) Italian Aid for Franco Likely to Be Reduced London
Messages from Rome state that Italy is now likely to reduce her help to General Franco, following a meeting of the Supreme Defence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Returned Soldiers Wagga Branch Dinner NEARLY 150 Diggers Attend
One of the most successful functions of its kind yet held, the annual Diggers' Dinner, held under the auspices of the Wagga sub-branch…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Air Raids 18 Killed, 60 Wounded
Four scattered air-raids in which 18 persons were killed and 60 injured have expressed the Francoist view of the humanitarian move to save civilians…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Far East War Japanese Warships Bombard Coast Near Canton Troops Cross Wai River SHANGHAI
The Japanese array spokesman claims that the Japanese have crossed the Wai River, north of Pengchu, and captured Hwaiyuan. Nine Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Political Stir Hitler in Supreme Command of Armed Forces War Minister Overthrown Officialdom Bewildered by Purge BERLIN
Revolutionary changes, as the outcome of the Army-Nazi crisis in Germany, have overthrown the War Minister, Marshal von Blomberg, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, General von Fritsch. Military, political…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some Achieved Fame And Some Notoriety Men and Women in History 21—Kitchener of Khartum, Organiser of the Nation in the Great War
Kitchener's services in the Great War were undoubtedly of immense importance; but it is probable that history will remember him and appreciate him more surely as the great Sirdar of Egypt—Kitchener of Khartum—than as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Triumphant Return Welcome Home Dinner
AFTER a strenuous fortnight, competing in both Sydney and Newcastle, and taking part in the 150th celebrations in both…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Day. 1938 Transport of Soldiers Will Be Big Task
Arrangements are well ahead for the transport of the great gathering of ex-service men from country districts to Sydney for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peace or War? Critical Year for Germany Paris
"Pertinax" is of the opinion that this year will be a critical one for Germany, inasmuch as a decision will be made in favor of peace or war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Far East War Chinese in Retreat Towns on Canton River Bombarded SHANGHAI
While the Chinese are reported to be in full retreat north of Nanking, the Japanese Army and Navy are embarking on a sew operation in Shanshi…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Total Casualties of the War
Foreign observers estimate that the Japanese casualties in the campaign so far are 50,000 kilted and 150,000 wounded. The Chinese losses are four-fold greater…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sensation in N.Z. Rumor That Britain Had Declared War Auckland (N.z.)
There was wild excitement in the Whangarel district when the rumor spread that Britain had declared war. The whole town was seething with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sensation in New Zealand Rumor That Britain Had Declared War Auckland (N.Z.)Tuesday
There was wild excitement in the Whangarei district yesterday when the rumor spread that Britain had declared war. The whole town was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nationalist Enlistments Burgos
Following the recent enlistment of men born during the first quarter of 1919, General Franco has now called to the colors men born in the second…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Spanish War Nationalist Victories "Republicans' Severest Disaster" Battalions Cut to Pieces Saragossa
The battle in the Alsambra Valley is regarded as having culminated in a resounding victory for General Franco. It is claimed that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Not Our War"
"IT'S not our war, and I think it's like their cheek saying that Australia has done very little so far," declared Cr…
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