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The wars & local soldiers, 1932

3,205 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 161

Brothers of War Transfusion in Peace Days Blood Pals

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 6

In the early months of the Great War five young teachers in the same section of the Training College enlisted together and…

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Submarine's Doom Where M2 Met a Like Fate War Memory

The Sun · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 3

Chatting with friends soon after the submarine M2 was reported missing off Portland, Captain F. A. Innes, former marine…

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Dance of the East in Sydney Chinese Dragon Ceremony See War?

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 5

Last night the Dragon danced in Waterloo! He came all the way from Hongkong for the Chinese New Year, to chase the…

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Safety From Poison Gas Where Is It To Be Found? War's Terrors

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 4

A warning to every man, woman, and child to prepare against the possible danger of poison-gas in the near future…

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League Paramount Limit War France's Old Scheme Got in First Germans Sarcastic Geneva

The Sun · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 3

THE president of the Council of the League of Nations (M. Tardieu) has caused a sensation by circulating far-reaching proposals, which envisage making the League a super-Power in the world's councils…

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Post Office Work Returned Soldiers' Complaint

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 4

Mr J. X. Lawson. M.H.R., was recently appreciated by the hon. secretary of the Bathurst branch of the Returned Soldiers' League with regard to…

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Impressive Scene At North Sydney Soldiers' Tattoo

The Sun · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 4

Arrangements have been made for a description of the military tattoo, to be staged by the 17th Battalion at North Sydney Oval on Tuesday…

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"Unto the Third and Fourth Generation" -- Its Meaning How Racial Poisons Invade the Home with Deadly Effect Decimated by War, the Nation's Strength is Sapped by Syphilis

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 17

WHEN the nations were in the throes of war and the vested interests of nationhood were at stake with invasion of territory imminent, fear was considered to be the most valuable factor in arousing the public to face the threatened danger. From platform, pulpit, and Press came alarming prophecies, plain speaking and stern pronouncements as to the…

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China's Second Try to Recruit Kingsford Smith Semi-official Move Made by Sydney Kuo Ming Tang A.N.A. Fleet Also Mentioned Are Other Australian War Birds to Be Recruited by China? Sydney Chinese Renew Offer to Smithy, and Raise Funds

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 1

AS a nation, Australia does not seem to care whether its greatest airman joy rides for a living, or goes hence to be…

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Japanese War Forces

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1932 · page 6

Japan's war force (tanks, cavalry, infantry and machine gun squadrons) in training under the eye of the Emperor, is one of the many absorbing…

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Air War Looms Shanghai

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1932 · page 12

Following the earlier air fighting, in which two Chinese pilots downed three of eight Japs., a serious air-war looms. Forty Japanese planes are ready to…

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Aussies in China War "Stone the Crows, It's Bluey!" Any Old Side

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1932 · page 6

WE foresee complications resulting from this eagerness on the part of adventurous Australians to go China and fight…

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Japan's Call to Arms All to Mobilise: Fierce Fighting War Horrors Tokio

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1932 · page 12

"TANTAMOUNT to a declaration of war" is how unofficial comment describes the order issued to-day for…

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War Climbs the Sky New Aerial Terror 4 Miles A Min. LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1932 · page 3

War -- seven miles above the earth is envisaged by the production of the Vickers' "Jockey," an all-metal interceptor-fighting…

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MARCH of EVENTS How the Power would meet Pacific War. The Strength Of The Watching Nations

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1932 · page 33

SHANGHAI and Manchuria have shown the world how -- almost overnight -- it can come perilously close to war even when, with peace, every nation is on the brink of ruin. How could the nations meet war -- war in the Pacific?…

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Turf Veteran Soldier and Owner of Winners

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1932 · page 13

Mr. Harry Palmer, whose colors were carried to victory by Diamond de Rouge at Rosehill yesterday, is one of the veterans…

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On Stage and Screen Warner Baxter In War Talkie

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 11

Warner Baxter found a warm welcome at the Regent Theatre on Saturday when he appeared in "Surrender," a play providing him with a…

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War Has Not Yet Ended 1Digger Victims Unemployment Is Still Taking Toll Two Suicides

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 9

TWO Diggers, unable to bear the strain of their war injuries and unemployment, yesterday committed suicide--one at Auburn and the other at Belmore. One had previously written a pathetic note, and the other had been missing from…

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Offence to Enlist Canberra

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 8

EVEN if Australian youths who wished to fight in China had received any encouragement from the Chinese or Japanese…

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Lithgow Returned Soldiers. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 10

At a combined meeting of members of the Lithgow Returned Soldiers" Association and the local branch of the R.S. and S.I.L., it was decided to re-establish a branch of the league,…

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