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The wars & local soldiers, 1932

3,205 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 161

Sydney Doctor's Death Shell-shocked in Great War

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 8

Dr. Francis George McNeil Simpson, aged 45, who, with his second wife, was found dead in their home at Hampstead. England, on…

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Germs As Weapons Possible Horrors of Next War a Geneva Hint

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 6

Fighting by means of disease instead of explosives, could nations do more damage to each other than they do in orthodox war?…

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Returned Soldier's Death. Oatley Man Found Shot

The Propeller · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 1

Alfred Charles Wise (35), who lived in Llewellyn Street, Oatley, was found gassed and shot in a house in Chelmsford Avenue, Belmore, last Sunday…

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Against War

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 4

To draw attention to the war which is raging in China, and to the grave danger of this developing into world war. the League against…

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The Mad Militarists Their "Role" in the "Next" War

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 9

A Paris newspaper, "Le Petit Journal," which occupies much the same place in France as the "Daily Express" in England, has recently…

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Cost of War Franco-british Payments Both Agree London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 5

The Paris correspondent of "The Times" states that a draft of the Franco-British reparations war debts…

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Stockowners Wage War on Ticks Fifteen Dips to be Erected

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 6

GRAFTON, Friday.--A mass meeting of stockowners was held at Jackadgery, Upper Clarence, to-day, to discuss the problem of cattle tick…

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Truth About the Great War Concerning the Invasion of Belgium

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 9

My object in sending the following comments and extracts is to awaken Labor to the need of constitutional alterations, making it a criminal…

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Red Tape War Comedy "Passing the Buck" to Man Higher Up

The Sun · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 1

NO brighter example of military thoroughness could be found than that provided in the experience…

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Financial. America and War Debts. Washington and Jefferson Cited. on the Rights of Debtors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 15

The notion that America ought to have cancelled the debts due to her from the Allies has always seemed to me to be much too large an order. It has been popular in England and…

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Fear of War Horror Soviet Warns of Far East Crisis "Sinister Fame" New Bombardment Likely London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 1

"Who is so optimistic as to say that events in the Far East are not the beginning of a new war,…

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Bazaar for Lidcombe Soldiers

The Sun · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 4

Lidcombe returned soldiers are organising a bazaar in connection with the Soldiers' Day appeal on February 18. It will be held in Joseph-street,…

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War on 'Telegraph'! Workers of N.S.Wales Directly Asked Not to Read Vicious Morning Journal Doing Incalculable Harm to The Whole State A.L.P. Executive Action Campbell and Tin Hares Mascot Club License Lang Congratulated

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 1

DECLARING that the vicious propaganda of the anti-Labor Press was doing incalculable harm to the State of New South Wales, the A.L.P. executive last night adopted a plan under which the workers of the State will be asked not to read…

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Lang Listens to His Masters He Went to War at 13 Lad's Great Adventure

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 2

Just before the 9th Light Horse sailed from Adelaide shortly after the beginning of the war, a Digger and a Boy…

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Finnish Sailor Found Wounded. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 10

Clase Sandstrom, a Finnish sailor from the sailing ship Penang, was found lying seriously injured in a gutter at Ethelton, Port Adelaide, about 5 o'clock on Saturday morning…

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Armed Robber Wounded by Fishmonger. Revolver Duel in Street. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 9

When Henry M[?]llish, fishmonger, was shot at without a warning by two men in William-street, Seddon, shortly before 1 o'clock this morning he returned their fire…

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If War Drums Beat Here "Fight for the Workers"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 5

E. A. Chapman, A.R.U. paid official, talked Communism to an apathetic crowd in the Domain yesterday…

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Desperate Gun Duel in Melb Street Man Badly Wounded by Bullet Is Carried Away by Comrade Arrest Made Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 1

In a desperate pistol duel outside his home at Footscray early this morning, Herbert Charles Mellish, fishmonger…

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The Voice Of The Church Air Call 2Ch Opened War and Peace

The Sun · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 9

"THE true wealth of a country lies in the character of its people," said Archdeacon Davies (President of the…

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Soviet Plan to Foster War Spirit London

The Sun · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 1

IN contrast with the advocacy of disarmament by the Soviet delegate (M. Litvinoff) at Geneva, the…

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