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The wars & local soldiers, 1932

3,205 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 161

Governor To Visit Crippled Ex-Soldier NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 7

The Governor (Sir Philip Game) is to pay a visit at the week-end to Sergeant Henry Melham, who served with the British army during the war, and has smiled through four years of unceasing pain. He is lying now in Wallsend…

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Preference for Returned Men Not in Arbitration Bill, Says Unions

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 10

Trades Hall union secretaries sent a deputation to Mr. Lang yesterday to protest against any clause giving preference to returned soldiers being…

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Riflemen Fooled at Anzac Wind Was Tricky

Referee · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 18

SHOOTING on Anzac Rifle Range on Saturday was not fair to the marksmen, or to the rifle, or the ammunition. The scores were tragic. One…

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War Service Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--Newcastle Returned Soldiers' League has condemned the proposed amendment of the War Service Homes Act, on the ground that it will make…

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Sino-Japanese War Incidents

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 10

A British armoured car passing through the streets of Shanghai. Chinese troops on guard at the entrance to the Chinese quarters, Shanghai. Members of the British Shanghai Volunteer Force marching through the British Concession, Shanghai…

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Special Pictures Of War In East

The Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 9

On the back page of this issue will be found an exclusive series of pictures of the fighting between Japanese and Chinese troops in…

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Did It All Alone! Hitler As Great War Hero Captured 15 British Soldiers---says He Nation Gasps London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 1

Boldly marching to a crater, Where a British officer, a sergeant, and thirteen soldiers were sheltering, Herr Hitler…

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Huge Cost of War Help League to Make Peace Sydney Plea

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 7

A motion urging the Commonwealth Government and all Australians to support the League of Nations in its effort…

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Surf Clubs War in Brisbane Three Clubs Are Suspended Petty Officials

Referee · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 19

(From Our Brisbane Representative.) JUST when Queensland seemed to be getting the Surf Association movement going along nicely, the clubs…

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Both Served in Great War British Army Nurse Tended A.i.f. Sister

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 9

An army nurse, who saw service in Egypt during the war, died in a Kensington home yesterday, tended to the last by a war nurse who had…

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Soldier's Cottage Burnt. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 14

A weatherboard cottage on a soldiers block at Lavington, and owned by Thomas Quinn, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the outbreak is unknown. Quinn awoke to find the…

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Soldier Settlers on Land N.S.W. Carries Out the Agreement So Far As Possible Big Concessions Canberra

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 5

FIGURES relating to the placing of soldier settlers on the land in Now South Wales were made available by the Prime Minister…

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Anzac Ball

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 3

The Auburn, Lidcombe, Bankstown and State Hospital sub-branches of the R.S. and S.I.L.A., together with their ladies' auxiliaries, are conducting a monster Anzac hall…

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Attacked with Knives Warders Wounded Maitland Gaol Sensation Maitland

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 1

Two warders are off duty as the result of injuries inflicted on them yesterday by a prisoner armed with a table knife…

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War Service Homes Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 5

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--To review the economic position of war service homes, the Government has appointed a committee of inquiry,…

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Gaol Officials Reticent Wounded Warders at East Maitland West Maitland, Wednesday.--

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 7

Gaol officials at East Maitland to-day declined to advance any reason for the unusual conduct of a prisoner, who, after barricading his cell…

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War in China Theatrette Features

The Sun · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 23

Frightened natives fleeing before the Japanese advance on Tientsin, China, are shown in a graphic item on the newsreel programme starting…

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Warders Wounded. Attacked by Prisoner Armed with Table Knife. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 9

In the Maitland Gaol yesterday three warders were stabbed with a table knife by a violent prisoner who recently had been transferred from Parramatta Gaol for reformative…

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Russia Under the Soviet. War on Religion

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 35

One of the institutions created specially by the will of Pope Pius XI. is the "Pontifical Commission on Russia," The object of which is to gather information and…

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Herr Hitler. Story of War Service. LONDON, March 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 10

The Berlin Nazi newspaper "Attack" published a story of "How Herr Hitler captured 15 British soldiers and won the Iron Cross." It says that Herr Hitler (who is a candidate…

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