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The wars & local soldiers, 1932

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Big War Bill £830,000,000 a Year for World London

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 3

EXPENDITURES for the past fiscal year on armaments, taken from the League of Nations Armaments year book, showed that the…

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Fortunes Made in Cards War Comic Bridge Parody "Sunday Sun" Special New York

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 2

OFFICIAL figures give an interesting summary of what happened in that famous contract match be[?]ween Culbertson and Lenz and…

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The Man Who Ended the WAR Diggers Charged Like Men Possessed And Cut Path For Fateful Raid Lieutenant Who Found Plan of Hindenburg Line !

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 31

After 13 years of patrolling the streets as a police sergeant, the Man Who Ended the War has been discovered. He is Lieutenant E. J. Rollings, M.C. (with bar),…

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Is War On Gangland Waged In Right Way ? Appalling Laxity of Officials While Bullets Whine Underworld Dread of Consorting Act Dragnet Is Not Driven Home Kid Glove Methods Fail to Kill Menace

Truth · Sunday 10 January 1932 · page 15

CLEAN up the Ganglands! PRECIOUS time is passing, and as the days go by it becomes plainer and plainer that a clean sweep must be made of the loafers who infest King's Cross and the lower part of East Sydney, and form ugly blots upon the landscape. WE have the police. And the police have the power. The Consorting Act is one of the greatest dragnets, and the most effective…

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Comrades Attend to Wounded Sergeant

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

SEVERELY WOUNDED in Manchuria, a Japanese sergeant is cured for by his comrades before being taken to the rear of operations after a successful attack…

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The War Debt and Hard Fact

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 6

WHEN a rocket bursts in the air it is, no doubt, an inspiring spectacle, but it represents annihilated value. The same economic tragedy accompanies the explosion of a shell or a torpedo, the crash to earth in flames of a Zeppelin, or the disposal to the air and waves of a…

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Jacka, V.c., Dying War's Hand Still on Him Little Hope

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

Melbourne, Sunday.--Little hope was held tonight for the recovery of Captain Jacka, V.C., who is an…

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War Mania--a Lucid Explanation Public Opinion Does It Schools, Homes and Papers Nursery Plots

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 6

Will the representatives of the great nations, when they assemble at Geneva for the Disarmament Conference, continue their old same of…

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Will Be War Trade Soldier (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 5

Sir,--Last night after my bedtime story a red and green tiger with a [?] tall sprang on to my bed and told me there would be another war…

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Murderous Fight Pick Handle Arid Knife Weapons Badly Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 1

A pick handle and a long-bladed knife were used as weapons in a desperate struggle last night between a…

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In Disgrace China's War Leader Impeached Shanghai

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 5

CHANG HSUEH-LIANG known as the "young Marshal" is to be impeached on the ground that he failed to…

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The Tug of War When Bruce Meets Lang

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 4

By the remarkable turn of Fortune's wheel Mr. S. M. Bruce, former Prime Minister and Treasurer of the Commonwealth, is back in Australia, armed again with authority and office, and just in time to come forward and handle the…

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Through the War. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 4

Sir,—I read with interest a statement by Mr. Lloyd George ("Sydney Morning Herald," January 9, 1932), to the effect that he was the only Minister among all the Government of all…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, January 12, 1932. Reparations and War Debts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 10

Germany declares, not for the first time, but with more apparent emphasis than ever before, that she is unable to meet her reparation payments without…

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Ex-soldier Killed Thrown On Head When Motor Lorry Swerved

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 8

INVERELL, Monday.--Frederick James Simpson (30), returning to Inverell on the back of a motor lorry, lost his balance when the vehicle swerved and fell head on to…

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To Come First Returned Men In Canberra Work Govt. Policy

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--Absolute preference to returned soldiers in the distribution of work in the…

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Rifle Shooting Pink on the Eye Bulls at Anzac

Referee · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 23

MARKSMEN went out to Anzac (Sydney) Ride Range on Saturday last in large numbers. Club matches were resumed. They were th first after…

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Must Stop London's Gunmen War Declared

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 9

The New South Wales Government, which has displayed unreasonable apathy in coping with the gunman menace in this State,…

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Pre-war Star Back to Royal Melbourne Q'land Gossip

Referee · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 19

AN Interesting visitor to Australia at present is Captain G. R. Buruham, who was here before the war as aide-de-camp to the Governor-General. A…

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The Mills Grind and the Grist Comes Home. The War The Peace and the Aftermath

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 14

WHEN the Hoover moratorium of war debts for twelve months was first announced "The Worker" ventured the opinion that it was the "beginning of the…

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