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The wars & local soldiers, 1933

3,351 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 168

CROWN & Anchor, Guns, Battle Models £250,000 Wanted for Australian War Record Collection Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1933 · page 2

Somewhere in Flanders, maybe under the battering of heavy shell fire, in mud knee deep or in the comparative calm of a canteen--no one ever ivill be able to say the historic date --arose a discussion as to the most suitable form of a memorial…

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French Soldier's Death First Man Wounded in War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 5

The first Frenchman to be wounded in the Great War; M. Laibe, has just died near Belfort, 35 miles west of Basle. M. Laibe, who was a Customs officer…

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Annual Fete. War Memorial Hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 3

Lady Game, in performing the official opening of the annual garden fete at the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, on Saturday afternoon, paid a compliment to our…

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Paraguay and Bolivia. Formal Declaration of War. VANCOUVER, March 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1933 · page 10

A message from Asuncion (Paraguay) says that the Senate last night unanimously approved of a formal declaration of war against Bolivia…

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Wounded in Car Policeman Accidentally Shoots Himself

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 7

KURRI, Monday.--Constable Walsh was admitted to Kurri Hospital late last night with a bullet wound just above the heart. His condition…

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400 Albatross Ratings May Get the Sack Just Another Blunder in Bruce's Long List Negotiations Obsolete War Vessel Now Likely to Be Scrapped Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 6

NEGOTIATIONS are proceeding between the Australian and British Governments for the drafting of two light cruisers to the…

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The Rabbit "War"

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 35

The pictures on this page afford a glimpse of what the rabbit pest means in the western country to-day. They were taken at Wilcannia, where in four months 17,000,000 bunnies were destroyed by poisoning alone…

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War Debts Discussion

The Sun · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 17

War debts and allied economic problems, it is understood, will be discussed by the British Ambassador (Sir Ronald Lindsay) at the State…

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And Here's Another War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 7

A WAR THAT THE WORLD has hoard little about has been waged among the Zulus in Africa. Already two men have been killed and many wounded in a fight between rival chiefs, in which 4000 Zulus are engaged. Here is seen a Zulu "impi" (army) on the inarch in Cmtwalumi Valley…

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Country News War Nurse's Memorial

The Sun · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 7

GOSFORD, Wednesday. -- Erina Shire Council has granted permission to Gosford branch of the C.W.A. to plant a flowering gum tree in the…

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Chinese Women Engaged in War Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 14

Madame Chang Hsueh-Liang (left), wife of the Chinese Marshal, addressing a meeting in Peiping to raise funds for Chinese soldiers…

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Dingo War Queensland's Way With Pest BRISBANE

The Sun · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 11

Queensland's way of dealing with the dingo pest was so successful last year that a similar scheme is being launched by the Government for the…

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Village Goes to War. Comedy of a Census of Horses

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 20

All by itself the tiny village of Avillers, near Epinal, in Lorraine, mobilised and marched to war recently. Weeping wives and mothers, collected…

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News Reel Drama Chinese Acting Interrupted War Intruded Peking, January 12

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 6

CHINESE soldiers along the line of the Shih River were re-enacting the scenes of the Shanhaikwan defence for the…

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Annual Garden Fete at the War Memorial Hospital. Waverley. Lady Game declaring the fete open

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 34

The Rev. J. Bathgate presided at the ceremony and welcomed Lady Game. The…

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Frozen to Death. Dead Soldiers with Rifles Clasped in Their Hands

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 March 1933 · page 7

Three hundred and eighty frozen bodies, clad in thin summer uniforms, still at their posts with their rifles clasped in their hands, was the discovery…

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Anzac Day, April 25

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1933 · page 13

An all-day mixed doubles tournament (handicap) will be con[?]uted at the association courts on the above date Entrance fee, 4/- pair. Entries close…

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Film War. American Companies Differ

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1933 · page 11

The intricacies of the film war, during the course of which the Australian exhibitors have for so long been ranged against the American distributors have now led to proceedings in…

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Infantry's New Era Adapting War Experience

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 March 1933 · page 8

LONDON, February 2. -- The Great War sealed the doom of the foot soldier as he has thus far evolved through the ages…

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The Next War "Sunday Sun" Probes Future

The Sun · Thursday 9 March 1933 · page 15

The next war! There has been so much talk about how terrible it would be that people have come to take it more or less…

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