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The wars & local soldiers, 1933

3,351 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 168

GOSSIP From Everywhere. Brilliant Man-o'-war

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 13

NO one approaches more closely to the Ideal Rhodes Scholar than 18-years-old Midshipman I. H. McDonald, who has just passed out of the Royal…

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Film War. Two Theatres to Close. The Haymarket and Lyceum

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 13

The Lyceum Theatre and the Haymarket Theatre are to close next Saturday owing to a shortage of film. Immediately this became known…

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Problem of War Debts. Two Points of View. The Real Argument for Revision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 15

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be," says the old wiseacre in "Hamlet," and borrowers and lenders must be wishing in these times that they had followed Polonius's precept. One…

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A Soldier's Farewell

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 16

AT last we were headed for Blighty and home. For the last time marching down…

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Chinese Troops Are Massing In War Area North China Tension Acute Jap. Warning Defied Chang's Move Both Sides Explain Peking

The Sun · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 1

THE communique issued by Japanese military headquarters at Tientsin has produced a feeling of…

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Govt. Saving on Returned Men League Asks Notice

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1933 · page 3

The State R.S.L. executive will ask the Government, before it adopts any change affecting the rights of returned soldiers, to intimate its…

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Sudden Shooting Man Wounded In Chest and Arm

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1933 · page 11

KENNETH WILSON, 44, was seriously wounded in an affray in a house at Portland on Friday bullets…

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WHAT the WORLD is Reading Brains and the Soldier When Kipling Was a Humorist War Books Tell Why

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1933 · page 3

"When you're wounded, and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, And go to your Gawd like a soldier ..."…

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How America Sees the War Debts Position

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1933 · page 3

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Bold, Bad Baron of China Last of the War Lords "Big Chang's" End

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1933 · page 5

They killed Big Chang not long ago at Tsinan-fu in Shantung. He was the Marshal Chang…

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Bargain Days Here Again Prices Often Chopped In Halves Men's Suits for 29s 6d Beat Pre-war

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1933 · page 7

Sales are with us. The argosy of bargains has been launched. Sydney shoppers, who always expect something good in reductions and…

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Germany's Wolves Of the Sea Luckner's Christmas Day Luck Saved Him Raiders and Raids In All Seas War's Bright Spots

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1933 · page 10

THERE was nothing which annoyed the British Naval Intelligence Division during the whole war more than the knowledge that a German raider was loose upon the oceans…

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Blah Won't Win Film War For Yankees United Front by Australians Against Foreign Domination Theatre Owners Now Wide Awake To Blind Booking Extortion

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1933 · page 16

ALL is not well on the talkie front Foreign distributors and Australian exhibitors are engaged in the mightiest conflict that has ever afflicted the business in the Commonwealth and the embattled power of the General Theatres Corporation, representing the huge chains of Union and Hoyta, backed up by the formidable Birch and Carroll circuit in Queensland is causing outbursts…

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Anzac Festival Competitions Committee Under the Auspices of the Anzac Fellowship of Women

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 4

With the object of encouraging a more general use of the arts, music and the drama in the celebration of Anzac Day, in order to cherish in unbroken continuity…

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Found Wounded in Cell Alleged Attempt at Suicide

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Edwin James Dexter, who was arrected on warrant by the Echuca police on Thursday evening, is alleged to have…

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Film War. New Development. Dispute Between Exhibitors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 9

The film war which began as a dispute between the General Theatres Corporation, which controls most of the city picture theatres and the American film distributors,…

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Film War May End Box Office Peace Expected Suburbs Issue

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 7

Although negotations between film exhibitors and distributors failed last week they will be resumed this…

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Prince Radios Appeal for Workless Eyes Of The World Are Turned On Desperate Plight Of Britain's Unemployed Situation Described As National Emergency An Idea Is Wanted Special Visits Recalled Candid Reference to the War LONDON

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 1

THE attention of the entire world was directed to the desperate plight of Britain's vast army of unemployed last night when the Prince of Wales broadcast an appeal for support on behalf of the National Council of Social Service, which is organising voluntary…

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Anzac Day Play Festival Committee's Competition

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 8

The Anzac Festival Committee, which is conducting a one-act play competition in conjunction with this year's Anzac Day celebrations,…

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War Memorial at Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 14

The partially completed tower for the carillon, to which reference is made in a special article on to-day's leader page…

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