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The wars & local soldiers, 1933

3,351 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 168

Mighty Armies Mobilise in the East Greatest Battle Since Rout of Hindenburg Line May Be Fought By Japan and China Troops Massing Along The Great Wall Tense War Scenes World Is Waiting Defiance of the League LONDON

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 18 January 1933 · page 1

THE greatest battle of modern times since, the Allied forces completely smashed the Hindenburg line and brought the Great War to a close in 1918, is on the eve of being fought under the shadow of the Great Wall of China…

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Anzac Festival Competitions for the Encouragement of Art, Music, and Drama

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 15

BY the encouragement of art. music, and drama the Anzac Festival Committee is endeavoring to [?] the spirit or Anzac among the young people…

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Paraguay's Tragic Story. War for Worthless Territory

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 11

Now and again we learn from the press cables that the war between Paraguay and Bolivia, about the ownership of the Gran Chaco region, is still being waged. For…

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Film War. Move for Select Committee. Labour Member's Intentions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 10

Mr. Heffron, M.L.A., informed the secretary of the Theatrical Employees' Union (Mr. W. Harrop) yesterday that he intended to move for the appointment of a select committee to…

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Merchantmen Will Fight, Too Commander's Idea of Next War

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 8

"The next war will be an all-in affair, with no distinction between combatant and non-combatant. Ships will cease to be distinguished as…

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Speed War Test Post-mortem Match Marred But Many Thrills Adelaide

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 16

THE AUSTRALIANS were beaten because of their failure to play fast bowling. For the time being we will treat leg theory…

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News From Spain. State to Take All Church Property. New War on Religious Orders

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 28

The persecution of the Church in Spain by the new Republican Government continues with unabated vigor. The latest move is the presentation to…

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Tom Byrne's Last Communion. An Episode of the Great War. Told by Father Gleeson, Chaplain with the Munsters

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 13

Another battalion was going into the passchendaele furnace. This time it was an Irish one. A line of pill-boxes was ordered to be captured…

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Ex-enemy Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 14

At the lost meeting of the Lidcombe subbranch of the Returned Soldiers League, it was alleged tint two former enemy soldiers were employed at the Bodington Sanitorium,…

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Woman Is Seriously Wounded Married Man Remanded: Bail Refused Suicide Possible Police Say

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 9

WILLIAM MASSEY REED, (26), baker, was, charged at the Kogarah Police Court to-day with…

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The Eastern Front War Situation Intensifies

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 1

From the League against Imperialism Predatory Japanese imperialism has again staged a ferocious attack on the Chinese masses. Thousands…

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War Debts. Address by Mr. Jennings, M.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 11

"The United States is like a boy who 'skins' his mates in a game of marbles. Unless he lends his winnings to them he cannot get a game," said Mr. J. T. Jennings, M.P., in an…

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Paving the Way Hoover-roosevelt Conference War Debts Washington

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 7

President Hoover, and the President-elect, Mr. Roosevelt, will meet to-morrow to discuss war debts, the World…

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Australian Capitalism Looks to the East for Markets and for War

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 2

As a result of the systematic and ever-growing agitation conducted by the manufacturing: and agricultural interests of this country, a…

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Leg Theory War M.C.C. Meets on Monday How England Regards Australian Protest Varied Views London

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 1

"LEG theory is far from attempted assassination," writes H. A. Carson in the "Evening News,"…

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Organised War on Rabbit Pest State-Wide Drive May be Launched Govt. Impressed by Plan for Big Combined Campaign

The Land · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 1

A THOROUGHLY organised, State-wide attack on the rabbit pest may be launched shortly by the Government, landowners, and rural public bodies acting in unison. ACTING on the suggestion submitted by "The Land" last week, the Minister for…

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A "Night in Cairo." Soldiers' Entertainment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 5

About 200 returned soldiers had their thoughts turned to Egypt on Wednesday night when the Bankstown sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League conducted a "Night…

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Penshurst Returned Soldiers'

The Propeller · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 3

At the annual meeting of the Penshurst Sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A., the following officers were elected for the ensuing terms:--President, Mr. H…

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Local Government. Of Interest to Ratepayers. Preference to Soldiers

The Propeller · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 6

The Lambton Council recently communicated with the Local Government Association urging the repeal of Section 95 to the Local Government Act…

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Returned Soldiers. Hurstville's Annual Meeting

The Propeller · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 4

The annual meeting of members of the Hurstville sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was held in the Hurstville Memorial Hall on…

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