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The wars & local soldiers, 1934

3,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 164

National War Memorial. Melbourne Tender Accepted. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 15

The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) announced to-night that the Cabinet had accepted the tender of Simmie and Co. Pty., Ltd., builders. Melbourne, for the erection of the first…

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Goldfields Battle. Foreign Settlement Attacked. Homes Razed to Ground. Two Men Killed and Six Wounded. Women and Children Suffer. KALGOORLIE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 11

Kalgoorlie and Boulder are quiet to-day, but the situation is still tense and it is feared that there may be further outbreaks of violence, following an attack on the foreign settlement during the night. A strong force of police has been sent from Perth. A squad of 30 has…

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Topics of the Day. The Little Toy Soldiers

The Catholic Press · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 9

An army of 60,000 toy soldiers, said to be the largest ever seen, has been assembled at Wuppertal, in the Rhineland, by Hcrr W. Wolff. He has made all the…

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Forfeiture of Block Walbundrie Soldier Settler Dispossessed of Land

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3

AT Albury, a case of much interest soldier settlers in group areas was heard by the Land Board when the forfeiture of the holding of Mark…

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Police Tug-o-war Team

The Propeller · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 3

At the Police Carnival to be held at the Royal Agricultural Grounds, Sydney, on Saturday, February 17, the St. George police tug-o-war team will…

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War on Jay Walkers. Has Officially Started

The St George Call · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

We draw the attention of our readers to the fact that the official war against jay walkers has started. From yesterday, February 1, police officers…

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War On Opium In N. Territory DARWIN

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

POLICE are conduction a big offensive against opium runners and Chinese who sell opium charcoal in Darwin, following the recently-amendcd Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. TWO raids last week resulted in…

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Warns World Collapse May Come War a Menace to Civilisation, Says Pope PARIS

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

"THERE is at present no human institution capable of imposing on all the nations any sort of international code as the…

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Store Surplus Wheat in England As Safeguard Against Famine in War To the Editor of "The Land,"

The Land · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 4

Sir,—May I suggest the following scheme to bring the price of wheat back on to a payable basis:- That silos be built in England of sufficient…

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Blend Soldier and Politician Nurse Cavell Blunder London

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 11

CESSATION of the mutual distrust between the soldier and the politician is urged by Mr. A. Duff Cooper, financial secretary of the War Office, and Lord Haig's biographer. Mr. Cooper declares that…

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War To Peace

The Sun · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 5

Old war relics in the shape of mine cases are being shipped in hundreds from Swan Island to Melbourne, to be used be tree guards…

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Towards War and Change

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 8

M. Andre Maurois is noted as an Anglophile, though his understanding and admiration of the English people never carry him beyond the limits of sane appraisement. He…

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Grim Array of Native War Clubs

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 3

NOWADAYS civilisation has produced a great variety of weapons of warfare from pistols to super trench mortars and…

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Bettering Their Conditions War Service Homes Purchasers

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 5

With a view to la[?] a campaign aiming at the improvement of conditions of war service homes purchasers, the Central Executive of…

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World War on Noise Serious Views Of Medical Men

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 9

The stacoato drumming of rivetting machines the sirens of the ambulance; the clanging of trams; the grinding of brakest…

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NO U.S. Credits Unless Nations Pay War Debts Washington

The Sun · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 3

The United States Senate to-day with Administration support, passed Senator Johnson's Bill denying new credits to all nations delinquent in…

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Old Soldier Passes

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 16

ANOTHER "old soldier" faded away the other day when Capt. Sam Wynn, of the 1st Light Horse, went west at his home in Macartney Avenue,…

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Mad Dog Policy Charged with Grim War Menace a Review by ADAM McCAY, M.A.

The Sun · Sunday 4 February 1934 · page 7

THE book has just been published at Carlsbad by the Graphia Publishing Co., and is…

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Currency War Problem Excites Money Markets Rush to Profit by Gold Deals France to Defend Franc; Stabilisation Move Bullion Ships Sail London

The Sun · Sunday 4 February 1934 · page 5

THE threat of a currency war caused unprecedented activity in the bullion and foreign exchange markets and on the Stock Exchange to-day. The belief that France is preparing to defend the dollar, and the fact that sold jumped to the record…

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Peace Dove in Far East War Clouds Jap. View on Naval Equality Noted Statesman Denies That Nippon Will Make Claim Commissar in Fighting Speech Boasts of Soviet Armaments

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1934 · page 12

IS it to be peace—or war? The winds of international feeling are playing queer tricks with the Far Eastern clouds of war through which the Dove of Peace is winging a dizzy course. While moderation and reason mark a speech by a leading Japanese statesman, veiled threats that…

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