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The wars & local soldiers, 1934

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Wounded Swede Rallies

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 7

BATHURST, Sunday.--Though he had deep razor slashes on each side of the throat, both wrists and thighs, and was taken to the…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 5

A gusty wind made conditions rather difficult at the Anzac Range, Liverpool, on Saturday. Club matches were fired and single stage possibles were registered by J. Kirk (Wunderlich),…

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Beasley Flays Brass-Hats in Power on Backs of People Says Returned Men On Basic Wage Are Ignored Labor Appeal

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 6

"ALL the talk about other returned soldiers organisations being nonpolitical has been unmasked in the present crisis,"…

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Riots in India. Many Killed and Wounded. CALCUTTA, Feb. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 10

A mob of 8000 Moslems, fired by an inflammatory speech of a leader named Hamdani, defied a district magistrate's order and broke loose in Srinagar, Kashmir. They overpowered…

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"Kangaroos" Give Their War-cry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 12

The Australian Rugby League team just before the match against Wales at Wembley Stadium…

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A Fight to a Finish Mankind in War on Temptation

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 9

"Life is a constant warfare against temptation--a fight to a finish. Men have to go through the furnace of humiliation," said Rev. Father…

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Former Soldiers. Duty of Employers. Minister's Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 10

The Minister for Health and Repatriation (Mr. Marr), opening the annual conference of the Australian Legion of Ex-service Clubs at the Government Savings Bank Building, on…

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Industrial War Excelsis

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 4

Sir, -- Is the fighting spirit, of the A.L.F., dead? I often wonder whether we men of the War are becoming dead as the Dodo…

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Anti-war Policy. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 3

Sir,—The Victorian A.L.P. conference, as reported in the "Sydney Morning Herald" of 30/1/'34, forbids the participation by Australia in any war arising from twelve (12)…

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War Scare Nothing in It, Says Japan Tokio

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 1

THE Japanese War Ministry, in an unofficial statement commenting on the speech of the Soviet Commissar for…

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Russo-japanese War Fears Washington Propounds U.S. Policy Washington

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 9

The fact that President Roosevelt has been discussing the grave situation in the Far East with the Secretary of State (Senator Hull) is…

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Funeral of a War Hero Major Fought with the Canadian Forces

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 6

Brigade-Major Sydney Harold Ward, D.S.O., M.C., was buried at the Church of England Cemetery, Botany, yesterday morning…

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SOVIET War Minister Warns Japan. Strength of Red Army. LONDON, Feb. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 9

At the Communist Congress in Moscow the Commissar for War (M. Voroshilov) warned Japan. "War against us," he said, "will be…

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On Anzac Beach Ashes From Cenotaph Ribbons

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 6

A suggestion by Miss Helen Conway, of the Headquarters' Staff of the R.S.L., that the ribbons from floral tributes left on the Cenotaph…

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More Money Is Wanted for Anzac Memorial

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 8

"Unless [?]15,000 is subscribed by Anzac Day this year for the completion of the Anzac Memorial Building in Hyde Park, the official…

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Russian War Threats

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 12

Coincidently with the completion in November of M. Litvinoff's negotiations in Washington for recognition of the Soviet Government by the United…

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For the Next War The "Winged Horror" Bullet

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 13

Secret Service agents of several European countries are seeking to wrest from Dr. H. Gerlich, the German inventor, the secret of his "winged horror" bullet—most…

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Troops Guard a "Council of War" Paris

The Sun · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 1

TWO companies of Colonial Infantry are guarding the Ministry for the Interior where M. Daladier arrived at 1.30 a.m. for a "council of war," with the Minister for Interior (M. Frot) and other Ministers…

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Bread War Interest Renewed Demand Fox Inquiry Growing North Shore

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 6

DISGUSTED with the protracted silence of the premier, Mr. Stevens, despite the repeated public request for an…

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G.B. Speaking Drifting Shaw on Britain War Farce the Dominions London

The Sun · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 15

MR. BERNARD SHAW, broadcasting in the "Whither Britain?" series, says that she is not heading…

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