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The wars & local soldiers, 1934

3,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 164

In Cash Sydney's Answer Anzac Drive Memorial Fund

The Sun · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 8

WITHIN three days of its launching, the £15,000 Anzac Memorial appeal has reached four figures. Sydney has responded…

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Women for the Wage War Railwaymen Enlist Their Support

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 7

To strengthen its campaign of protest against the Railway Commissioners' Federal claims for a new award, with lower pay, the…

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War-time Claim

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 5

A claim to a larger amount of compensation from the Crown in regard to the requisitioning of two interned ships in February, 1918,…

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War is Near

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 1

A sharp increase in the number of ships carrying nitrate through the Panama Canal is causing world-wide comment. In twenty…

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Women And The Struggle Against War

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 5

In THE wars which the imperialists are now preparing, they have allotted an important role to women. The imperialists are removing men…

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Anti-war—i.l.d. Picnic

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 2

On Monday, April 2, the I.L.D and the Anti-War Movement will hold a mass solidarity picnic in Centennial Park. Tickets will be sixpence each,…

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Must Transfer Policies War Service Homes Purchasers

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 10

Even that purchasers of war Service Homes are being penalised by the Action of the State Government in limiting the operations of the…

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Use Ferrets In War On Flu LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 1

THE opening up of an apparently promising new line of attack on the influenza problem is referred to in the annual…

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200 DEPORTED Class War Prisoners Lisbon, Jan. 2

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 3

In order to relieve the crowded prisons of Portugal, and to pre vent the possibility of a revolt of the political prisoners against the…

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Shot At, But Not Killed Denial by Japanese War Office Kobe

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 8

The War Office denies that Japanese fliers were killed when Soviet troops fired on a Japanese plane patrolling the Soviet-Manchuria…

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Some Re-union! Soldiers Never Die--But Even V.C.'s Have Nerves

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 3

Should future A.I.F. Golf Cup fields increase it will be impossible to decide the contest on one course in one day. Conducting the reunion of war-time comrades on two courses has been tried and proved a failure AT this year's event on Tuesday at…

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Welcome Home, Joe!

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 10

JOE PEARCE, who did wonderful deeds as a member of the "Kangaroos'" forward line. will be…

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Anzac Day & Hotel Hours

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 9

"WE have received no communication from the Returned Soldiers' League regarding the closing of hotels on Anzac…

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German War Lord

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 8

PREMIER of Prussia and German Minister for Air, Goering, gives the Nazi salute…

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Natives Killed Fighting With Police Nineteen Dead; Seventeen Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 1

RABAUL, Friday.--In a desperate fight with a police party, 19 natives were killed and 17 wounded. District…

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Two Are Wounded In City Affray Woman Is Shot: Man Battered

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 7

SHOTS were fired, and bottles and other weapons were wielded in a wild Surry Hills affray last night…

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War Made 21,000 Millionaires

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 8

FIGURES revealing that 21,000 new millionaires were "created" during the World War were…

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Anti-war Pamphlets Given to Students

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.--At the welcome to freshmen at the University this afternoon, representatives of the University Anti-War Council…

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11 Children Killed. Explosion of War-time Shell. LONDON, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 16

A message from Warsaw says that a noted train thief, Anton Zamarjam, who had eluded the police for two years, found a German war-time shell in a field. He was trying…

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A Resignation Stir at Show Meeting Echo of Lambr1dge Water War

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 1

Feeling over the Lambridge water argum[?]nt must be high if one may Judge from a letter read at a meeting of the committee of…

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