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The wars & local soldiers, 1934

3,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 164

Post Office Ex-soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1934 · page 10

The election of officers of the Postmaster-General's Department sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League resulted:--Patron, J. w…

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Dramatic "Call to Arms" in Ireland Rally Is Sounded by I.R.A. Organ Sharper Economic War on Britain Dublin

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1934 · page 3

IRELAND is stirred by the publication in the official organ of the Irish Republican Army, "An Phoblacht," of a dramatic "call to arms." "England has never feared Ireland except when faced with…

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Wounded Man in Ambulance Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 7

WAGGA, Sunday. -- With blood streaming down his face from a wound in his head, a drover named Walter Carlyle…

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Discontent That Led to War Christian Ideal That Opposes It

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 9

"The world can never be safe until discontent is driven out of the lives of men, and out of nations." Expressing that view at St…

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Bundle of Letters Test Team Forecasts Shark War a Combination

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 9

"Another Amateur" writes:-- It is pleasing to see that C. J. Hill is being freely mentioned in selections for, England. In my…

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Tragic Emblem of War

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 4

Sir,--Your correspondent, T. H. Bewley, rightly describes the War Memorial in Hyde Park as a monstrosity…

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Even War Can Have Some Humor London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

THERE is a certain cynical humor of an astringent character associated with the Bolivia- Paraguay war over the Chaco…

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Another Bread War at Bondi Retailers Selling At 3 12d. Loaf COMPETITION

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 5

As proof that the master backers acted hastily and unwisely by attempting to pass the burden of the Federal flour tax on to the…

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Farmers Condemn Bankers All Over The World, Says British M.P. the War Debt

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

THAT Britain had appealed to other nations after the World War to "wipe the slate clean" in regard to war debts, was a…

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General Marchand Dead. Famous French Soldier. Fashoda Incident Recalled. LONDON. Jan. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 12

The death has occurred in Paris of General Jean Baptiste Marchand, who became famous for his defiance of Lord Kitchener at Fashoda (Egyptian Sudan)…

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Man Wounded. Shot While Loading Wood. ROCKHAMPTON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 13

While stacking wood on a motor truck at Alton Downs this morning, Ernest Victor Clanfield, 24, was shot through the left arm and the stomach at a range of 20 yards…

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Sniper in the Bush Young Man Is Badly Wounded Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 1

WHILE loading wood on to a truck near South Yaamba to-day, one of two brothers named Clanfield saw a man in the scrub and heard four…

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War Heroes Cleric Hits Out At "Hypocrisy"

The Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 24

"Our glorious dead--are they glorious only because they are dead, and is the lot of the fallen hero preferable to that of the living veteran?"…

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War Diaries Lady Haig Cannot Publish London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 10

The "News-Chronicle" reveals the fact that, despite Earl Haig's wish, expressed in his will, that his war diaries from 1916 to 1918 should be…

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A Maori War Lord The Exploits of Hongi Hika

The World's News · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 16

OF all the war lords of the Maori race who have come within the ken of white historians there is none who has left such a…

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Church War Storm-troops to Crush Rebellious Pastors Berlin

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 10

It is stated that Dr. Mueller, whom Hitler appointed Reichsbishop. to reorganise the German Protestant Church, intends to seek Hitler's…

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Douglas On His Social Credit System And New War Major Is Here; Speech at Perth

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 10

PERTH, Tuesday.--Major C. H. Douglas, founder of the Douglas Credit System, enthusiastically welcomed on arriving…

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Soldiers Slaves for Ten Years. Waiting For Ransom To Be Paid

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 13

Captured 10 years ago; during the war in Morocco, hundreds of Spanish soldiers, officers and men, are still held in slavery by the Moors, according to the Madrid…

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The Library Books Reviewed "The Cross of Peace," by Sir Philip Gibbs. Taming the North," by Hudson Fysh. "The Budgerigar," by Neville W. Cayley. A Novel on the War's Aftermath

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 25

ALTHOUGH there are many people who are not wholly in sympathy with the very definite views expressed by Sir Philip Gibbs in those novels of his which are based mainly upon either the…

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"War Will Be Perfected Homicide"

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 10

"SCIENCE has perfected the technique of homicide. Another war would mean no more fighting than is in the abattoirs…

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