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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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Toll of the Road Eleven Hurt In Capsize Party Of Soldiers

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 7

ELEVEN members belonging to the advance party of the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, travelling from Orange to Goulburn, where they were to have attended the Fourth Cavalry Brigade camp, were injured near Roslyn, about 12 miles from…

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Italian Soldiers Want To Go Home. Anti-war Demonstrations. London, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 11

The Paris correspondent of the "NewsChronicle" says: "Anti-war demonstrations are increasing in Italy, Fifty persons, including women, were arrested at Limina, in Messina,…

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Anzac Day Plea Local R.s.l. Wants to Conduct Service

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 6

A request to be allowed conduct the Anzac Day service on April 25 was made to the Lane Cove Council last night by the local sub-branch of the…

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Proposed War Memorial. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 12

The Department of Lands has advised the Tweed Shire Council that, following Mr. A. E. Budd's support of a request by the shire council for the reservation of land near the tick…

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War Fear Journey's Lesson LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 14

"Never have I found such widespread foreboding of war as during the continental journey from which I have just returned," writes Mr…

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“Australia’s Three Year Plan”—for War Unite In Straggle For Peace

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

The Air Board, in anticipation of an early Cabinet decision to adopt a further three-year development programme of military…

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Influx of Italians to Aust. War In Abyssinia Given As The Cause Few Leaving Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 6

A SUBSTANTIAL increase in the number of Italian immigrants to Australia during 1935 is disclosed in the figures made available today…

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Says Japan Is Closing China's Door. U.S. Leader Talks Of War Trade with East "Must Protect" Urges Senate to Act Washington

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 1

SENATOR PITTMAN, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, made an address from the floor of the Senate to-day so critical of Japanese policy that it is likely to…

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Of New South Wales Ministers Shelter Behind Arbitration Court Dispute At Port Kembla Dunningham Curtly Refuses to See a Deputation War on Women and Children

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 1

RUNNING away from the boasted decision of the Government, as a member of the recent Three-State Conference, to eliminate overtime from industry in the interests of employment, the acting-Premier, Mr. Bruxner, and the Minister for Labor and Iudustry, Mr…

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War Interpretations

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 4

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Preparing for the Next Great War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 3

EVERY week the news from the other side of the world regarding the international situation becomes more ominous. What with alliances, engineered by secret…

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Tim Tyler's Luck a Council of War

The Sun · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 14

Tig Tyler's adventures will be continued in "The Sun" to-morrow…

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New Nazi War on the Catholics London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 8

THE conflict between Church and State is again coming into the foreground in Germany according to messages from…

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A.L.P. and Council Against War. Protest Against Expulsions

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 18

Members of various Labor Leagues in the Melbourne metropolitan area met at Melbourne on Sunday afternoon to consider the situation following the…

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Italo-abyssinian War. Italian Forces Making Little Headway. Fighting Spirit of the Abyssinians

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 18

THERE has been a desultory sort of fighting in Abyssinia during the week, the reports being naturally colored from the source whence they are issued. However, it…

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Blind Now War Gas "No Case Here"

The Sun · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 25

Reports of "delayed" blindness, occurring recently in men who were gassed during the war, are puzzling, said a…

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War Gas Blinds Man 18 Years After

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 7

After working in a clerical job since the war, a Sydney man has gone totally blind, due to mustard gas infection in France. Although a number of similar "delayed action" cases have been reported in England this is believed to…

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From War Saved Europe P.M.'s Claim Ottawa

The Sun · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 2

THE Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. Mackenzie King) is inclined to take credit for having averted a…

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Rumors of Abyssinian Unrest Wil they Tire Of Prolonged War? LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 8

RUMORS of unrest among Abyssinian troops impel British and French military observers to doubt the accuracy…

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Danger of War. Inference from Preparations. "Britain Alarmed." Bishop Burgmann's Warning. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 10

"We have arrived at [?] of the most delicate and dangerous periods in the history of the world," declared the Bishop of Goulburn (Dr. Burgmann), speaking before the…

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