War on Vermin Opening Date Fixed in Victoria
Under the Vermin and Noxious Weeds Act of Victoria, February 12, has been fixed by the Governor in Council as the date for the inception…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1936
3,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 181
Peace Likely in Potato War Page Has Plan for N.Z. The Orange In The Woodpile
HOPES of settling the potato-orange war between Australia and New Zealand on a very satisfactory basis are now…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IMPROVED Wounded Constable
Constable Terbutt, who was shot in the head on New Year's Eve, was reported to-day to be slightly improved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Real Side Of War
The terrors of the Italo-Abyssinian war are graphically shown by these photos, taken by an ambulance corps medico, Dr. Robert Hockman, ah American, later killed in a bomb explosion. The top picture shows the aftermath of an Italian bombing barrage,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wife's Vigil At Hospital Bedside Wounded Man Smiled Yesterday Sleep After Three Days
CONSTABLE JOHN TERBUTT, 26, and his young wife, May, have together won the most dangerous fight of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ex-prisoners of War Beware! Teutonic Thoroughness
OF great interest to Diggers was the announcement on the page devoted to the Unofficial History of the A.I.F. in the last issue to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A War-time Epic. Torpedoing of the Sussex. I.
My arrangements for leaving England were almost completed and the last day for finalising matters had arrived. I had previously booked my passage in the Osterley. My plans…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mercantile Marine's Unhappy War Victims 2 Per Cent. Greater Losses Than Navy Several Saved From Paupers' Graves
BECAUSE they worked as "private employees," men of the Australian mercantile marine who served during…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£1,000,000,000 Spent on War Needs How Hitler Has Spurred On Nation To Arm LONDON
During the three years of his regime, Herr Hitler has spent more than £1,000,000,000 sterling directly and indirectly in preparations for war. These figures are the first definite…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Italian Press. Unanimous Demand. "Harsher, More inexorable War." Red Cross Bombing. Twelve 'Planes Said, to Have Taken Part. LONDON, Jan. 3
The wave of indignation sweeping some countries as a result of the Italian air raid on the Swedish Red Cross unit at Dolo, Abyssinia, is being watched in Italy. Important Italian newspapers are urging that the real Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Why the Pope Doesn't Intervene A Defence Of The Vatican's Attitude In The War the Pope's Are the Councils of Peace Must Act With Impartiality To Both Sides Of Question Urges Need for Calm, Restraint, and Patience Is Doing All In His Power To Secure Peace For The World
IT is a significant fact that whenever war clouds gather, the eyes of humanity turn instinctively to the Pope. This is a great and universal tribute to the world-wide power and influence of the Papacy. But it inspires many to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Not Major, But A Clerk Coined Anzac DUNEDIN
A NEW version of the circumstances attending the coining of the word Anzac has been put forward following the publication of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Roosevelt To Clip Wings Of War Profiteers WASHINGTON
A SLAP at autocratic dictators" who disturbed the peace by encroaching on the rights of weaker peoples, was delivered last night by President Roosevelt in a radio address to the nation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Merry Xmas for City's Rat Hordes Big War Planned to Follow
With better times resulting in more waste food being thrown away, Sydney rat population has had a merry Christmas, but a…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →War Dance How Italy Was Halted Abyssinia Has Initiative London
Long before Mussolini announced on December 31 that pauses were indispensable in colonial wars, it was clear that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Christ or Hitler: Faith Test Bitter Church War In Gerrnany LONDON
There is no sign of abatement of, the grim conflict between the German Confessional Church and the Nazis…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paths of Glory a War Book That Has a Lesson for All Humanity
THE flare went out and the machine-gun, after two or three more bursts, stopped firing. Didier, out on patrol in No Man'o Land with Lieutenant Roget and Private . Lejeune, could hear a little bunch of shells travelling by…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →New Phase of War Suggested. (From Our Special Representative.)
The conjunction of President Roosevelt's declaration with growing evidence that Italy is meeting a military setback' suggests that a new Phase of the war is opening up. British…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In War Zone
Lorries belonging to an Italian heavy artillery division had to be pushed through the almost dry bed of a river by Askaris. The lorries belonged to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Skill Inaccurate Maps Took Wounded Hospital Bombing London
BESIDES the wounded from the bombed Swedish hospital. Baron von Rosen brought back Pastor…
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