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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

3,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 181

War Facts Interesting Data Of the A.I.F.

Truth · Sunday 23 February 1936 · page 24

THE following questions with many A thousands of others are answered in the 1936 Year Book of the New South Wales Branch of the…

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War Threatened Diplomat Suspect at Canberra Party Mix-up

Truth · Sunday 23 February 1936 · page 20

DIPLOMATIC relations between Australia and a certain foreign Tower were jeopardised at Canberra during last week-end…

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N.Z. Wages War on Deer Pest 12,000 Killed by Stalkers Task In Mountain Country DUNEDIN

The Sun · Sunday 23 February 1936 · page 20

Red and fallow deer in New Zealand have become a great pest, and gangs of stalkers, partly equipped by the State,…

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R.a.c.a. and Limbless Soldiers

Truth · Sunday 23 February 1936 · page 11

REALISING the difficulties that may arise to partially incapacitated soldiers who are car…

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R.S.L. Is Not Worrying Preference Act Will Stand Merely Justice to Soldiers

The Sun · Sunday 23 February 1936 · page 23

THE attack by the Local Government Association of Officers on the Returned Soldiers Employment Act is…

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Will a New Dictator Arise? France United Only in Time of War Political Groups and Other Factions Cause Trouble Power of Croix De Feu

Truth · Sunday 23 February 1936 · page 21

"TROUBLE in France" might be a standing heading in the newspapers. During the past week the President has issued a decree prohibiting and declaring to be illegal organisations, various militarist revolutionary bodies…

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Implied Threat to Burst Dominion Doors Land-Hungry Powers Constitute War Menace "Let Us in or Be Smashed!" Philip Gibbs Warns Australia Empty Space Risks London

The Sun · Sunday 23 February 1936 · page 1

THE Dominions must open their gates to emigration from many lands or as surely as the sun rises and rivers flow, they will be forced to do so. The overcrowded countries of Europe are jealous of the…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 6

Club matches were resumed at the Anzac Range, Liverpool, on Saturday, under fairly difficult conditions. The weather was sultry and the wind, varying from three degrees right to four left at…

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U.S. Civil War Tale

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 5

With "So Red the Rose," the Prince Edward has a story of the American Civil War, enhanced by insistence on detail and a quick sympathy with…

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Indictment of War Prince Edward's Epic Story

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 8

Under the expert direction of King Vidor, the Stark Young novel, "So Red the Rose," has provided Paramount with the…

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Abyssinian War. Italian Successes Claimed. Discussion of Oil Embargo. London, Feb. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 10

An Italian message from Dolo claims that aeroplanes machine-gunned and destroyed an Abyssinian ammunition convoy of 700 camels which was fording the Gestro River. Despite…

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Lane Cove Diggers' Arrangements for Anzac

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 4

Concerning the Anzac Sunday service at Lane Cove the president of the Lane Cove Sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L., Colonel F. S. McLean, D.S.O., states that certain published references have given a wrong impression…

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Anzac Memorial Service. Council and League Sub-branch at Variance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 12

The Lane Cove Council and the district subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League are at variance about the memorial service on Anzac Day. At last night's meeting of the…

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Abyssinian War Oil Sanctions Discussion

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 1

It is announced that the Committee of the League of Nations (the Committee of Eighteen) will meet on March 2 to discuss the application of an oil…

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Lyons Government Is Preparing for War Compulsory Training Aviation Industry

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 2

When Federal Parliament meets next month, certain Government members are reported as likely to move the adjournment of the House to discuss the reintroduction of compulsory military training…

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WITHDRAWAL Of Troops. Mussolini's Act. war Bill Economy. LONDON, Feb. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 11

The representative of the British United Press at Rome reasserts, despite denials, that Sign or Mussolini has granted leave to 500,000 soldiers of the…

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Britain As Bulwark Against War Must Be Strong Foreign Secretary's Picture Of European Outlook "No Encirclement" London

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 1

THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, declared to a crowded House of Commons this evening that the chances of averting the catastrophe of another world war were slender unless Britain were strong enough and determined enough to play her part. "Whatever course events may take, the one essential element is that Britain must…

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Bureaucrat’s Blunder Returned Soldiers Inconvenienced

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 4

SYDNEY.—At the bottom of a Government Labor Exchange advertisement which appeared in the “S.M. Herald“ and “Labor Daily”…

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Soldiers' Children Legacy Club's Plan for Free Medical Treatment

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 7

The Legacy Club is arranging free medical service to all children, up to the age of 20. of dead soldiers. The metropolitan area is to be…

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Soldiering Dull Brighten It Up for Young Men Is Advice

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1936 · page 7

The present system of voluntary military training is too dull. Brighten it up and the youth will enlist. This is the advice of Mr. Clive Catt,…

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