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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

3,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 181

War and the Wheel

Referee · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 15

CAR and motor drivers have been invited by the British War Office to Join up with the Supplementary Reserve. No military training or duties of…

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Youth, War, And Work

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 9

A RECOMMENDATION will come before next Monday's meeting of the City Council urging the Government to amend the Returned…

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Tanwan, a War Veteran!

Referee · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 5

MANY present-day jockeys were not born when Regular Bachelor's pilot, "Ted" Tanwan, embarked on his…

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Like a War British Road Toll LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 1

The Minister of Transport (Mr. Hore Beli[?]ha) startled the House of Commons to-night by disclosing that British road casualties in…

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For Limbless Soldiers R.A.C.A. Extends Road and Touring Services

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 13

THE R.A.C.A has decided that free road service be rendered to bona fide members of the Limbless Soldiers Association . This service is identical to that…

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City Council. Soldiers' Preference. Amendment of Act Urged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 8

The incidence of the Returned Soldiers' Preference Aot was criticised at a meeting of the finance committee of the City Council yesterday…

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Letters to Editor City Finances for Soldiers (To the Editor of "The Sun")

The Sun · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 21

I desire to offer to the Lord Mayor hearty congratulations on his sane and lucid statement regarding city finances…

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Soldiers' Preference (To the Editor of "The Sun")

The Sun · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 21

I notice that the Returned Soldier Preference Act is being criticised by suburban aldermen. This Act is the only bulwark the…

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Soldiers and Toll Charges

The Propeller · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 3

The Main Roads Department has forwarded to Sutherland Shire Council a request by the Limbless Soldiers Association for members of the latter…

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Newmarket Jockey Tanwan Was A Hero Of The Great War New Zealand Resuscitates the Fallen Heroes of the Turf Pasha Wins His First Race After Two Years And Three Months Beats Unlucky King's Head in £500 St. George Stakes

Referee · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 5

NEW ZEALAND is not only the breeding ground for great horses, but it offers recuperating facilities for those that are sick. Pasha went away from Australia a spent force, with a throat trouble. He was operated on. And he came back to win Saturday's £500 St. George Stakes at Moore field with a deadly finishing run, which revealed…

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Destroyer Anzac

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 16

The Deputy Director of Navigation and Lighthouses, Captain N. G. Roskruge, advised yesterday that permission had. been granted to…

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Man Wounded in Shoulder. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 9

Last night a man named Whittaker called at the Golden Key refreshment room, in the main part of the town, with blood streaming down the front of his body. He asked that…

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H.m.a.s. Anzac to Be Sunk at Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 8

The Deputy-Director of Navigation (Captain N. G. Roskruge) said yesterday that permission had been given to Messrs. Abrahams and Wilson, shipbreakers, to sink the hull of H.M.A.S…

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Mass Arrests for Anti-War Propaganda

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

TRIESTE, Jan. 20 (by mail).—Mass arrests have been made in Proseda, Trieste, Dolina, Opeine, and Kantowely, on charges of anti-war propaganda and…

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R.a.n. Destroyer to Be Sunk Anzac to Be Towed Out on Last Voyage

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 7

Within a few days the destroyer Anzac will be towed 18 miles off the coast and sunk, probably by explosives…

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War Clouds Gather Over World Britain’s New Plans Announced

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 1

The British Government’s white paper on the armaments programme was published on March 3, and discloses the alarming extent to which army, navy, and air force will be added to. The British people will be burdened to the extent of…

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New Proposals to End War Occupied Area To Be Kept By Italy

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

The military correspondent of the “times” urges suspension of judgment regarding the Italian claims of decisive victories in Abyssinia. These reports, including the one about complete Abyssinian collapse, he emphassises, are one-sided. He recalls…

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Two Danger Points. Japan and Germany. M. Stalin Discusses War Prospects. London, March 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 11

M. Stalin believes that there are two focal points of danger in the world—one in the zone of Japan, and the other in the zone of Germany…

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Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Association

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 7

A meeting will be held on March 11, at the Maccabean Institute, Darlinghurst, when a large attendance is desired. Arrangements will be made for the Anzac…

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Red Cross Society. Criticism by Ex-Soldiers' Official. KATOOMBA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 12

Mr. C. J. Davidson, pensions officer of the Katoomba sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association, speaking at a meeting of the sub-branch, criticised the Red Cross…

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