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The wars & local soldiers, 1936

3,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 181

Ret’d Soldiers Protest Ag’st “Call-Up” Hoax

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 4

SYDNEY.—At the last meeting of the Mortdale-Oatley Branch of the R.S. and S.I. League, one of the victims of the recent call-up hoax raised the matter for…

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Wounded in the Soudan Australia's Oldest War Pensioner

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 March 1936 · page 3

WHO is the oldest war pensioner in Australia? Mr. J. McLeod, of…

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Boer War Veterans. Request to Minister for Repatriation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1936 · page 18

A deputation representing the South African War Veterans' Association, waited upon the Minister for Health and Repatriation (Mr. Hughes) yesterday, and requested that…

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TUG-O'-WAR Did the Ladies Add Weight? How a Row Started

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 March 1936 · page 1

SPORTS were held at Rooty Hill on 27th January, and one event scheduled was a tug-o'-war. It was about to commence, when it…

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Pawns In The War Game! Morgan Moved Nations Revelations Of Arms Inquiry

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 March 1936 · page 8

PRIME MINISTERS, Presidents, Ambassadors. War Ministers and other international figures, all acting as…

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Lithgow Ex-soldiers. Proposed Trotting Club. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1936 · page 18

The Lithgow sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has adopted the recommendation of its committee to form a trotting club to raise funds for relief of distress among…

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Preference to Ex-soldiers. Glen Innes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1936 · page 15

On the casting vote of the Mayor the Glen Innes Municipal Council. rescinded.a resolution agreeing to co-operate with the Local Government Association of Officers in making…

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Pension Problems Imperial Soldiers

The Sun · Saturday 7 March 1936 · page 8

Mr. F. N. Smith, a senior officer of the British Ministry of Pensions, who visited Australia to investigate the grievances of ex-Imperial soldiers,…

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Banish War Fears From Human Hearts

The Sun · Sunday 8 March 1936 · page 1

ALL around you, on this page, is news of the cauldron which is Europe. Over all, hovers the spectre of War…

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Must Prepare for War Britain's Defence Proposals LONDON

Truth · Sunday 8 March 1936 · page 15

"BRITAIN'S defence proposals were received without a word of fear or anxiety throughout Europe, because the people realise…

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God of War Marches on How Hitler Told The Reichstag LONDON

Truth · Sunday 8 March 1936 · page 15

HERR HITLER entered the Reichstag at noon, and the Deputies greeted him with the Nazi salute…

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Red Army to Get Jam If Next War Comes Plenty Of Food In Russia MOSCOW

Truth · Sunday 8 March 1936 · page 14

FOOD problems in the Soviet Union have been solved from the standpoint of production, declares M. A. I. Mikoyan,…

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Cradling Children In the Art Of War "Babies" and Guns Nations Of the World Are Training Children

Truth · Sunday 8 March 1936 · page 19

CHILDREN in uniform! You find them parading before II Duce; joining in the huge Nazi parades in Berlin; or taking a prominent and active part in the manoeuvres of the Red Soviet Army. European nations; crazy with militaristic nationalism, now train their children, as well as their adults, for war. Boys, whose tiny hands…

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Talk of Jockeys' War at Randwick Sydney Riders Angry Resent the Way Some Victorian Rivals "Treated" Them Afraid of Slightest Breach Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 8 March 1936 · page 5

CERTAIN incidents at Flemington racing carnival this Autumn would suggest that there is no love lost between some Sydney and Melbourne jockeys, and it appears as if a vendetta is in the offing. TWO SYDNEY RIDERS who fell foul of the Victorian stipes and were suspended: Left. Darin Munro; right, Maurice McCarten…

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"We Don't Expect War, But We Will Be Prepared" Britain to Build Up Air Force Terrific Power That Will Be Warning To World LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 8 March 1936 · page 2

"We do not expect a war. We hope it may never come. But we must he prepared for all eventualities. "We are determined to build up an Air Force with such terrific…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 March 1936 · page 15

Owing to weather conditions there was only a small muster of riflemen at the Anzac range, Liverpool on Saturday. There was a steady wind which necessitated the use of two to five degrees…

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Wounded Girl Is Progressing Young

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 March 1936 · page 6

Inquiries at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Young, elicted the Information that Jessie Melihatton, the victim of the Milvale attack, was making…

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If It Should Be War --

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 March 1936 · page 6

IN the successive shocks which fall upon Europe there is almost a suggestion that bellicose Powers, even with their challenging designs, are calculating upon the chances of European peace. That is, at any rate, the only hopeful view that can be adopted…

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Council Against War Outlawed MELBOURNE,Sunday

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 March 1936 · page 6

Following the definite stand taken by the A.C.T.U. Congress, the central executive of the Victorian A.L.P. on Saturday night decided that unless…

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Unions Warned. Link with Anti-war Body Means Conference Ban. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 March 1936 · page 13

Unions which have continued their affiliation with the Victorian Council Against War and Fascism will be debarred from representation at the Easter conference of the Victorian Labour…

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