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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

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Now Has 600 Members E. Suburbs Soldiers' Club

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1937 · page 5

The membership of the Eastern Suburbs' Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Club which was formed 13 years ago has increased from 450…

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Few Possibles at Anzac Range

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 18

There were no outstanding scores in club rifle shoots over 300 and 400 yards at Anzac Range on Saturday. The only double possible of the day…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 16

Unf[?]vourable conditions prevailed at the Anzac Range. Liverpool on Saturday, when club matches were fired from the 300 and 400 yards mounds. Single-stage possibles were recorded by H. L. Lucena…

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Appeal to French Workers War on Profiteering Promised Paris

The Sun · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 9

The French Premier (M. Blum) made a broadcast appeal to-day to State employees not to claim further increases of wages at present lest…

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Letters War and the Churches. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 4

Sir,—I regret that the Reverend W. G. Coughlan has apparently misunderstood me in my remarks upon the above subject, which appeared in my letter to the "Herald." If…

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Supreme Command Is Object Co-ordination In Civil War Both Sides Madrid

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 5

A COUNTER-ATTACK, launched by Government forces eastwards of Jarama, failed to achieve its objective, but demonstrated that both…

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Fear of War. Britain's Defence Plans. ' Minister's Warning. 150 Warships in Five Years. LONDON, Feb. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 9

The "Sunday Graphic" forecasts that the White Paper on defence that is expected on Tuesday will disclose that Britain is to build 150 warships of…

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Cash-and-carry in Case of War How U.S. May Keep to Its Neutrality Plan London

The Sun · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 9

"CASH and carry," it is suggested, will be the motto of the United States in case of a European war. It is not expected that the States will adopt a policy of complete isolation and refuse supplies to all…

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Relief for Soldiers. Gosford

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 7

The Kulnura-Mangrove sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia has formed a land settlement committee with the object of securing…

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Was Paid £400 in Pension Soldier's Widow Remarried

The Sun · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 8

An ex-soldier's widow who had remarried had been paid more than £400 pension, to which she was not entitled, it was alleged in the Central…

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Soldiers' Club Proposal

The Sun · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 6

As the Returned Soldiers' League, headquarters is committed to the establishment of a home for war veterans, it has decided that, until that…

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Labour War. Lang Party Domination

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 11

Prominent Trades Hall industrialists said yesterday that the domination of the A.L.P. provincial conference last week-end by the Lang section of the…

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Civil War Harms Egg Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 3

THE Spanish Civil War has had a direct effect in Australia--upon poultry-farmers. Spain was a big buyer of eggs until…

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Motion to Outlaw War Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 4

Opening on Wednesday, the conference of members of Victorian and Tasmanian Methodist Churches will consider a motion suggesting that…

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Arming for Peace Minister On War Peril "All Agreed" London

The Sun · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 13

"A FEW years ago, a £400,000,000 defence proposal would have staggered and horrified the people;…

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A Chinese Dress War

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 21

The women of some parts of China are finding it necessary to fight for their permanent loaves and other features of modern dressing…

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Anzac's Escape From Devil's Island Only Briton Who Ever Served a Sentence There

The World's News · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 19

TWO particularly interesting cable messages about Devil's Island, the tropical hell of French criminals, were…

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Real Estate Luncheon Mr. Raymond Watt States War is not Inevitable

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 6

Speaking before a well attended luncheon of the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales, held at Farmers on February 10th, the National Secretary of the League of Nations, Mr. Raymond Watt,…

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History of the War Has Cost £74,688 to Date Canberra

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 4

Publication of the commonwealths series of volumes on the official history of Australia's part in the Great war is by no means complete…

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Roosevelt War on Court Some Say He Wants To Dictate WASHINGTON

The Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 1

Senator Thomas, broadcasting in favor of President Roosevelt's request for power to raise the number of Supreme Court justices (obviously in…

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