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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

3,421 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 172

Contingent for Coronation. Melbourne March. Enthusiastic Scenes. War Days Recalled. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 14

Remarkable seenes of enthusiasm, reminiscent of troopship sailings during the war, marked the departure for London by the Oronsay to-day of the…

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28,500 New 'Planes in 1937 And 80 Per Cent. Of Them For War CHICAGO

The Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 13

Howard welch, manager of the Bendix Aviation Export Corporation, estimates that the world will produce his year 28,500 now aircraft and that…

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Sir Frederick Loomis. Death of Canadian Soldier. MONTREAL, Feb. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 15

Major-General Sir Frederick Loomis has died. Sir Frederick Loomis was born 67 years ago. In the war he commanded, in turn, the…

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From Day to Day in Sydney. For Limbless Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 9

THE LADY MAYORESS, Mrs. George A. Parkes, presided at a meeting at the Australia Hotel yesterday morning, when arrangements for the Diggers' Coronation Ball were…

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English Soldiers Captured Claim By Leader Of Spanish Rebels More Air Raids Gibraltar

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 5

BROADCASTING from the Seville station General De Llano, commander-in-Chief of the Southern rebel forces, alleged that 37 Englih…

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Heroic Vanity: Madrid's Women Food Scarce, Death Near, But They Still "Make-up" Madrid, Tuesday. AFTER seven months of civil war the women of Madrid retain their make-up, but are losing their plumpness

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 1

Food is scarce and dear. Four or five who were spoken to said they could not remember the exact date of their last real meal…

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Hurstville's Honour Roll

The Propeller · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 3

The work of inscribing nearly a thousand names on the new honour-board in the vestibule of the Hurstville Soldiers' Memorial Hall is now…

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Canada and Gas War

The Sun · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 2

Ottawa, Wednesday.--Medical students at Canadian universities have been requested by the Government to study the treatment of poison-gas…

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War Veterans' Home. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 7

The Nundle sub-branch of the R.S.L. has elected the first war veterans' home in this part of the State, at the Hanging Rock Settlement. An area of land was obtained,…

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War Service Homes' Administration Canberra

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 4

The central administration of the War Service Homes will be moved from Melbourne to Canberra within the next few weeks. It is anticipated…

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Mimic War Soon at Hongkong Hongkong

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 3

A CONCENTRATED "attack" on Hongkong will be made early in March, in the greatest manoeuvres Britain has ever held here. Twenty-five warships, five…

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War Nurses for Coronation. Matron Paten Selected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 9

The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) announced yesterday that the Government had decided, on the recommendation of the Director-General of Medical…

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The Spanish War. Haw It Started. a Socialist Concession

The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 42

The former editor of "El Socialista," the central organ of the Spanish Socialist party, has written a pamphlet under the title "The Drama of Spain," to explain…

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May Be Heading for War Peer On Problem Of Colonies LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 21

"If we keep our colonies as a close preserve", we are heading for war," Lord Noel-Buxton declared in the House of Lords to-day…

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War and Settlement Both Vital Questions While Britain Spends Billions on Defence Australia Sleeps

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 1

THE announcement that Great Britain intends to spend £400,000,000 during the next three years on armaments should cause…

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Novels And Novelties Tried To Build Castles In Spain Author Links Story with Present War

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 4

WHILE mostly the nationals have been busy knocking down castles in Spain in Recent months; the author, A. D. Divine, has busied himself trying to build one--at least, a literary one. THIS enterprising author apparently…

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Mighty Arms Programme Three £8,000,000 Battleships Britain to Make War Vessels Bomb-proof London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 1

THE gigantic arms programme launched by Britain, on which £1,500,000,000 will be spent in five years, includes the laying down immediately of:--…

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New Aircraft. Output in 1937. World to Spend £250,000,000. 28,500 War 'Planes. CHICAGO, Feb. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 10

Mr. Howard Welch, manager of the Bendix Aviation Export Corporation, estimates that nearly £250,000,000 (Australian currency) will be spent by the…

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A N.S.W. Jewish War Memorial Maccabean Institute Sunday, February 21.—Talkies—Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Mae Social Club

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 6

The Mac Social Committee has been in recess for the last couple of months, has started to function again with "bigger and better entertainment" as its slogan…

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A.j.c. Programmes. Anzac and Coronation Holidays

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 15

The holiday gazetted for Anzac Day and the holiday to celebrate the coronation, provide two extra days' racing at Randwick. On the Anzac holiday, Monday, April 26,…

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