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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

3,421 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 172

Led All The Way Boulton Breaks the Ice Minnawatta Wins In Soldier's Breeze SUNDAY '18's'

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 3

MINNAWATTA was sailed to victory for the first time this season in yesterday's 18-Footers' League race. Sporting a particularly spacious new…

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The Two Million Old Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 6

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES ROSENTHAL, commander of the Second Division, enjoys the distinction of being the oldest…

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News of The World Cabled By Our Correspondents How Foreign Hand in Spain Changed War Thrice Saved the Rebel Cause Superiority In Air Now Belongs To Franco LONDON

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 9

GENERAL FRANCO, Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish rebels, has at present about 100 Italian and German bombing machines and 100 Italian and German fighting 'planes…

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Great War in Wars

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 2

AN inquiry was held into the running of Great War in the Flying Handicap at Harold Park yesterday. It was found that the…

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Depression Cost As Much As War

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 3

Total losses of the world economic system between 1930 and 1934, as a result of the depression, were equal to the cost of the World War…

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Outlaw War, Say Delegates Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 6

BECAUSE war inevitably promoted bitterness, hatred and economic maladjustment, which provoked further wars, it could never solve…

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Russia and Japan Preparing for War. Traveller's Impressions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 11

Dr. A. L. Kerr, of Double Bay, who returned by the Monterey yesterday, after a world tour, believes that war is inevitable between Russia and Japan within two years…

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'Anti-god' War Is Seen in Spain London

The Sun · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 11

"I have seen the rise of a violent anti-religious campaign in Spain. "I witnessed in April, 1936, the burning of the historic church of…

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War-time Precautions. Plan for Evacuation of London. London, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 11

The "Sunday Pictorial" understands tnat the Committee of Imperial Defence has prepared plans to transfer the Government and the Roval Family to the provinces, and to…

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Tide of War Is Swinging Govt. Regains Some Of Its Losses In Spain MADRID

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 5

THE morale of the Government, forces is improving dally, as reports from Ovledo and other sectors, including the advance on Toledo,…

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Ex-soldiers' Appeal

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 14

The Returned Soldiers' League at Curlwaa, in the south-western corner of the State, is organising its annual "Tin Hat Day" appeal for March 12…

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Today's News Of The World Front Daily Telegraph Exclusive Correspondents 5000 Executed Is Malaga Rebel Story Of Torture By Women Soldiers LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 3

REBEL allegations of atrocities committed in Malaga, when that city was under Government control, are published in Lisbon. These state that 5000 persons were executed, and that…

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Making All Own War Materials

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 8

AUSTRALIA will make all her war supplies at a time "not far distant," said the Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale…

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Fire Destroys War Ministry Offices Berlin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 5

THE top floor offices of the [?]War Ministry have been destroyed by fire…

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No Defiance From War Nurse in Kiosk

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 7

Sister Mary Redfern Watt, war nurse, and proprietress of the kiosk at Prince Henry Hospital, yesterday denied reports published in Sydney yesterday afternoon, that she had defied…

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Barricaded in Hosp. Kiosk War Nurse Won't Leave

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 5

Barricading herself in a kiosk following an order by Prince Henry Hospital authorities for her to vacate the premises, a war purse. Sister…

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Supplies for War. Dominion Aid Needed. Australia May Send Steel. LONDON, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 16

Britain's output of steel threatens to be inadequate to the needs of the rearmament programme, and she may soon investigate the possibility of…

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War 'Planes. British Estimates. £80,000,000 Forecast. (From Our Special Representative.) London, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 15

Forecasts made of the air estimates which will be published on Friday indicate that they are likely to be nearer £80,000,000 than £70,000,000…

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Behind the Cables Human Side of Spanish War Dramas of Love and Sacrifice Neath Ruins of Carnage

The World's News · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 6

AMID all its horrors—and their name is legion—the Spanish civil war has its intensely human side…

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Great Soldier. Major-General Antill. Death Announced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 16

Major-General J. M. Antill, a soldier who had seen service in India, South Africa, Gallipoli, and France, died at the Royal Prince Henry Hospital on…

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