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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

3,421 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 172

Students Wounded in Anti-jewish Riot Warsaw

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 5

Twenty Jewish students were wounded during anti-Jewish rioting at Warsaw University and at the Polytechnic College, when they were…

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London War Plans

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 3

Plans were in preparation for the evacuation of London, the Minister for Health, Mr. W. M. Hughes, declared yesterday…

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The Spanish Struggle. Italy Wages Undeclared War Against Government

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 7

THE Spanish Government is directing the League of Nations to Italy's gross violation of the non-intervention agreement regarding the civil war in Spain…

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War History. Dr. Bean Discovers an Error. Volume Delayed

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

The Australian Official War Historian, Dr. C. E. W. Bean, said last night that after the review copies of the fifth volume of the history had been sent…

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Realism For A Game Of "War" The Latest British Destroyer

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 32

ALTHOUGH they live amid falling bombs, children of Madrid still play their favorite game of "soldiers" among the ruins of buildings…

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Hughes on War and Security Explains Expulsion From Federal Ministry German Plan

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 8

STATING that he had preached preparedness in his book, "Australia and War To-day," published last year, and for what he had said…

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Returned Soldiers' Year Book

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 16

A special coronation issue of the official year book of the Returned Soldiers' League has been printed by the New South Wales branch of the league. It contains much…

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Welcome Home to Father Green

Nepean Times · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 1

On last Monday evening, at the Convent School Hall a welcome home was tendered to Father Green, after an absence of about four months, due to…

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Jews And Arabs Wounded By Bombs JERUSALEM

The Sun · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 25

Twelve Jewish adults and two children were wounded by a bomb which was exploded at a 'bus stop in the Jewish quarter…

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Echoes of Great War

The Propeller · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 16

Hurstville was well to the fore during the Great War, and it was from this town that the youngest Australian trumpeter was supplied…

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International Labor and the War in Spain

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 24

THE old adage that none Is so blind as he who will not see, again occurs to mind when we read that the International Labor Conference, which met in London last week, carried a resolution that "the International Federation of Trade Unions and Labor movements generally consider that they must do…

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High Pensions Explained Incapacitated War Victims' Needs

The Sun · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 22

An explanation of apparently high war pensions paid to incapacitated soldiers, was given by the Deputy- Commissioner of the Repatriation…

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War on Crime. Religion Has Been Neglected. Washington

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 39

Formation of un association of Catholic Prison Chaplains wua announcod have at the closing session of the first institute for Prison Chaplains, sponsored by…

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Romance in War-torn Spain. London, March 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 11

A message from Barcelona announces the engagement of Nurse Margot Miller, an Australian, who has been wounded twice, and Mr. Richard Bennett, an Englishman, aged 25, who…

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Error in History of War. Reprinting Unnecessary. CANBERRA

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

II, was announced to-day that the discovery of a statistical en or in the latest volume of the Official History of the War will not necessitate the reprinting of the volume, which is…

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Today's Controversy Does Mr. Hughes Stand For Britain's War Fodder? Idle Platitudes

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 6

Sir,--I notice, Mr. Hushes, by your cheap publicity in the Tory Press, that unless the parents of Australia increase the birthrate…

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Great Fighters of the Barrier Reef Tug-of-war With Ton-weight Devil Ray Perils and Pleasures of Harpooning

Referee · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 20

I HAVE fished in the waters of New South Wales. Have also fished in the waters of the north-western coast of Australia, where game fish teem in their thousands, but the Northern Queensland waters inside the far-flung reefs have an appeal to me that is irresistible…

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Soldiers' Club Dance

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 5

An enjoyable dance held by the Guildford Returned Soldier's Club last Saturday attracted a large attendance to the School of Arts…

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Soldiers' Reunion. Mullumbimby

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 8

Sixty yeturned men, representing the A.I.F., New Zealand forces. and the Royal Navy, attended the annual reunion of Billinudgel R.S.S.L.L.A. sub-branch. Mr. W.H. Flowers…

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Britain's Army. Task of Re-equipment. 15,000 More Territorials Enlisted. (British Offic[?]l Wireless.) LONDON, March 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 12

In introducing the Army estimates in the House of Commons, the Minister for War (Mr. Duff Cooper) said that the experiences of the last 12-years' period—generally regarded as…

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