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The wars & local soldiers, 1937

3,421 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 172

Butter, Radio, More to Eat British Soldier's Life to Be Brighter London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 3

PART of Britain's huge Army vote for this A year--£82,000,000--will be spent on giving enlisted soldiers four instead of three meals a day…

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Wounded General Home

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 3

ROME, Thursday.--Minus a leg and an eye, General Liotta, head of the Italian air force in Ethiopia, returned to Italy today by hospital ship…

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Treatment of Returned Men Strong Protest by Fathers' Assn. Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 10

EXPRESSING disappointment at the poor treatment of the returned soldiers, the president, Mr. W. J. Basham; at the annual meeting…

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Movement Against War and FascIsm

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY.—A morning tea will be held at the Housewives Association rooms, 399 George Street (abov Anderson’s Seed Shop) on Wednesday, March 24, at 11…

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War Pensions. Average £1/18/11 a Fortnight. Minister's Statement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 10

The Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Hughes) referred yesterday to the statement of Mr. Eric Harrison, M.P., at the opening of the conference of the New South Wales branch of…

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"Mind Our Own Business" U.S.A. Fears War Entanglement AUCKLAND

The Sun · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 12

"Mind your own business" is the Americans chief motto, according to the Queensland Minister for Lands (Mr. Pease), who is returning by the…

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Canada's Dilemma If War Comes Aid for Britain Only When Peril Vital

The Sun · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 13

WHAT would be Canada's attitude towards any war in which England might engage? If England were in mortal peril, a Canadian army would intervene to help her. If on the other hand, it was…

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116 Aircraft Fight Near Madrid Rebel Guns Shell City As 8Th Month of War Ends Madrid

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 3

ONE hundred and sixteen warplanes took part in the biggest air battle of the civil war north of Madrid today. Nine rebel planes were shot down and the rest routed, the Air…

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Frontier Unrest. Fakir's Call to Holy War. Attempt to Assemble Tribes. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON, March 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 12

The Delhi correspondent of "The Times" states' "Tribal conditions in Waziristan are still causing anxiety, particularly in the northern territory, where the Fakir Ipi is actively…

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Anzac Day Service Ban By Ministers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 16

CASINO, Friday. -- Protestant clergymen here have sent a letter to the local Returned Soldiers' League refusing to participate in the civic…

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Bearded Anzac Hermit Stinson Disaster Brought Him Out

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 4

FORSAKING the world and its ways, living in a cave on the side of a mountain at the edge of the Lost World at Glen Lamington (Queensland), Charles Chesworth Burgess, a former Anzac, has become a hermit. He is a…

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Unexpected Three-day Carnival for Randwick "Smith's" Suggestion For Anzac Day Was Adopted Coronation and Anzac Blend with Tatt's for Big Draw May Keep Best Horses in Work

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 8

BY A CURIOUS SET OF UNEXPECTED CIRCUMSTANCES RANDWICK RACECOURSE WILL BE ABLE TO HOLD ANOTHER THREE-DAY RACE CARNIVAL SOON AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF ITS…

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War Scare in U.S.A. AUCKLAND

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 6

The Queensland Minister for Lands, Mr. Pease, who is returning by the Mariposa after a tour of Canada and the United States, said…

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Says War Is Not Inevitable Faith in League

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 5

Camden-Menangle branch of the League of Nations Union held its annual meeting last night at Camden Town Hall. The national secretary,…

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Loyalist Gains. Spanish Civil War. Rebels Slain in Mined Hospital. London, March 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 18

A message from Madrid states that loyalist mines under the hospital in University City occupied by the insurgents were exploded yesterday…

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Death of a Great Ideal Post Mortem on the League of Nations the Harris Hoax American in Geneva Autobiography of an Imperialist a Forgotten Prince Soldier of Napoleon

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 8

Britain, by its support of balance-of-power politics, has shattered the League of Nations, says John T. Whittaker, an Amercian pressman, in a racy study of European affairs…

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Boy Wounded While Carrying Rifle Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 21 March 1937 · page 7

Peter Preston, 16, of Union-street, Kew, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital to-day in a critical condition…

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Art "War" Is Still Alive

The Sun · Sunday 21 March 1937 · page 5

ANYONE who has followed the press reports of the proposed Academy, of Arts at all closely, must attach due…

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U.S. Labor War May Cost Motorists Dear

The Sun · Sunday 21 March 1937 · page 29

Copyright by "The Sunday Sun" and the N.A.N.A. DETROIT, February 18. Higher car prices may be…

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U.S. Indicts British Foreign Policy Avoiding War at Cost of Peace People Wakened By the War In Spain New York

Truth · Sunday 21 March 1937 · page 18

"PERFORMANCE of an Empire which has avoided four wars in the past four years at the cost of a shattered peace system, a stolen Asiatic dominion, a conquered African kingdom, a ravished European republic-and a…

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