Anti-war Play
The New Theatre Leapue will present "Slickers Limited," an anti-war play, at its theatre, 36 Pitt-Street, on Sunday, January 9, at 8 p.m. There will also be a repeat performance of "Waiting for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1938
3,524 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 177
Soviet's New War Machine Moscow
Far-reaching changes in the Soviet's war machine include the abandonment of single control for all services. There will be separate Commissars…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway and Tramway Ex-soldiers
The New South Wales Railway and Tramway Returned Soldiers' Association will hold its annual conference on Saturday, January 15, at 9 a.m., in the Railway Institute,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Children's Outing. Returned Soldiers' Plan
One hundred and fifty children of members of the Wollongong sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. will be brought to Sydney to-day on a New Year's Day tour, at the expense of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →British Soldier for 25 YEARS Now 80, Lives On £1 A Week
JOHN LAYMAN MITCHELL, aged 80, goes around Sydney (N.S.W.) with only memories and his poetry for company. Applications for returned soldier benefits, he says, are ignored because he did not go to the Great War…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unofficial History of the A.I.F. Striking Example Of The Old Digger Spirit Fine Tribute to Lakemba Club Member When He "Went West" At few Daru, Papua Frank Dunne Passes Man Who Drew The A.I.F. Enlisted At 17
FRANK DUNNE is dead. Thus, at the early age of 39, there passes the "Smith's Weekly" artist whose drawings for the "Unofficial History of the A.I.F." page…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Bright Halls Say Welcome Home
The entrance hall of a house offers marvellous scope for the home decorator to express individuality in color schemes. A vivid hall…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →War Correspondents Killed Hendaye
WHEN a car in which they were travelling to the Teruel battle area suffered a direct hit from a Republican shell. E. R. S. Sheepshanks…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Another Win To War News BRISBANE
War News led all the way in the Two-Year-Old Handicap at Ascot to-day. It was his second successive win…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The World Faces 1938 CHINA: War Wracked
DETERMINED to beat China to her knees, Japan smashes along in China, bombing cities into submission, and rolling aside the Chinese defences. Latest reports indicate that Canton has been bombed so…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Wounded Bathurst, Monday Morning
Surrounded by many persons listening to the band programme to the park, a woman was shot by some sort of firearm in extraordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cames Team's War-cry
CHEER LEADER of the South African Empire Games Team, leading members in their war-cry, when they had entered the Empire Village at the Showgrounds yesterday. (Picture of team, Page 10.)…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →General Cable News. Bigger Children Since the War. London, Jan. 2
The report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education on the health of school children shows that both boys and girls in their teens are an inch or two taller and a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Teachers to Fight War Menace Jap. Aggressors Condemned
SYDNEY.—A resolution viewing with horror and alarm the aggressive invasion and bombardment of China by Japan and calling on the Federal government to make representations to have the League of Nations lake whatever action possible…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pershing Writes Of America's Part In The Great War PARIS, December 14
GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING is busy these days putting the finishing touches on his "American Armies and Battlefields in Europe," the new and complete guidebook to A.E.F. battlefields, cemeteries, and shrines…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eighth Army Victories in Shansi People’s War Organised By Communists (“Workers’ Weekly” Special)
Continuing its famous guerilla tactics, the Chinese Eighth Route Army (formerly the Red Army) has smashed large Japanese bodies, recaptured over a dozen large towns in North Shansi, and is harrying the enemy in many areas throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Keen to End War But Peace Terms Too Drastic For China SHANGHAI
JAPAN'S peace terms are stated to have been communicated to Chiang Kai-shek by Dr. Trautmann, the German Ambassador…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War By Britain On Propaganda May Tell Palestine of Italy's Economic Position London
BRITAIN intends losing no time, and sparing no expense, to counteract anti-British propaganda in countries where it most vitally affects her. A scheme is being framed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Today's News Of The World From Daily Telegraph Exclusive Correspondents New Bomb's Death Blast Sprays Radius of 500 YARDS Horrors Of Spanish War In Sub-Zero Weather LONDON
BOMBS of a new type, used in a Spanish rebel air raid on Barcelona, killed 49 and wounded 50. The new projectiles, the most devastating used in the war, gashed everything within a radius of 500 yards of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Starvation Death For Children BARCELONA
THE bodies of children who had died of starvation were found in the Civil Governor's house at Teruel when the rebels were driven…
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