Anzac Eve Festival
The Anzac Festival committee draws attention to the closing date of the singing and verse speaking competitions—April 2. The winning choirs will appeat at the Anzac Eve Festival on April…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1938
3,524 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 177
Anzac King's Goes To Queenslander Buttsworth's Record 2 Points Gave Farmer Prize Of £500 Victorian Second Anzac Range
KINGAROY peanut farmer, V. Buttsworth, won the Centenary King's at Anzac Range this afternoon with a record score of 347. The first prize was worth £525, while Buttsworth won sectional prizes. G. W. Letts, of Victoria, won the second prize of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To The Mud Of Flanders From Sands Of Anzac
WHENEVER Diggers are gathered together in Sydney, the name of Captain Quentin S. Spedding--"Sped." to the boys--is sure to crop up. As the compiler of the "Official Year Book of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Federation's View. Games in Countries at War
Members of the British Empire Games Federation, at a conference yesterday at the Australia Hotel, passed a resolution recording its disinclination to participate in Olympic…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Queenslander Wins "King's" Buttsworth's Consistent Shooting English Leader Falls Early in Day Anzac Range, Liverpool
A YOUNG Queensland marksman, V. Buttsworth, from Kingaroy, today won the 500-guinea first prize of the King's with a total of 347 points out of a possible 355…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Want War Risk Cover On Produce CANBERRA
War risks are being considered by Australian primary producers. Representatives of all major exporting industries interviewed the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unofficial History of the A.I.F. Australian War Memorial
IN reply to recent criticism of the Australian War Memorial in "Smith's Weekly." Major Treloar, the chief of the Memorial has been kind enough to supply the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Insurance on War Risks. Exporters' Problems. Government Approached. Canberra
War risks have complicated the insurance arrangements of Australian exporters. They are finding difficulty in obtaining cover for their goods after…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Australia's Most Thrilling Diving Venture First A War Wreck; Then, With Luck, Fifty Millions!
IT'S not the usual triangle--the eternal one--that makes the news. It's one with a cleaner, a more vigorous story. The three points are:-- "A" is a diver, Jack Child, with working headquarters as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soviet Stands Out of China War Resolved Not To Fight Says "Pravda" MOSCOW
"Pravda," the Russian Communist Party's chief organ, makes it clear that the Soviet will not fight Japan in exchange for any guarantees against European enemies. In a leading article, it charges the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' Officers. Bateman's Bay
Office-bearer's elected at the annual meeting of the Bateman's Bay branch of the Returned Soldiers' league were:—President, Mr. L. F. Sparrow: vice-presidents, Messrs. E. S…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Conscious. Americans and World Crisis. Big Navy Problem. Co-operation With Great Britain. (From Our Special Representative.) New York, Feb. 11
The denial of the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, that the United States has any understanding with Great Britain for the combined use of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Poor Entry In Militia Anzac Shoot Anzac Range
In the special militia and cadet series of matches in the concluding day's shooting of the National Rifle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Girl Who Won the Peninsular War
IT looks as if the Duke of Wellington has been given the coup de grace'--meaning the old knightly custom of pulling a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boycott of Japan As Move to Finish War
LONDON, Saturday.--A two-day conference has been organised and an international peace campaign opener to consider means for…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Part of Merchant Ships in War Play H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA
It was revealed to-day that merchant shipping will co-operate next week, for the first time, with the Australian-New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →No War Feared But Britain to Increase Arms Europe's Temporary Brighter Outlook Gives Chamberlain Chance To Review Ministers LONDON
"War is not imminent and is improbable," declared the Lord President of the Council, Lord Halifax. Mr. Chamberlain, the Primer Minister, also declines to admit…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Can Hitler Fashion German Soldiers Into Good Nazis? Inner Meaning of the Recent Purge
A REVOLUTION, apparently without bloodshed, has occurred in Germany. To understand the situation it is necessary to understand the relations between the Army…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Australia Defends Rifle Title Anzac Rifle Range
THE Empire Shield, won by Australia at the last Bisley meeting with a total of 2222 points, will be contested here…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Terrorism in Palestine. Two Men Killed; Three Wounded. JERUSALEM, Feb. 10
Masked terrorists invaded the home of an Arab policeman and killed the policeman and his brother. They wounded the father, another brother, and a guest…
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