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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

3,524 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 177

Big Empire Shoot for £350 PRIZE Australia's Team In Lead Anzac Range

The Sun · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 20

Australia led by two points from Great Britain at the end of the first three stages today, in the £350 Empire…

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Rival Unions Are Still at War. a Referendum May Be the Outcome New York, January 23

The Labor Daily · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4

THE battle between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee on Industrial Organisation, which has almost rear asunder the sawmills and logging camps of the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest has reached such proportions as to engage the…

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Cootamundra Returned Soldiers. Cootamundra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 9

At the annual meeting of the Cootimundra sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, Major-General Sinclair-Maclagan now residing in Scotland, was appointed at patron…

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Schools in Anzac Shoots The Dunningham Aggregate Series ANZAC

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 3

THE. Anniversary prize meeting of the N.R.A. was continued to-day at the Anzac Range, when the schols' series of matches were…

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Rifle Trophy to Britain Australia Second Last Day At Anzac Anzac Range

The Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 22

Great Britain won the Empire Trophy shoot at Anzac Range to-day by 23 points from Australia…

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Madrid War Pictures

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 1

The most vivid sound films of the Spanish people’s fight for democracy vet shown in Sydney are being screened at the Railway and Tramway Institute, Chalmers St., Sydney, until Thursday this week. “They Shall Not Pass” and “News from Spain”…

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4th Anti-War Congress

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 3

Reports from various centres indicate widespread interest in the coming congress of the Movement against War and fascism, to be…

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America Plans For Pacific War

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 6

The U.S. Navy Department had many things in mind when it sent its cruisers to…

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Nazi War on Rembrandt Berlin

The Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 5

Several directors of art galleries in Berlin and elsewhere have indignantly protested to the Minister of Education (Dr. Rust), against…

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Madrid Is Gay in War London

The Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 5

Compared with Madrid, long besieged, an Englishwoman finds London depressing. She is Mrs. Charlotte Haldane, wife…

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Ethiopian War Flares Up Again: Italy's Grave Worries Port Said

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 8

REORGANISED Abyssinian armies are harassing the Italians at many points, passengers from Jibuti declare. An Italian caravan comprising 200 trucks of ammunition was…

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A.I.F. Soldier in Coat-of-arms Birdwood's Tribute Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 4

Lord Birdwood of Anzac will clude the Australian soldier in his coat-of-arms. He announced this in a letter which the Prime Minister…

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Welcome Home

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 9

LADY GOLDFINCH, who arrived recently from England, will be welcomed at a party to be given by her sisters, Mrs. Christian Rothe and Mrs. Guy…

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Tokio on War and Olympiad Tokio

The Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 5

Comment on reports from Australia regarding the Tokio Olympic Games of 1940, was given officially here to-day…

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Nazi's Threat of Press War Berlin

The Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 5

An obviously inspired article in the "Nacht Ausgabe" threatens an unrestrained Press campaign against France unless the anti-Nazi…

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Labor Charter War In France PARIS

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 3

STORMY scenes are expected in the Chamber of Deputies tonight, when the debate on the Labor Charter begins…

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War Service Homes New Loans to be Made

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 6

The ban on the financing of new War Service Homes which was imposed by the Federal Government some years ago, has been lifted and the Commission has been restored the right to receive…

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A Little God of War for Mussolini's Daughter Mussolini's daughter, Edda, the most powerful woman in Italy, has given her husband, Count Ciano, a second son and her father a third grandchild. The baby is to be called Marzio, Italian for Mars, the God of War. Count Ciano is the Italian Foreign Minister, but Edda makes up his mind for him

The World's News · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 14

SIGNOR MUSSOLINI, as everyone knows, is not a king's son. But what is less well known is that you must go back to the years 1921…

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Making Magic for the Next War Wars, in the popular mind, are won with hurtling metal and manpower, and such trappings of the time as submarines, aeroplanes and tanks. Actually, wars are won by attrition. The nation whose supplies of the necessities of life—and lifetaking—hold out the longest is the victor

The World's News · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 3

GERMANY may win its next war because of paper clothing, sawdust food, and rubber synthecised from coal…

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We Visit Anzac Range

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 3

It was a grand finale to several days of doughty deeds with the rifle, at Anzac Range on Friday, and among the interested spectators were a…

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