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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

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Race War Looming: Tokio Talk Paris

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

AN outburst by the Japanese Minister of the Interior (Admiral Suetsugu) has stirred French newspapers to…

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Britain's Little War. Waziristan, 1937. Indian Frontier Policy. (By a Special Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 14

The wars in Spain and China have obscured the fact that on the northwest frontier of India in 1936 and last year Britain fought one of the biggest…

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The Staggering Cost of Armaments. Can Capitalist Civilisation Survive The Strain of War?

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 6

Some time ago, in "The Worker" columns, the writer published an article entitled "Kindergarten Economics for University Professors." Financial experts to-day apparently need similar enlightenment…

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ANTI-SEMITISM. Nazis Devise New Laws. War Veterans to Suffer. London, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 16

The Nazi patty is preparing now antiJewish measures. which will be applied even to Jewish war veterans, and to widows and children of Jews killed in the war who hitherto…

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Japan Talks of War. "White Yoke Must Go." Control of East Asia. PARIS, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 15

"The white yoke in Asia must go." This is one of several statements attributed to Admiral Suetsugu, the Japanese Minister for the Interior,…

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Girl Wounded Canley Vale Jeweller Charged

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 12

Subsequent to the shooting of Miss Alma Harding (16), of Canley Vale, on Monday, King Raffaele Romeo (41), a jeweller, of Cauley Vale a native of…

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Bush War

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 11

"TEA R[?]R" evening when I was going to town I heard loud sque[?] coming from a hea[?]hy paddock, so I got off my bike and [?] I could see a young…

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Is It War?

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 8

It is becoming increasingly difficult to' know what part the Jew, is expected to play, or is being manoeuvered into playing, in, the political game of this country…

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Wage War on Parasites

The Propeller · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 6

Lice that sap the life blood and undermine the flock furnish a pitfall into which, far too many stumble…

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Wheat, Grasshoppers and War

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 11

"TU[?]Y, J.H.S." [?].—Only those who have seen wheat in [?]lages of [?] development can fully understand the term "the waving fields of wheat." Once the wheat…

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War Veteran's Death Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 6

A veteran of three wars-- Boer, Mexican and Fijian-- James O'Rourke died this morning aged 67 years. He was a single man and for the post…

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Aged Chinese Hears of War Singapore, December 24

The Sun · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 4

LIVING in a jungle but on a rubber estate within sight of Britain's £10,000,000 Singapore naval base, an aged Chinese woman has just hoard about…

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Collected Soldiers' Portraits

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 14

Frank Clayborough, prominent Granville business man, secured the photograph of every Granville resident that went to the war, the collection…

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Old Soldiers "Fight" Battles Again

The Sun · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 11

SEATED on an old gun emplacement at Bare Island, near La Pcrouse, these old soldiers fight the wars over again, but, this time, with words, not bullets. They are, from left to right: A, Thorpe, late of the Middlesex Regiment and the…

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Man Killed. Woman Wounded Broken Hill Tragedy. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 8

Just after shots were heard al the rear of an office in Oxide Street this afternoon, a woman rushed out into the street, bleeding from the head…

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Young Manly Man Hero of Spanish War

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 7

KEN McPHEE, a young Manly man, is one of the outstanding heroes of the Spanish war, according to Mr. Tom Spiller, a New Zealander, who has returned from the war Interviewed yesterday. Mr…

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“War with Britain” Jap Militarists Pushing On To World Struggle We Must Act to Save Peace

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 3

Many Japanese militarists regard a “clash with Britain as inevitable.” The Lyons government has asked for a strong British fleet at Singapore. So runs the news. And Japanese Minister for the Interior, Admiral Suetsugu, leaves little to the…

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Against Big Ships What Happened in the Great War 'New Building Race Is About To Begin LONDON

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 5

A WARNING against a trend towards big, heavily-armed battleships is sounded by Admiral Mark Kerr, one of the flying pioneers, in a letter to the "Daily Telegraph." Navies, he states, exist only for war communications…

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"Lord Birdwood of Anzac." London, [?]. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 18

The Lobby correspondent of the "NewsChronicle" understands that Field Ma[?]al Sir William Birdwood, who was created Baron in the New Year Honours, will ass[?]e the…

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War Toys

The Methodist · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 7

The Editor has received the following letter for publication: "The members of the Primary and Junior 'Workers' Association have requested…

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