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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

3,524 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 177

"Angels of War." to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 5

Sir,—Referring to your comment on the production, "Angels of War," In the "Herald" of February 21, it seems a pity that King's Regulations cannot be enforced in New South…

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Horrors of the Next War Anticipated Britain Will Go Underground

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 5

GRADUALLY, almost imperceptibly, Great Britain is preparing to go underground. The new method, so I am told, will…

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New Artillery Methods. Changes Since War. Lessons of Camp. From Our Special Representativk. Liverpool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 20

Interesting developments in the use of artillery, as a weapon for attack and defence, have been demonstrated by the seven days' camp at Liverpool of…

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Preference: But Not to Returned Men

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1938 · page 17

CANBERRA, Saturday.—Preference to returned soldiers seems to be a declining policy in the Federal Capital…

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Biggest of Anzac Parades Expected A Contingent Of More Than 2000 Veterans From New Zealand Will Join In March

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1938 · page 3

"FRANKLY WE REGARD THIS YEAR'S ANZAC DAY AS THE PEAK FOR ALL TIME," MR. J. BLACK, STATE SECRETARY OF THE R.S.S.I.L.A., TOLD A "SUNDAY SUN" REPRESENTATIVE YESTERDAY. "IT IS INEVITABLE…

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Labor in Two Places Rebels And Langites At Verbal War

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1938 · page 9

Rival sections of the Labor Party met yesterday at Newcastle and Parkes. The rebels took part in an industrial conference at Newcastle, and the Lang Wing assembled in the western town for…

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Function For T.B. Soldiers

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1938 · page 24

Arranged by the social activities committee of the T.B. Sailors and Soldiers' Association of N.S.W., an inspection and afternoon tea at Fort…

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U.S. Warns Japan; Rights In China Says Nationals Need Not Obey Order To Leave War Zone; Holds Japanese Responsible WASHINGTON

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1938 · page 17

The U.S. Government has officially informed Japan that she will be held responsible for injury to Americans or damage to American property resulting from Japanese military operations in China…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 16

Some high scores were registered at the Anzac Rangs, Liverpool, on Saturday, when club matches were fixed from the 300 and 500 yards mounds. A. Mason and W. Culter (concord), each 99,…

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A Post-war Honor Roll

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 1

An Honor Roll, containing the names of 26 members who had died since the association was formed two years ago, was unveiled yesterday afternoon, in the…

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Pershing, Great U.S. War Leader, On Death Bed New York

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 3

GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING, America's famous wartime soldier, is ill beyond recovery at Tucson, Arizona. He is dying from heart disease and doctors have given up hope…

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War in Spain. Senor Negrin's Attack on Democracies. Why Fighting Continues. Barcelona, Feb. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 10

The Prime Minister of Spain, Senor Negrin, in a broadcast address, declared that the war was being continued in Spain because the European…

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Disabled Soldiers' Memorial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 4

An honour roll in memory of deceased members of the Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association of New South Wales was unv[?]iled at the association's clubrooms…

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Alien Migrants. Effect in Queensland. Returned Soldiers' Protest. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 9

Alarm at the fact that Southern Europeans were rapidly commencing to become a dominant factor in North Queensland's population, and the forecast that the sugar industry,…

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Espionage Plot Alleged. U.S. Military Secrets. German Woman and Two Soldiers Arrested. Washington, Feb. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 10

Mr. John Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced to-day that three persons, an attractive German woman, aged 26…

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Disabled Soldiers' Art Union

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 4

Prizes valued at £38 are offered in the art union being conducted by the Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association, tickets for…

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German War Decree

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 3

BERLIN. Monday.--The Commander-in-Chief of the German military forces (General Keitel) has decreed that all officers, including those on the retired list,…

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Blind War Nurse Destitute

The Sun · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 3

Twenty years ago, Lydia Evans, an Englishwoman, was a nursing sister with the British army in the…

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War Strikes Without Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 6

One of your correspondents says: "So remote is Australia from the rest of the world that the only way in which an attack…

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War Lord and His Victim

The Sun · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 5

General Matsui, until last week Japanese Commander- in- Chief in China, who apologised to the Emperor for having caused so many casualties, is shown on the right, chatting to a wounded soldier in a Hangchow Hospital. Matsui is wearing a scarf knitted by the Empress…

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