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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

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

Epic Art. Sydney's Great War Memorials. Cenotaph and Shrine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 13

A war memorial which does not tell its own story, independently of any inscription, fails in its main object, that of serving as an instantaneous and…

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War in Spain. Behind the Lines. Task Ahead of Franco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 13

THEY told me in London that it could not be done. "At least," confessed the Foreign Office exquisite who was kind enough to spend half an hour…

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Strange Moves Over National War Memorial Who Will Be Chosen for Niches of Honor?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5

IN closest secrecy, within the huge Exhibition Building, Melbourne, a large model of the proposed finished portion…

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War Planes on Order. To Be Flown to Australia. "On Secret List." (From Our Special Representative.) London, Jan. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 17

Australians may welcome before June not only the winner of the world's long-distance aeroplane redora, but also the arrival of units of a…

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The Recumbent Soldier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 13

Lambert's impressive war memorial in the crypt of St. Mary's Basilica…

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Wounded with Bayonet

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 5

PERTH, Saturday. -- Police are investigating the circumstances in which John Burke, 37, of Victoria Park, came to receive wounds in the…

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Wounded Man Lost Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 1

Seriously wounded in the stomach by a bullet from a pea rifle yesterday afternoon, Francis Thornton, 29 wandered across a paddock at…

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War's Effects On Japanese Trade TOKIO

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 15

The "Chugai Shogyo," in a leading article, deplores the prospective strengthening of economic control, which will impose grave…

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Union Jacks Ripped Down Japanese Flags Hoisted On British Hotel Mailed Fist Swung Again At Shanghai Fears of Great Pacific War Darken Horizon in America and Canada SHANGHAI

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 1

JAPANESE MARINES TORE DOWN TWO UNION JACKS FROM THE BRITISH-OWNED NEW ASIA HOTEL IN THIS CITY AND SUBSTITUTED JAPANESE FLAGS. THEY ALSO REMOVED THE…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 15

The shorter of the two ranges in use at the Anzac Range, Liverpool on Saturday, yielded possibles by F. W. L. Travers (Mosman-Neutral Bay). W. J. Faux (Railway and Tramway Institute), T…

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Wounded by Pistol Bullet Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

Fired through the door of a house in Bridport Street, Albert Park, on Saturday night, a pistol bullet wounded Robert Gow, 42. of South…

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Wounded Man. Believed to be Wandering m Forest. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 6

A man who was found shot in the stomach in a farmhouse at Gembrook on Friday afternoon, is now believed to be wandering in the dense undergrowth of the Gembrook…

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"Future War in Bible Prophecy"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

Australia's part in a future world war was indicated in Bible prophecy, said Mr. G. Errington, a Christadelphian, at the Chatswood Memorial Hall, yesterday…

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Man Wounded in Leg. Shot at Through Door. Charge Against Labourer. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 9

Robert James Gow, middle-aged, of Surrey Road, South Yarra, was admitted to Prince Henry's Hospital on Saturday night suffering from a bullet yyound in a leg…

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Searchers Eluded by Wounded Man Disappears Into Bush with Shot in Stomach Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

SHOT through the stomach with a 22 calibre rifle, Francis Fagan, 29, sustenance worker, has mysteriously disappeared from Gembrook. Police and blacktrackers lost his trail…

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Police War on Crime Special Wireless Patrols

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 3

So that more detectives will be available to investigate crime, special wireless patrols will be formed, and attached to the C.I.B., from next…

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War Secretary at Wool Wich Arsenal London

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

THE war secretary, Mr. Hore Belisha, visited the Royal ordnance factories at Woolwich today…

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Taxi War Story Of "Big City" Might Be Any City

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

ANY city could be "Big City." New York is the locale of this M.-G.-M. picture, coming to the St. James, but taxi "wars" break out in all big cities. Hence the film's wide appeal. THE world heavyweight…

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War Costs. Japanese Methods. Exploiting Occupied Areas. (From Our Special Representative.) London, Dec. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 6

Japan's attempt to meet the enormous cost of waging war in China is attracting no less attention here than is the progress of the experts in Tokyo, who…

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Far South Bombed Planes Raid on Nanning British Soldiers Assaulted Inquiry on London

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

TWELVE Japanese planes raided Nanning, the capital of Kwangsi, which is only 100 miles from French Indo- China, and downed six Chinese planes. A Hongkong message states that some of the…

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