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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

3,524 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 177

Mineral Cargo in War Wreck Salvage Attempts to Be Made

The Labor Daily · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 10

Attempts by means of special diving apparatus will be made to recover the £40,000 mineral cargo of the Cumberland, now lying in 42…

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Child's Death From Sting. Portuguese Man-o'-war. Rescuer in Hospital. Darwin

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

After being stung by a huge jelly fish,: a Portuguese man-o'-war, Tommy Chandler, 11, a half-caste, collapsed and died yesterday afternoon…

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Bradford's Promising Run At War. Farm a Doncaster Lightweight Made Up Lot Of Ground Over Last Bit First After Spell

The Labor Daily · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 2

LONG before the weights for the Doncaster Handicap and the Sydney Cup were known, pre-post bookmakers who had issued early double charts had Bradford near the top of their lists. After that horse's showing in the Denham Court Handicap at…

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Mickey Mouse Welcome Home

The Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 18

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The God of War

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 4

THE God of War is clanging his harsh, discordant gong. The blonde beast, boasting of Aryan supremacy, is once more marching to victory. The world watches! On the Tiber, the Romans look north applauding, but dreading that…

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Anti-War Delegates From North

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 4

Cairns has quite a good name for its anti-war and anti-fascist activity and the town has lived up to it by delegating three very good…

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Duce's War Nurse Rome

The Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 5

Sister Luigina Scotton, who nursed Mussolini when he was wounded during the war at Treviglio, in 1915, died today…

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R.s.l. Man for Villers-bret. War Memorial

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday.--Australian returned soldiers will have direct representation at the unveiling of the Villers-Bretonneux national memorial…

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War Fears Are Discounted Address to League of Nations Union

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 5

"The people of Germany do not want war, and war is not as imminent as newspaper headlines would suggest," Dr. E. R. Walker told the…

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War Memorial in France Ministers Will Be at Unveiling Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 4

The Commonwealth has invited the Returned Soldiers League to nominate a representative of the Australian soldiers to attend at the unveiling of…

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Austria Keypoint in Hitler War Plans Menace To Czechs Will France Accept Ruin? End Chamberlain’s Foreign Policy

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

Hitler has marched into Austria. The independence of a small country has been trampled underfoot. Schuschnigg, Austrian Chancellor, called for a plebiscite of the Austrian people on their independence. It is known that…

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Villers Bretonneux Memorial. Returned Soldier to Be Official Guest. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 10

The Federal Government has asked the Returned Soldiers' League to nomnate a representative of returned soldiers to attend the opening of the Australian memorial at…

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Soldiers' Reunions. Australian Rifle Regiment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 18

Old comrades of the Australian Rifle Regiment, 6th Volunteer Infantry, held a reunion on Saturday night at Sargents, Market Street, to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the…

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Ex-Soldiers for Sydney

The Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 3

Auckland, Tuesday.--Two full ships will sail for Sydney with ex-soldiers for the Anzac Day march…

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Penrith Speedway. Anzac Day Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 22

Empire Speedways, Ltd., announced that the trustees of the Penrith Speedway have given approval for the use of that ground for the racing car and motor cycle championship meeting to be held there…

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Another Bread War Looms

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 6

ALTHOUGH flour was reduced in price by 5 a ton yesterday, bread, according to officials of the Master Bakers' Association, will not…

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British Steamer Bombed. One Man Killed; Several Wounded. BARCELONA, March 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 18

The British steamer Stanwell was bombed and set on fire off Tarragona. It is blazing furiously. A fireman was killed and several of the crew, including a Danish…

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The Briqaider-General a Story of the Boer War

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 12

IT was a warm afternoon when the Brigadier went forth alone to reconnoitre, as was his strange custom. Most generals of those days used to seek their information with, at least, a…

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War-time Hoard. Farmer Thought Germany Would Win. Man on Stealing Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 11

James Ross, 91, e retired farmer, of Brooklyn, told the Hornsby Police Court yesterday that be purchased a quantity of sovereigns and half-sovereigns during the war and hid…

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Philippines and U.S.A. Avoiding War. Value as Outpost. New York, March 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 18

Mr. Paul V. McNutt, United States High Commissioner for the Philippines, to-day made a surprising radio appeal for an indefinite…

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