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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

3,524 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 177

Students Hate War, But Will Fight

The Sun · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 2

"Pacifism has become irrelevant. Although hating war, ardently desiring peace, students will fight, because they really are fighting for their liberty," says "Honi Soit," the University magazine…

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Jap. Picture for War Museum Troopship Convoy

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 8

TO view a painting by Mr. Rokuo Aral, a Japanese artist, of the convoying of Australian troopships by H.I.J.M.S. Ibuki, Mme. T…

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Anti-war March: 5 Arrested Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 1

Five young men were arrested during an anti-war demonstration tonight. They were charged at the City Watch…

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First Victim; War on Press Edmonton

The Sun · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 5

The Supreme Court's frustration of the Aberhart (Alberta) Government's attempt to control the Press assumed a new aspect to-day…

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Stork Becomes an Eagle of War Human Gun Fodder

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 10

CHARLES VANCE MILLER, K. C., died in 1926 leaving the bulk of his estate as a prize for the woman Riving birth to the most children in…

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Coast Guns. Australia's Needs. Lessons of Great War. by a Special Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 10

The new defence programme announced by the Prime Minister. Mr. Lyons, includes provision for the further strengthening of the fixed coast…

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The Butchery Of The Chinese Reporter Tells "This Was Murder, Not War!"

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 10

WITH the Japanese still forbidding foreign correspondents to go to captured Nanking, the Chicago "Daily News" received recently one of…

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Luckner Finds His War Treasure Sea Raider Digs Up Spoils He Buried on Coral Island in 1917 AUCKLAND

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 1

BURIED treasure, of gold, pearls, and diamonds was recovered by Count von Luckner on his Pacific voyage, to New Zealand. He hid the treasure in a wooden chest on Mopelia…

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Patrol Lorry Blown Up. Soldier Killed in Palestine. JERUSALEM, March 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 12

A British soldier was killed and another was wounded when a land mine blew up a military patrol lorry…

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German Soldiers by Air to Vienna

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 3

GERMAN SOLDIERS landing at Aspern airfield, Vienna, during the annexation of Austria…

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"Welcome Home," Madge

Truth · Sunday 27 March 1938 · page 34

REVERENTLY wrapped in tissue paper, a lovely model gown, nestled among Madge Elliott's luggage, when she returned to…

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10,000 Soldiers for New War

The Sun · Sunday 27 March 1938 · page 13

A medical research unit in Sydney, working on tuberculosis, is asking for 10,000 normal healthy people to volunteer…

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Alberta's War on Press Reporter Missing EDMONTON (Alberta)

Truth · Sunday 27 March 1938 · page 17

THE supreme Court's frustration of the Aberhart Government's attempt to control the Press assumed a new aspect…

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Franco's Army Is Rolling Across Aragon Is End Of Spanish Civil War Near? LONDON

Truth · Sunday 27 March 1938 · page 17

HAS the Spanish Civil War entered upon its last big engagement? Already, the rebel army is rolling across Aragon, thrusting itself more deeply into Government territory, and driving towards the sea, now not far away, to cut Barcelona…

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Latin America Starts War On Foreign Capital Big Business Of Hated 'Gringo' May Be Forced To Quit From Mexico To Cape Horn VANCOUVER, Saturday. Mexican Flags To-day Float Over the Offices and Plants of All the Huge Foreign Oil Companies on the Tampico and Other Fields

The Sun · Sunday 27 March 1938 · page 19

Finis is being written to the drama of invasion by British and American capital in the oil-fields constituting some of the world's richest properties. For many months there has been a duel between the Cardenas…

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Australian Iron Ore to Help Empire World Watching Commonwealth Move For Export Curb Britain May Need Supply In Wartime Federal Government As Future Munition-Maker For Forces Based On Singapore LONDON, Saturday. As War and Iron Go Hand-in-hand, the Commonwealth's Proposed Restriction of Iron Ore Exports Is Arousing World-wide Interest

The Sun · Sunday 27 March 1938 · page 19

Feeling here is growing in favor, of conserving the development of the Empire's iron resources. This feeling is particularly keen because of the difficulties Britain may eventually find' in securing, foreign Supplies…

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Anzac Service

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 2

The Fairfield sub-branch of the R.S.S. I.L.A. will hold an Anzac Sunday service in the Crescent Theatre, Fairfield, on April 24, at 3 p.m…

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£15,000 Home for War Veterans

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 7

On April 23 the Governor (Lord Wakehurst) will lay the foundation-stone of a £15,000 War veteran's Home. This was stated yesterday by Mr…

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3,500,000 Houses Built Since War

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 8

LONDON, March 3.--The number of houses built in this country since the war is now 3,500,000, an increase of 40 per cent. on the number in existence in…

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How Britain Can Avoid War London

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 5

LORD WINTERTON, speaking on rearmament at Worthing, said that to-day there was an active desire on the part of thousands of…

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