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The wars & local soldiers, 1938

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Returned Soldiers. Country Branch Meetings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 18

A report was submitted at the annual meeting of the Albury Returned Soldiers League covering the activities of the graves committee, which since its inception has been…

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Australian Soldier's Body Found. Inscription on Wristlet Watch. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 5

The Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, has been informed by the Defence Department that inquiries have been instituted by the Imperial War Graves Commission to discover the identity…

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Seeking Identity of Dead Soldier Canberra

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 6

An attempt is being made by the Federal Government to establish the identity of the Australian solider whose body has been exhumed from…

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Soldier's Body Unidentified

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday.--The body of an Australian soldier has been exhumed from a spot in the northern outskirts of the village of Pozieres (Somme)…

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Important Tin Hare Decision Returned Men Can Have Second License United Fund Officials Decide To-morrow

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1938 · page 14

IF they decide to accept it the second Tin Hare licence will almost certainly be granted to returned soldier organisations. THE GOVERNMENT HAS MADE A COVERT OFFER AND…

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War Veterans To Urge World Peace

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1938 · page 24

A demonstration by war veterans in favor of world peace is being organised to take place in all the countries which participated in the Great…

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Rugby League Circus War Over the Cables Now Watch For Big Laugh

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1938 · page 6

SHADES of Gilbert and Sullivan! Football is football, and not comic opera, but the way things…

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World's Next War on Moslem Soil? Dictators Hope Armageddon Will Suit Their Books Anti-british Voices Goad Arab Hordes Germans, Japanese And Italians Are Heading Ancient Race Along Dark Dangerous Path LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1938 · page 15

The world's Moslems are "on the march" but they are not in step not are they all marching the same way. Yet Italy sees the Arab States as the battlefield of the next great war…

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AUSTRALIA in the Great War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 22

WHAT did the Great War mean to Australia? It was of course, whether we all realised it or not, a threat to our national existence—if the war had been lost the British Navy would have been disbanded by the victors (as was the German), and our independence,…

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"Japan Lacks Sinews of War"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 14

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14. -- "Japan is lacking in the sinews of war." This statement was made by Dr. Gordon S. Watkins, of the University of Los…

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Japan Discusses the War. Tokyo, Jan. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 13

In a speech in the Diet the Premier, Prince Konoe, said: "Far distant is the end of the conflict. It will be a long time before a settlement is reached,…

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Spain's Air War. Big Death Roll in Cities. Bombing of Civilians. LONDON, Jan. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 14

Bitter aerial warfare has developed in Spain, with a big death roll in bombed cities. Bombing of civilians by the rebels has…

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Cables From Daily Telegraph Correspondents Japan Pro-British Still Speech in Diet Pleases London End Of War Ear Distant, Premier-Prince Warns TOKIO

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 3

JAPAN had not varied her policy of aiming at maintaining her traditional friendship with Britain, said the Foreign Minister (Mr. Hirota), addressing the Diet…

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Welcome to War Veterans

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 4

Veterans among the men of the visiting American squadron will be entertained by the United States War. Veterans' Association of…

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Welcome to U.s. Fleet War Veterans' Assn. to Entertain

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 6

In order to take an appropriate part in the reception of the men of the visiting American Fleet, the United States War Veterans'…

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China’s Millions Rise Harass Invaders Mao on War Tactics (Special to “Weekly”)

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 2

The interview with Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader, which we publish below, gives the basis of the main news feature of the war which, at this moment, is so prominent in the world press…

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Labor Is Bulwark of Peace Views Of Visiting British M.P. War Dangers Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 6

REFERRING to the danger of war now hanging over the world, Dr Hugh Dalton, Labor member of the House of Commons, replying to a…

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Will Dyson. Artist and Soldier. Comrade of the A.I.F.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 10

Will D[?]son may be known to most Australians as our greatest cartoonist, but by the survivors of the A.I.F. he will always be remembered as the most…

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Anzac Memorial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 11

The trustees have completed the interior lighting of the Anzac Memorial building, and the memorial will be open to the public between 7.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m., to-night,…

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Night Opening Anzac Memorial Building

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 6

The trustees have completed the interior lighting of the Anzac Memorial Building, and the memorial will be open to the public between…

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