"Sudden War" Perils. Advice to British Civilians. Organisation Urged. LONDON, Jan. 25
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 12
Envisaging a new kind of war, sudden and deadly, Sir John Anderson, Minister for Civilian Defence, in a speech at a National Service Rally…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Recruiting Fiasco 29 Enlist Out Of 5000
Daily News · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 2
A recruiting meeting in Waverley Park last night, intended to be the biggest yet held in a Sydney suburb, proved a fiasco. Not even the oratory of Mr. W. M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welcome Home Party
The Sun · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 9
THERE will be a cheery reunion between Miss Betty Coupland Winn and many of her friends at the cocktail party to be given late this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Anzac Day As One for Youth
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 4
Conversion of Anzac Day from solemn ceremonial Into a day for youth was advocated yesterday by Mr. Ken. McConnell, architect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New War Films
The Workers' Weekly · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 1
New stirring lalkie pictures of the Spanish war will be arriving in Sydney shortly. These films include âBehind the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →H. G. Wells, Youth and War
The Workers' Weekly · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 2
Mr. H. G. Wellsâs final broadcast over the national air network was marked, as his previous ones, by an insistence that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Duke May Open War Memorial Canberra
The Sun · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 3
It is hoped mat we Australian War Memorial in Canberra will be completed in time to enable an invitation to be extended to the Duke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Caught Smallpox in China War Cairns
The Sun · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 3
One of four doctors sent to the Chinese war areas with drugs and medical supplies from the N.Z. Red Cross, Dr. J. B. Moaka, is returning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Touches in Rally. Recruiting at Newcastle. Helmets and Masks
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 12
Steel helmets, gas masks, aeroplanes, and the firing of guns charged with blank ammunition will give realistic touches to a militia recruiting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Memorial at Canberra. Opening by Duke of Kent. CANBERRA
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 10
The Australian War Memorial at Canberra will probably be opened by the Duke of Kent in the earl., months of his term as Governor-General, The Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Decision Soon Says Bruce If War Comes, We Must Be In It MELBOURNE
The Sun · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 3
Whether or not there was a world war depended on the next few months--conceivably in the next few weeks, or even the next new days--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers on Guard. New Munitions Factory. Fear of Bombings. London, Jan. 26
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 12
Three hundred soldiers travelled secretly throughout Tuesday night from their camp in the south of England to guard the Government's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Rebel Troops in Barcelona. Surrender of the City. No Intervention by France. "Entente Would Function If War Came." LONDON, Jan. 26
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 11
General Franco's troops, headed by a Navarrese Division, with colours flying and bands playing, and by General Yague's Moors, made a triumphant march into Barcelona to-day after the city had surrendered without fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Doctor Praises Anzac Type. "Not Appalled by Pain." LONDON, Jan. 27
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 18
"Australian and New Zealand soldiers in thp Great War were excellent examples of the perceptual type of realists to the nth degree," writes Dr, Hugh Crichton-Miller, president of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →War Upon Cactus in Sydney
The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 3
War on cactus plants growing in suburban gardens has been declared by the Prickly Pear…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Victims in Spanish War
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 10
The Spanish Relief Committee in Sydney has announced that a "memorial meeting, to the 28 Australians who gave their lives fighting for democracy in Spain" will be held…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War on Reds in Canada Quebec
The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 5
A challenge to the Dominion Government to explain why "passports were issued to 1200 Canadians who went to fight for the Communists of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japan's War Threat to Russia Tokio
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 3
Continued Russian assistance to China might cause a world war. This warning was uttered in the House of Peers by the Foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Possibility of War. Mr. Bruce's Opinion. MELBOURNE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 17
The High Commissioner, Mr. Bruce, speaking at a civic reception to-day, said that if war did not come within a few months, there would be a period…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Why Buy Abroad? Can Make Own War Needs
Daily News · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 2
AUSTRALIAN defence factories can be developed to the extent of supplying the nation's entire needs…
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