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The wars & local soldiers, 1939

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"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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 “Behind the…

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H. G. Wells, Youth and War

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 2

Mr. H. G. Wells’s final broadcast over the national air network was marked, as his previous ones, by an insistence that…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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--…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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