Returned Soldiers' League. Appeal for More Members
Sir Gilbert Dyett, the Federal president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, will launch the 20th anniversary of the signing of peace…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
6,728 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 250
China Enlists French Pilots
TOKIO, Sunday.--Forty-nine French airmen have been recruited for the Chinese Air Force, Japanese newspapers report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcome Home!
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lowers, Cars Needed Welcome Home To Brigade Heroes SYDNEY
Flowers are requested by the Committee which is organising the Welcome Home to the Spain fighters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Why Talk Of War?
Australia is in the throes of a recruiting campaign. Posters all over Sydney proclaim: "I have joined. What about you?" More…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Race Meeting with War Shells Overhead
A RACE meeting was conducted in China last month, with Japanese and Chinese shells passing overhead. The chairman of the Tientsin Jockey Club stewards (Mr. A. E…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Arab War Peril to Britain Winnipeg
"Unless the Arab's right to govern Palestine is recognised the whole Arab world will be forced into a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →World Cables Civilian Camps War-Time Refuge LONDON
Fifty holiday camps, which in war-time would be used to supplement billeting under the Government's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wounded Are Cared For. Refugees From Spain. Many Live in Holes. From Our Own Correspondent. London, Feb. 13
Newspaper correspondent, visiting refugee camps on the Franco-Spanish border report that the conditions have been improved, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Sacred Duty to Arm." Spectre of Major War. Mr. Hull's Broadcast. Washington, Feb. 13
"It is our sacred duty to strengthen our armed forces when the spectre of a major war haunts the world," said the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Spanish Refugees Living Like Animals Dwell in Sand Holes Kill Mules for Food War Fiat From Shelled Madrid LONDON
WHILE the Spanish Republican Ministry is preparing in Madrid to carry on the war,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enlistment Must Be Voluntary Warns Us Against Lyons Labor Council On Defence SYDNEY
"A resolution which did not even have a word of criticism of the defence and foreign policy of the Lyons government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcome Home
Members of Surry Hills and Phillip branches of the A.L.P. are actively cooperating in the mass welcome to the members of the International Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Preventing World War. Mr. Bruce's Views. MELBOURNE
The High Commissioner, Mr Bruce, declared to-night that strength should not be used to destroy dictator countries. The policy of those who contended that dictator countries…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Race to Build Huge War Factory London
The King and Queen will walk nearly two miles along underground passages when His Majesty on March 14 opens the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra. To Be Opened By The Duke of Kent
It is understood that the Australian War Memorial Museum at Canberra will probably be opened by the Duke of Kent soon after he arrives in Sydney to take up his duties as Governor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Negrin Weary of War Fights on to Gain Terms Shells Raining On Madrid: Attack Is Forecast LONDON
Dr. Negrin, Spanish Premier (says a French envoy who went to see him), is warweary, but anxious to extract terms from the Francoists before he will give up the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Italians who Fought for the Empire: Lord Roberts, V.C., and a "Fighting Fiaschi" in the Boer War
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Earthquake Havoc .... Schoolgirl Soldiers .... Latest Picture of Pius XI
AN EARTHQUAKE destroyed these buildings in the business section of Conception, Chile. WHILE conscription is being considered by the Hungarian…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Missionary" War. in Central Africa
"War is waging in Central Africa," ran the opening sentence of an article in the London "Sunday Dispatch," on January 22. Having caught the reader's eye…
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