Bed Patients Increase Fewer Walkers In War Hospital
Patients taken from the operating theatre at Randwick Repatriation Hospital were compelled to traverse 130 yards in the open to reach the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
6,728 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250
South African War Veterans. Claim for Pensions. Question for Parliament
Mr. Jennings, M.P., told members of the South African Soldiers Association, at their reunion on Saturday night that he and Senator Bland [?] press the veterans' claims…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Soviet and a "Just War," "Herald" Exclusive Service. [?] Feb.26
"Isvestia," the organ of the Soviet Government, defines a "just wir" accordine to Soviet ideas "A war for the [?] of a Socialist…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fortifying Former German War Base British Men And Guns For Island Of Penang Our Own Cable Service
LONDON, Sunday.--The British Admiralty announces that the Island of Penang, on the western coast of the Malay Peninsula, 400 miles from Singapore, will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parade of the Toy Soldiers
One of the toy soldier scenes which were a colourful feature of the Police Carnival at the Showground on Saturday. More than 50,000 people saw the display…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Service Homes
War Service Homes Commissioner since 1936, Mr. H. H. Richardson was to-day reappointed by the Federal Cabinet for five years from May 14…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Women in War. Federal Plan. Voluntary Register
The Federal Cabinet decided yesterday to supplement the plan for a manpower register with a women's register for service in a national emergency…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dyraaba Soldier Settlers. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir—On November 21, 1937, speaking at Casino in reply to a deputation from the Dyraaba Soldiers Settlement, the Premier said that palliatives were no longer of any…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →10,000 Army Approved to Be Enlisted Over 5 YEARS Annual Cost Set At £4,000,000
Establishment of a standing army of 10,000 men was approved by Federal Cabinet in Sydney this afternoon. The men will be enlisted over the next five years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Costing Japan £1,250,000 A Day Peace Moves Reported China's Vast Roving Army Shakes Enemy's Land Grip Victory Not in Sight, But Casualties Grow London
JAPAN is reported to be putting out peace feelers, states the Hongkong correspondent of the Daily Express. Japan would be prepared to withdraw from Central…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →City Blow to Returned Men
The City Council finance committee to-day carried a resolution which, if put into practice, will have the effect of giving more employment in…
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The Editor. Sir,—"H.E.B." rightly argues that "only the workers of the world can end war." He also says that "they are not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Service Homes. Commissioner Reappointed
The Federal Cabinet yesterday reappointed Mr. H. H. Richardson as War Service Homes Commissioner for five years from May 14, 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →War Planes Should Build Here, Says Expert
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--"Australia has the potential power of producing war aircraft on a considerable scale." Sir Hardman Lever, leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holy Crusade Hitler's Way Of Making War
"Hitler is turning the idea of war, which the Germans formerly hated into the idea of a holy crusade. "The enemy is not Soviet Russia, as it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →China War Japanese Use Live Wire London
In an attempt to cope with Chinese guerrillas, the Japanese are putting up a live barbed-wire fence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Referendum on War for United States Washington
To check "secret diplomacy that may decoy the United States into a foreign war," 12 United States Senators are moving for establishment of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spooner Lashes Earle Page Nerve-racking War Warnings Useless
FEDERAL Country Party leader, Sir Earle Page, was lashed by the State Minister for Works Mr. Spooner, in a statement issued last night. Mr. Spooner's outburst, which arose from criticism by Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Memorial Scholarship of the R.v.i.a
The following awards, totalling £104, have been made in respect of the War Memorial Scholarship of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for the year 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War in China. Active Guerillas. Yangtse Operations. "Herald" Exclusive Service. Shanghai, Feb. 28
There is quiet inside the International Settlement at Shanghai, but extensive guerilla activity in the surrounding country…
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