Near Death Soldier Falls Under Train
Louis Waller, 58, a returned soldier of Cumberland Road. Auburn, had a remarkable escape from death when he fell from an electric train into the path of a steam…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
6,728 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250
War World's Wasting Disease Canberra, Thursday. WELLS to CANBERRA
IS the human race facing extinction -- self destruction? H. G. Wells asked this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Spanish War. Fighting on Two Fronts. Montblanch Taken. Saragossa, Jan. 12
General Franco's troops have captured Montblanch, a key point on the Lerida-Reus railway, which is regarded as the biggest prize in the present…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →World of Savages H. G. Wells Sees Mad Planet War's Red Ruin Canberra
A WORLD populated by savages living in caverns and fortifications, with no art but the art of war, this was the future held out for mankind by H. G. Wells in an address…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Planes for China. 200 FROM U.S.A. Chiang's Guerilla War. New York, Jan. 12
The Bellanca Aircraft Corporation, of Wilmington, Delaware, has disclosed that it signed a contract with the Chinese dovernment in August for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Deadly" Gun Is Under Cloud English War Office Holds Up Production Our Own Cable Service
LONDON, Thurs. -- Earlier announced as Britain's most deadly anti-aircraft gun, the 4.5 appeared to be under a cloud at the War Office to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enlistment in Militia
"J.P."—Apply to Warrant Officer, Drill Hall, Orange. The Darwin force has been filled. No further applications are being received…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Test Cricketer to Enlist. Message From Ben Barnett. Rally of Sportsmen
Mr. Ben Barnett, wicketkeeper in the last Australian test team, and one of the three selectors, sent a telegraph message to the Minister for External…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Disabled Soldiers' Association
The annual meeting of the Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association will be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. The election of officers will take place at 2 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Soldier’s Fate
While militarists and big business men are staging all kinds of pomp and parades in their efforts to induce young Australians to become soldiers, many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mussolini Declares Against War. "Would Again Throw Power on Side of Peace." Mr. Chamberlain in Rome. Statesmen Have Intimate Talk. LONDON, January 12
Both the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, and Signor Mussolini, in their private talk in Rome yesterday, spoke freely and frankly on the need for preserving peace, states the Rome correspondent of "The Times."…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Prisoner. Story of Russian Horror
"Prisoner in The Forbidden Land," by Gustav Krist (translated by E. O. Lorimer); Taber and Faber, Ltd. In the spring of 1938 Messrs. Faber…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Man-o'-War's Owner Rejects Fabulous Offer New York
A million-dollar offer (£A.200,000) by the film magnate, Louis B. Mayer, for the world-famous racehorse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Music and Drama. Plans for "Idiot's Delight"—An Anti-War Play
LINA BASQUETTE and Henry Molli[?]son will airive from America today in the Niagara. There was some doubt as to the play which would be…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →£250,000 REFUSED. Reported Offer for Man-O'-War. New York, Jan. 13
Mr. Samuel Riddle, owner of the famous racehorse Man o' War, announced that he had refused an offer of one million dollars (£Aust.250,000) for the racehorse by Mr. Louis…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Soldiers' Act and County Council
SYDNEY County Council may shortly become a further testing ground of the Returned Soldiers' Preference…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chamberlain's War Immunisation Research
"I stand for a policy of friendship with all and enmity towards none; a policy directed to a just and peaceful solution of international difficulties by the method of negotiation," (Mr. Chamberlain in Rome.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →America's New War Measures New York
What financiers of Wall-street and politicians of Washington call the "European situation," with its fears and implications,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hopeful View of the Rome Talks Plain Speaking and a Clearer Anglo-Italian Understanding Agreement with France Emphasised Progress Of Spanish War Shaped And Dominated Nature Of The Leaders' Conversations ROME
Both Britain and Italy are counting their gains from the talks of Chamberlain and Mussolini and finding them good. Last night the match seemed to have ended in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. War Games Begin
NEW YORK, Sunday.--Ninety-eight warships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet passed through the Panama Canal into the Atlantic yesterday…
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