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The wars & local soldiers, 1939

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Steady Market. Quiet Tone. War Policy In Japan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 8

Having made headway during the week, the investment market was fully steady on Saturday. Most of the slight movements arising…

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Harping on War Fear Hughes Pleads For Recruits

Daily News · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 3

To-day people have their eyes directed to war and are feverishly preparing to defend themselves against it." The director of the Lyons Government's…

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War Warning in U.S.A. Dramatic Broadcast From Capital Our Own Cable Service

Daily News · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Sunday.--A dramatic warning against the imminence of war was broadcast to-night by the Assistant- Secretary tor War, Mr. Louis Johnson…

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Worried Over War Risk London

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 5

Chambers of Commerce, builders, property-owners, investors and ship-owners are alarmed about the…

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Nazi War Cars Plan to Sell to Aust. Army

Daily News · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 5

A GERMAN army cross-country car and three huge Diesel lorries made by Krupps have been privately…

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B.H.P. Lust for War Profits Wollongong, Jan. 14

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 1

Playing its usual vicious role of attack after attack upon the working class, the Broken Hill Proprietary has extended its lock-out…

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A Trainload of Soldiers and an Old Peasant Woman

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 2

I shall never forget that memorable morning when we left Spain. The train slowed down approaching French territory…

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War Memorial to Stay

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 7

Construction of the new Blacktown council chambers will not mean that the war memorial in front of the building will be removed to another site. A…

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Petrol Ration in War-time London

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 5

Plans for the organisation of road transport in a national emergency have been worked out by the Ministry of Transport. Fuel rationing is…

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Science Congress Declares War Not Glorified CANBERRA

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 4

"HISTORY taught in N.S.W. schools does not deal with the glory of war." "An attempt is being made to…

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She War in China Surprise Attack by Chines Armies Economic Action Against Japan

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 20

CHINA Is showing that she is neither conquered nor in the exhausted state that Japan would have the world believe she is. This was demonstrated…

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Tension Over Spain War French Fears of Italy 'Aid Barcelona!' Is Faction Cry LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 5

French resentment of Italian intervention in Spain is placing a further grave strain on the relations between Paris and Rome…

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The Soviet Soldier's Oath

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 10

SOME of our newspapers are pointing out that in the new oath to be taken by every soldier of the Soviet Army, on the twenty-first anniversary…

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Disabled Soldiers' Association. Great Progress Made

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 8

A remarkable increase in the membership of the Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association which is limited to returned men who are unfit for any kind of work…

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Our Pig Iron Must Not Go to Japan Public Opinion Throughout the Commonwealth is Overwhelmingly Opposed to the Lyons Government's Attempt to Coerce the Waterside Workers into Shipping War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 7

It is now no secret that the Lyons Government realises that it has blundered badly in pulling on a fight with the waterside workers at Port Kembla, over the loading of pig iron for Japan. And signs are not…

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Welcome Home to Our Spain Heroines!

Daily News · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 4

Two of the best ambassadors who have ever left Australia's shores have reached Fremantle by the liner Oronsay, on their way home -- Sister Una Wilson, of Sydney and Auckland hospitals, and May Macfarlane, of Sydney and Perth…

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Wounded by Shots at Midnight Farm Youth's Ordeal MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 1

How he was first shot in the wrist and some time later was shot in the jaw while on a cycle ride on the Bacchus Marsh road, at midnight, was told in the Bacchus Marsh Court to-day by Arthur Critchley Edwards, 15, of…

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Escaped From War Zone

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 3

"The Japanese soldiers in China were most suspicious and offensive towards Englishmen," said Dr…

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War on Surfing "Dead Uns"

Referee · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 15

S.L.S.A. is determined to stop competitors in novice surf races trying only for places so that they…

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N.s.w. Jewish War Memorial

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 8

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22.—Talkies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sydney Musical Society, (Emd Isaacs, Hon. Secretary, FX2142)…

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