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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Bathurst Soldiers' Memorial Carillon Notes

National Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 1

Considerable interest is being taken in the Miss Bathurst Competition. The Agents' and Graziers' committee is moving. A dance is to be held at…

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War Debts France and Germany Agree PARIS

National Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 2

Cabinet unanimously approved of the Reparations experts' plans. M. Briand informed the Cabinet he has Dr. Streeseman's assurance that the advent…

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Mystery of Room 40 British Secret Service. Romance How It Operated in War London

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 1

Further secrets of the mysterious Room 40 at the Admiralty are revealed in a new book, entitled "Spy and Country Spy," by Richard Rowen,…

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Spies of the War Some Remarkable Revelations Secrets of "Room 40." LONDON

National Advocate · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 2

Further secrets of the "Mystery Room 40" of the Admiralty were revealed in a book entitled "Spy and Counter-Spy," by Robert Rowan…

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Returned Soldiers’ Ladies’ Auxiliary

Leader · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 6

Prior to the commencement of general business at yesterday’s meeting of the Returned Soldiers’ Ladies Auxiliary at the Memorial Hall, the…

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T.b. Soldiers and Sailors’ Cup

Leader · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 5

This very fine cup will be played for on Tuesday next, and, as the final play-off of the Western winners is to take place on the Orange links on a…

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Late General Booth Impressive Memorial Service Wounded in House of His Friends LONDON

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 1

Ten thousand people, representing all ranks in the Salvation Army and all walks of life, filled the Albert Hall to-day for General Booth's memorial…

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Utopian Coal Mine Katoomba's Profitable Colliery Ex-soldiers' Enterprise

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 5

A romatic story lies behind the development of a coal-mining enterprise in the heart of the Blue Mountains by four returned soldiers, who saw in…

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T.b. Soldiers and Sailors’ Cup

Leader · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 4

This very fine cup will lie played for on Tuesday (tomorrow), and. at the filial playoff of the Western winners is to take place on the Orange…

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Defrauding Tradesmen War-Stricken Soldier Convicted for False Pretences Pension of 12/6 a Fortnight

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 1

Several charges of false pretences involving the victimisation of Bathurst business people were admitted by Charles William Rogers, 30, a laborer,…

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War Reparations German Policy Denounced Berlin

National Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1929 · page 5

Speaking in the Reichstag, Count Westart, the Nationalist leader, denounced the Government's foreign policy and contended that the Owen…

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No More Kingsford Smith or a Newspaper War

National Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1929 · page 2

When asked to-day whey the Southern Cross was not under contract to any newspaper for the present flight to England , Squadron Leader Ulm…

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Soldiers' Congress What Katoomba- Leura Wants Katoomba

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1929 · page 5

At a special meeting of members of the Katoomba-Leura sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, the following motions were among those…

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Welcome Home a Pleasant Party

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 28 June 1929 · page 23

A welcome home party was given to Mr and Mrs H. Nesbitt on Friday night at the residence of Mr Nesbitt's sister, Mrs A. Kuke, on…

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Moors’ Fiendish Cruelty. Soldier Prisoners’ Throats Cut. RABAT, Morocco

Leader · Friday 28 June 1929 · page 7

It appears that the Moors, who are fiendishly cruel, cut the throats of the wounded and unbounded French prisoners. whom they captured in the…

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Soldiers Settler! Duties of Special Boar Problems to be Face

Leader · Friday 28 June 1929 · page 4

The “Sydney Morning [?] June 12 published the following [?] as having been passed Walbundrie sub-branch of the…

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Anzac Park Proposed Joint Control Town and Shire Councils

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 1 July 1929 · page 3

A letter from he local Government solicitor (Mr A. R. Bluett) was read at a meeting of the Gulgong Town Council in regard to the…

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Talkie War an Exciting Stage Melbourne Royal Goes Over. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1929 · page 2

By the end of this week the Talkie war will have reached tin exciting stage Unless a decision regarding the question of the supply of films to…

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Housewives Active War on High Prices Cheap Bread in Melbourne. MELBOURNE

National Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1929 · page 2

The Housewives' Association has entered into an agreement with a firm at Yarraville to supply whole-meal for the manufacture of bread…

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Father's Crime Shoots Himself, Wife and Infant Daughter Returned Soldier's Act Melbourne

National Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1929 · page 2

The police have been unable so far to discover any motive for the domestic tragedy in which the father shot his wife, and infant daughter, and…

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