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

The wars & local soldiers, 1930

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Our Footballers Coming Home War Cry for Hinkler London

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 1

The Australian Rugby League players sailed from Southampton on…

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Three Wounded Surry Hills Affray Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

Three men were injured in a fracas which took place shortly after midnight in a house in Belmore Lane, Surry Hills, last night…

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Anzac Park Question of Water Supply

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 13

A public meeting was held in the Town Hall, Gulgong, on January 21, to decide the question of Installing a water supply in Auzac Park…

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Artificial Silk Competition Not Feared by Soldiers’ Mills

Leader · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 6

[?] members of the Legacy Club at their weekly luncheon, [?] Melbourne, the manager of the Returned Soldiers’ Woollen Mills…

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Cost of War Is Still with Us

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 4

From the inception of the war pensions scheme in 1916 to June 30, 1929, Australia expended sums totalling [?]80,904,984. During the same period…

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Compulsory Arbitration Best Methods of Preventing War London

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 5

"Mr. Henderson seems to think that compulsory arbitration is an invaluable preventative of war," says the "Morning Post", commenting on Mr…

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Australia [?]Onors Dead Soldiers. W[?] Wreath as Ca[?]tap[?]. LONDON

Leader · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 2

Whitehall was shrouded In fog when Mr. Fenton and Sir Granville Ryr[?]e placed a huge wattle wreath on the Cenotaph. Also present were Admiral…

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More Postal Dismissals. Returned Soldiers Receive Notice. SYDNEY

Leader · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 5

T[?] returned soldiers employed [?] Postal [?] at the Central Square [?] Sydney have been informed that their [?] will…

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50 Per. Cent. Preference Soldiers Desire New Land Sydney. This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 1

In reply to the Returned Soldiers' Association, which asked that at least 50 per cent. of all new land opened up in N.S. Wales should be set…

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Dirty War Books a Major's Denunciation LONDON

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 3

"We are at present submerged by a flood of so-called war books which depict the men who fought for us in the late war for the most part as brutes…

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Now a Martyr Man Who Started War SARAJEVO

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 2

800 Serbian patriots stood bareheaded in two minutes' silence while the memorial was unveiled commemorating the murder of the Archduke on June…

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1000 Chinese Deliberately Drowned by Soviet Soldiers Tokio

National Advocate · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 2

A Japanese merchant who has returned from Manchuria reports that after the capture of Dalainor, Soviet soldiers deliberately flooded the coal…

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Assassination Attempted Mexican President Wounded Six Shots Fired Mexico City

National Advocate · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 4

Cascual Vortiz Rubin was wounded in the jaw by a would be assassin who fired on him as he was leaving the National Palace a few hours after…

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Materialistic World. Baptists President’s War[?]ng

Leader · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 6

“In all parts of the world—educationally Industrially and socially—we are rapidly becoming veiled pagans, and it devolves upon the churches for…

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Husband Poisoning Worst Hungarian Case First Soldier to Be Blinded In War BUDAPEST

National Advocate · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 2

What is regarded as probably the worst Hungarian poisoning drama is being unfolded at Syvenok. Maria Varga is charged with poisoning her…

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Married Soldiers and Preference

National Advocate · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 2

At yesterday's meeting of the Turon Shire Council, a letter was read from Mr S. F. Gallagher Sofala. stating that in connection with a job being…

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Sports on Anzac Day

Leader · Monday 10 February 1930 · page 2

The Orange branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League and the newly-formed Light H[?]se Sports Club, in conjunction[?] will hold a sports carnival on…

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The Present War

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 4

NO one would be so hardy or so heartless as to suggest that wages in Australia should fall to the level of those in Germany—the trade…

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Is It War ? Russia Resents Persecution Stories Significant Hints London

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 1

The "Daily Herald" describes the interview yesterday with Sargius, the metropolitan head of the Orthodox Church in Moscow, as a dramatic and…

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A Still Tongue Man Severely Wounded SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 2

During a Quarrel in a house at Newtown last night a young man was struck with an iron bar. receiving a severe wound in the chest…

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