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The wars & local soldiers, 1921

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War Service Homes. Architect Gives Evidence. Complaints From Goulburn. Inquiry Regarding Timber. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 5

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Committee of Public Accounts continued its inquiry in Sydney into the general administration of the War Service Homes…

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The Courts. Thieving at Soldiers' Settlement. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 5

Two soldier settlers. Samuel Corless and George Bidal, were charged at the Liverpool Police Court with stealing 336 feet of galvanised iron piping, the property of…

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Using a Dead Soldier's Name. a Contemptible Case. Goulburn

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 5

An extraordinary case was heard at the Goulburn Police Court, when John Croker was charged with attempting to obtain £50 from George Hockey, and also with…

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A Mean Crime. Impersonating a Dead Soldier Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 3

A message from Goulburn states that John Crocker was charged at the local Police Court with attempting to obtain £50 from George Hockey…

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Egyptian Sedition. Serious Rioting. Five Killed, 45 Wounded. London, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 3

A Cairo message says: Fifteen persons were wounded in anti-Government rioting here, while five were killed and thirty wounded in a similar…

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War, If They Want It. a Straight-out Challenge to Nationalist Organisation. Whining and Fighting. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 5

The National party is conducting a platform campaign in the Robertson Federal electorate with the object of explaining what the National party is doing both in…

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Mr Judd Wants a Gun. the Threats of Soldiers. the Magistrate Says No. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 5

The application of Ernest Judd for a gun license was continued to-day. Mr. Hawkins, S.M., is hearing the case. Judd, who conducted, his own case, said…

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Britain and War

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 4

At the annual dinner to the veterans of the Army and Navy the Governor-General said within the last sixty years the Empire had fought against people in all lands…

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State Politics. War Trophies at Schools. Lithgow

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 5

Mr. Dooley, in unveiling the district school memorial library at Lithgow, referred to the question of having captured machine guns at public schools. That great…

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War Service Homes. Faulty Material Used. Complaints at Goulburn. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 3

Many complaints regarding the war service homes were heard by the Federal Parliamentary Committee at Goulburn yesterday…

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War Service Homes. Some Astounding Evidence. a Jerry-built Structure. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 5

Numerous complaints against the serviceability of the Avar service homes were heard by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Accounts sitting at…

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Trial of War Criminals. Opens at Leipzig. Little Public Interest. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 5

Reuter's Leipzig correspondent telegraphed that the trials of war criminals have opened Cinema operator waited outside the Hotel Astoria for the…

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Asia Minor War. Called to the Colors. Australian Greeks Mobilised Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 3

All Creek reservists in Australia have been called to the colors…

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Soldiers' Wives and Mothers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 4

The Soldiers' Wives and Mothers centre held an enthusiastic celebration to-night in the Protestant Hall. Empire Day is being enthusiastically…

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Returned Soldiers. District Memorial Proposals. Queen of the Day Competition

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 5

A largely attended meeting of the Grafton branch of the Returned Soldier's' League was held at the Repatriation rooms last night, Mr. T. A. Ferguson presiding…

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Over the Cliffs. Returned Soldier's Body Found. Sydney, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 2

Climbing down the cliffs at Watson's Bay to-day, a fisherman found the body of Garnet William Naughton, who had been employed at Wills'…

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Suicide at Lismore. Returned Soldier's End. Lismore, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 2

The evidence at the inquest into the death of a returned soldier, Victor Cutting, showed that deceased shot himself with a rifle at a shooting…

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Ulmarra War Trophy

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 May 1921 · page 4

At the meeting of the Ulmarra Council on Tuesday night a letter was read from the State War Trophy Committee to the effect that another trophy in the form of…

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The Abolition of War. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 May 1921 · page 5

The possibility of the British Empire eventually abolishing war was the theme of speeches at the dinner of the Colonial Institute to celebrate Empire Day. Sir…

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Allies' Measures Effective. Hostilities Ended. Allegations Against Germans. Polish Wounded All Killed. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 May 1921 · page 3

A message from Paris says the energetic action of the Allied Commission secured a cessation of hostilities between the Poles and Germans. It is…

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