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The wars & local soldiers, 1924

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War Memorial. Sydney University Carillon

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 7

In May Of this year the War Memorial Executive began its campaign to raise funds for a carillon of bells for the University of Sydney…

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War Plane for Argentine Airman. Determined to Continue Flight. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 5

Major Zanni the Argentine airman who is flying round the world, will continue his flight with a spare plane, which arrived at Kobe to-day aboard the…

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The Late Robert Fuller. An Autobiographical Sketch, Served in Crimean War. the Clarence in the Sixties

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 7

Mr. Robert Westnott Fuller, who died at his residence, Queen street, Grafton, on August 5, in his 91st year, had a lengthy association with the Clarence…

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Letters to the Editor the Returned Soldiers' Position

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 3

Sir—There is no denying the fact that nine-tenths of the Diggers who have been settled on the land are up agagainst an insurmountable problem…

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Don't Want Work. Some of the Unemployed. Ex-soldiers More Reliable

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 4

On the question of relief for unemployed a deputation from the Sydney Trades and Labor Council waited on the Minister for Labor and Industry to- day…

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Soldiers' Holdings Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 2

In a letter to Mr. Perdriau, M.L.A., the Minister for Lands, Mr. Wearne, states that he has decided to appoint a Board to deal with the reappraisement…

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CHINA. Rumors of War. Trouble Between Leaders. Control of Forts and Arsenals. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 5

Rumors of the imminence of war between Checkiang and Kiangsu have been in the air for some time in connection with which Reuter's Peking…

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Reppralisement of Soldiers Holdings

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 4

Mr. R. S. Perdriau, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Minister for Lands:—"In reply to your urgent representations concerning the…

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War Service Home Demolished by Fire

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 4

A six-roomed cottage, near Inverell, occupied by Mr. T. B. Franklin, a returned soldier, was practically demolished by fire on Friday night. The outbreak…

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Latest War Weapon. Bombs That Can Burn City. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 5

Mr. Phillip Baker, secretary to, Lord Parmoor (Lord President of the Council), lecturing at Labor's Summer School. described a number of new war inventions…

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War in China? Troops on the Move. No Shanghai-peking Trains. British Warships on the Way Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 5

There is no train communication between Shanghai and Peking except for Military purposes, local Chinese Defence Commissioners, who are under…

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China. Rumors of War. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 5

Representatives of the foreign Chambers of Commerce met at the invitation of the Chinese bankers to decide upon a plan of action in the event of Shanghai…

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War Guilt. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 September 1924 · page 3

The German Government has issued a proclamation repudiating the war guilt accusation in the treaty of Versailles, and urging its withdrawal…

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Trouble in China Will There Be War? Allied Ambassadors' Intervene. May Blow Over. Pekin

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 September 1924 · page 3

In reference to the Chekiangsu situation the Anglo-American and Franco Japanese Ministers have sent a note to Watichiaopu saying that their…

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Russian Army. Through England to France. Greatest Hoax of War. How Germany Was Misled. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 September 1924 · page 3

The "(Sunday News," in a special, article detailing the greatest war hoax, that a Russian army had been brought from Archangel and passed through…

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Telegrams "A Declaration of War." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 September 1924 · page 5

Mr. Hughes speech in Parliament last week is interpreted in some quarters as a declaration of war against the Ministry…

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War Echoes. The Merville Cemetery. Grafton Soldier's Grave Flowers for Remembrance

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1924 · page 4

At Merville, ten or twelve miles westwards from Armentieres, there is a large military cemetery, wherein are buried the bodies of a number of British and…

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CHINA Civil War Imminent Rival Armies Massing. "Merciless Conscription." Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1924 · page 5

There is merciless, wholesale conscription everywhere in the war area. Farmers, laborers, coolies, any man fit to fight or carry a bucket is pressed into…

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War on Catapults

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 4

Aid Barlow, of Ballina, has declared war on boys with catapults. He asked the Ballina Municipal Council to take steps to prohibit the use of catapults in…

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The First Blow China's Civil War Fighting Near Shanghai. Allied Warships in Harbor. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 5

Fighting commenced to-day at Swangtu, twenty miles from Shanghai, on the Shanghai-Nanking railway. No details are available owing to the…

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