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The wars & local soldiers, 1928

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Peace Treaty France and America to Banish War Forever' Main Provisions of Pact. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 4

The New York "Tribune's" Washington correspondent states that Mr. Kellogg, Secretary for State, handed the French Ambassador to-day the…

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Five Bullets in Body Italian Seriously Wounded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 3

Goibo Calbetti, an Italian, was found in his residence in Berwick Lane, Darlinghurst, yesterday morning with five bullets in his body. The injured man…

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Shooting Accidents Two Youths Wounded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 5

William Adams, 18 was accidentally shot in the neck with a p[?]arifle bullet at Fairfield yesterday while hunting rabbits with a number of companions…

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Huge Loan War Debts Merger American Proposal to Replace Dawes Plan. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 5

The "Deutsche Bergweiks Zeitung" says a new scheme of German reparations and war debts settlement has been drafted by American bankers to…

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Bread 3½D Loaf Rival Bakers at "War." Cootamundra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

A price cutting campaign has been commenced by rival bakers. From sixpence a loaf bread has been reduced to threepence halfpenny…

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Slept Well--never Tired Marshal Foch in Great War. Paris

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

Marshal Foch, according to an interview given to the newspaper "Petit Journal," was able to sleep soundly at will and was not tired during the whole…

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Two Dippings Tweed Tick War Over Farmers Meet Minister. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

The trouble which occurred on the Tweed River as a result of the new regulations making dipping of all cattle infested with tick or clean compulsory,…

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Old Feud Bullet in Chest Wharf Laborer Wounded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

Sydney Norman Neilsen, 31, wharf laborer, informed the police that while on his way to Concord this morning at [?] o'clock he left his motor car at the…

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T.B. Soldiers' Association Appointment of Secretary. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

In continuing their appeal for a conference with the members of the T.B. Soldiers Association to discuss the appointment of Mr. A. G. Hughes, a…

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To Be Scrapped? War Relics at Manchester. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 5

Regarding them as useless and repulsive, a committee of the Manchester Corporation decided to remove all war relics from parks and sell them as scrap…

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Anti-war Treaty France's Reply to U.S. Not Satisfactory. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 5

The reply of the French Foreign Minister, M. Briand, to Mr. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recalls Briand's previous proposal on the same…

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One Against Many Hardened Chinese Criminal Repels Police and Soldiers. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 5

Typical of the hardened class of criminal terrorising Shanghai, a Chinese armed kidnapper was killed this morning following a sixteen hour siege of a house…

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Reds War on Chess

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

A recent Moscow cable states that Russia's revolution has now reached the chess board, and sentence of death has been passed on every king, queen, bishop,…

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Adjustments with Soldier Settlers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

Mr. Barrie, district surveyor at Goul-burn (and late of Grafton), the officer who has the handling, of the negotiations with regard to arriving at an agreement…

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T,b. Soldiers' Association New Executive Appointed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 5

A meeting of the T.B. Solfners and Sailors' Association last night vetoed the recent appointment of Mr. A. C. Hughes, a non-soldier, as secretary. Officers of the…

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Floating Mines Deadly Weapons of War Britain's Latest Minelayer. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 5

The "Daily Telegraph" says the new British electric minelayer, Adventure, is only a warship, propelled by Diesel engines, with electrical transmission for…

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Retrenchment. Returned Soldiers Protest. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 5

Considerable dissatisfaction exists among local returned soldier's concerning the Capital Commission's retrenchment scheme…

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'Wholesale Dismissals' Objections by Returned Men Explanation by Postal Director. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 5

That the Government was economising in all departments because the works vote at the Federal Capital had been exceeded by a quarter of a million was stated, at…

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Outlaw War Kellogg's New Proposal Broth Circles Impressed All-powers Conference Suggested. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 5

British official circles are impressed with the new suggestion of Mr. F. Kellog, U.S. Secretary of State, that if France is agreeable to amend her reply to outlaw all…

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'War to the Knife' Coolangatta Municipalities Petition to Dissolve Council

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 7

"As far as I am concerned," declared the Mayor of Coolangatta (Alderman, R. C. Graham), at a meeting of the council Thursday night, "it is now war to the…

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