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The wars & local soldiers, 1928

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Returned Soldiers' League Friction Between Executives. Perth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 August 1928 · page 5

Colonel Collett, president of the West Australian Returned Soldiers' League, told a meeting for the advancement of the League that they were being…

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Wounded Italian Found in the Bush Crawling and Walking to Hospital. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 5

Several bush workers discovered a wounded man painfully making his way to Woodend. He was taken to Kyneton Hospital, where it was found he had been…

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Pernicious Literature Returned Soldiers' Resolution. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 August 1928 · page 5

The Returned Soldiers' Conference carried a resolution deploring the sale and reading of pernicious literature and urging the Railway Commissioners to refuse…

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Italian Scooting Affray Wounded Man's Struggle Through Bush. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 August 1928 · page 5

It is now stated that Andrea Pittinaroi, who, it is alleged, was shot by another Italian on Thursday, lay severely wounded in his tent for two days, and then had to…

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Country's Thanks Returned Soldiers' Protest. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 August 1928 · page 5

The Returned Soldiers' organisations are protesting that nothing has been done to honor the high officers of the A.I.F., who served in the war, beyond a note of…

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German Warship First Visit Since War. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 August 1928 · page 5

The German cruiser, Berlin, which is expected at Fremantle to-morrow, will be the first German warship to visit Australia since the war…

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R.S. LEAGUE The Annual Conference Pension Problem Ex-soldiers and Land Ballots. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 August 1928 · page 5

The Returned Soldiers' League annual congress commenced in Sydney this morning. Many subjects of importance will…

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Preference to Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 August 1928 · page 4

Inverell branch of the R.S.S.I. League apparently is not satisfied with recent appointments by Macintyre Shire and the Inverell Municipal Council, as the…

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Returned Soldiers League Conference Recommendations and Proposals. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 5

The Returned Soldiers' League Conference, at the instance of the Orange delegates, decided to recommend the authorities of the War Service Homes…

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'Stormy Petrel' Serbian Assembly Tragedy Peasant Leader Shot Death After Being Wounded. Belgrade

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 5

Stephen Raditch, Croatian leader, who was wounded by a fanatic some weeks ago, has succumbed to his injuries. Radit[?]h suffered from complicated…

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Dropped Into Space Soldiers Falls From Aeroplane. Paris

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 5

An aeroplane accident resembling Lowensteins's occurred at Nancy. A young soldier desired of his first air trip arranged for a flight aboard a…

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Soldiers' Conference Some Important Decisions African War Veterans to Be Admitted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 August 1928 · page 5

The Returned Soldiers' Conference decided to-day that the next conference shall be held in Sydney. An attempt by Mr. H. Crawley, of Bathurst, and Mr…

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Walsh As Prophet Predicts War in the East. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 August 1928 · page 5

Speaking at the Argonauts Club Mr. Tom Walsh predicted war between the Eastern races and the white peoples of the West…

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Returned Soldiers Proposed Exchange of Troops. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 August 1928 · page 5

The Returned Soldiers' Conference carried a resolution in favor of a battalion of Australian soldiers being sent yearly to London for 12 months. In return it…

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Woman Wounded Mysterious Shooting Case. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 August 1928 · page 5

Mrs. Constance Phillips, 23, was admitted to Melbourne Hospital with a serious gunshot wound in the left side. Her condition is critical…

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Conference of Soldier Settlers Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 August 1928 · page 3

The Returned Soldiers' League has decided to arrange a conference of soldier settlers in Sydney in October. Delegates from every soldier settlement in the State…

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Anti War Treaty to Be Deposited at Washington. Washington

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 August 1928 · page 5

Agreement has been reached between the nations participating as original signatories to the treaty outlawing war that the treaty and all the instruments of…

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Soldiers' League Sir Neville Howse Hits Out. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 August 1928 · page 5

Sir Neville Howse, addressing the representatives of about 60 branches of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League, said he found the loudest…

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Anzac Day Should Be Sacred Holiday. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 August 1928 · page 5

At the annual meeting of the Queensland Executive of the Returned Soldier's League to-day, a resolution submitted from all branches was carried, urging the State…

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Tobacco Prices Undercutting War in Sydney Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 August 1928 · page 5

For many months the Railway Commissioners have been under[?]ntting members of the Master Hairdressers and Tobacconists' Association, in the prices charged…

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