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The wars & local soldiers, 1928

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Notice of Dismissal Hundred Postal Employees Returned Soldiers' Protest Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 August 1928 · page 4

About 100 temporary mechanics in the Postmaster-General's Department have received notice of dismissal from next Saturday…

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£25,000 Wanted for T.b. Soldiers Governor's State Wide Appeal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 August 1928 · page 8

At the present time there are in this State alone no less than 1500 returned Diggers suffering from T.B., many of whom are married men with families…

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£182,540,000 Spent Repatriation of Soldiers Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 August 1928 · page 5

Up to the end of June, the total amount spent in the repatriation of soldiers after demobilisation £182,540,000…

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43 BODIES Recovered From L55 Tragedy of Great War Wreck Located by Russians. Moscow

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 August 1928 · page 5

It is announced that 43 bodies of the British submarine L55 sunk in 1919, have been recovered. The commander was found at the steering…

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Telegrams Returned Soldiers Reinstated. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 August 1928 · page 3

The Postmaster-General has arrange for the withdrawal of the dismissal notices served on 22 returned soldiers in the postal Department…

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Peace Pact Kellogg Leaves For Paris Ceremony on August 27 Effort to Banish War. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 August 1928 · page 5

With Mr. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, aboard a liner, and Dr. Stresemann's definite announcement that he will attend on behalf…

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Soldier Settlers Capital Value of Holdings Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 August 1928 · page 5

The Minister for Lands, Mr. Ball, intends to introduce a Bill, providing for the further extension of one year, in which soldier settlers may apply to have…

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GREETINGS Kellogg To Chamberlain Anti-war Pact Goal of Universal Peace. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 August 1928 · page 5

Mr. Kellogg has sent from the liner Ile de France, on which he is travelling to Europe to sign the anti-war pact, a wireless message to Sir Austen…

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Thanksgiving Prayers in Chlrches Signing of Anti-war Pact. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 August 1928 · page 5

Lord Cushendun has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury, expressing profound satisfaction at the latter's direction that the signature of the…

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War Service Homes New Deputy-commissioner Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 5

The War Service Homes Commissioner, Mr. H. L. Walters, announced that Mr. S. Lucas has been appointed Deputy-Commissioner in New South Wales following…

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'End of War' Come To Sign Pact Kellogg and Mackenzie King Welome at Plymouth. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 5

Mr. Kellogg, the United States Secretary of State, replying at a civic welcome at Plymouth said: "It' is a great pleasure to me and the Prime Minister…

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£15,000,000 Anglo-chinese Arrangement Reconstruction of War Ravages in China. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 August 1928 · page 5

The "Daily Express" states that a powerful British syndicate has been formed to reconstruct part of the war ravages in China…

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Ban on War Pact Signing To-Day Delegates in Paris Stresemann's Statement "War Scourge of Humanity" Paris

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 5

Every delegate has arrived in Paris for the signing of the peace pact to-morrow, and the flags of each signatory, including the Australian,…

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SIGNED Anti-War Pact Author's Glowing Reception Memorable Ceremony Only One Speech. Paris

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 August 1928 · page 5

I AM FULLY CONSCIOUS THAT SILENCE BEST BEFITS SUCH A SOLEMN OCCASION, THUS I PREFER THAT EACH STATESMAN…

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First Since the War German Training Ship at Fremantle. Fremantle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 August 1928 · page 5

The German training ship, Berlin, arrived at Fremantle yesterday. It is the first German naval vessel to enter an Australian port since 1914. The ship carries…

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Appreciation Returned Soldier's Letter Gratitude to Lands Minister. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 August 1928 · page 4

It seldom falls to the lot of a Minister of the Crown to be commended for the manner in which he is carrying out his task…

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German War Loan Frauds Son of Deceased Magnate Arrested. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1928 · page 5

Hugo Stinnes, son of the late magnate, has been arrested and imprisoned in connection with investigation into war loan frauds. It is alleged that Stinnes…

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Federal Session New Works Expenditure Canberra-goulburn Road National War Memorial. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1928 · page 5

The House of Representatives to-day considered the estimated expenditures on new buildings and alterations for the present financial year, throughout the…

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T.B. Soldier's Train Journey a League Complaint. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1928 · page 6

When a Broken Hill "Digger" had to come to the Randwick Hospital for T.B. treatment, the Repatriation Department sent him a second-class railway…

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"Greatest Pacifists" Governor-general and the Returned Soldiers. Perth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1928 · page 4

The Governor-General, addressing the returned soldiers, said professional pacifists made a great mistake in not realising that there was no greater pacifist in the…

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