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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1928

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Anzac Day Aerial Pageant in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 4

Anzac Day services were held in city and suburban churches yesterday. Addresses appropriate to the occasion were delivered…

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Bullet Remains. Mr. N. J. Hill's War Injury

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 2

Mr. Norman Hill has returned home to Coffs Harbour after visiting Sydney to have his war injury attended to, but the bullet still remains. The…

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Unemployed Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 4

The Returned Soldiers' League has absolutely set its face against the proposed demonstration on behalf of unemployed returned soldiers on Anzac Day…

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Anzac Day Reunion

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 4

To-night, at 8 o'clock sharp, will be held the usual Anzac Day smoke social, and all returned soldiers of the Australian, Imperial and Allied Forces are requested…

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Memories of Anzac

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 4

My memory wanders back across the vista of the years. To that sacred spot called Anzac, which from Time's expanse appears…

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Anzac Day and Show Holiday

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 4

To-day the Post Offices at Grafton and South Grafton will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. for postal, telegraph and telephone business. No money order, savings…

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Chinese Piracy Soldiers on Big Liners. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 5

Illustrating the extraordinary growth of piracy in Chinese waters, the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of Canada, 22,000 tons, trading from Vancouver to Manila,…

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Lest We Forget Anzac Day Celebrations Service at Grafton Bishop of Grafton's Address

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 4

The annual Anzac Day commemoration service at the Memorial Park yesterday was better attended than usual. The morning was beautifully fine, though the…

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IMMINENT Fall Of Tsinanfu China's Civil War Movements of U.S. War Boats. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 5

In the combined, offensive every available unit of the forces of Chiang, Kai Shek and Feng Yu Hsiang allied with the Nationalist, generals concentrated in the…

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In Brisbane War Spirit Attacked Visiting Clergyman's Address. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 5

Anzac Day was commemorated to-day with all the sacredness and solemnity of the now universal recognition of the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli…

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Soldiers' Reunion

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 4

A spirit of true comradeship, such as obtains, at the majority of functions organised, by returned soldiers, was apparent at the Diggers' reunion social,…

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Anzac Day

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 April 1928 · page 2

Anzac Day (Wednesday) was observed as a public holiday in Dorrigo, all the business houses and offices being closed. This was the thirteenth…

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Anzac Day Celebrations at Taree. Taree

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 April 1928 · page 4

Anzac Day was fittingly commemorated here yesterday. A procession took place from the memorial to the Boomerang Theatre. Mount George and Wingham…

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War in China Looting by Soldiers and Bandits Shanghai

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 April 1928 · page 5

Northern Shantung is reported to have become a hunting ground for deserted northern soldiers and bandits…

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Some Sydney Hotels Bars Open on Anzac Day. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 April 1928 · page 4

The secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League, Mr. Stagg, is considerably concerned over the report that a number of hotelkeepers kept their bar; open…

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Ulmarra Anzac Day Celebrations

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 April 1928 · page 3

Following the usual custom, Ulmarra will hold its Anzac Day United Memorial Service on Sunday. The service will be held at the Memorial Stone, Ulmarra, at…

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Anzac Memorial Fund. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 April 1928 · page 4

The New South Wales Anzac Memorial Fund stands at £75,000, and it is likely that designs for the memorial will be called for by the trustees within tho next…

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Anzac Day Commemoration Service at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 April 1928 · page 6

There was a large attendance at the celebration of Anzac Day Maclean on Wednesday last, the large hall of the Literary Institute being almost filled…

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Wounded His Brother Three Years' Imprisonment. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 April 1928 · page 5

Edward Joseph McKenna was on Saturday found guilty of unlawfully wounding his brother, Albert, by shooting him in the back while sitting at a work bench…

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Ban on War French And U.S. Treaties Kellogg's Speech "Simple Renunciation of War." Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 April 1928 · page 5

The Secretary of State, Mr. r. B. Kellogg, addressing the American Society of International Law, declared that in substance the reservations Embodied in the…

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