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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

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Soldiers' Pensions Reduction Rumor Denied. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 September 1930 · page 4

The Federal president of the Returned Soldiers' League, Mr. Dyett, stated to-day he had received an assurance, from the Minister for Repatriation that there…

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Parkes Tragedy Death of Wounded Bride. Parkes

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1930 · page 5

Jean Aubrey, the 17 years old bride, who was shot on Thursday last by her youthful husband, before taking his own life, died last night as a result of her…

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Australia's War Debt

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1930 · page 4

Many fallacies are current about Australia's war debt and alleged usurious charges to Britain. In a letter to the Melbourne "Argus" Sir Otto Niemeyer…

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War Burden 'Money Is Too Dear' Wanted, an Economic Council A.C.T.U. Recommendations. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1930 · page 7

The committee of the Australasian Council of the Trade Unions' Conference on unemployment and wage reduction has submitted to the full conference its…

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War Debts Is Britain Seeking Reduction? London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5

Nothing is known at Whitehall of the story in the "New York Herald-Tribune" that Warren Fisher is sounding the United States Government on the question of…

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Postal Dept. Dismissals Returned Soldiers' Protest Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5

Four hundred returned soldiers, employed in the telephone and telegraph branches of the Postal Department as linesmen, are threatened with dismissal…

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Word-building Competition for Limbless Soldiers' Art Union

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 2

The secretary of the Limbless Soldiers' Art Union advises that from a number of inquiries received, it would appear that some readers are under the…

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The Kaiser at War Bombed From His Quarters

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 7

On August 24, 1914, the inhabitants of the town of Mezieres, in the French Ardennes, were notified that the German advance guard was about to take,…

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The New Weapons of War. Flying Bombs Like Aeroplanes

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 3

Death winged and terrible and despatched from afar; death, defying all defence and raining merciless from the sky on some great enemy city--such is…

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Soldiers' Objection to Southern Europeans.' Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 8

The Returned Soldiers' Conference, strongly protested against land being allotted to Southern Europeans not born in the Empire…

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A Child's View of the War

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 3

Father was coming to Ypres the next day, and Margaret van Crombeke was glad that he would be safe again. But father never came…

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£600 Pension Arrears Recovered by Returned Soldier Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 1

After negotiations extending over twelve years a Sydney returned solider has at last succeeded, through agitation by the Returned Soldiers League, in…

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Rationing Preferred Ex-soldiers in Vic. Railways, Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 3

Officials of the Returned Soldiers League, waited on the Minister for Railways, Mr. Cain, yesterday and told him that the League preferred rationing in…

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Have You Forgotten. Limbless Soldiers' Competition

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 2

Recently we published an advertisement and paragraph drawing attention to the word building competition and art union, which are being conducted to assist the…

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Returned Soldiers Rationing Preferred to Dismissals. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 1

The Commonwealth Public Service Subbranch of the Upturned Soldiers' League has decided to ask the Government to adopt the rationing of permanent and…

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French Govt. War Loan Repayment Not on Gold Basis British Holders May Lose Millions. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 5

If the French Government repays its war loans on the value of the franc, as she insists on doing, instead of on a gold basis, British…

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Horrific War Weapon

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 4

News reveals (says the Hearst press) the fact that Britain has been perfecting "the most appalling weapon of war ever devised by man, defying…

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Anzac Day Queensland Legislation for Close Holiday. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 7

A Bill was introduced into the Queensland Parliament to-day providing that Anzac Day shall be observed as a close holiday, and that all places of amusement,…

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By a Camp Fire Returned Soldier's Experience

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 5

A returned soldier who was walking [?] to his home in Sydney experience near Tar[?]…

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Civil War in China Australians Anxious to Go Statement by Chinese Consul. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 September 1930 · page 5

The Consul-General for China, Mr. F. T Sung, said to-day he had recently been approached with an offer of about 300 Australians with war service records to…

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