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The wars & local soldiers, 1932

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War Debt Whole Day For Debate Illuminating Figures French and Italian Settlements. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 December 1932 · page 5

Mr. Baldwin announced, in the House of Commons, that the Government had arranged to devote the whole of yesterday's sitting in the…

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Returned Soldiers Grafton Branch Meeting Ball and Armistice Day

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 December 1932 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Grafton branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was held in McDonald and Hynes' rooms on Monday night when more than 50…

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Caustic Criticism Sewerage Works Conditions Returned Soldiers' Protest Deputation to Mayor

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 December 1932 · page 4

Severe criticism of the methods of employment and treatment of unemployed on Grafton sewerage works was made at a largely attended…

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30,000 Casualties Bolivian Paraguayan War. Buenos Aires

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1932 · page 5

Cattlemen arriving here from the Gran Chaco region said unofficial estimates of the casualties in the recent fighting placed the Paraguayan dead and wounded at…

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Sewerage Works Two Returned Soldiers Sacked Men Who Attended Protest Meeting

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1932 · page 4

It is stated that two returned soldiers who attended the Returned Soldiers' League protest meeting at Grafton on Monday night and criticised the working…

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French Govt. Defeated War Debt Issue Will Not Pay U.S.A. Herriot Resigns Riots in Paris Streets Police and Excited Mobs. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1932 · page 5

The Premier of France, M. Herriot's, proposal to pay the U.S.A. war debt, with reservations, was defeated by 402 votes to 187…

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Creditor Nations Britain Still The Greatest War Debts Debate in the Commons Lloyd George Causes Sensation. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 December 1932 · page 5

The debate on the American war debt payment in the House of Commons opened with an impressive statement by the Chancellor of the…

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South American War Neutrals Propose Arbitration Washington

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1932 · page 5

World support of a new plan to stop the unofficial, but disastrous Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay was sought by a commission of neutrals to-day, and…

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War Debts Six Nations Pay Up Five Default U.S. Sympathy for Britain Commission to Consider Case? Washington

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1932 · page 5

The United States to-day collected war debt payments from Britain, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania, while France,…

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Returned Soldiers Important Meeting To-night

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1932 · page 4

A special meeting of the Grafton branch of the Returned Soldiers' League is to be held at McDonald and Hynes' rooms at 7.30 o'clock to-night for the…

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Record Equalled. Fine Shooting at Anzac Range. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 December 1932 · page 2

The record for Anzac rifle range was equalled by H. W. Mason yesterday when he dropped only one point over the three ranges…

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War Debts. N.Z. Ready to Resume Liability Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 December 1932 · page 5

The New Zealand Government has cabled the Secretary of State that if the United Kingdom's offer to continue the postponement of war debts payments due…

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Sewerage Works Returned Soldiers' Complaints Inquiry Opens To-day

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 December 1932 · page 4

The inquiry authorised by the Minister for Labor ind Industry, Mr. Dunningham, as a result of complaints made by the Grafton branch of the R.S and S.T…

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DISCUSSION War Debts Tangle Pressure From Hoover Congress Continues to Be Hostile. Washington

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 December 1932 · page 5

There is a possibility to-night that Mr. Hoover might des[?]aoch to Congress on Monday a special message on war debts, renewing his…

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Not a Returned Soldiers' Matter

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 December 1932 · page 4

The president of the Grafton branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, while emphasising yesterday that the League was only the channel through which men who…

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'One Big Fraud' Seven Men Convicted Collected Food and Mone[?] Alleged Soldiers' Co-operative Society. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 December 1932 · page 5

Strong comment was made by a Magistrate at the Central Court today, when seven men were convicted on charges of having illegally…

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Grafton Sewerage Works Allegations Of Hostility And Abuse Charges Against Engineer and Ganger Position Of Returned Soldiers Inquiry by Departmental Officer Concluded

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 December 1932 · page 6

Yesterday morning, at the Grafton Courthouse, the inquiry was continued, before Mr. W. Handley, Industrial Officer of the Public Works Department, into the…

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RIOTS Glasgow Disturbances Ten Policemen Injured Sequel to Anzac Corporation Meeting. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 December 1932 · page 5

Ten policemen were injured, two critically, in disturbances at Glasgow after an angry meeting of the corporation when seven Labor members…

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Counter Lunches Bar "War" in Bathurst. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 December 1932 · page 4

In a determined effort to oust competitors at Bathurst hotelkeeper is offering [?] counter lunch, comprising roast turkey, duck, sucking pig and oyster patties…

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ABORTIVE Hoover-Roosevelt Discussions War Debts--economic Conference Roosevelt Wants Free Hand. Washington

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 December 1932 · page 5

Discussions between Messrs. Hoover and Roosevelt over the war debts and other international problems failed to produce any substantial…

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