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The wars & local soldiers, 1920

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Anzac Day Yesteiday's Procession and Commemoration Service Huge Crowd in Skating Rink

Barrier Miner · Monday 26 April 1920 · page 3

Ideal weather favored the [?]at day of Broken [?]'s Anzac anniversary celebratices. Yesterday the sun shone brightly, and there was a light breeze,…

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Five Mem Are Wounded by a Russian in Sydney Accused Before the Court

Barrier Miner · Monday 26 April 1920 · page 4

The case of the Russian who ran amok at the corner of Margaret and Clarence streets, Sydney, when a number of seamen were stabbed, was heard before…

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Anzac Day Concert & Military Ball Conclude the Celebration

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 3

The celebration of Anzac Day, arranged by the Broken Hill branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, was…

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England Holds First Place in War Recuperation American Admission (Reuter's Message.) New York, April 25

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 1

Commercial writers are having a busy time in explaining last week's Wall-street break.The general opinion appears to be that while the break…

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Soldiers and Civilians Fight at Limerick Armored Car Causes Stampede (Reuter's Message.) London, April 26

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 1

Soldiers and civilians collided at [?]. Both at first were using stones, but a pitched battle with rifle fire was developing when an armored…

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Football Soldiers' Matches in Adelaide Yesterday Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 3

Following were the results of the An[?]ac Day football matches played yesterday:- Light Horse 8 goal [?] behinds…

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Anzac Day Sir Henry Galway's Message to the Men of Gallipoli Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 4

The Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia has received the following rad[?]o message, dated April 25, from the ex-Governor, Sir Henry Galway, who is…

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War Responsibility Ex-kaiser and Advisers Are Blamed in Germany Berlin, April [?]

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 1

The report of the pa[?] [?] Committee of Inquiry into the responsibility for the was [?] the [?] thatit rested with the ex-Ka[?] and…

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Atrocities in Ireland Murder Regarded As War

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 1

"What has happened to the people who were once the most light-hearted of all races?" (asks "Ignotus," writing in "Blackwood's Magazine" on "Irish…

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Aims and Hopes of Labor Are Examined by Thinkers Class War Doctrines

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 2

It is admitted that the lack of clear thinking has hampered the progress of mankind in all times. The Australian labor movement, in common with…

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Revolt in Ireland Soldiers and Civilians Collide at Ardlow One Man Is Killed ("The Times" Message.) London, April 28

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 1

"The Times" Dublin correspondent states that during a conflict between soldiers and civilians at Ardlow last night a man named Philip Dowling was…

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Anzac Day

Western Grazier · Saturday 1 May 1920 · page 2

The celebrations commemoration of the landing of the Australian soldiers on the shores of Gallipoli, 25th April, 1915, and in honor of the port…

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[?]Sh Officers and Men Sentenced to Death [?] WAR London, April 28

Barrier Miner · Saturday 1 May 1920 · page 3

In the House of Lords to-day Viscount Peel stated that for the whole period of the war, in the British army, in all theatres of operations, a total of…

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Soldiers' Souve[?]irs. Collections of Curios Both Merry and Morbid

Western Grazier · Saturday 1 May 1920 · page 4

Almost every soldier back from the Front brought with him some souvenir to sure to show his children in future years what father really did…

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Our Blinded Soldiers How They Solved Their Repatriation Their Tea Company

Barrier Miner · Saturday 1 May 1920 · page 3

The brightest of us have our moments of desppnaency. There are days when [?] fee[?] we have no whatever in life. Our very surroundings, the…

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Anzac Tweed Industry Debate in Parliament All Supplies Utilised

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 May 1920 · page 4

In the House of Representatives on Thursday (says the Melbourne representative of the "Register"), Mr. Malobey moved the adjournment to discuss…

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Ten Red Cross Nurses Snot by German Soldiers It Was Pleasant to Shoot" Paris, April 27

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 May 1920 · page 4

Mr.M.H Donohue, correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," states:—An amazing letter has been published from Corporal Max Zeller, who was fighting…

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Workers of England Hold Political Power Sir Auckland Geddes's Views Changes Wrought by War (Reuter's Message.) Vancouver, April 29

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 1

"The changes wrought by the war in England almost deserve the title of revolution," said Sir Auckland Geddes, the British Ambassador, in an address…

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Soldiers' Conference Carres Series of Motions Election of Officers

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 2

The Returned Soldiers' Congress sitting in Perth carried the following motions (says the Perth correspondent of the "Sun.")…

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Soldiers' Humor Bishop of Bathurst Gives Some Instances

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 3

Speaking of "Digger" humor in a public address at the Town Hall at Young (says the "Sun") Dr. Long, Anglican bishop of Bathurst, said that…

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