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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1920

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The War Gratuity How to Apply for It Who May Get Cash

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 3

As stated in Saturday's "Miner," application forms for the war gratuity are now available at the office of the Returned Soldiers' Association:…

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Memorials to Soldiers Canada to Spend £300,000. (Reuter's Message.) Ottawa, May 8

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 1

Memorials to Canada's dead soldiers are to be erected on eight of the historic battlefields of France and Flanders…

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Mentioned in Dispatches New Emblem for SOLDIERSd

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 4

The King has approved of an emblem being worn on the ribbon of the Victory Medal by all personnel borne on the strength of the British,Dominion,…

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Bodies Found at Ypres of Forty British Soldiers Gassed in 1915 ("The Times" Message.) London, May 8

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 4

The London "Times" Brussels correspondent reports that on Saturday 40 bodies of British soldiers were discovered at Ypres in a cellar in the…

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A Detective Is Shot in a Dublin Suburb Seriously Wounded (Reuter"s Message.) London, May 9

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 1

Unkown men [?] revolvers at Detective-Sergeant Revell, who was cycling in a Dublin suburb. He was seriously wounded…

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Returned Soldiers Apply for Work at South Mine Statement by Manager

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 2

Mr. A. Fairweather, superintendent of the South mine was asked to-day if it was a fact that returned soldiers were being offered work at the South…

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Riots in Austria Civilians Killed a Wounded (Reuter's Message.) Vienna, May 11

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 1

A monster parads of 200,000 persons demonstrated against the reaction in favor of the tax on capital. There were no disorders…

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Managing Naval War "Pres Wilson Dissatisfied with Great Britain's Way" Statement by Mr. J. DANIEL'S (Reuter's Message.) Washington, May 11

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 4

The Secretary of the Navy (Mr. J. Daniels), continuing his testimony before the Senate Committee, said that President Wilson was dissatisfied at the…

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Soldiers' Sustenance. To the Editor

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 2

Sir.—In reference to the paragraph in "The Miner" on returned soldiers applying for work at the South mine, allow me to state that the complaint lodged…

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Mr. Watt in London a Talk with Journalists Mandates and War Debts Questions Are Discussed (United Service Message.) London. May 11

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 4

Mr. W. A. Watt to-day met a score of London journalists to whom he explained his mission. He afterwards surprised them by opening out freely,…

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Police Have Long Chase After the Elusive Panitz Arrested After 5½ Hours Prisoner Wounded in Stomach Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 4

Jack Panitz, who escaped from the Adelaide Police Station on Friday last, was located at Magill this morning, but again managed to give the…

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Coal Supplies British Export Surplus Less Than Before the War Shortage East of Suez London, May 11

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 1

In the House of Commons on Monday the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Bridgeman), in the course of a reply to Mr. Houston,…

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Returned Soldiers' League Local Board Wanted Under Gratuity Act

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 2

A general meeting of the Broken Hill Branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia was held at the Palace Hotel last…

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Labor Leagues Object to Preference to Soldiers Repeal of Act Requested Government Congratulated on Attitude to Titles Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 1

At a Bathurst meeting of combined Labor leagues yesterday, the following motion was carried:—. "That this meeting calls upon the…

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Soldiers' Trading Company Capital £750,000

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 3

The prospectus is issued of the "Army and Navy Stores Ltd.," a company to be formed in South Australia, and to consist exclusively of returned. sailors,…

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Melbourne Shooting Cases Three Persons Wounded

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 3

With a bullet wound below the heart, George Oxley, a young man living in Cou[?]en-street, South Melbourne, was admitted to the Homeopathic Hospital…

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Germany's War Debts the Feeling in Frange Is for Something Definite (United Service Message.) London May 13

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 4

The London "Times" Paris correspondent reports that Sas the result Of a close investigation of the best French sources he finds that a…

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Ballroom Bolshevism Dance Teachers Determine to Ban the "Bunny Hug" War on Eccentricities (United Service Message.) London, May 13

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 1

A conference of British dance teachers has unanimously decided. to ban "the splits" and other eccentricities from dances…

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Barrier Miner. Friday, May 14, 1920. Sustenance for Soldiers

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 2

THE returned soldiers who have becoms involved in the strike, by finding it in existence on their return, should not be made to suffer for it. As…

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Germany's War Debts the Feeling in France Is for Something Definite (United Service Message.) London, May 13

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 May 1920 · page 8

The London, "Times" Paris correspondent reports that as the result of a close investigation of the best French sources he finds that a…

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