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

The wars & local soldiers, 1927

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Colonel Hyman Speaks for Returned Soldiers Men Would Respond. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 1

Colonel Hyman, president of the New South Wales branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, says that he is satisfied that should the Federal…

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War Service Homes 29,957 Houses Built Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 1

Up to the end of last year the War Service Homes Commission had built 29,957 homes in the Commonwealth, Of these £657 were erected in New…

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Wholesale Looting by Southern Soldiers Two White Women Attacked by a Mob (Special to "The Miner.") Hongkong, January 24

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 1

Further reports from [?]ochow reveal that many anti-foreign outrages have occurred, specially toward religious institutions. There has been…

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Decision by the Seamen Not to Carry Soldiers Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 1

At a stop-work meeting of the Victorian branch of the Seamen's Union yesterday a resolution was adopted providing that members of the union…

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Alleged Picekpocket Wounded by Policeman and Then Gains Freedom Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 2

A man well known to the police was detected in the act of picking a man's pocket at the Randwick racecourse yesterday. He was being conveyed to…

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A British General Addresses Troops No War If Preventable London, January, 26

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 1

Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode, Commander-in-Chief at Aldershot, in an address to the 1st. D[?] shires who sail on Friday said:—"You…

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War Material for Reds Trains Leaving Moscow (A.p.a. Message.) London, January 26

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 1

A Copenhagen message states that It is reported from Helsingfors that two trains left Moscow laden with war equipment for the Chinese…

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Troubled China Officers of Reserve Apply for Service Not Needed Says War Office (A.p.a. Message.) London, January 26

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 1

The War Office announces that it has received 100 applications from officers and members of the reserve of officers for Service in China, but…

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The Legislative Council (Closer Settlement Bill and Returned Soldiers Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 4

Speaking on the Returned [?] and Closer Settle[?] Bill in the [?] lative Council yesterday afternoon Sir [?] Carruthers severely criticised…

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War Office Censcred Unnecessary Alarm (Special to "The Miner.") London, January 27

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 2

It is believed that the recent vigorous offical statements are in the nature of a mild censure of the War Office. The statements deplore the inclination…

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War Office Censtred Unnecessary Alarm (Special to "'The Miner.") London, January 27

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

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The Legislative Council Closer Settlement Bill and Returned Soldiers Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 8

Speaking on the Returned Soldiers and Closer Settlement Bill in the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon Sir Joseph Carruthers severely…

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U.S.A. Naval Appropriations Annexation of Canada If War with Britain (A.p.a. Message.) Vancouver, January 29

Barrier Miner · Monday 31 January 1927 · page 1

A Washington message says that during the debate on the Naval Bill in the Senate on Saturday Senator Will[?] [?] the appropriation to build…

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A Wounded Teacher Calls at a Post Office to Telephone for Doctor Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 4

With cats on various parts of his body, Mr. Alfred William Lockyer, a school teacher at Horniton, walked into the local post office at 9 o'clock…

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Troubled China Farewell to Soldiers Singing Indulged in (Spacial to "The Miner.") London, January 30

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 1

With bands playing "lt's a Long Way to Tipperary" and "There's a Long, Long Trail a-Wiilding" and the [?]en singing "There's a Silver Lining…

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Soviet and War Recruiting Operations (The "Times" Message.)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 February 1927 · page 4

Riga, January 31. "The whole of Russia must be militarised," said M. Voroshiloff (Soviet War Commissar), addressing pan-Soviet…

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London Meat War Outlook for Australia. (Special to "The Miner.") London, January 31

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 February 1927 · page 4

"I do not foresee an improved outlook for Australian beef for six months, when the meat war possibly will have ended," said a market…

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Two Men Enter Shop and Threaten Keeper One Later Wounded. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 February 1927 · page 2

Shortly after 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon Michael O'Callaghan, a pawnbroker, of Chippendale, was sitting in his shop when three men…

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France's Moroccan War Foreign Legion Deserter Captured in Ambush (A.p.a. Message.) Paris, February 8

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 4

All the romance usually associated with the French Foreign Legion surrounds tho court martial to-morrow of a German named Kelms, who deserted…

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Death of a Soldier London, February 8

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 4

That Lieutenant Coghill died from shock due not to the injuries he received but to acute influenza was the surprising result of a post mortem…

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