War Pensions
In 1919-20, soon after the War 225, 580 people received war pensions at a cost of £5,873,000. To-day the number of war pensioners…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1931
394 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 14 of 20
War Pensions Cut Details of Proposals Caliberra,Wednesday
Orphan children war widows,disabled soldiers,and widowed mothers are subject to no pension reductions in the scheme for saving an additional…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Communism Ex-soldiers Request to Declare It Illegal Sydney
The Returned Soldiers' Congress has decided to make representations to the Federal Government with a view to having Communism declared illegal and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Debt Moratorium Methods of Repayment Decided by Experts London, August 11
The conference of experts appointed by the recent Six-Power Conference in London to consider details of the war debt moratorium proposed on June 20…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ex-soldier in Court Magistrate's Sympathy Sydney
A sick returned soldier named Percy Madden was charged in the Mudgee Police Court with having obtained a dole ticket by fraud. It was sented…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ex-soldiers Dismissed From Postal Department Letter From Minister Canberra
In a letter to the Returned Soldiers League. Mr. A. E. Green, the Postmaster-General, says he cannot prevent the dismissal of a number of,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Postal Worker Wounded Rifle in Mail Parcel Perth
There was consternation in the mail branch at the General Post Office at noon to-day when an employee was wounded by an accidental shot from a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reparations and War Debts Scaling Down Wanted Says Shipping Magnate London, August l8
"I see no prospect of any permanent improvement in trade and unemployment oxcept through the drastic scaling down'or cancellation of reparations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Runs Amok Man and Woman Wounded Woman May Not Recover Adelaide
Running amok at a farm four miles from Mannum this morning, a man shot a young woman in the head, Wounded one of her brothers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bishop of London on Visit to America Favors Cancellation of All the War Debts Vancouver, August 18
"Closer relationship, both spiritual and economic. among the nations is the solution of the present world difficulties," said Dr. Winnington Ingram…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New South Wales Railways Restricting Concessions to Former Soldiers Sydney
In order to effect the necessary 20 per cent. saving in returned soldiers' travelling allowances it has been suggested to Mr. Lang, the Premier, that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shell-shocked Soldiers at Callan Park Asylum a Bankstown Protest Sydney
At a meeting of the Bankstown branch of the Returned Soldiers' Leagne allogations were made that shell-shocked returned soldiers were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mannum Shooting Case Wounded Man's Statement Adelaide
Rudolf Wachtell, who struggled with [?]arold Douglas Nichels when he ran amok near Ma[?] yesterday and shot his brother and his sister, after he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mannum Shooting Case Wounded Man's Statement Adelaide, Saturady
R[?] Wachtell who struggled with Harold Duglas Nichels when he run amok near Mannum yesterday and shot his brother and his sister, after he…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Returned Soldiers in Postal Department 87 More to Be Dismissed Melbourne
Another 51 returned soldiers with service in the post Office ranging from one year to 15 years are to be dismissed to-day, although a strennous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gang Violence in New York Battle in the Streets with Pursuing Police 6 Killed and 12 WOUNDED (Special to "The Miner.") New York, August 22
Two policemen, three robbers, and a child were killed last night and about a dozen other people were injured by gunfire in one of the worst outbreaks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Pension Reductions
Further reductions in war pensions under the Financial Emergency Act operated as from pension day August 97. The classes of cases affected are—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revolt in Portugal 50 Killed and 250 WOUNDED Lisbon, August 27
Fifty persons were killed, 250 wounded, and 500 arrested in a revolt in which rebels armed with machine guns and rifles attacked the barracks of an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Thief Wounded in North Sydney To-day Constable's Exciting Chase Sydney
After an exciting chase during which three shots were fired at North Sydney early this morning au alleged thief was wounded in the leg. While on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Hostel Dining-room
Mr. D. S. Noble, manager of the Returned Soldiers' Hostel, advertises' that the dining-room of the Hostel, which has been close1 for about l8…
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