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The wars & local soldiers, 1924

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Probing to the Roots of War

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 6

"Great stuff!; we shout when it is rhetorically proclaimed that the elimination of war is vital to the progress of Christianity. But to the…

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War's Terrors. Incendiary Bomb. London, Aug. 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 5

Mr. Phillip Baker, secretary to Lord Parmoor (Lord President of the Council), lecturing at a Labour summer school, described a number of…

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Returned Soldier. Municipal Council Actioned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 6

The Full Court hoard an appeal set out in a case stated by the stipendiary magistrate in reference to a proceeding in the Kogarah Police Court…

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Soldiers' Memorial School of Arts. Memorial Entrance. Unveiled by Lieut-colonel Don. Cameron

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 2

The crowning addition to the Soldiers, Memorial School of Arts, in the form of a solid stone archway at the entrance of the building, was…

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Detective Shot. Seriously Wounded. Brisbane

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 8

After receiving word that a safe had ben blown at Norman Park, near Brisbane, last night. two detectives were sent to investigate…

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War Guilt

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 5

The Government has made a proclamation, repudiating the accusation of milk for the war in the Treaty of Versailles and urging its withdrawal…

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Anzac Day. Making a Public Holiday. Hill in State House

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 11

The Chief Secretary, in moving the second reading of the Hunks mid Hunk Holidays Amendment Bill in the Legislative Council, said the effect of…

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War Memorial Carillon. at Sydney University

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 9

In May of this year the War Memorial Executive began its campaign to raise funds for a Carillon of bells for the University of Sydney…

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Latest War Invention Cities Destroyed Overnight

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 7

Mr Philip Baker, secretary for Lord Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, lectuiring at the Labor summer school, described a number of new war…

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Unemployed. Minister Receives Deputation Undue Preference to Soldiers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 11

A deputation from the Sydney Labour Council waited upon Mr. E. H. Farrar, the Minister for Labour and Industry, on the question of…

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Welcome Home. at Allynbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 September 1924 · page 8

A welcome home to Miss Kathleer Boydell, who has been engaged missionary work in Japan, was held in the Allynbrook Hall, on Thursday…

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A War Hoax. Mythical Russians. London, Aug. 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 September 1924 · page 2

A "Sunday News" special article dealing with the greatest hoax of the war, that of a Russian army having passed through England to France,…

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Note Forgery. War Time Incident. London, Aug. 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 September 1924 · page 2

Sir Basil Thomson (formerly Assistant Commissioner Metropolitan Police), in an article in "English Life," reveals new details of the…

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A War Hoax. Mythical Russians

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 September 1924 · page 3

A "Sunday News," London, special article dealing with the greatest hoax of the war, that of the Russian army having passed through England to…

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War Clouds Russia to Mobilise

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 September 1924 · page 1

London, Saturday.—It is reported from Riga that the Soviet Government at Mescow has decidod upon a general mobilisation, which is daily expected,…

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Long Sentence. Robbed French Wounded. London. Sept. 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 5

A message from paris states that a court-martial at Naney has sentenced Dr. Vuldins to twenty years' imprisonment of a charge of robbing…

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Chinese War Threat Methods of Conscription

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 2

Shanghai, Tuesday.—There is a merciless wholesale conscription everywhere in the war area of farmois, laborers, and coolies…

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Terrors of the Next War Poison Gas

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 3

Mr A. E. Kemp, managing director of the Australian Drug Company, Ltd., at the opening of the firm's new premises at Australia House on Tuesday, said…

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War in Morocco Spaniards Hard Pressed. Spain's Hold Precarious. LONDON. Sept. 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 5

The latest official report from Madrid speaks of a slight improvement in the situation in Morocco, but the fact that the situation is still most…

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One-eyed Soldiers. Better Pensions Wanted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 2

Betten Bensions, based on a minimum of 35/-, instead of 21/-, as at present, were seught by a adeputation representing the One eyed Soldiers'…

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