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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Fugitive Wounded. Police Fire on Bolting Men Melbourne, Saturday

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 9

After two men, who, it is alleged, were caught in the act of stealing had refused to stop when called upon, the police fired several shots, and a…

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Not a War Profiteer

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 5

At the end of the war Marshal Foch was poorer the at the beginner, and he did not own the house in which he spent his, last years,…

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War on the Black Marauders

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 9

There are no half messures in the war which the Canadian Government has declared against the crow, in common with every other pest which…

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Shots in Street Mystery at Croydon Man Believed To Be Wounded. SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 5

A mysterious affair is reported to have occurred at Croydon late last night. A man named Hitehens, his wife…

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War Memorial. at Villers Bretonneux Paris, March 14

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 12

The Department has approved of the design of the Australian memorial at Villers Bretonneux, but awaits the Government's formal…

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War Graves Issue of Illustrated Guide. March 14

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 12

The War Graves Commission annual report announces the early publiction of an illustrated guide of all cemeteries and memorials in France…

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War Predicted. England and America. Trotsky's Opinion. Costantinople, March 19

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 2

The world is moving towards an Anglo-American war within two years, predicted M. Trotsky in an interview in the local newspapers…

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The Next War Where Are We? Dominion Status Argument London, March 15

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 12

Professor J. H. Morgan, the famous Constitutional Law authority, lecturing at London University on Dominion Status, said the next war…

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War Debts. Payments to Britain. by Italy and France. London, March 15

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 12

The Italian Government duly paid to the British Government to-day the su[?] of £2,125,000 being the seventh installment payable under the Italian Was…

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Political Arrests Big Round Up in India "Waging War Against the King." Calcutta. March 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 5

A big round-up of loaders of the Labour movement took place in Bengal this morning. Union headquarters and other…

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Rhineland Soldiers. Deaths From Influenza. Paris, March 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 March 1929 · page 12

There were two hours' pandemonium in the Chamber of Deputies arising out of the Socialist allegations that 300 soldiers in the…

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War Pensions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 4

We have been advised that owing to the holiday ocurring this week war pensions will be paid to-morrow at the West Maitland Post Office…

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Woman Wounded Assailant Imprisoned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 9

At the criminal sittings of the Brisbane Supreme Court, Donald Wallace Cameron, 28, labourer, was charged with having, on October 20…

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Rip Van Winkles Opponents of War Memorial. Soldiers Will Not Brook Delay. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 7

The state secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League Mr. W. J. Stagg, said to-day people now opposing the Anzac memorial site in Hyde…

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General Smuts on "Cause of the War."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 9

"General Smuts, speaking at a meeting of the League of Nations Union on the work of the league, expressed his views regarding the real cause of the…

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War Drums Rattle Hostilities in China. Shanghai, March 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 2

Hostilities have broken out in the Midle Yangtse, between the Hankow and Nanking forces. The former are attacking…

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"The Last Post." Funeral of France's War Hero. Veterans March. Last Tribute to Marshal Foch. London, March 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 7

The world to-day paid its last tribute to the man who led 10,000,000 allies to victory in the Great War. Every ally of France was represented at Notre Dame Cathedral, and at the Hotel Les Invalides…

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War-time Relics

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 2

When the war lords sent their armies crashing through Belgium and France in 1914, they little thought that the rifles these picked…

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Bread War. May Extend to Groceries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 9

A remarkable sequel is expected to the bread war which has recently been responsible for the reduction of Newcastle bread prices to 4½d a 21b…

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The Musellbrook Chronicle Thursday, March 28, 1929. Local and General. Gift to Soldiers' Race Club

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 2

Mr. N. J. Lillyman, the popular proprietor of Eaton's Hotel, and a strong supporter of the Soldiers' Race Club, has presented to the club a cheque for…

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