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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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War Graves. Australian Pilgrimage. Proposed Party of 250

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 6

Preliminary, arrangements have been made for a pilgrimage of Australians to the battlefields and was graves of Gallipoli and France…

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Afghan War Omar Bids for Crown. British Legation Suffers. Calcutta, Jan. 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 13

prince [?] Murammad omar Khan, a member of a branch of the Afghan Royal Family that are rivals of king Amanullah, escaped from…

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Shipping War. U.S. and Cunard Line. Post Office Butts in Montreal. Jan. 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 12

A further development in the shipping was taken place, and the New york post Office Department has issued an order withdrawing…

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Plane Crash Five Soldiers' Killed. Middleton (Penn.), Jan. 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 7

Five soldiers were killed, and three seriously injured when an Army transport airplane crashed here on Friday…

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Soldiers' Point. Presentation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 8

A very pleasant evening was sepnt at "Dunkeld," Soldiers' Point, Port Stephens, the summer residence of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Fletcher, of Lorn…

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Italian Charged Husband and Wife Wounded. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 5

At the Paddington Court to-day, N. Joseph Gilberto, 33, an Italian fruiterer, was remanded on a charge of having at Woollahra on Saturday…

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War Service Homes. Expenditure £26,643,302

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

A return issued by the War Service Homos Commissioner shows that to December 31, 18,961 homos had been completed in the Commonwealth,…

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War Service Homes Dismissal of Officers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 3

"Such a degree of intolerance has not been equalled since the days of the Magna Charta," said Mr. W. J. Stagg, secretary of the Returned…

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War Service Homes Dismissed Ex-soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 4

At a special meeting the State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League pledged itself to stand behind the returned soldiers who had…

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Dismissed Officers Independent Inquiry Asked For. Returned Soldiers Indignant SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 7

Mr. Stagg, State secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League, said today that the War Service Homes Commission was working at high…

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Preference League. War on Communism

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

"We are carrying the war for industrial peace into the ranks of Communism, and, as Sydney is a hot-bed of unrest and propaganda, it is…

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Soldiers' League and Club

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

Mr. R. C. Turner has tendered his resignation as hon. sccrctary of the R. S. League, and will be succeeded by Mr. H. A. Hcnsen…

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Soldiers' Race Club. Next Meeting February 16

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

The Returned Soldiers' Race Club will hold its next meeting on the Skellatar raccourse on Saturday, 16th, February next, when five events will be…

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Returned Soldier Postal Employees Receive Notices of Dismissal. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 6

Returned soldier postal employees with an average of five years' service, who were recently switchel from the telephone mechanical branch to the…

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Anzac Memorial Site in Hyde Park

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 14

The State Executive of the Returned Soldiers League has decided to ask the Premier to receive a deputation urging the early allocation of…

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After the War. Indian Ex-soldiers. Argue with Government. Calcutta. Jan. 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 13

Three thousand indian ex-soldiers gathered at Lahore to protest against their treatment by the Government, were prevented by the police from…

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Taxi Fares. Threatened War in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

A taxi-cap "war" is looming in Sydney, and within a week or so the present rates are likely to be appreciably reduced. There has been…

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War Service Homes. Dismissal of Officers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 6

"Such a degree of intolerance has not been equalled since the days of the Magna Charta," said Mr. W.J. Stagg secretary of the Returned…

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The New Poland Post-war Progress

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 11

The tenth anniversary of the declaration of the independence of the land was recently solemnly celebrated throughput the country…

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Afghan War Rebels Dictate Terms Conflicing Reports Cloutta Jan 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 13

The tribal revolt in Eastern Afghanastan appears to have ended, but serious fighting is reported between the Afghan troops and the rebels…

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