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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Bullet Ricocheted. Youth Wounded in Leg

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 16

Leslie Burgess 17 whilst shooting with a pea rifle Coolalie near Yess was shot in the leg. Burgess shot a rabbit but the butter…

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Fugitive Wounded, Police Eire on Bolting Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 7

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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War Loans. Conversion Operations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 16

War loan conversion operations effected by the Commonwealth Treasury since it came into office 1923 amount to £230,000,000, In…

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Shot in Stomach Dealer Fatally Wounded. Sequel To Domestic Quarrel. MELBOURNE

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 6

Harold Macdonald, 34, a dealer, was found lying on the footpath in Kent street, Richmond, late last night, with a…

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Mobilisation. Scientists and War Engineers Scheme

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 16

The Council of the institution at Enginers (Australia), in session at Newcastle, has completed hitherto undisclosed plans for seeming an…

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

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 8

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

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Deaths From Cold French Soldiers on the Rhine, Political Outcry. London, March 10

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1929 · page 2

The Purls correspondent of the "Dally Express" says that a political crisis threatens, owing, to the heavy death-roll of French troops on the…

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

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1929 · page 8

The Italian Government duly paid to the British Government to-day the sum of £2,125,000 being the seventh instalment payable under the Italian War…

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

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1929 · page 8

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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"Anglo-american War" Trotsky's' Lugubrious Prediction. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Constantinople

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 March 1929 · page 2

That the world is moving inevitably towards an Angle-American war within two years is lugubriously predicted by Trotsky, in an interview in local…

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Not a War Profiteer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 7

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

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

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 7

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

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War Service Homes. Bill Passes All Stages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 6

Resuming the debate on the second reading of the War Service Homes Bill, Mr. Riley, jun. (N.S.W.), dealing with the clause providing for the…

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

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 7

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

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Returned Soldiers. Inquiry Into Dismissals. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1929 · page 7

Seven returned soldier employees of the War Service Homes Department who were dismissed recently, had their case inquired into to-day…

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Dismissal of Diggers. War Service Homes Department. Inquiry Resumed. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 March 1929 · page 5

When an inquiry into the dismissal of seven Diggers from the New South Wales branch of the War Service Homes Department was resumed…

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China's War Appeal by Chiang. "Peace at Any Price." Shanghai, March 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 March 1929 · page 5

Prospects of war between the Nanking and Hangkow factions being renewed is believed to be considerably lessened in consequence of a…

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Soldiers' Appeal Board Bill. Important Amendments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 March 1929 · page 4

The Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Bill was road a second time in the House of Representatives. In Committee amendments were…

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Marshal Foch Dead a Great Soldier

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 March 1929 · page 6

Paris, Thursday.—The death is announced oi! Field-Marshal Ferdinand Foch, O.M., G.C.B., who was Generalissimo of the Allied Forces in France…

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Returned Soldiers Euchre Tournament

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 March 1929 · page 6

The Returned Soldiers' euchre tournament, held in the Memorial Hall last Tuesday night, attracted a good attendance, and keen and…

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