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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

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Destroyers to Be Stripped Will Be Used for Targets. Served in the Great War

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 2

The Huon and Torrens, remaining units of the first Australian destroyer flotilla, which served with distinction in the Great War, were…

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Chicago War. Campaign Against Outlaws' Two Killed: Two Wounded Chicago, Feb. 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 6

Embattled citizens fought shoulder to shoulder with unpaid police to-day against the outlaws of the houelyards and back alleys…

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The Next War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 2

The last war was the war of heavy artillery, machine guns, submarines. The next war, were humanity foolish enough to permit it, would be a war…

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Red Flag. French Soldiers Murdered. Paris, Feb. 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 6

Intense interest is taken here in the news that three non-coms, and two French officers at Yen Bal, in French Indo-China, were murdered…

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Razor Attack. Mother and Daughter Wounded. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 5

Walking quietly into the kitchen at her home at Lidcombe this morning, Mrs. Muricl Cribb, 32, spoke to her daughter Muriel, aged 11, and…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle Tuesday, February 18, 1930. Returned Soldiers. Notes from the Local Club

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 2

Diggers who wish to furbish up their medals for Anzac Day will be pleased to know that the trading department of the R.S.S.I.L.A. has supplies of the…

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War Books. Returned Soldiers Protest. 'Underworld of Literature

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 5

Protests against the type of war book of which Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a representative example were…

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Marker Wounded. Rifle Range Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 3

While Gunner A. Bolt, of the Australian Carrison Artillery, won assisting to mark when members of that company were engaged in a…

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Stabbed in Chest. Free Labourer Wounded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 6

Benjamin Paul, a free labourer, was admitted to Newcastle Hospital on Sunday night, suffering from two wounds in the left side of the chest…

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Stray Bullet. Man Wounded in Head Twice in Hospital. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 5

About a week ago, while William Austin Sims was walking down the steps at Victoria Street, East Sydney, he felt a stinging pain in the head…

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Unemployment in England Worst Period Since War

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 1

Not since the war has the grim spectre of unemployment been so prevalent in England. Lancashire is now facing the darkest hour in its industrial. his…

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Britain's Burdens War Debt and Pensions. London, Feb. 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 8

The abstract account of the consolidated fund, published by the Treasury, shows that last year Great Britain's debt burden of £1,000,000…

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War Is War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 4

We are given to understand that reviewers in the British press are praising the just published book "War is War," in which the…

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Signs of Early Clashes Not Wanting Dangers of War

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 1

The course of the disarmament conference in London brings us face to face with the fact, however much we dislike it, that the world…

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ANTI-GOD Russian War Intensified Cathedral as "Place of Culture." MOSCOW. Feb. 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

The British United Press learns that the anti-religious "war ia being intensified. Workmen voluntarily…

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New War Book. Hit at Australians. Hard Things About the Guards. London, Feb, 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 6

"War is War," by ex-Private X., published by Victor Gollantz, is arousing controversy as the most recent war book…

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Another War Book Australian Soldiers Attacked

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 1

"War is War," by ex-Private X, published by Victor Gollancz, is as controversial as the majority of recent war books. The anonymous author expresses…

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Missing War Bond Accused Clerk Discharged

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 1

When Walter Allen Spearing, aged 37, a clerk, appeared at the CentralPolice Court, Sydney, on Monday, charged with having stolen a war bond, for…

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Anti-god Church Placid. After Twelve Years' War. LONDON, Feb. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 7

The British United Press' special representative in Moscow says that member of the Russian Orthodox Church are amazingly placid under…

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Soldier Settlers Minister Replies to League

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 4

The Returned Soldiers' League has received a reply from the Minister for Lands to representations, urging that favourable consideration be given to its…

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