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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1933

196 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 10 of 10

General News Cost of the War. Casualties 42 Millions—deaths Eight Millions

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 23 November 1933 · page 1

Armistice time provides a suitable ocasion for looking back on the World War, and what it cost in human lives, in money and in the…

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"Old Soldiers Never Die."

Western Champion · Friday 24 November 1933 · page 14

"Old Soldiers Never Die" (Angus and Robertson, 6/) is one of the finest war books we have read. Thet author is Frank Richards, D.C.M., M.M.,…

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Silo Workers Preference to Soldiers Forbes and Garema

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 24 November 1933 · page 8

Preference to returned soldiers in regard to employment has been given to returned soldiers by the agents in charge at Forbes and…

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The Anzac Festival

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1933 · page 3

The anzac Festical Committee announces its programme of Compititions for the Anzac Day Season 1934, Among them are two which…

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War Is Massacre a Put Up Job (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1933 · page 1

A cable from London states:—"War nowadays is massacre." declared Brigadier General F. P. Crosier to-day…

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Welcome Home To Newly-Weds YARRABANDAI, Wed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 6

The Yarrabandai hall was crowded last Saturday night when a welcome home to Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Herbert…

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Man Severely Wounded

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 4

Alarmed by the sound of a gunshot in the Namoi Hotel yard, Narrabri on Saturday afternoon, people who went to investigate saw Cecil Ewing[?] a…

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War Unlikely Says Sir H. Rumbold (By Wire)

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1933 · page 1

A cable from Colombo states:—Sir Horace Rumbold, interviewed here said that he did not think that another war would occur in Europe…

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Americans Discover That We Won the War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 7 December 1933 · page 2

In America there are some people who do not think that America won the war. Mr. G. Clarke, a native of…

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War Memorial Hall Adjourned Annual Meeting Tuesday, 12th December

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 7

A meeting of the Committee carrying out investigations in regard to the erection of a suitable war Memorial Hall at Ungarie was held, last…

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Open Column Soldiers' Memorial (To the Editor of the "Champion.")

Western Champion · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 11

Sir,—Allow me space to support the request of Mr. Field that something should be done with the money collected for the soldiers' memorial. I,…

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100 KILLED 300 Wounded In Spain Disturbances (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 1

A cable from Madrid slates:—The Minister for Labour estimates that 100 were killed and 300 wornded during the week-end disturbances…

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Bread War. At Darlinghurst. SYDNEY

Western Champion · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 5

Owing to a price-cutting war at Darlinghurst between two shops, bread is selling at 2½d. per loaf, or two loaves for 4½d…

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Miscellaneous Can We Prevent War? Three Ways to Minimise It

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 18 December 1933 · page 1

The prevention of war is theoretically possible, but extremely difficult. Its roots are deeply embedded in our institutional fabric, and in…

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A.A. News Service Post-war Economic Conditions in France and Germany. Iv.—the German Background

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 18 December 1933 · page 1

German economic questions all go back at least as far as the reckoning for the war. For more than ten years German destinies were…

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Returned Soldiers Pacific, Not Pacifists Searching for Peace

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 22 December 1933 · page 6

The Returned Soldiers' League was not a pacivst organisation. The re turned soldier and sialor was, however, "pacific"—up to the very last…

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