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The wars & local soldiers, 1920

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War Gratuity Cannot Be Paid in Cash

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 39

In the House of Representatives Mr. Hughes introduced the War Gratuity Bill and made his second reading speech. The Bill provides the gratuity shall be paid in…

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Sale of Surplus War Stores Wool and Hides Realise £125,000,000

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 2

Mr. Kelleway, Deputy Minister of Munitions, speaking at Bedford, stated that the total realised by the sale of surplus war stores was £330,000,000…

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Soldiers' Orphans

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

Suggestions have been made that soldiers on receipt of the war gratuity should allot a certain amount for a benefit scheme to educate the children of deceased…

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Demobilised Soldiers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 28
Also in The Corowa Free Press

The Demobilised Soldiers' Association, New South Wales branch, recently formed, desires all A.I.F. men discharged medically unfit, demobilised owing to the…

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A Soldier's Death

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 7

After the inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of William Henry Markwick Sim, an Australian trooper, who was found dead in the Auckland harbour,…

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Education of Soldiers Children

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 31

Speaking at a luncheon given by the Melbourne University in their honor, both General Birdwood and General Monash made reference to the education of the…

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Preference to Soldiers State Labor Exchanges

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

On the 16th December last Royal Assent was given to the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Employmen Act. 1919, and the Department of Labor…

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Land Settlement for Soldiers. Report By Messrs. Christopher Turnor and Edmund Jowett

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 1

The following report by Messrs. Christopher Tumor and Edmund Jowett has been issued. Both are special representatives of the Royal…

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The German Upheavals. Soldiers versus Anarchists. Grave Speech by Sir Auckland Geddes. Government versus Spartacists in the Ruhr Basin

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 2

The United Service correspondent at Berlin says that an anarchist meeting took place at Neerkoln, and led to a sanguinary riot. Soldiers used…

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Wahgunyah Soldiers' Monument

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

Mr. Langdon, hon. secretary of the Wahgunyah Progress Association, is in receipt of a communication from the Hon. John Bowser, M.L.A., in which he…

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Soldiers As Vignerons. Inquiry at Rutherglen

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

The Assistant Minister for Lauds (Mr. D. Mackinnon) and Messrs. McDougall and Malcolm, of the Closer Settlement Board, opened their inquiry…

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Civil War In Germany. Berlin Streets Barricaded. LONDON, March 25

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 2

Dozens of streets in the populous quarters have been systematically wired, barricaded, trenched, and torn up, says "The Times" correspondent at Berlin…

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Progerman America How Her Navy Helped In The War WASHINGTON. March 24

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 2

Captain Harris Laning, a leading technician in the U.S. navy, has testified stating that the inefficiency of the navy in the early part of the war was partly due to…

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Correspondence Recognition of Returned Soldiers. (To the Editor)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 3

Sir,It is most astonishing now the war is ended, how soon the promises that were made to the men going to fight for Australia's safety are being forgotten by…

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Soldier Secures Damages. BRISBANE

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 3

An action for alleged deismation, before Mr. Justice Real, aroused much interest among returned solders and the public…

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Estates For Soldiers. MELBOURNE

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 3

Two states, situated in the Castorton and Birchip districts respectively, have been purchased by the Closer Settlement Board for the settlement of 24 discharged…

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How America Went To War Let the Allies Do the Fighting Vancouver March 26

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 2

"The Germans, by superior gunnery, turned the British on their heads it Jutland," said Admiral Plunkett, one of the four witnesses in the Sims Naval…

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Recognition of Returned Soldiers Mayoral Reply

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 2

The mayor (Ald. Waugh) referring last evening to a letter which appeared in yesterday's "Mail," under the above heading, and signed by "A Khaki Supporter,"…

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Bogus Soldier Seat to Gaol No More Imposition for Twelve Months

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 3

Before the P.M., at the Albury Police Court yesterday Alex Mack, alias McMullen was charged on a writ of habeas corpus with having falsely represented…

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