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The wars & local soldiers, 1920

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Motor Bus War Record

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 22

The King, at Buckingham Palace, inspected the London motor-bus B43, which served on the continent throughout the war and is now plying again in London…

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War Criminals. German Offer of Trial. Conditional Acceptance by Allies

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 47

The Supreme Allied Council, sitting in London, has issued a reply to the German Note of January 25, which, set out the grave political and economic…

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Soldiers Looking for Land

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 19

Mr. Hare, Under-Secretary for Lands, this week received, in the absence of the Minister, a deputation from the Returned Soldier Land-seekers' League with a…

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Sustenance to Unemployed Soldiers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 33

Officials of the Returned Soldiers' League and representatives of the soldiers at present unemployed waited upon the Minister for Repatriation. Senator…

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Unemployed Soldiers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 41

The Prime Minister Mr. Hughes; received a deputation representing the Returned Soldiers' League, and ex-soldiers now out of employment. The…

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'Soldiers' Badges

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 45

More definite rules have been framed by the military authorities to govern the issue of the returned soldier's badge. Hitherto the badge has been withheld from…

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Soldier Wool Spinners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 22

A deputation representing the returned 3. soldier employes of the Colonial Combing, Spinning, and Weaving Company's works at Botany asked the Prime Minister to…

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Mr. Manning, Soldier Settlement

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 6

Mr. A. G. Manning: "If a man's the right man in the House whatever party he is in he will represent you well; but if you have the wrong man…

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Returned Soldiers Demand Pay While Travelling. Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 2

Forty two returned soldiers refused to start work on a Federal Government job at Broken Hill to-day because they bed not been paid for travelling. They…

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Sick Soldier Sent to Gaol. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 3

George Charles Biggs was sentenced at Darlinghurst yesterday to six months imprisonment. Evidence was given that he had been…

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War Memorials

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 February 1920 · page 4

The desire to commemorate worthily the services of those who gave their lives for heir country in the Great War is finding expression in the erection of memorials…

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Significance of Soldiers' Memorials Why They Will Be Reverenced Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 February 1920 · page 5

Capt. Cannichael, M.L.A., when opening the fair for the Soldiers' Memorial in Annandale to-day, remarked that-it was a splendid thing to see in every…

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Military Medallist Murdered. and His Wife Wounded. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 February 1920 · page 3

Another double revolver tragedy occurred in the city last night, the victims being Peter Geary and his wife, Grace Geary, of Lower Campbell street. The…

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Eviction of Soldiers Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 February 1920 · page 2

Strong protests continue to be voiced by the Lithgow branch of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League against its eviction by the Federal…

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Tax on War Fortunes. (Reuter). LONDON, Feb. 20

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 3

Addressing the Select Committee ap pointed to investigate the desirability o a tax on war-time fortunes, Mr. Auste[?] Chamberlain, Chancellor of the…

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A Test of German Sincerity the Trial of War Criminals

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 2

The "Times" correspondent says the Allies have decided to propose that Germany should try the war criminals whose guilt was overwhelmingly…

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Woman's Candidate. Supports Soldiers'-party. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 3

A meeting was held to-day in Sydney n support of the candidature of Miss brace Scobie[?] who is contesting the Eastern Suburbs electorate as a member of…

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Land for Soldiers

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 February 1920 · page 2

A homestead farm of a convenient area has been set apart for returned soldiers only, in the land district of Balranald South The land is situated…

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War Memorials. Competitive Designs

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1920 · page 4

Under the law of New South Wales no war memorial can be erected without the [?] of the war memorial [?] board, to…

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Trial of War Criminals Postponed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 26 February 1920 · page 1

In the House of Commons the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Bonar Law), replying to Sir W. Hame Williams, said that no alteration had been made in the Peace…

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