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The wars & local soldiers, 1921

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No Money for Soldier Settlement

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 32

"The Treasurer Mr. Lang made a statement on the soldier settlement position. Ile said the Commonwealth Government had arranged to provide £8,740,843 for…

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Monetary Advances to Soldier Settlers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 36

The complaints made that soldiers who desire to settle on the land on applying are constantly being met with the statement that the Commonwealth Government…

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Soldier Settlement by State

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 July 1921 · page 2

The Acting Minister for Repatriation says the Commonwealth will meet its obligations to the State when the Government of New South…

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Treatment of Soldiers and Nurses

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 July 1921 · page 2

It is expected that Mr. Neville Howse’s statement that returned soldiers and nurses were being treated callously will have immediate…

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War and Post-war Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 July 1921 · page 29

The close union in aim and sentiment between the British. Empire and America must constitute the solid and enduring foundation of the world's peace. United…

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A Great Man's End War-winner [?]Bankrupt

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 8 July 1921 · page 4

The "Dally Express", states that General Sir John Cowans, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., M.V.O., Quartermaeter-General of the British Arany from 1912 to…

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Ex-soldiers' Conference in Melbourne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 July 1921 · page 32

Called upon to decide the important issue whether the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League should officially recognise industrial sections or whether it…

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Soldier Settlement. New South Wales Scheme in Financial Trouble

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 8 July 1921 · page 4

An extraordinary position has developed in this State in connection with soldiers' settlement. The effect of squabbling between…

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Returned Soldiers' League

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1921 · page 3

A meeting of the Jerilderie subbranch of the R.S. and S.I.L. was held in the Mechanics' Institute on 10th inst. There was a fair…

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War and Post-war Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 29

The problem of national reconstruction, confronts Australia's statesmen, has many facets, each of which is in fact correlated with the others, and all of which…

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Trials of War Criminals. Paris, July 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 20

"Le Matin" says, that the Prime Minister (M. Briand) has recalled the mission which was appointed to watch the trials of German war criminals at Leipzig. M…

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Workless Soldiers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 30

Replying to a deputation of unemployed ex-soldiers, which asked for immediate help for some 1500 men; the Acting Prime Minister referred to what had already…

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Soldier Rest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 13

Soldier rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battlefields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking…

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£3,500 Per Man Cost of Settling Soldiers Inquiry Necessary

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 1

Delays in the payment for lands secured for purposes of soldier settlement in New South Wales were the subject of inquiries in the House…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Land for Soldiers Problem

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 1

A crisis has been reached in the returned soldiers' land problem, owing to the inability of the State to pay a million pounds for land…

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Latest Cables. the Russia of To-day. Millions Facing Starvation. While Soviet Gets Ready for War

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 19 July 1921 · page 3

Reuter's Berlin correspondent says that a telegram from Maxim Gorky states that owing to the failure of the harvest in Russia, millions are faced…

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Fortitude Wounded Man's Pluck

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 22 July 1921 · page 1

After in exploding [?]artridge had almost blown his right arm off, a man in the country walked a mile and a half, harnessed his horse and rode to…

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War and Post-war Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 July 1921 · page 29

President Harding's invitation to discuss the method and means of keeping the world at peace encourage hope. The folly and burden of war, the strain upon…

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Wiping Out War Debts. Washington, July 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 July 1921 · page 20

The first conclusive evidence of the proposal for the general cancellation of the allied war debts was obtained when a letter from Mr. Lloyd George to the former…

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War Horrors. "A Bolt From the Blue."

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 22 July 1921 · page 4

Plans for making war more "frightful" which are now coming within the purview of experts at an Air Ministry include that for an…

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