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The wars & local soldiers, 1923

297 stories in New England's papers · page 12 of 15

New War Terrors

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 6

Professor A.M. Low, a well-known selentist, writing in "Nineteenth Century" describes a new war terror, which throws jets of water charged…

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Ruined as by War. £1,000,000,000 DAMAGE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 6

"Historians of the future," says the 'Manchester Guardian" in a leading article on the Japanese disaster, 'may note as one of the curiosities of public…

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Hitting up the Soldiers. Inverell Ejectment Case

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 2

Before the Inverell Police Court last week, in which the War Service Homes Commission applied for sin ejectment order against Percy Faruant, and…

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Returned Men Forgotten, Australia Not Alone

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 6

Australia is not the only place where returned soldiers complain that their heroism during the Great War has been forgotten, and that any of them…

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War Clauds Still Envelope Southern Europe Fiume on Verge of Starvation. Another Crisis Feared. (Reuter's Cable), London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 September 1923 · page 4

A Rome message states that [?] Government of Fiume has resigned. Signer Mussolini's sensational action in appointing a military governor of…

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Fracas at football Match. Policeman Wounded

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 3

There was a free fight at a football match at Bulimba, near Brisbane, which quickly spread to hundreds of the onlookers. Sticks and stones were used,…

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War on Ku Klux Klan. "Must Be Destroyed."

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 3

The entire State of Oklahoma (U.A. A), was placed under martial law at midnight by Governor Walton, in pursuance of the fight against the Ku…

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Will It Be Civil War (Published by Arrangement). Prohibition in U.S.A.

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 25 September 1923 · page 5

Referring to the frenzied (and futile) efforts to enforce Prohibition in America the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph"…

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Will it be Civil War? (Published by Arrangement). Prohibition in U.S.A.

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1923 · page 7

Referring to the frenzied (and futile) efforts to enforce prohibition in America the New York correspondent of the London 'Daily Telegraph' cables…

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Military Dictatorship. Lessons From the War. (Australian Press Association). London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 September 1923 · page 4

Viscount Grey, speaking at the International Students Confederation Conference, said that it was still [?]ful whether the great war had…

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The Strangest War Picture of Our Time

Guyra Argus · Thursday 27 September 1923 · page 4

It is long since any painting has aroused the kind of discussion which greeted the appearance, in this year's exhibition of the Royal Academy in…

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Disabled Soldiers

The Inverell Times · Friday 28 September 1923 · page 4

In N.S. Wales there are 43 totally blind ex-soldiers, and they aare all shareholders in the Blinded Soldiers' Tea Co. Their £4 per week pensions…

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The Strangest War Picture of Our Time

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 1 October 1923 · page 4

It is long since any painting has aroused the kind of discussion which greeted the appearance, in this year's exhibition of the Royal Academy in…

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Cablegrams. [Through Reuter.] Civil War in Germany. Serious Happenings Anticipated. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1923 · page 2

The 'Pall Mall Gazette's' diplomatic correspondent says: For all practical purposes a Civil war has been declared in Germany. At any moment there…

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Revolting Savagery German Police Described by French. Rhineland Separatists Demonstration Many Killed and Wounded. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 October 1923 · page 4

Reuter's Berlin correspondent states four police and twelve separatists were killed and a number wounded at Dusseldorf, as the result of a conflict wherein the former charged a big body of demonstrators, who journeyed thither in special trains, with the expected object of proclaiming…

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Soldier Settlement. No Board of Directors Necessary. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 8 October 1923 · page 4

The Minister for Lands thinks it is unnecessary to establish a Board of Directors for soldier settlement; he added there was only on way to…

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Soldiers' Pensions. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 8 October 1923 · page 4

At the annual conference of returned soldiers it was resolved that the maximum pension should be £8 per fortnight instead of £44-…

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British Soldiers' Graves

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 8 October 1923 · page 4

When thousands of pilgrims to the British grave in France were returning to England they held a massed service on the quayside at Boulogue…

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Mimic War Defence of the Air

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 9 October 1923 · page 5

Will there be any effective defence in the future against air-raiding bombing planes travelling at immense heights and tremendous speeds!…

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Soldiers' Settlements. Directors Not Favored

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 October 1923 · page 4

The Minister for Lands thinks it unnecessary to establish a board of directors for the soldiers' settlements. He added that there was only one way to…

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