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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

533 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 27

War in Spain Unrest Comes to Head LONDON. Sunday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 September 1926 · page 1

"The Times" correspondent at Madrid reports that a state of war has been proclaimed in Spain, where unrest has been acute for…

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In Vain General on War Losses Where Was Peace? Death and Devil Busy

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 September 1926 · page 1

Sir Ian Hamilton does not think much of talk of world peace while British is "bleeding from self-inflicted wounds."…

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Chinese War Battle for Hankow British Gunboat in Action (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 September 1926 · page 4

Marshal Wu Pei Fu, commander of the Northern forces, which are attempting to stem the advance of the Cantonese Bolshevik forces, is reported to have been…

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Killer and Curer Soldier to Marry Doctor LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 September 1926 · page 1

Field Marshal Ludendorf, who was chief of the German military staff during the secord half of the war, is to marry Dr. Mathilde Von…

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Results of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1926 · page 5

General Sir Ian Hamilton commented bitterly on the state of affairs in Great Birtain, when he addressed a Remembrance Day meeting of soldiers and…

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British Sailors Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 September 1926 · page 7

Telegrams from Canton state that there is a complete cessation of firing by picket boats, which disappeared at the first sign of activity by British…

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Chinese War Attack on Hankow Reinforcements Increasing (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 September 1926 · page 7

The situation, at Hankow, where the Bolsheviks from the south are trying to capture the city from the northern forces of Marshal Wu Pel Fu, is most…

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Chinese War British Officers Killed Cruiser Rushes to Hankow (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1926 · page 5

The commanders of the British gunboats, Despatch and Cockchafer, and the lieutenant of the Despatch, have been killed, and twelve others wounded, by the…

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War Against Reds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1926 · page 5

It is reported from Pekin that General Sun Chu Fang, the military overlord of five important provinces, including Shangbai, has declared war on the Cantonese,…

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If War Came Control of Pacific Oil or Impotence. No. Iii

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1926 · page 12

A modern war could not be carried on for twenty-four boors without petrol, Yet in time of war—either a war upon upon our own coasts on war elsewhere,…

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Citizen Soldiers' Training

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1926 · page 14

In many parts of the country military camps ere now springing up, and both Territorials and Regulars are hard at work training in the open. The crowds of…

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Robinson in Form Good Effort on War Peep

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 September 1926 · page 7

Although Robinson, the apprentice in Alf. Inkpen's stable, has been riding with success at country meetings, he has not won lately in the…

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The League Briand's Great Speech the War Is Ended Australian Press Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1926 · page 5

Germany is within the League of Nations fold, and no day since the League's inception will live more vividly in history…

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Weston Soldiers' Settlement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1926 · page 6

Mr. G. Booth, M.P., who interviewed Mr. Fleming, Under-Secretary for Lands, at Weston during a recent visit, and also in Sydney list week, on behalf of the…

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Wanted Plain Funeral Returned Soldier's Death

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 September 1926 · page 5

Thomas McColl, aged 50. a returned soldier, who was found death in Central Greta paddock yesterday with his arm cut, and a razor beside him,…

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The Chinese War Russian Aid. Shanghai in Danger. (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1926 · page 5

The authorities in the international settlement at Shanghai are taking unprecedented precautions against the possibility of intrigue and treachery within the…

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The War Debts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1926 · page 8

Certain American papers appear to be becoming alarmed over the war debts, over, in fact, the feeling with which so many in Europe regard the United…

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Bled to Death Returned Soldier's Suicide Slashed Arm

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 September 1926 · page 7

That he had committed suicide by gashing his left forearm with a razor while under the influence of liquor, was the finding of the District Coroner…

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War Debts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 7

The Italian Government paid to the British Government yesterday a sum of £2,000,000, the second instalment payable under the war debt funding agreement…

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Band Rotunda Soldiers' Memorial at Kurri

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 9

Mr. W.R. Lindsay, Cessnock Shire engineer, reported to the Administrator (Mr. Brown), at yesterday's meeting, that a tender of £550 had been…

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