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The wars & local soldiers, 1927

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War Films Big German Project Battle Scenes London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 April 1927 · page 1

The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says that the U.F.A., Germany's biggest film combine, will show on April 24 the first part of a…

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The Chinese War. Nationalist Defeats. Cantonese Thrown Back. (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1927 · page 5

A message from Hankow states that the Nationalist troops at Wuchang have declared their allegiance to Chiang Kai Shek. M. Borodin and the left wing Nationalist…

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Greek War Debt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 5

Two days before the budget Mr. Churchill and the Greek Minister in London signed an agreement fixing the Greek war debt to Britain at £21,440,000, after…

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War Service Homes New Federal Measure SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 7

Authority has now been given to the amended War Service Homes Bill passed by the Federal Parliament. The amendment gives power to the…

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MOTORS for GRACE & Pace War on Shocks Greater Use for Rubber Engine Supports

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 3

In recent years many new uses have been found for rubber in automobile production, and there are good reasons for believing that the…

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Miners' Holiday Anzac Day Agreement

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 7

By agreement with the mineowners, Anzac Day is to be substituted" as a holiday for the Northern Minors' Federation in place of the Prince of…

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War Predicted Britain and Russia African Warning Capetown

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 1

The Nationalist back-bencher, Mr. Oost, who was De Wet's right-hand man in the rebellion of 1915, surprised the South African Assembly by…

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The Chinese War Northerners Gaining Cantonese Falling Back (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 5

The recapture of Nanking by the Northerners is imminent. The Cantonese have evacuated Pukow without fighting. Pukow is situated on the opposite bank…

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The Chinese War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 7

A wireless message from Nanking states that there was intermittent rifle and gun fire between Pukow and Nanking all day long yesterday…

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War Lord of Mukden

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 4

The welter of civil war in China has again brought into the limelight one of the strangest figures in history—the half-comic and wholly terrible little War Lord…

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A Civil Service War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 10

The transfer of civil servants to Canberra is bringing about a small war that may have very serious results. The transferred civil servants are complaining…

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War Talk Russo-Japanese Tension Manchurian Danger Tokio

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 4

Alarming reports are coming from many points in Manchuria, where Japanese merchants arc refusing everything except immediate business. Big…

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Story of Floods in Newcastle District (See Page 5) Chinese Defiance Rejection of Nankin Demands More War Talk U.S.A. Naval Reinforcements Move

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 1

The Southern Chinese Government has practically rejected the American demand for reparation for the Nankin outrages, adding, in effect, that the foreign powers have brought these troubles on…

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"Bitter Year" British Industrial War Labor Men Meet London, Sunday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 April 1927 · page 3

In his presidential address in opening the conference of the Independent Labor Party at Leicester, Mr. J. Maxton M.P., said that there had never…

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War Talk Soviet in China Powers Blamed London, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 April 1927 · page 5

That the Russian Soviet was likely to go to war in China was stressed at a Soviet conference at Moscow…

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Hamilton. Anzac Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 8

Alderman Jenner, the Mayor, invites returned soldiers and sailors, their relatives and friends. Girl Guides, Boy Scouts, Red Cross Society, and the general public to…

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Anzac Day Newcastle Observance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 7

A meeting of the Newcastle sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia will be held in the Memorial Hall this evening, to…

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Making Fur Fly Designers at War

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 3

Fur-lined coats are the latest weapons used by the designers to dislodge the fur coat from its persistent popularity…

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No Repudiation Labor and War Debts LONDON, Tuesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 6

The Independent Labor Party's conference rejected a proposal that the next Labor Government should repudiate war debts…

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Four Lives Lost when Blazing 'Plane Crashes More Chaos in China Nationalists in New Civil War Breakaway From "Reds" Powers' Forces Under Fire on Yangtse

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 1

The Nationalist forces in China have split, and another civil war has started. The moderate Nationalists, with headquarters at Nankin, have decided to exterminate Communism…

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