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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Chinese War Protecting Foreign Nationals Britain Well Prepared (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, December 16

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1929 · page 9

The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Henderson) stated in the House of Commons, to-night, that so far as his information went, the forces opposed to the Nanking…

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The Wounded

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 December 1929 · page 7

Cessnock Hospital reported today that the condition of David Brown, he was shot of Rothbury, teas unchanged…

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Mr. Hughes Blamed "Gave in to Miners' Demands Trouble Started During the War Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1929 · page 7

The whole trouble was started by Mr. W. M. Hughes during the war, when he gave in to the miners' demands, and appointed special tribunals outside the…

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Incapacitated Soldiers' Passes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1929 · page 6

Mr. Ness asked the Premier in the Legislative Assembly yesterday whether it was a fact that the Federal Government had withdrawn the free tramway passes…

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No Hero Clergyman's Deception Wore War Ribbon Didn't See a Shot Fired LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 1

The Rev. Samuel Lynn Thomas, curate of St. Mary's, Boltham, was fined 10s with 5s costs for…

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Profits of War Play

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1929 · page 11

London, December 19.—The management of the war play. "Journey's End," has distributed a Christmas bonus of £1850 among the staff, the cast, and the…

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"Language Fight" Finland Since the War the Clash of Tongues

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1929 · page 7

Finland squanders a great deal of energy which could profitably be applied elsewhere in the so-called "language fight" between the Finnish-speaking and the…

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Grim Fights War Against Disease Hospital Victories It Must Be Kept Up

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 December 1929 · page 4

Strapped to splints for six months with a T.B. spine. That was the pathetic experience of a little girl who was recently an inmate of the…

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Lovers Not Worried By Industrial War

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 December 1929 · page 7

Love laught at locksmiths and Industrial warfare. Down that road-through the scrub that forms a "No Man's Land' between miners' pickets and police patrols at Rothbury, a closed car crept fartively last night…

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Wounded Miner Improving

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 December 1929 · page 2

Cessnock Hospital reported to-day that there was a slight improvement in the condition of David Brown, the Cessnock miner who was injured by a…

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Australians in War Book Causes a Stir Treatment of Prisoners London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 December 1929 · page 4

Jonathon Cape, the publishers, deny the report from Australia that Robert Grave's book, "Good-bye to All That," has been recalled in consequence of a…

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Story of the War German Leader's Iron Cross Time to Forget Hate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 December 1929 · page 6

"Let England play the ace of hearts now and win the trick," exclaimed Sir inn Hamilton, discussing, at the English Legion Club, how long was the war of…

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War Loss 10,000 Chinese Killed Mukden Estimate £10,000,000 Out of Pocket SHANGHAI

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 December 1929 · page 1

Mukden officially estimates the Chinese losses in the Sino-Soviet dispute at 10,000 killed, and the monetary, loss as…

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