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The wars & local soldiers, 1932

1,068 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 54

War Service Homes on Coalfields Abermain's Fate in Balance Property Valueless If Pit Closes War Homes Inquiry

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 6

War Service homes in Abermain will "not be worth a song," if Abermain No. 1 Pit closes down…

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German Cabinet Power of War Minister LONDON, May 17

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 5

The "Daily Telegraph's" Berlin correspondent states that Germany is no longer ruled by her Cabinet, but by the War Minister…

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Death of Lord Ebury Distinguished War Service LONDON, May 16

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 5

The death has occurred of Lord Francis Ebury, who was injured in a hunting fall during March. [Lord Ebury was 49 years of age, and…

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Relief Urged War Service Homes Occupiers' Evidence Committee of Inquiry in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 2

The Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Commonwealth Government to inquire into the circumstances of many purchasers of War Service homes heard evidence at…

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Value of War Service Homes Negligible if Pit Ceases to Work President's Assassin Before Court Blames Devil for Crime Strange Confession of Assassin Heard "Voices" London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 6

All the time the devil was saying to me "kill yourself if you like, but only after you have killed the…

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Papal Encyclical War on Communism Wireless Broadcast Rome

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 May 1932 · page 8

SO widespread is the calamity of the present social and economic chaos, that it can only be compared with the flood in the…

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War Service Homes Committee of Inquiry Newcastle Sitting Evidence From Coalfields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 May 1932 · page 11

The Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Commonwealth Government to inquire into the circumstances of many purchasers of War Service homes concluded the…

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Children of Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 May 1932 · page 6

That large area of Mesopotamia from the Tigris and Euphrates to the desert hinterland was traversed is story by the Federal Minister for Health (Major C…

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Returned Soldiers' Women's Auxiliary Reunion Dance

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 May 1932 · page 6

The Returned Soldiers' Women's Auxiliary is holding a reunion dance at the Memorial Institute to-morrow night, at 8 o'clock…

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Maori War Medal Presentation to Veteran PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1932 · page 8

Au unusual function took place in the Returned Soldiers' Institute to-night, when the Acting Lord Mayor (Ald. C. R. George) presented Mr. F. Lyon Wise with…

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Soldier Settlers Liability on Vacation League Request Granted Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1932 · page 6

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Buttenshaw) made an announcement to-day, for lowing representations made to him through the Central branch of the…

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A London Letter Electricity on the Farm—Shakespeare in Modern Language—Carillon of 72 Bells—Exhibition of Children's Drawings—How Kitchener was Trapped. LONDON, April 5, 1932. Canada's War Memorial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1932 · page 5

The King has given permission for Canada's great national war memorial to be exhibited in Hyde Park before it is sent to the Dominion. The memorial will…

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War Resisters' International London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 May 1932 · page 6

Professor Einstein, the German scientist, accompanied Lord Ponsonby, a former Labor Minister, to the conference of the War Resisters'…

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War Portents in East Soviet Closes Frontiers "Clash Inevitable" London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 May 1932 · page 6

That nothing can prevent an eventual clash between Russia and Japan in Manchuria is said, by a…

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British Vehicles Heavy Work in Sudan War Office Pleased (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, May 20

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1932 · page 6

A War Office report records a fine performance by British motor vehicles in the Southern Sudan, between January 18, when a convoy of four military vehicles…

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Returned Soldier's Funeral

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 May 1932 · page 4

Veteran of two wars. Mr. Thomas George Robertson, who died at his home in Elizabeth-street, Tighe's Hill, this morning, will be given a…

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"Won War and Will Win Election"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 May 1932 · page 5

"We won the war for you in 1914-18. We will win the election for Lang in 1932." Printed in huge letters in…

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Dead Number 130 In Indian Riots Communal Rioting Situation Now Quieter Wounded Total 1640 LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 May 1932 · page 5

The situation in Bombay following the grave Communal riots of the last fortnight have greatly improved…

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War Debts Extension of Moratorium Question in Parliament Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1932 · page 6

In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Harrison (U.A.P., Bendigo) said that the war debt moratorium would expire on June 30, and he asked the…

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Questions Preference to Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1932 · page 6

Replying to Mr. Blakeley (Lab., Darling), the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) said that preference had been given to returned soldiers in departmental…

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