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The wars & local soldiers, 1934

1,024 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 52

War Debts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 May 1934 · page 4

Sir,—Once more on June 15 next the United States Government will "sincerely" endeavour to give all debtor countries, particularly Britain, a sarcastic and sharp…

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Congress Against War Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 May 1934 · page 6

Mrs. Maroney, of the Thornleigh branch of the National Council Against War, has been elected to represent the Australian Anti-war Movement at the World…

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War Debts Instalments by Britain LONDON, May 28

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 May 1934 · page 7

The British Government has received from America a request for the payment on June 15 not only of the instalment due on that date, but the two 1933…

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War Service Homes How Occupiers Are Helped Sympathetic Administration Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 May 1934 · page 3

The administration of war service homes by the War Service Homes Commission has been of undoubted value to occupiers, says an official statement issued from…

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War Service Homes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 May 1934 · page 3

Mr. Thompson, of behalf of the War Service Homes Commission, applied for the issue of a warrant of possession concerning Ozie Smith, 73 King's-road,…

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War Debts U.S. Request to Britain "Not Hit Australia" Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 May 1934 · page 7

Keen interest is being displayed at Canberra in the request that has been made by the United States for Britain's payment by June 15 next of 239,000,000…

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Prayer, War and Politics

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 June 1934 · page 6

THE protestation by the Bishop of Bathurst that the opening of the deliberations of the Legislative Assembly with prayer represents only the beginning, not the end, of a genuinely religious approach to politics indicates that Dr. Crotty is, as all…

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Loyal Tribesmen Surprise Attack in India British Officer Wounded Calcutta, May 30

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 June 1934 · page 11

On Tuesday, six platoons of Waziristan scouts, one of many, irregular units, composed of loyal tribesmen, officered by picked Britishers, while forming camp a…

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United States War Debts Conference Refused by President (Australian Press Association.) New York, May 30

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 June 1934 · page 13

The Washington correspondent of the "Herald Tribune" says: "The 11,000,000,000 dollars war debt structure is tottering, in the face of a notice from President…

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Museum's War-time Secret

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 June 1934 · page 5

Even the British Museum had its war-time secret. Only a few officials and one outsider—a stationmaster—knew it. That stationmaster was Mr. T. K. Vaughan,…

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Returned Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 June 1934 · page 11

Cessnock Sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League has decided to install a wireless set at the club rooms, Unemployed members of the League are…

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Almost Ended It Tragedy Boys Play Game of Soldiers Bullet in Abdomen

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 2 June 1934 · page 2

A game of "soldiers" in the back yard of a house at Stockton this morning almost ended in a tragedy…

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A London Letter Middle-class Unemployed—A Matter of Privilege—The Pageant Season—Museum and the War—Boy Scouts LONDON, April 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 June 1934 · page 5

The trials of the unemployed among what are usually known as the "working classes" are continually brought before us. What we do not hear about are…

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Tragedy of the War Poignant Case in French Court Rehabilitation

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 June 1934 · page 1

Public opinion has been shocked, says the Paris correspondent of "The Times," by evidence given in the…

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War Danger Necessity for Protection Another Warning R.A.N. Commander's Address SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 June 1934 · page 8

In an address at the dinner of the Naval Men's Association last night, the Commander of the Royal Australian Navy, Rear-admiral W. T. Randle Ford, gave…

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"IRRECONCILABLE" Views on War Debts Britain and America Serious Effect on Trade (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, June 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 June 1934 · page 8

Within a few days the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) will make a full statement in the House of Commons on the British…

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Shot in Abdomen Accident at Stockton Playing Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 June 1934 · page 6

At Stockton about noon on Saturday, Donald Burke, 4, of Fullerton-street, Stockton, was accidentally shot in the abdomen with a bullet from a pea rifle…

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Heath Fire Soldiers Help to Put It Out LONDON, June 1

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 June 1934 · page 7

Four hundred soldiers from Aldershot assisted local residents and their staffs to fight a heath fire on Surrey Common, near Mr. Lloyd George’s country home…

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ANTI-FEMINISTS Fight Being Waged Effect of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 6

Mrs. Sheeby Skeffington who took an active part in the campaign for women's suffrage in Ireland, told a meeting at the Minerya Club that the anti-feminist fight…

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French Soldiers Shot for Cowardice Plea for Rehabilitation Paris, June 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 5

A tragic episode of the Great War was recalled by a Court Martial Appeals Court suit brought by four widowed mothers to clear their relatives who were shot for…

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