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The wars & local soldiers, 1934

1,024 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 50 of 52

War Debts Eventual Agreement Forecast WASHINGTON, December 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 December 1934 · page 8

President Roosevelt to-day expressed the belief that agreement on war debts would eventually be reached with the various countries now unable to continue the…

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Regained Memory Saw Picture of Narrabeen Returned Soldier Found Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 December 1934 · page 9

Thought to be dead, Cyril Ballard, 45, a returned soldier, who has been missing from his home at Narrabeen (N.S.W.) for over nine months, is alive and well…

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Border Youths Were Quicker on the Draw Austrian Soldiers Murdered by Interlopers London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 December 1934 · page 1

Two members of the Auxiliary Corps were shot dead during the night, the Vienna correspondent of "The Times" reports. Their…

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Soldiers Appeal for Funds Relief of Returned Men

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 December 1934 · page 9

The Roe's Estate (Mayfield) Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Association is appearing for funds for the relief of returned men in the…

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"Ready for War" Commercial Aeroplanes Position in Germany London, December 17

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 December 1934 · page 7

The editor of "Jane's World's Aircraft" says he is unable to give much information about the latest German aeroplanes and motors as the makers have only…

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What People Think Beach Costumes -- Proposed New Regulations For Surfers-- Soldiers' Pensions Beach Fashions

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 December 1934 · page 6

My religious duties debar me on the Sabbath, and I have few other opportunities of relaxing on the beaches, so that I must judge what the…

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Played Many Parts Wm. LAWSON Mountain Survey Soldier, Farmer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 December 1934 · page 10

AS in the case of "Single Speech Hamilton" (who made many speeches better than the one which gave him his title), the fame of William Lawson rests largely on a single incident of his career. He is known as the man who, in 1813, pioneered the way over…

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Welcome Home to Bishop of Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 December 1934 · page 10

Priests who gathered at the West Maitland Town Hall yesterday to welcome the Bishop of Maitland (Rt. Rev. Dr. E. E. Gleeson, C.SS.R.) on his return from Rome…

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War Strained Diggers Canberra

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 December 1934 · page 7

Help for ex-soldiers who, though not suffering physically, are so incapacitated owing to the strain of war service as to be virtually unemployable,…

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Cardiff Returned Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 December 1934 · page 13

A Christmas party will be held in the Diggers' Club Room, Cardiff, on Saturday, for children of returned soldiers and sailors. Admission will be by ticket only,…

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Lithgow Ex-soldiers Re-forming League Branch Trouble Over Duke's Visit Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 December 1934 · page 9

At a meeting of returned soldiers last night it was unanimously resolved that the Lithgow sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League should be re-formed…

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Slow Bowlers Dominate The Attack Post-war Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1934 · page 5

During the progress of the interstate matches in the southern capitals between Victoria and Queensland, and South Australia and New South Wales, the…

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Indigent Soldiers Relief Measures Planned Mr. Hughes Sympathetic Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1934 · page 8

Investigations are to be made by the Repatriation Department into the question of providing relief for aged and totally incapacitated soldiers, whose resources…

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Will Not Be Forgotten W0rkless Returned Soldiers

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 December 1934 · page 15

Unemployed returned soldiers and their families will not be forgotten during the Christmas festivities in Newcastle…

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"Lynching" Mob Held Back Soldiers Fired on Rioters Negro Smuggled Away in Clothes of Policeman New York

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 December 1934 · page 1

Blood was shed at Shelbyville (Tennessee) when a mob attempted to lynch a negro, who was on trial for an…

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Colonel Ward Dead Soldier and Parliamentarian LONDON, December 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 December 1934 · page 11

Colonel John Ward, aged 68, formerly a member of Parliament died to-day [Colonel Ward was born at Oaklands, Spa, in 1866. He served in the Soudan…

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British Soldiers Arrival at Saarbrucken People Undemonstrative Saarbrucken, December 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 December 1934 · page 12

The first detachment of the British contingent, which the Nazi paper counselled the people to welcome calmly as Christmas guests from Old England, marched…

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Mob Thwarted Soldiers Kill Two: Wound Seven Attempted Lynching Shelbyville (Tenn.), December 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 December 1934 · page 11

Extraordinary resistance on the part of the authorities against the efforts of the townspeople to lynch a young negro who was being tried on a charge of having…

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War Threats

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 December 1934 · page 9

Sir,—The European stage appears to be very nearly set now for the war which has been threatening as the only possible solution of the depression. In spite…

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Warriors' Chapel "The Shrine of Peace" Dean's Explanation War and Armaments Condemned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 December 1934 · page 6

The Dean of Newcastle (Very Dev. W. H. Johnson), addressing a crowded congregation in the Warriors’ Chapel at Christ Church Cathedral, yesterday, said…

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