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The wars & local soldiers, 1919

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Complaints by Soldiers. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Thursday 2 January 1919 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Canadian Government has opened an inquiry into recent complaints regarding soldiers being given rotten food and subjected to grafting…

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Transports Ashore. Wounded Soldiers in Peri[?]. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 5

VANCOUVER, Wednesday.—The transport Northern Pacific is ashore off New York. A storm is rising, and rescuers are unable to appoach. Seventeen hundred…

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War Notes

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 5

A letter in this issue from Rev. L. Peacock, of Young, formerly of Cornki, will he rend with especial interest, not only by his many friends here, but by…

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Cables. Transport Aground. Wounded Americans Aboard. New York

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 3

A transport in the Northern Pacific, carrying 2100 wounded Americans, has grounded on Fire Island. The vessel is in no danger…

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War's Aftermath. London

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 5

The United Press correspondent reports that Police Prefect Eichorn reports that the American and British correspondents might be arrested in…

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War Time Profits Tax

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—It is estimated that the revenue from the war time profits tax to 30th June next will amount to £1,800,000…

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War Memorials. a New Suggestion

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 8

In his address, delivered on Sunday morning at the Independent Church, Collins-street, Melbourne, the Rev. J. Ernest James, B.D., took as the basis of his…

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DELMONICO'S. Noted Resort starved by War Economy

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 3

Delmonico's Restaurant, familiarly known as "Def's,'' and famous for three generations as the most exclusive dining place in America, failed because of the…

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General War Cables. Future of Syria. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 5

PARIS, Wednesday.—A Franco-American congress will meet at Marseilles on Thursday, for discussion of the future of Syria. M. Bouillon, vice-president of the Foreign…

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Returned Soldiers' Association

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 2

The firsts annual meeting of the Murwillumbah Returned Soldiers, and Sailors Imperial League (sub-branch) is to be held at the Council Chambers on…

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A.I.F. Returning N.S.W. and Queensland SOLDIERS. Enthusiastically Welcomed. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 3

Two hundred and thirty New South Wales and 120 Queenslanders returned to Sydney to-day, via Melbourne, from France. They were enthusiastically…

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Exchange on English Bank Notes. Complaints by Soldiers. MELBOURNE

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 3

Many complaints have readied the Defence Department about, the amount of exchange charged the soldiers upon English Bank notes…

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Soldiers' Allegations

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The military authorities will at once commence a thorough investigation into the soldiers' allegations in connection with the steamer Sardinia. It…

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Returned Sailors and Soldiers. Protest Against Release of Internees

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the New South Wales branch of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers Imperial League to-night a resolution most…

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Australia's Wounded Sons

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 6

Two thousand Australians, many of them wounded, attended an entertainment last week at the Albert Hall. Mr. Fisher, General Sir William…

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War Pensions

Northern Star · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 5

MELBOURNE; Friday.—To December 27th last 147,146 war pensions had been granted by the Commonwealth Government. The New South Wales details are:—Pensions granted,…

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Stranded American Transport. Wounded Men Taken Off. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—Several boatloads of wounded men have been transferred from the transport Northern Pacific, the sea having moderated…

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Business after the War

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 9

A very able business man recently gave his associates his opinion of economic conditions after the war (says an editorial in the October. "Saturday…

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After the War. LONDON

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 2

Mr. Hoover, from Paris, reports the arrival at Trieste of the first steamer with food supplies for the Serbians A special mission has been sent to [?]…

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General War Cables. Rumanian Extension. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—Reuters Bucharest Correspondent says that a mission from the Transylvanian Government presented an act of union to King Ferdinand. The latter…

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