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The wars & local soldiers, 1921

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Returned Soldiers Club

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 9 February 1921 · page 2

The opening of the Casino District Returned Soldiers Club will probably take place during show week. Mrs. A. O. Simpson and Miss Pledger, who…

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Press Predictions. Clash of War in Siberia

Northern Star · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 5

TOKIO, Tuesday.—Although the vernacular press here is most silent on the subject of the possible approaching Siberian was, the Siberian press is filled with the subject…

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The New State. Article No. 3. an Appeal to War Workers

Tweed Daily · Friday 11 February 1921 · page 3

Shortly after the armistice the great army of voluntary war workers carried their energies into recess. Their efforts had been great and…

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Yankee Sensationalism. Perversion of an Interview. "Drifting Towards War." LONDON

Tweed Daily · Friday 11 February 1921 · page 3

"Certain New York newspapers having published perversions of the interview by Sir Auckland Geddes with American newspapermen, to the effect that…

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A War Scare. Great Britain and the U.S. AMERICA. (United Service. Ltd.)

Northern Star · Friday 11 February 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Sensational stories from New York are current that a high official in the Foreign Office declared England and America are drifting toward war…

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Repatriation. Soldiers Waiting Employment

Northern Star · Friday 11 February 1921 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Repatriation Departments in the course of an official statement issued yesterday announced the number of vocational trained returned soldiers…

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Mystery Woman of the War

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 5

A White Paper of 14 pages, reviewing the civil administration of Mesopotamia during the British military occupation down to last summer was issued…

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War Bonds Control. New Regulations Issued

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 4

It was officially announced by the Registrar of War Grautity Bonds on Tuesday that all general consents to accept the transfer of war gratuity bonds…

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A War Scare. America and Great Britain. (Published in the "Times.")

Northern Star · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. — The "Times" Washington correspondent slates that despite the steady current of American political feeling he emphatically disbelieves the…

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Sinn Fein War. Burning Houses As Reprisals. Panic Stricken Inhabitants. LONDON

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 5

Following the wounding of a constable at Abbey Dorney the Crown forces burnt eleven houses, bringing the occupants, including women, out of the building in…

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Unemployed Soldiers

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 4

The pitiable state of returned soldiers, owing to unemployment, was revealed in Brisbane on Tuesday. A meeting called by the Mayor at Brisbane…

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Soldiers' Relatives Victimised

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 6

Harry Shaw, aged 43, a mean, heartless individual, with several aliases, was at the Kogarah Police Court charged with imposing on Elizabeth…

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Soldiers' Club Rooms

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 2

Satisfactory arrangements have been completed by the local branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. for the erection of club rooms at Kyogle. and…

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Settlement of Ex-soldiers. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.—The scheme of settlement of ex-service men formulated by the ex-officers Co-opeerative Settlement Association includes the formation of small settlements…

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Belgian Fallen Soldiers. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 7

BRUSSELS, Wednesday.—The Senate decided that an unknown soldier shall he buried under a monument to be erected in memory of all the Belgian soldiers fallon in…

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Anti-soldier Policy. Use of Town Hall for Anzac Service Refused. Sydney

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 3

At a re-union of ex A.I.F. gunners at Burlington Cafe last night, Brigadier- General Sir Charles Rosenthal strongly protested against what he characterised…

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All India War Memorial. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 5

DELHI, Thursday.—This evening the Duke of Connaught performed the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the All India War Memorial. It stands on a…

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Disarmament. Present Situation Leading to War. Washington

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 3

Senator Borah, in a speech in the Senate, declared that unless a naval disarmament agreement is reached among the Great Powers the present situation…

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Railway War Time Agreement. a Committee's Finding. London

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 3

Colwyn's Committee on the railway wartime agreement shows that as time went on the agreement was amended in the direction of bettering the…

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Soldier Settlers. Dissatisfaction at Mt. Gravatt. Supervision Objected To. BRISBANE

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 3

Charges of maladministration and unsympathetic treatment were made at a meeting of returned soldier settlers at Mt. Gravatt on Saturday…

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