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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1931

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Of Interest to Women including Fashion Forecasts Parisian Designs created for Paramount Picture Stars the Pyjama War

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 3

Bringing news of a pyjama war raging in the fashion circles of Paris, Travis Banton Paramount stylist, returned to Hollywood recently from a…

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Soldiers' Memorial Fund

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 2

Discussing the distribution of the jackets and overcoats forwarded by the Defence Department for the more necessitous unemployed in the…

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Lundendorff’s War Prophecy

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 June 1931 · page 3

Field Marshal von Ludendorff visualises a world war in May, 1932, which will bring Western civilisation crashing into economic ruin, and Asia and Africa…

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Soldiers' Memorial Fund Public Meeting

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 June 1931 · page 7

A meeting called in connection with the Braid wood Memorial Fund took place in the Literal yinstitute on Thursday afternoon last, the…

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War Debt Suspension Australia’s Partici- Pation Through Mutual Arrangement With Britain LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 June 1931 · page 1

President Hoover’s plan for a year’s suspension of war debts has caused brisk activity not only on the Stock Exchange, but on all commodity prices…

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Soldiers' Pensions Extent of Cut

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1931 · page 5

Representatives of every returned soldier organisation in the Commonwealth were staggered when the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) told…

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War Debt Moratorium Better Business at Stock Exchange Australian Issues Benefit LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 25 June 1931 · page 1

The stock exchange opened quietly, but closed strong on France’s approval of the war debt moratorium. Australian issues are firm all round,…

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AGREEMENTANNOUNCED United States and France War Debts

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1931 · page 2

Agreement between the United States and France, regarding the war debts moratorium, was announced to-day, by President Hoover. He said the…

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Allieo War Debts

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1931 · page 4

Answering a question in the House of Commons regarding the terms on which Allied war debts to Great Britain had been funded, the Chancellor…

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Sydney’s Bread War Bakers Reported Weakening Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1931 · page 1

It is reported that seventy bakers have already expressed their willingness to co-operate in the Shadier contract plan and are accepting the dole bread…

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The Bread War

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 August 1931 · page 1

A record meeting of members of the Breadcarters’ Union in Pratten Park, Ashfield, last night, unanimously decided not to deliver bread to shops after…

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The Bread War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 2

A record meeting of members of the Breadcarters' Union last night unanimously agreed not to deliver Bread to shops after Saturday. The…

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The Wool Position Pre-war, and Present Value

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 August 1931 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—Though current circumstances abroad give no reason for optimistic feelings in regard to the future of wool values,…

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Returned Soldiers to Go

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 7

In a letter to the Returned Soldiers' League the Postmaster-General, Mr. Green, says he cannot prevent the dismissal of a number of returned…

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“Night of Terror” Imposed or Shell-Shocked Returned Soldiers Seriou[?] Allegations SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 20 August 1931 · page 1

At a meeting of the Bankstown branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League allegations were made that shell shocked returned soldiers were placed…

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War Debts

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 2

There will have to be a revision of the whole of the war debts, according to a report of Mr. Albert Wiggin, the American member of the…

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Street Shooting Wounded Man Reticent SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 1

John Tyrell, aged 38, plumber, last night was shot in the right leg while near his home at Brisbane Street, City. He declined to give the name of his…

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“War Nurse” A Most Distinctive Picture

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 2

Shelling a war hospital and staging an airplane machine gun attack on a column of trucks and ambulances were two of the main technical problems…

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War Declared on Japan Jap. Trade Embassies Leave

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 3

“The Scullin Government has in effect declared red war on Japan, and Japan has taken up the gauge. “The responsibility for the most…

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China War

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 7

The Hongkong Government has declared a state of emergency following the killing of six Japanese by Chinese during the course of…

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