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The wars & local soldiers, 1921

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War Service Homes. Square Deal for Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1921 · page 2

The Acting Minister for Repatriation spent a good deal of time yesterday in close consultation with the members of the recently-created War…

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War Service Homes a Business [?] Seeking Efficiency Melbourne, Saturday

The Daily Express · Monday 7 February 1921 · page 1

The Acting Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Rodgers) announces that Cabinet had approved the immediate appointment of an advisory business…

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Confident France. "The Domain of Realisation." Speeches by Allied Statesmen. War Machine Must Be Broken. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1921 · page 2

At a joint, sitting of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, SI. Briand, the Prime Minister, inaugurated a two days' debate upon the question of…

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Commonwealth Preference. for Returned Soldiers. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1921 · page 3

It is the intention of the Federal Government to maintain the policy of preference to returned soldiers in connection with appointments in the…

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War Service Homes

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 2

The Acting Minister for Repatriation announced in Sydney yesterday that soldiers who wish to apply to the War Service Homes Committee…

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War-time Profits Tax

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 2

The Federal Commissioner of Taxation (Mr. R. Ewing) notifies that special consideration has been given in those cases affected by the latest…

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War Memorial. Enthusiastic Meeting. £2,000 Warned

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 1

The public meet convened for the purpose of considering the question of erecting a memorial at Narandera in honor of the soldier's from…

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Giant Airship. to Fly Abound the World. German War Time Design. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 2

A Washington message states that General Mitchell, Assistant Chief of the Air Service, [?] the Naval Committee that Germany during the war…

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CORRESPONDENCE Soldiers' Memorial. (To the Editor)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 2

Sir,—I heard a whisper hat the people of Narandera were "gone cold" on the erection of a suitable memorial to our glorious dead. It was only a…

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Commonwealth Preference for Returned Soldiers

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 2

It is the intention of the Federal Government to maintain the policy of preference to returned soldiers in connection with appointments in the mandated…

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War Service Homes. Opening of Tribunal. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 February 1921 · page 4

The tribunal appointed to inquire into questions affecting the War Service Homes Department held its first sitting to-day…

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A Hobart Mystery Returned Soldier Shot at Hobart

The Daily Express · Wednesday 9 February 1921 · page 1

The police are endeavouring to solve a mysterious case of shooting at the residence of a returned soldier named [?]…

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Items of News. War Medals

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 2

Numerous applications for medals have teen received at the base records office, Melbourne, but the department points out, says our Melbourne…

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War-time Profits. Graziers and the Tax. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 2

When the result of the second peace loan was announced in the Federal Parliament Mr. Jowett asked the Treasurer whether the wool growers'…

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War Gratuity Bonds New REGULATlON How They May Be Cashed. Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 2

The Registrar of tho War Gratuity Bonds has announced that all general consents [?] accept the transfer of war gratuity bonds issued to traders…

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War Cloud. Lowering in Siberia. Between Japan and the Soviet. a Bolshevik Invasion Imminent. Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 2

Although the Japanase native press here is silent on the subject of a possible approaching Siberian war the Siberian newspapers are filled with the…

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Soldiers' Pay Books

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 2

Sentimental value is attached by many returned soldiers to the pay books that were used by them when on active service. The entries…

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Will There Be War? American Feeling Discredits POssibility

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 February 1921 · page 1

The "Times" Washington correspondent states: Respites the steady current of events. poliical feeling in America discredits the possibility of…

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(Published by Authority.) Killjoy's Latest Move. War on Tobacco Sequel of Prohibition

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 11 February 1921 · page 2

Copy an editorial in the Melbourne of January 5th: -- The great reformers of America, meet with the triumph of t[?] of…

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War Scare. Great Britain and U.S.A. More Yellow Journalism. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 February 1921 · page 2

Sensational stones have been received from New York to the effect that a high official of the British Foreign Office declared that England…

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