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The wars & local soldiers, 1924

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Britain May Wait New Phase of the War Debts Problem United States Gets in First with France Confirmation Received That' Paris and Washington Are Discussing a Funding Scheme London, December 3

The Daily Express · Friday 5 December 1924 · page 1

The “Daily Telegraph’s” [?]pio.-matic correspondent states that confirmation of reports that France his begun preliminary…

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The Strike Offer of Settlement Sticking to Returned Men. Melbourne

The Daily Express · Saturday 6 December 1924 · page 1

The Federal Arbitration Court was crowded to-day when Mr. Justice Powers sat to hear applications regarding the shipping…

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A Hun Atrocity Nieteen Murders a Story of War Time Berlin, December 4

The Daily Express · Saturday 6 December 1924 · page 1

The trial has commenced at Hanover of a butcher named Haarman on a charge of murdering 27 youths in 1918…

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Man Wounded. Scuffle in Street. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 December 1924 · page 2

Albert Clarke, aged 24, a barman, staggered out of a scuffle in Elizabeth street, Surrey Hills, and was taken to the Sydney Hospital. He was…

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Anzac Day “Holiday” or “Holy Day.” Local Diggers’ Views

The Daily Express · Monday 8 December 1924 · page 2

Much has been said and written about the proper observance of Anzac Day, Whether it should be an ordinary "holiday" or a "holy day,"…

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War Memorials Sydney and Wagga

The Daily Express · Monday 8 December 1924 · page 2

Wagga is not the only place without a War Memorial after all At the monthly meeting of the Wagga Returned Soldiers' League…

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Anzac Day Wagga Diggers Want Restricted Holiday. Sub-branch Funds. Proposal to Seek Farmers' Help Rejected

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 December 1924 · page 1

Wagga returned soldiers on Saturday night, decided against Anzac Day being decided a public holiday and, in addition, resolved that…

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Motor Driver Wounded. Bush Road Mystery

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1924 · page 2

Roy Joynson, proprietor of a motor garage at Dallon, near Gunning, was engaged by a colored man on Tuesday evening to take…

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War Monkeys in China

The Daily Express · Tuesday 9 December 1924 · page 2

The use of monkeys in warfare by the Chinese dates back to the tine when the Mongolians captured Peking. the monkeys used are the…

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The Ex-Soldier. Matters That Interest Him

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1924 · page 6

Up-to-date figures for the State regarding Poppy Day Sales are not yet to hand but Mr. W. G. Stagg, State Secretary of the R.S.S.I.L.A., reports…

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Help for Unemployed Soldiers. MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 December 1924 · page 2

The Federal Cabinet has decided to contribute £1000 towards the relief of unemployed returned soldiers during the Christmas period…

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Anzac Day Wagga Wants Restrictions

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 12 December 1924 · page 2

Wagga Diggers do not concur with the State Executive of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League in its desire to have the proposed…

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Anzac Day. Deputation to Minister. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1924 · page 2

A deputation representing the Returned Soldiers' League waited on the Chief Secretary to-day, protesting against the proposed legislation to…

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(Published by Arrangement). America at War

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 12 December 1924 · page 4

Pre[?]ing against the Prohibition law. at a public meeting in New York. S[?] Bruce, of Maryland, accused the Federal Government of making…

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War Debt Mr. Winston Churchill States Policy. Zinovieff Letter No Forgery. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1924 · page 2

In the House of Commons the debate no the Address was resumed. Mr. Winston Churchill, replying to a question on the subject of the Allies'…

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War Debts British Arrangement With Poland. Consolidation Scheme. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1924 · page 4

Reuter's Warsaw correspondent reports that Poland has agreed to consolidate her war debt of £4,000,000 to Britain on the same terms that Britain…

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Urana Soldiers' Memorial

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1924 · page 4

The people of Urana might well be proud of their memorial hall, for it is one of the biggest in New South Wales. Erected at a cost of over £4000, this…

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War Debts London, Dec. 12

The Daily Express · Monday 15 December 1924 · page 1

It is learned authoritatively from Polish sources that the Anglo-Polish agreement for the repayment of Poland’s war debt to Britain provides for…

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War in Morocco Madrid, Dec. 13

The Daily Express · Monday 15 December 1924 · page 2

It is officially announced that the readjustment of the Spanish front in the Ceuts Tuan sector has practically been completed and similar…

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Testing War's Lessons. Naval Gunnery Practise. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1924 · page 2

The Admiralty has decided to use the battleship Monarch, which has to be destroyed under the Washington agreement, as a target for highly…

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