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The wars & local soldiers, 1925

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Yanco Soldier Settlers Association

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

The report of the annual meeting of the above association will be printed in our next issue…

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Allies' War Debts. Conference at Paris. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 4

An official communique states that Mr. Winston Churchill and M. elemental unofficially exchanged views on the whole question of the Allies' war…

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Wagga Returned Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Wagga Returned Soldiers' League will be held to-night at the Empire Hall, commencing at 8 o'clock…

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League of Nations Come to Stay Sir Littleton Groom on War Horrors Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 2

Speaking at the Millions Club luncheon to-day, Sir Littleton Groom, who was one of the Australian representatives at the recent League of Nations…

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Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Soldiers' Memorial Hall. Committee's Appeal. (Reprinted from the "Hawkerbury Herald," Richmond)

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 1

With the object of building a Soldiers' Memorial Hall at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, the committee of the fund is appealing to all Old…

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Returned Soldier Workers Attacked Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 3

As the result of a riot which occurred Dalgety's wharf to-day between some wharf laborers and some returned soldier wharf laborers three of the…

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Wheat Transport Affected Shipping Trouble Holds Up Trucks Government Intervention in Dispute Returned Soldiers and Wharf Laborers Come to Blows

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 3

The seriousness of the shipping dispute becomes more pronounced each day that it continues. One of the most serious aspects of it yet was announced yesterday in the holding up of nearly 2000 wheat trucks and the…

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Those 71 Soldiers Outside the Investigation

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 2

Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw, M.L.A., forwards the following letter, dated Jan. 8 received from the Premier's Department:—"Following upon my letter of…

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Consolidating Fascism Mussolini Wages War Against Secret Societies. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 2

A further step in the campaign for the consolidation of Fascism was taken to-day by the Prime Minister. Signor Mussolini, who introduced into the…

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War in China. Object of Belligerents. Shots Fall in Shanghai. Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 2

Yesterday's fighting came as a great surprise as Chih Sie Hyuan had bees living quietly in the settlement since his flight from Nanking. Apparently…

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CABLES Red Letter Day in Post-War History PARIS

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 1

The papers are delighted with the outcomes of the conference, and say that yesterday marks a red-letter day and a land mark in post-war history…

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Returned Soldiers Demonstrate. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 3

A returned soldiers' labor demonstration was held in the Sydney Domain this afternoon. The returned soldiers were members of the Waterside…

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Girl Wounded An Air Gun SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 1

Doris Levett, aged 7, was admitted to hospital today suffering from a wound in the forehead. She informed the hospital authorities that the…

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War Crimes. Germans Sentenced to Death Wholesale Massacres of Citizens. Brussels

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 2

The court martial at Liege has sentenced to death two Germans, Colonel von Thesseman and Major Hederman, who were held responsible for the…

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Income Tax. Should Soldiers Pay ?

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 2

"Returned soldiers must shoulder their responsibilities as a citizen in common with other, folk," said Alderman F. Davison, of Vaucluse,…

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Soldiers' Memorial for Tumut. Movement Revived. Prospect of Unity & Finality

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 3

At the conclusion of business at the general meeting in connection with the winding up of Centenary matters the Mayor (Ald. Elphick) in a…

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Royal War Tragedy. How Carmen Sylva Died. Bucharest

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 2

The actual circumstances of the death of Carmen Sylva, the late Queen of Roumania, at her Roumanian castle during the German occupation of 1916,…

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Moquet Farm. A Grim War Record Australian Skeletons Found

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 4

Captain C. E. Bean, the Australian Official War Correspondent and author of the Official History of the A.I.F., who is…

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"Exiled King's Death." War Incident Recalled

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 1

The death occurred in Sydney on Tuesday of William Jacob Watriama, who claimed to be the lawful king of the Loyalty Islands…

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War on Rabbits. Big Federal Scheme

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 2

The Victorian Farmers' Union has submitted to the Common wealth Government a scheme for a great national rabbit drive…

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