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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

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War Trophies Sale at Amiens Australians' "Big," Bertha" London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 March 1926 · page 2

Sir Newton-Moore (Conservative) in the House of Commons, asked whether the Government's attention had been called to the fact that the Amiens…

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Sub-Normal Soldiers R.S.L. Asks Commonwealth Co-operation. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 March 1926 · page 1

The Commonwealth Government is to be asked by the R.S.L. to appoint a committee of medical and other experts to set in conjunction with the R.S.L…

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Killed a White Man Colored Soldier's Delirium Paris, Mar, 8

The Daily Express · Wednesday 10 March 1926 · page 2

Panic-stricken patients in the Bordeaux Hospital sped to the windows and fire escapes when Gobba, a herculean Senegalese sharpshooter in his…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Martin Place Cenotaph. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1926 · page 2

In reply to a query by the Returned Soldiers's League, the Premier, Mr. Land, has confirmed the announcement that Sir Bertram Mackennell has been…

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Reminder of the War

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 6

By the term of the Treaty of Versailles the Germans must send 10,000 volumes per month to Louvain to compensate the destruction wrought…

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War In Pacific Risk of Aggression

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 7

General Sir Frederick Maurice, whose name as a student of strategy and tactics, no less than as a military critic, is world known, has formed…

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A Lawyer's Bankruptcy Clothing in War Time. Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 1

Evidence given by William Thornton Tackier, a solicitor and formerly a member of the New South Wales Bar in this examination before the register…

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Round Australia Motorist Gets Home. J. K. War[?]ar Achieves Supce[?]

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 12 March 1926 · page 1

Mr. J. K Warner, the round Australia motor tat, has arrive back in Perth, this completing the circuit of the Continent. He is the second man…

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War Debts France Should Pay London, March 11

The Daily Express · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 1

Mr. Winston Churchill informed Mr. Snowden, in the Commons, that he intended resuming, without delay, discussions with France regarding the…

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Taxi-cab Murder a Family Tragedy Sequel to War Wedding London, March 11

The Daily Express · Saturday 13 March 1926 · page 1

The war-time marriage of a Russian woman and a Scotch advertising manager, culminated to-day in a taxi-cab tragedy in Trafalgar…

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War Graves the Imperial Endowment (Reuter Service) LONDON, March 16

The Daily Express · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 1

The House has read the Imperi[?] War-Graves Endowment Funds a ge[?]ond time. The fund will consist of £5,000,000…

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Another War Mrs. Scales in London an Unwelcome Prophecy London, Mar, 15

The Daily Express · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 1

Mrs. Mary Scales, the Sydney clairvoyant, who is awaiting the the Privy Council decision in per Probate sul[?], forecasts another…

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Taxi Cab War Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 1

The taxi cab war in Sydney is about to commence in real earnest from tomorrow, when the Yellow Cab Company intends to charge a minimum…

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Above the Clouds War of the Future London, March [?]

The Daily Express · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 1

The “Dally Express” saya that realising that the next air war will be fought at a heights of 10 or 12 miles, the Air Force la…

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Another War Mrs. Scales in London. An Unwelcome Prophecy

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 7

Mrs. Mary Sea bis. the Sydney clairvoyant. who is awaiting the Privy Council's decision in her probate suit, forecasts another European war…

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“Tear Gas” War Method in Peace Time, Paris, March 17

The Daily Express · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 1

Housing Shortage necessitated the eviction of a mother and her daughter from rooms In the Montmartre by means of teat gas…

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Soldiers' Reappraisement

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 2

The Soldiers' Settlement Appraisement Board for the Land District of Cootamundra, after taking evidence in Cootamundra for four days…

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Uproar in Chamber of Deputies Minister for Interior Faints M. Malvy's War Record London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 13

Reuter's Paris correspondent states that M. Briand said the Government, owing to the necessity of resuming the financial debate as early as possible,…

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Local and General Orchards for Soldiers

The Daily Express · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 2

The Lands Department notifies that 16 well developed orchards in the Young district are available, until April 10 for application by qualified…

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Soldiers and Smalpage's Serum

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1926 · page 2

The T.B. Sailors and Soldiers' Association intends to await the result of tests by the Federal Government before the treatment of its members with…

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