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The wars & local soldiers, 1927

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Sinews of War Chang Wants Salt Revenue. Threat of Force. Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 October 1927 · page 2

Marshal Chang Chung-chang, Governor of Shantung, is, owing to war exigencies, attempting to seize the salt tax revenue at Chefoo, whereby foreign…

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Echoes of the Great War

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 October 1927 · page 2
Also in Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser, The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser

How we look back with vivid recollections of those terrible days, and try to forget. But there are some that cannot forget…

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Science Work War on the Blowfly

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1927 · page 1

Professor Watt, who recently toured the world, brings some good news about the blowfly, a pest that cases appalling waste in the pastoral…

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Science Work. War on the Blowfly Experiment in Carrying Fruit

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 21 October 1927 · page 4

Professor Watt, who recently toured the world, brings some good news about the blowfly, a pest that causes appalling waste in the pastoral…

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General Telegrams Homes for Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 October 1927 · page 8

The State elective at the Returned Soldiers' League, after considering the Commonwealth housing scheme, decided to move for an amendment of the War…

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Incapacitated Soldiers Valuable Bequest. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 October 1927 · page 4

Under the will of Miss Emily Claughton, late of Elwood (V.) and Hay, who left estate worth £159,731, it was directed that after…

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War Conversion Loan

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 October 1927 · page 2

The Federal conversion and redemption loan of £36,000,000, which is now on the marked, was issued to cover the residue of the fifth, sixth, and eight…

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Echoes of the Great War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 25 October 1927 · page 2
Also in The Tumut and Adelong Times

How we look back with vivid recollections of those terrible days, and try to forget. There are those who in their old age that must be…

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War Debts Pooling Scheme Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 October 1927 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Mr. J. F. Darling, a director of the Midland Bank, London, arrived to-day from England with particulars of a gigantic scheme for the pooling of war…

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Boer War Echo Case of Colonel Lynch King Edward's Biographer Challenged London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 October 1927 · page 2

Colonel Arthur Lynch, who fought with the Irish Brigade on the side of the Boers during the South African War, criticises Sir Sidney Lee's…

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Constable Wounded Two Brothers Convicted Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 October 1927 · page 2

At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, two brothers, Thomas Welsh and Lawrence Weigh, were charged with having, on the night of August 27…

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Frenchman Wounded in Defence of His Wife Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 October 1927 · page 6

A sensational attack was made upon a Frenchman, Jules de Flyn, aged 21 years, in a house in Cathedral street, Woolloomooloo, shortly before midnight…

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"War Inevitable." Lloyd George Pessimistic. London

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1927 · page 2

"When Austria, Germany and Bulgaria is disarmed the Allies undertook to follow their example. Nevertheless, to-day the Allied forces…

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Slashed with Razor Woman Wounded Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 October 1927 · page 6

Violet Howard, aged 26 years, was attacked by a man in a room in Pitt Street, City, shortly before 1 o'clock this afternoon and frightfully slashed…

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Echoes of the Great War

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 October 1927 · page 7

How we look back with vivid recollections of those terrible days, and try to forget. But, there are some that we cannot…

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War in China Rival Nationalist Forces American Ships Shelled Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 October 1927 · page 2

Ten youthful Chinese students, including a girl. were executed at military headquarters at Peking to-day for having plotted disturbances in…

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