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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Second Outbreak Police Fire Revolvers Miner Fatally Wounded

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 4

A second outbreak occurred when a motor car came from Branxton. The police took the car through the gates, and a fusillade of stones was showered…

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Rothbury Miners Attack Police Police and Miners Wounded One Fatality SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 1

SHORTLY AFTER daybreak yesterday several hundred miners rushed to the colliery. The police used their batons freely, sticks…

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War Service Homes Additional Grant Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 1

Representations made by the Returned Soldieis' League to the Federal Government have resulted in a promise to make an additional…

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War Service Homes Promise of Extra £60,000 SYDNEY

The Daily Express · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 1

Representations made by the Returned [?] le[?]ge to the Fed[?] [?]requited in a [?] [?]…

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Bloodshed at Rothbury Miners Attack Police Man Fatally Shot Police and Miners Wounded Compulsory Conference Convened State Government Pursues Plans

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 4

Blood was shed at the Rothbury colliery, Branxton, yesterday following attacks by miners on the police. Shortly after daybreak several hundred miners rushed to the colliery. The police used their batons freely,…

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Soldiers of To-day Admired by Officers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 8

A little while ago it pleased the War Office to issue certain orders regarding privileges to private soldiers, concerning wearing of plain clothes at…

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Returned Soldiers Annual Reunion at Ladysmith

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 3

The annual reunion of the Ladysmith sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was held in the Soldiers' Memorial Hall on December 10. There…

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Boosting the War As an Excuse

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 December 1929 · page 8

There is a shortage of essayists who can make the reader smile while he is imbibing such truths concerning the philosophy of life (says "Public…

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A Famous War Hospital

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 7

One of the most finely equipped hospitals in Great Britain is to be closed this month. It is the Queen's Hospital at Sidcup, Kent, which at present…

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Einstein and Another War

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 1

At the Council of War Resisters' International meeting at Zurich, Mr. Fenner Breekway, M.P., presiding, it was announced that the following reply…

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Soldier Settlement Article

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 2

The article on the Soldier Settlements of Merungle Hill and Corbie Hill, on the supplement page, comes from the facile pen of Mr. Jack…

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The Soldier Settlements Merungle Hill and Corbie Hill

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 3

When winter came to the area in 1927, also came the King's Envoy, Lord Stonehaven, Governor General of this fair but struggling land, the far-flung Dominion of the Empire. On that bleak day when Chelmsford Place was clustered with the welcoming…

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"Foulest Libel" Story of Diggers in Graves' War Book Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 December 1929 · page 4

Sir John Monash was indignant when shown a passage from a book by Robert Graves entitled "Good-bye to All That." The book deals with the war…

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Australian Troops Alleged Atrocities Author of War Book Credulous Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1929 · page 4

Mr. C. E. W. Bean, the official historian of the A.I.F., commenting on the statement of Robert Graves in his book, "Good-bye to All That," in…

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Echo of War Bomb Explodes in Holy Land Jerusalem, Dec. 27

The Daily Express · Saturday 28 December 1929 · page 2

Moses Katz, a worker in Petach, Tikvah coloney, was killed while working in a field by the explosion of a bomb dropped during the war…

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Rum-running Vessels Intercepted Three Men Killed; One Wounded New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1929 · page 2

Two intercepting incidents connected with rum-running occurred to-day. The coastguard off Newport fired upon an alleged American ruin runner,…

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Deportee's Return Causes Riot at Apia Three Killed, 30 Wounded Suva (Fiji)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1929 · page 2

The return to Apia of A. G. Smythe, who was deported from Samoa in December, 1927, resulted in a riot, in which three persons were killed and…

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National War Memorial Funds Not Available

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1929 · page 4

The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), in a letter to the Federal President of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. G. J. C. Dyett) defines the…

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