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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Man Wounded Refuses to Give Information Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 April 1929 · page 2

Mystery surrounds the shooting of Michael Keese, aged 49 years, laborer, at Bondi Junction last night. The police made investigations, and an hour…

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Attacked by Cow Child Severely Wounded Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 April 1929 · page 2

Rhonda Jean Butler, aged three years, was stroking a cow in a shed at her father's home at Longwood when the animal turned and butted her…

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Fastest War Vessel French Navy's Claim Paris

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1929 · page 5

The French Navy claims to possess the fastest war vessel afloat as a consequence of the sea trial of the torpedo boat-destroyer, Fullepard. The…

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American Ambassador Death of Mr. Herrick Founded First American War Hospital Paris

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1929 · page 1

The death occurred here yesterday of Mr. Myron Herrick, the American Ambassador to France. Mr. Herrick had two terms of office…

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War with America? Clergyman Apprehensive Ambition of U.S.A. Spiritual Forces Will Win in the End LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1929 · page 2

"We are consistently being told on this side of the Atlantic that an Anglo-American war is unthinkable," said the Rev. J. R. Campbell, of Brighton,…

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French Soldiers 500 in London Pilgrimage of Homage London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1929 · page 1

Five hundred members of La Slamme, the French equivalent of the Returned Soldiers' League headed by General Gouraud, Military Governor of…

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Soldier Saved From Pauper's Grave Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1929 · page 2

Aldan Byrne, of the 13th Battalion of the A.I.F., who died in the Western Suburbs Hospital on Friday night would have been buried as a pauper…

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A Romantic Island Annexed by Britain During Great War

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1929 · page 5

Cyprus, the island between Athens and Jerusalem, Cairo, and Constantinople, has a civilisation at least 25 centuries old. According to the old…

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Independent Labor Conference at Carlisle Opposition to War Credits LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1929 · page 1

Heated discussion occurred at the Independent labor Conference, which is being held at Carlisle, when it was decided by 161 votes to 125 that the…

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North-west India Frontier Tribesmen at War Afridis Help Sunnis Shiahs Sustain First Defeat Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1929 · page 1

The Afridi tribesmen on the north west frontier of India, who are experts in the construction of rifles, are working feverishly to supply war materials…

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War in China Wuhan Forces Fleeing Hankow in Danger Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1929 · page 3

The war situation took a dramatic turn last night, following the collapse of important Wuban defences and the [?]ight of the defending army to…

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Woman Wounded Death Ensues Man Arrested Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 2

Smothered in blood, Ellen Turner, aged 30 years, last night rushed out of a house in Little Gore-street, Fitzroy. Neighbors roughly bound her right arm,…

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R.S. & S.I.L.A. Anzac Day Procession Concert, Community Singing

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 3

At a well-attended meeting of the Diggers in the School of Arts, the making of arrangements for Anzac Day was the chief matter of business…

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War Bomb Reveals Forgotten Art Treasure

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 4

The Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London, owes the disclosure of one of its most interesting external features to a German…

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General Smuts on "Cause of the War"

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 3

General Smuts, speaking at a meeting of the League of Nations Union on the work of the League expressed his views regarding the [?] cause of the…

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Merchant Navy Part in Great War Prince of Wales' Tribute London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 1

"Varied, indeed, these craft were in type; but their crews were animated by one heart and one spirit," writes the Prince of Wales in his foreword to…

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American Soldier Shot U.S. Troops Massing on Frontier Washington

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 2

The dropping of a bomb at Naco, Arizona, to-day during the Mexican revolutionary fighting across the border, resulted in the wounding of two…

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British Army Record in War Marshal Fooh's Tribute London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1929 · page 2

In answer to the question, "Who won the warf" Colonel Lionel James, the former war correspondent, who commanded King Edward's Horse in…

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Anzac Day Arrangements

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 April 1929 · page 2

A conference of Wagga clergymen and representatives of the sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon to…

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