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The wars & local soldiers, 1933

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Shooting Charge Wounded Man Does Not Enow Assailant Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1933 · page 2

When Percy John Lawson, aged 31 years, sheet metal worker, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having shot at Vincent…

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War Pensions Total of £6,925,830 Paid

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 24 October 1933 · page 6
Also in Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser

Australian war pensions cost the Commonwealth £6,935,830 in the last financial year, according to the annual report of the Repatriation…

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Returned Soldiers' League

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 24 October 1933 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Tumut branch, of the Returned Soldiers' League was held on Thursday last, being well attended…

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War Menace Serious Position On Manchukub-Soviet Frontier Troop Concentrations Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 October 1933 · page 5

Although tempers are apparently simmering, following Moscow's publications of an alleged Japanese plot to forcibly seize the Chinese. Eastern…

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Returned Soldiers' Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 October 1933 · page 2

The Wagga sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League will conduct a carnival in aid of its relief funds on the banks of lake Wollundry,…

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Boer War Hero the Real Bugler Dunn Disproves Melbourne Claim Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 October 1933 · page 1

The claim of a man who died in Melbourne recently that he was Bugler Dunn hero of the battle of Colenso during the Boer War, has been proved…

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Ex-soldiers' Graves Mr. Tom Collins Question in Parliament

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 October 1933 · page 6

Mr. Tom Collins (U.C.P., Hume) asked the following question in the House of Representatives: "Will Minister for Repatriation inform me…

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Gas in the Next War

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 October 1933 · page 2

By a special new law of the Polish Government all students taking the medical degree will have to undergo a special three months' training the…

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Boer War Hero The Real Bugler Dunn Disproves Melbourne Claim

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 30 October 1933 · page 4

The claim of a man who died in Melbourne recently that he was Bugler Dunn, hero of the battle of Colenso during the Boer War, has…

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Returned Soldiers' Armistice Dinner ((To the Editor.)

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 October 1933 · page 4

Sir,—In connection with the tenders for the above function there seems to be some misunderstandings as to the procedure. Briefly, the facts are…

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Poppy Day Need of Returned Men

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 October 1933 · page 3

November 11 will be Armistice Day and on Thursday, November 9, we shall see poppies everywhere, bright and colorful reminders of the tragedy…

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War Debts British and U.S.A. Negotiations Token Payment London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 November 1933 · page 3

The London "Daily Express' says that hope of an agreement on the British U.S.A. war debts issue has been definitely abandoned. A token…

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Returned Men and the P&p Board Diggers Rally Round Stock Inspector

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 November 1933 · page 2

When the last monthly general meeting of the Gundagai sub.-branch of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League appeared to be…

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Railway Picnic Funat at Anzac Park

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 November 1933 · page 8

The annual picnic and sports organised by a committee of ladies and gentlemen under the auspices of the Cootamundra branch of the. N.S.W…

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Threat of War Is Less Feared Than an Attack on Peace Lord Cecil's Speech Love of Country, and Hate of Others LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 November 1933 · page 4

"It in not the immediate threat of war that causes us anxiety," declared Lord Cecil in a speech at Oxford to-day "but the first great attack after…

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Woman Wounded Suicide of Assailant Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1933 · page 1

Mrs. Sophie Russell, who was slightly wounded by a bullet fired at her at New South Head road, Edgecliffe late last night, by John Parkes, aged 38…

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War Debts Conversations at White House Revision to Be Discussed Washington

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1933 · page 1

President Roosevelt to-day received the British Ambassador in Washington (Sir Ronald Lindsay) and [?] chief economic advisor of the British…

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Give the Soldier Settlers a Living Area

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 November 1933 · page 5

If the State Government pays heed to the solid protest of Major A.D. Reid, M.L.A. (Young), action will have to be taken to provide the…

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War Debts Discussions Nearing End

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 November 1933 · page 8

The war debt negotiations between Great Britain and the United States entered on Wednesday upon what is generally assumed to be the…

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