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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

16,298 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Employment for Returned Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 8

The acting-secretary of the State War Council states that he has now brought to a satisfactory conclusion negotiations for providing employment for returned soldiers…

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Invalid Soldiers. Returning To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 6

A further batch of soldiers will arrive this morning by four special trains from Melbourne, and friends and rotations who have received tickets marked "X" from the Staff…

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Soldiers and the Strike

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 7

Writing from France to his mother, Mrs. E. Johnson, of 12 Evans-street. Waverley, Private Ernest Johnson, referring to the recent strike, says:—"My opinion of the…

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Labor Exchanges Returned Soldiers' Scheme Reducing Unemployment Reference to I.W.W.

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 3

An interesting review of the work of the labor exchanges for last financial year is contained in the current issue of the Labor Department's official publication, "The…

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Two Lonely Soldiers 5000 Letters Each It Pays to Advertise MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 5

Senator Pearce, Minister for Defence, stated to-day that as the result of the insertion in the Australian press of advertisements by "lonely soldiers," inviting correspondence…

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Home From the Front Soldiers Warmly Welcomed Worked to Death

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 4

Thousands of people gathered at the Central railway station this morning to warmly welcome home over 500 soldiers from the battle front -- 333 came for Sydney, and 228…

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Returned Soldiers and Labor. "No" Men Linking Up

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 5

The secretary of the Returned Soldiers' No- Conscription League (Mr. W. H. Mackenzie) made a statement yesterday of the views of his organisation In reference to a future political…

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Empire's Critical Period. Soldier Rebukes Strikers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 5

[?]son of a preminent business man, writes from the front:-- "According to letters and papers from home you have been experiencing u serious strike,…

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More Soldiers To-day

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 5

A further batch of soldiers will arrive to-day by four special trains from Melbourne, and friends and relations who have received tickets marked "X" from the Staff-Officer for Invalids…

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Noteworthy Words Upon Current Problems Great Britain's Part in the War Now the "Little Contemptibles" Have Become One of the World's Greatest Armies

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 1

In a private letter from an old newspaper friend in London recently. Uncle Wiseman was informed that the British casualty lists issued by the War Office…

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German Land-lust Demands for Conquered Provinces Russia Can Never Accept "We Will Courageously Defend the Revolution" 154th Day of the Fourth Year of the War

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 1

Germany has thrown off the mask. She announces her intention of annexing Poland and the conquered Baltic provinces. Trotsky declares that Russia will never consent to these terms, and declares that unless Germany adheres to the scheme of self-determination of nationalities it will be urgently necessary to…

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The Land. "Nations may battle and the world rock with revolution, but the land will care for him who cares for it." Address: 7 O'Conn ell Street, Sydney. Telephones—1521. City; Works, 880 Redfern. Telegrams—"The Land," Sydney. Friday, January 4, 1918. The Win-the-War Cabinet Crisis

The Land · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 8

THE Federal political situation is at time of writing still in a somewhat chaotic condition as a result of the ineffably stupid blunder of the second referendum. For some days it had almost come to be accepted as settled that the Government would not resign because of…

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Welcome Home

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 1
Also in The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate

Gunner G. II. Mitchell, of Orchard Hills, who has been invalided home from the Hold of action, was entertained at a "Welcome Home" social by the local…

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Wounded Prisoners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 13

The Amsterdam. "Telegraaf" says that a representative of the British War Office has protested to the Dutch Government against the inadequate arrangements for the…

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376th Casualty List. Wounded

The St George Call · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 2

Bmdr. Niel O'Brien, Bexley (2nd occasion), gas. Spr. Thomas Harold Hartshorne, Hurstville (and remained at duty)…

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America's War

The St George Call · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 2

The other day "Tiger" Clemenceau, French senator and editor and ex-prime minister, was talking to American soldiers in France. In one of his…

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The War

Evening News · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 4

THE United States Government. It is cabled, is proposing to [?] the transport fac[?] on the [?] of sending [?] millons of men to [?] in the [?] period. The number…

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Hungarian War Loan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 13

An Amsterdam report says subscriptions to Hungary's seventh war loan were [?]aree thousand million kroner. The Government confidently expected eight thousand million. The…

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War Casualties. Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1918 · page 14

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Taylor, 32 Crescent-street. Manly, have been notified that their son, Sub-Lieutenant Ralph Taylor, was killed on December 22. Before enlisting he was…

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