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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
16,298 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250
The operations of the employment branch of the State War Council (Mr. Cooper in charge) show that for the four weeks ended on Friday, work has been found for 716 returned soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Director-General of Recruiting says that Australia is sick of party war, and urges that we should unite and "bring our energy to bear upon the common enemy." That is very sane talk. Party strife and intrigue becomes ever more embittered in Australia, while…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New York World's Petrograd correspondent states that a war spirit is sweeping over Russia. Widespread indignation at Germany's terms culminated in Trotsky's war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Away in those distant days before the war it was not uncommon to hear stout gentlemen proclaim from the depths of cosy armchairs that the present age was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Arthur Griffith thus discusses the situation: -- "Recent happenings have caused the political position to become much too involved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More than 150 offers to adopt a baby, abandoned at London Bridge Station, were received by the probation officer at Tower Bridge Police Court recently. After careful investigation the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The peace negotiations between the Bolsheviks and the Central Powers at Brest Litovsk have apparently come to nought. Even Trotsky and his friends have found it impossible to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Senator Peace, Minister for Defence, stated to-day that the High Commissioner had cabled that he had attended the first meeting of the War Graves Committee. It was decided, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the invitation of the Government a party of Dominion journalists visited one of the busiest munition centres of the Midlands. The degree to which comparatively…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News has been received of Miss Norah Dickson, a well-known physical culture specialist in Sydney, who went to London about a year ago. She has distinguished herself by being…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →There was increased hostile artillery fire in the neighborhood of Polygon Wood and Passchendaele. Reciprocal artillery action took place to the north of St. Quentin. An enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One by one the Battalion Comforts Funds are opening up for work again. With renewed energies the women are commencing another year of loving labor on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →No Worry writes of her experiences as a girl earning her living in Sydney, and the hardships she has had to endure since the war, and the lessons she has been intelligent enough to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Australia is face to face with a grave danger. At two Referendums the people have declined to adopt Conscription, and the nation is now thrown back upon the system of voluntary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →President Wilson, addressing Congress, said it was a duty to do everything to secure the complete mobilisation of the whole resources of America in the most rapid and effective way…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Memorandum submitted to and approved by the British Labor Conference dealing with the war, is a damning comment on the indifference to the war professed by too many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Patrons of boxing and their lady friends attended the Stadium in fair numbers to witness what was advertised as the closing scene till the end of the war. It may be some time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After a voyage of many thousands of miles, which occupied a period of two years, a message to his mother thrown overboard from a transport by a Sydney soldier has at last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flying Corps Comforts Depot at 59 Wentworth-avenue will be re-opened on January 15, when the year will begin with a general meeting. All interested in the Flying…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. A. G. Potter, secretary of the New South Wales branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A., notifies that the election of officers for the New South Wales branch will be decided for 1918 by a plebiscite…
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