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The wars & local soldiers, 1920

6,021 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 250

War Measures Go With Signing of Peace MELBOURNE

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 5

The Governor-General to-day received a cable from the King notifying the ratification of the Peace Treaty, The secretary proclamations will be issued today…

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Patriotic Citizen Wiping Out War Loan LONDON, January 10

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 4

A second British citizen has offered the Chancellor of Exchequer £120,000 for War Loan cancellation. The offer was accompanied by the expression of…

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£1,500,000 West Australia's War Loan LONDON, January 9

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 1

West Australia will shortly float a loan of £1,500,000 at 5¾ per cent., redeemable between 1930 and 1940. The price is 98, which will yield 5…

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The Churches' Call Peace, War, and Religion a New Teas Message London

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 4

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Revs. F. B. Meyer, John Scolt-Lidgett. J. Shakespeare. and A. Guttery, as leaders of the…

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Soldiers' Memorials

Construction and Local Government Journal · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 6

There is still considerable misunderstanding regarding the adequate style of memorial to Australia's fighting men. The New South Wales Government…

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Soldiers and Wives London. January 10

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 4

The steamer Meganne has salled from Liverpool for Australian with 280 officers and their wives and 480 men and 600 wives on board…

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Tries to Rob Soldier on Cratches

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 4

George Edwards 24. timber lumper, was at the Central Police Court sentenced to six months gaol for attempting to steal £1 9s 2d from John Thompson, a returned…

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Commonwealth Bank Staff. Returned Soldiers' Reunion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 5

Close on 400 members of the Commonwealth Bank staff on Saturday welcome[?] home at Clifton Gardens many of their co[?]des who had returned from active service with the A.I.F. Mr. Denison Miller,…

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Returned Soldiers' League

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 7

Mr. Potter, secretary to the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' League, stated yesterday that through the assistance of the War Ch[?]st Fund the league had become a member of…

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Invalid Soldiers. Free Rail and Tram Passes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 6

Major Shillington, M.L.A., has been notified by the A.L.F. Furlough (Privileges) Bureau that the privilege of free rail and tram passes which had already been grinted to…

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Charge Against Soldier. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 7

A man who has given his name as Sergeant Albert Roberts, V.C., has been in Lithgow for the past few days, and generally met with a cordial reception. He was interviewed by the…

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Returned Soldiers and Nurses Purchase of Businesses

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1920 · page 5

Through the assistance of the War Chest Fund the Returned Soldiers' League his become a member of the Merchants and Traders' Association,…

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German Children Taught Art of War

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 6

Charlottenburg (Germany) [?]pils in the higher schools are being trained for two hours in the afternoon in the art of using machine guns, hand…

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Nobody Knows Payment of War Gratuity

Evening News · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 4

"When do we get the gratuity?" This question, asked by returned soldiers, is repeated hundreds of times daily, and officials both at victoria…

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War Problems Officers' Opinions Wanted LONDON, January 8

The Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent at Paris states that the War Ministry has invited officers to send in personal observations in connection with the war…

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War Echoes. Watchword of Australian Troops. Remember Gallipoli

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Sneaking at a civil reception in his honor at the Melbourne Town Hall. General Sir John Monash said that the newspapers and public men in England had…

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After the War Determined Action in New Guinea. Germans Not Wanted

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 4

The return of a number of Germans to Port Moresby (New Guinea) from Australia recently has been strongly resented by the British population…

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Kaiser's Plotting. Further War Letters. Russo-japanese Campaign. London, January 9

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 5

Further letter written by the Kaiser to the Czar of Russia have been published. In one series the Kaiser throws fresh light upon the famous secret treaty signed. by the…

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Patriotic Example. War Bonds Given Up for Cancellation. London, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 7

A second British citizen has offered the Chancellor of the Exchequer war loan bonds for £120,000 for cancellation, and hopes that others will follow his example…

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People's Savings. Great, Increase in War Time. Deposits Total £130,000,000

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 7

The deposits in the savings banks of the Commonwealth at the outbreak of war in 1914 amounted to £84,000,000. On the latest figures, available at September, 1919,…

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