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The wars & local soldiers, 1923

3,623 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 182

How We Treat Our Soldiers

The Land · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 10

"A Well-Wisher of the Soldier" writes from the country: I have read from time to time in "The Land" of the treatment of our returned…

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Homestead Farm Areas for Returned Soldiers Exclusively, Land District of Tamworth, cuckburn Shire

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 8

County of Iuglis, Parish of Tamworth: [?] block in area of 298 acres, capital value £1,342, annual rent 133 14s, 8d., survey 14s £10 17s, 4d, nearest town Tamworth…

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Soldiers' Group Purchase Areas. Land District of Orange, Lyndhurst Shire.)

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 8

County of Bathurst, Parish of Bencree: Eleven portions, ranging from 64 to 178 acres, capital values £500 to £1,938, annual instalments from £50 8s. to £145 9s. 5d.,…

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Tasmanian Soldier's Marriage London, Thursday Evening

Evening News · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 1

Colonel Hughes a Tasmanian the Deputy Controller of Works at the Gallipoli Cemeteries, was married at Alerandria to Miss Phyills Murdoch,…

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Burglars Shoot Newtown Sensation Constable and Prisoner Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 7

Numerous shots were fired early this morning in a running fight between a plucky constable and armed burglars, whom they…

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Debating Peace or War

The Sun · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 1

Scene in Angora, a town of rambling houses built on a hill-slope that is crowned with a triple line of mediaeval fortifications. Hero the Turks are debating whether they will accept the peace treaty as drawn up by the Allies at Lausanne…

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War Homes Evictions Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 8

A clerk employed in the War Service Homes Commission applied at the Newcastle Summons Court to-day for eviction orders against seven persons who…

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Desperate Fight. Police and Armed Men. Constable Wounded. Suspects at St. Peters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 13

A desperate struggle, during which several shots were fired by both parties, took place between two armed men and two policemen outside the Town and Country Hotel, St…

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Sailors' and Soldiers' Parliament Counsel for Fritz Australian Government's Amazing Position Dunning a Digger for Pre-war Debts

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 26

If you were told that a Digger who spent four years fighting Germans is being dunned to-day by the Australian Government on behalf of Germans you would probably say, "Impossible!" If you were further told that the same Government is threatening…

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Europe Is at War : Australia's Plain Duty

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 9

"There's no mistake about it. War has broken out in Europe." This is the alarming verdict on the European situation of Mr. D.J. Evans in this week's cable, and he writes with the full knowledge of a man on the spot…

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Mysterious Explosion Early War Time Disaster. London, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 13

Salvage operations have begun for raising the armoured cruiser Natal, which was sunk in Cromarty Firth on New Year's eve, 1[?]15, when 300 men, women, and children, who…

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Turks Want Peace But Must be Independent Prepared for War London, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 1

Mustapha Kemal, in a speech on the Lausanne treaty to the Turkish representatives at Angora, declared that though there was a possibility of…

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Ruhr Mines. Export Coal Tax Talk of War. Secret Measures in Germany. London, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 13

A report from Paris says that General Degoutte has decreed that the Ruhr mineowners must pay the export coal tax, and that failure will be followed by court-martial and…

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Penrith Returned Soldiers

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 4

A special meeting of the Soldiers' Club well be held at Mr. L. S. Uren's residence, High Street, on Thursday next, at 8. p.m. Business important…

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Eastwood Park Trust. Interesting Annual Report. Soldiers' Memorial Promised

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 8

The second annual report of the operations of Hastwood District Park Trustees is an interesting document. It discloses a period of commendable activity…

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Soldier Preference

The Sun · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 2

The action of the new Commonwealth Government in excluding Sir Elliot Johnson from the occupancy of the Speaker's chair is making returned…

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Healing Mission Suffering Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 6

Captain Richmond has been appointed by the committee of Mr. J. M. Hickson's Healing Mission to organise the preparation and…

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Where Do We Come In? Australia's Huge War Debt John Bull Gets Better Terms From U.S.A. Than He Gives Us

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 3

As the daily press has interpreted the Anglo-American war debt' funding scheme, Britain figures as the, hard pressed debtor in the grasp of the usurer. In fact the terms secured, by Britain are more reasonable than…

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Oh! Listen to the Ford Wireless Amateurs Say Fords are Putting the Harm in Harmony War on the Cause of Broken Melodies

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 24

Lizzie is in trouble again. War is about to be declared upon all Ford cars fitted with old-style high frequency magnetos by the owners of…

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If War Comes Why France is Coercing the Ruhr Secret Telephones Discovery by French Soldiers; German Officials Sentenced LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 4 March 1923 · page 1

"France must continue her coercive policy in order to ensure the inviolability of her soil. In the event of a new war, the army must be in a position to seize important strategic points, hamper the…

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