Not Wanted War Echo £10,000 Wasted LONDON, Thursday Evening
The report of the Select Committee on public accounts, dealing with the establishment of an Internment camp in Australia on which the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1924
3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 198
Chorus War a New Phase Actors' Union Enters Appeal to Legislators
As the result of in interview yesterday between Mr. C. Dunn (secretary of the Actors' Federation) and Mr. E. A. Mowle (the Australian orchestra…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£1 a Week How War Widow Lives Too Ill to Work
In Darlinghurst there is a war widow who must keep herself and two children on £1 a week. She pays £1 a week rent,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldier Settlement Block, Will Question, etc
"One of Thorn" writes: — (1) Some twelve months ago, being a returned soldier, I became possessed of a Homestead Farm, of 3,000 acres,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Want Our Horses But Not Australia Javanese Soldiers
Headed by Captain was [?] a party of 15 [?] soldiers arrived in Sydney to-day by the Dutch liner…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Engineer's Position Ex-Soldiers and Water Board On Preference Question
The Water Boarad yesterday resolved that another letter be forwarded to the Labor Exchanges, asking if it had registered an experienced engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Needy War Widow Practical Help
After reading "The Sun's" story of the Darlinghurst war widow who was compelled to live on £1 'a week, Mr. S. Silver, a dealer in antiques…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Graves. a Mother's Visit
Mrs. Ravell, of Narrabeen, has returned from a visit to the last resting-places of two of her sons, who fell in the war, greatly touched and comforted by the loving care that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Plan to Ban War-and Our Own
AS this is written the American Peace Award Committee is completing an investigation of many thousands of manuscripts sent in by competitors for the prize of 100,000 dols. offered by Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Christmas Day at the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley
Christmas Day was a gala day at the War Memorial Hospital. The entire building was beautifully decorated with balloons, coloured streamers,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Victoria's Mystery War Memorial English Model for Diggers' Shrine
Melbourne is proverbially the city of mystery. But its record holds nothing more mysterious than the awarding of the prize for the £250,000 war memorial. The winning plan, which is most English in conception and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Letters of Czaritza to Czar. "They Must Learn to Tremble Before You."
THE brightest light yet thrown on the dark mysteries which came immediately before the downfall of the Russian Empire is to be found in the letters,…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Soldier Settlers. Sustenance Payments. Macquarie Vale Difficulties. Bathurst
The Bathurst Municipal Council [?]mously decided last night to co-operate with other bodies in an endeavour to secure fair and reasonable treatment by the Returned Soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Another Soldier Crucified Turned Out of Hospital With 14 "Smith's" Gives the Lie Direct to Repatriation Department
For a long time "Smith's" has been satisfied that the Department of Repatriation was systematically defeating just claims to pensions on the pretence that given disabilities were not due to War Service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sailors' and Soldiers' Parliament Clean Up Wanted at Brisbane Repat. and W.S. Homes Digger in the Grip of Departmental Wolves
When it comes to conducting a vendetta, the Black Hand has nothing on the Brisbane Branches of the War Service Homes Commission and the Repat. Their treatment of J. A. Scott, an aged and incapacitated Digger, is a gem of its kind. It shows, as this paper has pointed out a score of times, that a man who has…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Wireless War How the Empire Suffers From Delays Bruce Protests Nothing Done While Post Office and Company Fight LONDON, Friday Night
"Though the present uncertain position in politics unavoidably suspends many matters," said the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Preparing for War Britain's 1200 'PLANES Three Big Bases
Plans for the aerial defence of Britain, with 500 or 600 of the most, up-to-date aeroplanes as a first line and a similar number as reserves, are nearing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Nearly Nine Millions War Gratuity Payments New South Wales Quota
Though almost four years have passed since the Federal Government authorised the payment, either in cash or bonds, of the Diggers' war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deadlier War Gas Instead of Battleships the Use of Rays
IT is a sad commentary on human nature that one of the principal results of the Washington Disarmament Conference has been to divert…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raiders of the Skies War in the Air Demonstration at Croydon Flights in the Purple Night London, November 10
"BY scissors," exclaimed Senator Wilson, of Australia, "look at that fellow; he's wriggling like a worm in a pepper pot…
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