War Graves Reduction in Cost Australia's Contribution LONDON, January 9
The Imperial War Graves Commission estimates for the expenditure for the coming year at £1,500,000, of which Australia will contribute £95,000. The…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1924
3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 198
The Sinn Fein War Chest Half-a-Million Storling in Dispute
John Flunorty, the American layer who is representing the claimants to £500,000 subscribed to the Dail Eireann funds in America, has interviewed Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Guns Boom Japanese Cruisers Arrive Melbourne Welcome "Friends in Peace and War"
MELBOURNE, Thursday. The arrival of the Japanese naval squadron today caused no departure from Melbourne's every-day routine,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Duty on Spirits Fortification of Wine Returned Soldiers' Request
Recently the Roturned Soldiers' League made representations to the Commonwealth Government for a reduction in the excise duty on spirits…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Preference to Soldiers
It was anuounced at a meeting of the executive of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League last night that, owing to pressure brought to bear upon it, the Water and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →H.m.a.s. Australia. Returned Soldiers' Views
Only a formal acknowledgment has been received by the executive of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Lengue to its suggestion to the Minister for Defence that the H.M.A.S.Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Soldiers' League. a Non-political Body
Owing to some misunderstanding which has arisen from an address given at one ot the suburban leagues recently, the executive of tho Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →For the Soldiers
A tobacco fund is being established by the ladies' auxiliary to the Mosman sub-branch of the R.S. and S.I.L. It is intended to visit the soldiers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"On Anzac Day" Sinking the Australia "Act of Desecration" Senator Newland Protests
"I have just returned from a short holiday to the eastern States, and have observed with deep regret the apparent indifference with which the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Pensions Alleged Forgery MELBOURNE
Systematic frauds in connection with war pensions in New Zealand were alleged by the police at the City Court yesterday against Nicholas Peters and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Contrast of Peace and War
The iant steamship Leviathan, largest passenger vessel under the American flag, overshadows the U.S.S. Colorado, the latest and mightiest dreadnought of the American Navy…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →N.Z. War Memorial London, January 10
The New Zealand memorial at Chanak Bair. Gallipoli, has been completed, except for the inscription. The monument is clearly visible in clear…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aeroplanes, and General Slaughter, in Next War
THE slaughter of non-combatant men. women, and children, with other cruelties of primitive warfare, is confidently predicted for the next war between…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Reparations. Herr Stinnes' Plain War the Alternative. LONDON, Jan. 11
Reuter's Paris correspondent reports that when interviewed by the "Journal des Debats," Herr Huge Stinnes said that the Ruhr industrialists had agreed to pay reparations for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Soldiers' Settlement Holdings Abandoned BATHURST
At the last meeting of the Bathurst Chamber of Commerce it was decided to co-operate in a movement to urge the Minister for Agriculture to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sailors' and Soldiers' Parliament Victims of the Retrenchment Axe Sydney Repat. Selects Married Men First Government's Blow at Its Own Principle
Sydney Repat. has found a new use for the old phrase: "Women and children first." In the fine old sea-sense it meant, of course, that the women and children were considered over everything and everyone else. In the Repat. sense it means that they are marked down as first for the sacrifice in the interests of economy…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Dismal Future For Soldier Settlers "Slowly Starving BATHURST
The Chamber of Commerce has decided to co-operate in the movement to urge the Minister to take steps to improve the conditions of soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Model Bridge for Soldiers
Out of a piece of white cardboard cut (as large or small as you like) a piece the same shape as the shape shown In the right hand of the sketch…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldier's Suicide Discouraged by Wife's Order for Maintenance
George Edward Henley, nervous wreck, and victim of the dread ravages of war, ended his earthly troubles with a dose of poison…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Soldier's Two Wives Repatriation Department Withholds Pension from Unofficial Offspring. Legal and Illegal Love
"During the war the military said Mr. R. Elliott, at the Canterbury Court on Friday. Everyone…
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