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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

3,102 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 156

Making "Atrocities." Truth, Crushed, Rises Again. War-time Lies

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 47

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Leaders in the World War. a Retrospect and Comparison

The Catholic Press · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 27

The death of Cardinal Mercier emphasises the contrasting characteristics of the most prominent figures associated with the great world war. Those figures are passing…

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Freight War? N.s.w. Unaware of It Please Explain !

The Sun · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 22

The N.S.W. Railway Department is at a loss to understand the basis for the Victorian Premier's complaint that it is waging a freight war against…

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Freight War Vic. Alarmed Allan to See Lang Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 1

The reduction of railway freights between "Sydney and the Riverina is agitating the minds of the State Ministers, who believe that they…

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Money and Markets World's Trade Nearing Pre-war Levels Russia in the Rear

The Sun · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 4

That the volume of international trade will reach in the fiscal year 1925-26 that of 1913 is predicted by the National Foreign Trade Council…

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Work for Unemployed Govt. and Anzac Parade

Evening News · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 12

Why does not the Government find work the unemployed in making [?]ds, and improving such thorough [?] as Anzac Parade. instead of…

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Men Who Put "Nz" in "Anzac" Helping Them Here Position Explained

Evening News · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 7

WRITING to the Returned Soldiers' League, the National War Funds Council, Weliington, N.Z., asked if former New Zealand…

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For a War Museum Some Suggestions

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 7

A bevy of clerics-- wearing the livery of the Prince of Peace --declaiming the war to be "Holy." A church building dedicated to the…

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Italian War Debt Favorable Settlement London, January 27

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 1

An Anglo-Italian war debt, agreement was signed at the Treasury this morning. The agreement provides for the…

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Deserted Wives Heritage of Great War Appeal to Minister

The Sun · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 13

Declaring that they are the wives of soldiers who have deserted them, a number of women have sent a petition to the Minister for Health (Mr. Cann)…

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The Menace of Militarism. (Continued from last issue.) Soldiers as Strike Breakers

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 4

Reg. 198—“No number of the permanent military forces shall be ordered to do any work. or to act in place of civilians who have refused to work because of some dispute as…

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War's Aftermath

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 12

AFTER writing a note, with a curse against war, Walter Nelson, a railroad fireman who had been gassed in France. and killed…

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How Allenby Outwitted Von Sanders German Commander Who Escaped in His Pyjamas Biggest Bluff in Eastern War Theatre

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 23

RETURNING FROM DAMASCUS WITH dispatches for Liman Von Sanders on a morning in September 1918, a German airman stepped out of his machine at El Fule, on the plains of Megiddo, and was invited to morning…

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Three Fires Soldier for Trial on Arson Charge

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 3

"If I can't have a drink when I want it, the place goes up in smoke to-night," These words are alleged to have…

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Soldiers' Day

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 2

The Commonwealth Bank has promised to undertake the banking operations for Soldiers' Day, March 5, free of charge…

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The Tug=of=war

The Sun · Sunday 31 January 1926 · page 3

Years ago, when Australian audiences went wild over tug-of-war contests, there was a famous American team which used, to walk away with…

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War Debts Burden Snowden Protests London

The Sun · Sunday 31 January 1926 · page 2

Mr. Philip Snowden (who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labor Government), in the course of a lecture, said he was sick and tired…

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FORE ! FORE ! War Among the Golf Clubs

Truth · Sunday 31 January 1926 · page 4

THERE is quite a flutter among the fashionable clubs where golf is played on Sundays and other days. A newspaper…

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In the Scale Value of an Anzac Empire's Greatest Asset Mr. Amery's Comparisons London

Sunday Times · Sunday 31 January 1926 · page 2

"We know what an Anzac is worth to us in war time. But in peace time, as a purchaser of what we make, one Anzac is worth a dozen Frenchmen, two dozen Germans or Americans, a hundred Chinamen, and six hundred Russians."…

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The Wrecking of a Romance a Digger, a War Bride, and a Gob Edgar Cavanagh's Sad Story

Truth · Sunday 31 January 1926 · page 14

BACK of a tragic little tale of married unhappiness aired last Friday in the Central Police Court, when Edgar Clive Cavanagh, a war-broken Digger, proceeded against James Horatio Root, American citizen, for assault, there stands, like a…

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