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The wars & local soldiers, 1926

3,102 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 156

Shipping War Sanity at Last Seamen Decide Against Strike New Coastal Union

Evening News · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 9

THE SEAMEN held a gloomy I meeting at the Mechanics' Institute, Miller's Point, to-day, to discuss the strike…

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Still Paying for the War Says Federal Govt. Tax Slug to Stay Melbourne

Evening News · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 10

IT HAS BEEN [?] from an authoritative source that there is not the slightest likelihood of the Federal Government vacating the…

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Coal War? German Magnate Speaks Out "All Must Agree" Economic Locarno and Comity of Nations

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 1

The "get together" recommendations of the British Coal Commission are echoed by the great German mine-owner and industrial magnate Herr Thyssen, who, in a plea for an international pact for the control of the coal industry, declares that without an…

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For T.b. Soldiers

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 13

MANY new members were welcome to the committee of the T.B. Soldiers' Ball by Mrs. Cox Roper, the president, at a meeting at the…

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Orchards for Soldiers Young

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 7

Sixteen blocks, with [?]alds [?] coming into hearing, on the Soldiers' Grant Settlement, are now being thrown open for allo[?]ment, and are certain to…

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Soldiers and Sailors League's Good Work Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 6

Speaking at the annual dinner of Wollongong branch, Mr. Stagg, State Secretary. Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League, pointed out that the league was…

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Soldier's Romance Broken by Poverty London, March 15

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 1

The story of a vain attempt to reconcile Oriental and Western temperaments was related at the inquest into the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. M'Quaker,…

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£1685 Cheque for Limbless Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 9

Yesterday morning, in the Lady Mayoress's rooms at the Town Hall, a cheque for £1685 was handed to Mr. O. Beyers, general secretary of…

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Cheque for Limbless Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1926 · page 10

Mrs. Philip Street, president of the Limbless Soldiers' gala matinee, handed over a cheque for £1685 to Mr. O. Beyers, at the final meeting of the matinee committee at…

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Dr. Fanny Reading. Welcome Home Dance

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 15

A dance at the Maccabean Hall was the welcome home provided by the girls’ sub-committee of the Council of Jewish Women to…

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Welcome Home to Dr. Fanny Reading

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 8

Among those present to welcome home Dr. Fanny Reading at the gathering held for that purpose at the Maccabean Hall on…

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40 OPERATIONS War "Baby" Dead Enlisted at 14 MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 1

"Baby" Bernard Haynes, an Australian war hero, who enlisted at 14, and who had been an in-patient at Caulfield Hospital ever since he was shattered…

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German Jews and the War

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 7

In the course of an interview published in the “Juedisch-Liberale Zeitung,” General Berthold von Deimling, formerly…

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War Graves British Expenditure London, March 16

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 1

The House of Commons read a second time the Imperial War Graves Fund Bill, providing that Britain shall contribute 82 per cent. of £5,000,000,…

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War Memorial Board is Appointed MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 11

The Minister for Home and Territories announced to-day that the board of management of the Australian War Memorial has been constituted as…

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War Memorial Fund Board Appointed Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 15

As provided in the Australian War Memorial Act passed last year the Commonwealth Government to-day appointed a board of management…

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Taxi War [?]Ns in Earnest Shilling Minimum

The Sun · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 13

The latest development in connection with Sydney's taxi war is an announcement by the Yellow Cabs Company that, commencing to-morrow, the…

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Australian Bacon War Office Satisfied London, March 16

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 5

In the House of Commons, Mr. E. J. Ramsden asked whether Australian ham and bacon had been used for Army purposes, and whether it was in…

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"For Markets" Next World War Diplomat's Prediction Chicago

The Sun · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 1

Speaking before the Association of Commerce, Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador to the United States, said that the next world war…

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Treaty Powers Take Action War in China Warning Issued Protecting Foreigners Peking

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 March 1926 · page 1

The Treaty Powers to-day handed a Note to the Foreign Office giving the text of the memorandum which they had instructed their naval…

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