Steam Loses Strange Tug of War Battery Locomotive Wins
The checkered flag swished through the air. Railread officials, executives, and electrical engineers stared. A steam locomotive and a storage…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1927
3,787 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 190
Labour Repudiates the China War the Next Step Must Be Taken
The great demonstrations of working-class solidarity that are taking place all over the Commonwealth constitute the greatest blow yet delivered to the Imperialists of this country. It is true that, so far only resolutions have been carried, yet such expression…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Wanted for Troops in China War Office Requirements Melbourne
Cable advices have been received by the Commonwealth Government from the High Commissioner's Office, London, that the War Office requires…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In Event of War French Plans Everything May Be Conscripted Sweeping Army Reform Paris
TURNING the Chamber of Deputies Army Commission into a Secretwar Council, at which France's defence cards were laid on the table, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers' Day Preparations in Parramatta
Preparations are well advanced for the conduct of "Soldiers' Day," on March 4 under the auspices of the United Returned Soldiers' Fund…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldiers' Day Appeal
In addition to finding situations for returned soldiers, of whom 1500 were placed in employment last year, the Returned Soldiers' League and kindred bodies are faced with the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Returned Soldiers ! Don’t Be Fooled Again! Ex-soldier’s Ghastly Fate
After setting fire to the chemical dipping room in the Dunlop Rubber Mills, Melbourne, a returned soldier named W. Bailie hanged himself to a rafter. He was 30…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Wounded. Four Shots Fired. Evidence Taken at Hospital. Brisbane
A sitting of the Police Court was held at Innisfall Hospital, when evidence was taken on a charge against John Hennliigsen of attempting to kill Ivy Hennliigsen, who stated…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →France and Italy. Is It To Be War?
In Australia we are apt to accept unquestioning assumption that war is a thing of the past, or at worst of the far distant future. In Britain, immersed for nearly a year in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Threat of War Concern of Whole League Peace Decision London
Complete agreement has been reached by the small committee, consisting of M. de Brouckere (Belgium), Viscount Cecil (Britain),…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Foreign Money (British Official Wireless) for Industrial War Commons Rejects Bill London, Friday Night
The House of Commons to-day debated the bill prohibiting any person or association from inviting, accepting, or using funds from foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Soldier's Memoirs
Lord Dundonald, whose reminiscences have been published under the title of "My Army Life," is a descendant of Admiral Cochrane, while other ancestors served with distinction…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Soldiers Slighted Welcome to Duke Vic. Diggers Protest Revised Programme Urged Melbourne
So keenly do the soldiers feel the slight placed upon them in being accorded no opportunity of welcoming the Royal visitors that the State…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Day
Amongst the attractions for Martin Place on March 4 in connection with Soldiers' Day Appeal, will be a fencing, display by Mr. Franw Stewart…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Frontier War
THE most thrilling episode in the history of Canada—the rebellion of the Red Indians of the North-west, under Louis Real—provided the basis of fact…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →If Your Patriotism is Not Dead, Assist Soldiers' Day Appeal the Aftermath of War
The war has left in its trail a measure of sickness and distress which is in a degree inevitable. The League, and kindred Returned Soldier organisations have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Remember Belgium Ireland and Foreign Policy If War Came London
The Labor leader, Mr. Johnson, speaking in the Dall, declared that the Free State should not be responsible for the British foreign policy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Limbless Soldiers' Appeal
To purchase a suitable water frontage, and to erect a residential qlub, with private swimming baths. Is the object of the Limbless Soldiers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Knife Flashes Italian Wounded
Two Italians who came to Australia on the same boat four years ago, but who had not seen each other for a couple of years, met suddenly…
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