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The wars & local soldiers, 1927

3,787 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 190

Soldiers' Day and Other Topics Soldiers' Day in Sydney

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 13

MARTIN-PLACE, Sydney, was a bright scene one day last week when the governors of the United Returned Soldiers' Fund made their annual "Soldiers'…

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The Price of Empire : Pioneering in New Guinea The young airman and gunner who supplies this narrative has put into connected form the thrilling story of the recent tragedy that mill for ever find a place in the history of Australian pioneering in New Guinea. He tells his story simply —as a soldier usually does

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 12

EARLY in October of last year Patrol Officer Nickols, during his patrolling in the Nakanai section of the district of Talasea, discovered a deposit of peacock copper ore, and at the…

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War Lord Captures Soviet Adviser's Wife in Chang's Hands Fears for Safety Arrest of Madame Borodin with Details of Northern Troops Nanking Raid on Russian Vessel Shanghai

Evening News · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 1

SENSATION has been caused by the arrest and removal inland to Tsianfu of Madame Borodin, wife of the Russian adviser to the Cantonese, by order of Chang Tsung Chang, die Shantung war lord, who now…

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War on Rabbits a Coonamble Appeal

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 6

The Full Court yesterday dismissed an appeal by the defendants in the case of Arthur Dyke, Peter William Clark, and Robert Stanley…

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Riff War Renewed Spain Suffers Heavy Casualties Strict Censorship [?]

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 1

REPORTS regarding the teu[?]the Riff War in Morocco, haw been consumed front Tangier. Artillery fire has been heard…

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The Conflict. Good Soldiers

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 3

THE Christian soul is conscious of a close-knit conflict within arid without. Principalities and powers are ranged against us and against Him, and…

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Anzac Fellowship

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 6

The Anzac Fellowship of Women met for the first time this year last Tuesday evening. The committee of the Empire Service Club and Hostel presented a quarterly report,…

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Class War in the Bad Old Days

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 4

The following has been clipped from the Lithgow “Mercury” of 31st August, 1894: The Shearing Difficulty in the West…

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An Echo Ok the War. Great Britain's Aerial Fleet

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 19

Amazing figures in relation to Great Britain's preparations for intensive series operations in the last year of the war were made by Sir…

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Racial War World Over the Abyss Ring of Hatred

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 18

"The population of Australia is just under two a square mile of that vast territory. The population of Japan is 300 a square mile, or 150 times as…

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In Battle Array British Navy Greatest Fleet Since the War Gibraltar

The Labor Daily · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 1

THE greatest fleet concentrated under one command since the war, assembled yesterday in the Mediterranean. when the combined British…

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China's Civil War Fracas Between British Seamen and Chinese Mob "Red Raggers" Arrested

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 2

There is a full in the military situation, Both sides are bringing up reserves to the Soochow area. Northern reinforcements continue to pour into…

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Tanks at Shanghai British Shipload Serious Food Shortage in the City Profiteers' Work War Veers to Nanking Shanghai

The Labor Daily · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 1

A SHIPLOAD of British armored tanks was landed yesterday from the transport Karmala, which brought also a detachment of the Signal…

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Royal Procession Provision for Soldiers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 17

To view the progress of the Royal procession through the city streets on March 26 (public holiday), a stand will be erected next to the Registrar General's Office,…

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URANGELINE Satisfied Farmers SOLDIER-SETTLEMENT

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 9

Operations on the Urangeline Soldiers' Settlement during the past few years show that the settlement is one of the most successful of its kind that…

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Soldiers Loot Foochow Outbreak Churches Invaded

Evening News · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 9

DETAILS have been received by the Church Missionary Society of Australia of the recent trouble at Foochow, the capital of Fukien…

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Alliance française. (Comité de Sydney). Soldier's Day

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 4

Invitée a participer à l'organisation de la fête annuelle, Martin Place, l'Allianoe Française avait installé le 4 mars un kiosque de fleurs, fruits et…

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Has Your Union Helped The 40 - Hour Fight? Form a Workers’ Army a Returned Soldier’s Plea

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 1

Comrade Editor, An another blood-bath draws nearer we will have the bass hats ecperimenting in the one just past…

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Anzac Day Service, Sports and Ball Murwillumbah

The Sun · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 3

Anzac Day this year will be observed at Murwillumbah by a grand united memorial service in Newell Park in the morning, when,…

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Good Shooting Mudgee Man's Feat Women at Anzac

The Sun · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 6

To-day in Ladies' Day at Anzac Rifle range. Their annual competition was carried out, under the, auspices of the Annandale Hide Club, and as a large number…

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