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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
3,759 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 188
LIKE a fiction thrill was the story of the voyage of the Czecho—Slovakian steamer Praga, which reached Taingtao on Friday, carrying a cargo of 90,000 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The influx of aliens is becoming very noticeable on the goldfields, and it is stated that foreigners are steadily pushing British workers out of the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An unconfirmed Riga message reports the revolt of lour of the most pro-Trotsky Soviet artillery regiments…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While the British Air Ministry is conning plans to equip the crews of bombing machines in chain-mail, bullet-resisting armor, the United States War Department has adopted a mobile anti-aircraft gun that can fire 25…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"We have sat for long in the sombre darkness of postwar depression, deluded more than once by what has proved to be only a false dawn. "We have learnt to mistrust prophets. Heaven forbid…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The professional scullers have arranged a welcome home to fee champion Barry in London on February 2…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →A Wahabi force of 300 camel riders and 100 horsemen made a raid into koweit territory, slaughtered many tribesmen, and seized camels and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is understood that Germany has paid Spain £150,000 as the first instalment of the Spanish expenses in interning Germans in the Cameroons…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →FIELD-MARSHAL EARL HAIG, WHO DIED YESTERDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →CITY HALL, employees are closely following the struggle for Power between the Civic Commissioner and Electricity General Manager Forbes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Simple, but thrilling, is the first volume of the official war history of the campaign in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, which has just been published…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"FRANCE'S young men need physical training to fit them for them army, especially as they now undergo only one year of service," said M…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TROUBLE within the Bread Carters' Union has reached such an acute stage that the Chief Secretary. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Field-Marshal Earl Haig died today in his 66th year from heart disease at the home of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. G. Jamieson, where he was staying. He collapsed when retiring, and While seated on the side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The death is announced from London of Field-Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde in his 67th year. The death, from heart trouble, occurred at the late earl's London residence…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"EARL HAIG was incomparably the finest British soldier of this fateful age," said Mr. Winston Churchill in a glowing tribute to the dead Field Marshal. An official medical statement shows that Earl Haig's death…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The silent man in the background" is the fitting description given of the late Earl Haig by Mr Frederick Palmer, the wellknown American war correspondent, when re…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Undoubtedly the outstanding British soldier during the war," was the description of Earl Haig offered last night by the Commonwealth War Historian (Mr. C. E. W…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Not only a great soldier," wrote one critic in the days of the war concerning Field -Marshal Earl Haig (whose death is reported on page 1), "but a great gentleman, too." And whatever doubts may exist as…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"His name will live in the annals of British history," was the tribute paid to the late Earl Haig to -day by Sir John Monash, who is on holiday…
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