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The wars & local soldiers, 1928

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Anzac Tweed How Soldiers Repatriated Themselves

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 6

When the work of repatriation was begun by the state War Council in 1915 several returned disabled soldiers Were instructed in the art of hand weaving…

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Woman Wounded at Stanmore Bullet Passes Right Through Body

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 2

Mrs. Mary Ward (38),.of Middleton Street. Stanmore, was found at her home "last night with a bullet wound in the abdomen. A .32 calibre revolver…

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Bakers at War Cootamundra

The Sun · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 11

A price war has been declared by Cootamundra bakers, and bread has been reduced from 6d to 3½d a loaf. One baker is announcing a…

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Industrial Arbitration and the Class War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 3

THE system of compulsory industrial arbitration has two great enemies in Australia. The Capitalist is one; the other is the Communist…

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How America Regards the Motor War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 4

The Public: What a relief to know they are after each other, and not after me…

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War-time Regulations. London, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 13

Several irritating war regulations which survived under the name "Dora," generally cartooned as an interfering old woman, may be removal under recommendations of a…

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War Widows Plight Second Husband Killed

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 11

REPRESENTATIONS are being made by the Returned Soldiers' League on be[?]all of a war widow whose husband was killed in a action in France. She…

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Fixing the Responsibility for the World War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 19

Robert L. Owens, United States ex-Senator, has written a book entitled "The Russian Imperial Conspiracy," in which he claims that France and Russia were responsible for bringing about the…

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Outlawing War. United States Proposals. London, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 13

Opinion in France regarding the United States proposals for a pact outlawing war has not yet crystallised. The newspapers express diametrically opposed opinions, but point out…

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War Hero Lost V.c Re-issue Is Sought

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 5

ON behalf of Mr. Joseph Marwell, V.C., V.C. decoration in a dishing expedition at Port Miscouarle more than a year ago,…

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Cancer: Snakes Science Makes War Busy Year Ahead Canberra

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 7

DR. BURROWS, the British cancer expert, will arrive in Melbourne on January 23, and a meeting of the Cancer Advisory Committee, appointed by…

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War on 'Buses Brisbane Action Feeders to Trams Brisbane

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 8

MOTOR 'BUS owners are incensed at the decision of the general manager of the Tramway Department. Mr. G. R. Steer, to restrict…

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War Debts. Settlement Scheme New Plan Suggested. LONDON, Jan. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 13

The correspondent of the British United Press in Berlin reports the "Deutsche Bergwerk Zeitung" as saying that a new scheme of German reparations and war debts settlement…

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America at War Nicaraguan Rebels 1000 More Marines Washington

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 1

FOLLOWING a conference to-day between President Coolidge and the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Wilbur, 1000 marines have been ordered to Nicaragua…

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American Plan to Outlaw War Paris Newspapers Opposed to Pact LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 4

French opinion respecting the American proposals for a pact outlawing war has not yet crystallised, but Paris newspapers are diametrically opposed…

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Respect for None. Next War Will Deal with Rich and Poor Alike

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 6

A cheery little picture of what the next war will be like is given in a recent treatise published by Lieutenant Colonel D. P. Bloch of the French army…

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Soldier Settlements Inquiry into Huge Losses

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 7

On behalf of the Federal Government Mr. Justice Pike is to inquire into the losses, estimated at £19,500,000, sustained oh soldier settlements in the various…

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The Soldiers' Trade

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 11

KILLING, as a professional occupation, has not proved popular in Australia, and this induced a Sydney daily paper to devote loading article to the matter…

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Returned Soldier's Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 11

Lorne Francis Cameron, aged 33, told his wife that he was going for a walk as he left his home in Station-street, Naremburn, yesterday afternoon…

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Ghost of Unknown Soldier Seen Near Tomb in Abbey Weird Story of a Restless Figure " Pleading Eyes " LONDON

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 1

A WEIRD STORY, to the effect that the ghost of the Unknown Soldier walks of nights through the dim cloisters of Westminster Abbey, is being circulated in London. Indeed, Abbey is officials assert that sometime the Unknown Soldier is…

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