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The wars & local soldiers, 1928

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Greatest Soldier Buried Million Mourners at Haig's Funeral LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 4

It is estimated that over half a million watched the funeral of Earl Haig leave St. Colomb's for Westminster Abbey…

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France and United States Agree to Renounce Warfare Peaceful Solution of All Disputes Approved Two Nations to Sign Document Against War as Instrument of National Policy Other Nations to Be Approached Washington

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 4

Negotiations for a new Franco-American Treaty of Arbitration have been successful. A document, including a declaration against war as an instrument of national policy, will be signed here on Monday,…

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Welcome Home Party

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 36

One of the happy parties of the week was that which took place at the Children's Hospital Cafe on Tuesday afternoon, when Miss Grace Stafford…

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Crime Career Idle War Heroes Nobleman's Son Gaoled London

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 1

Sinclair Travers, aged 18, alias Stanley Peters, and Stanley James, aged 39, have been charged at the Mansion House with nine instances of theft and…

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Haig's Frank Diary of War Will Be Read in 1940 LONDON

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 17

"The Daily Express" reveals that Earl Haig, shortly before his death, deposited his diary of the war years with the…

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Wild Military Rumors Keep Greek Soldiers in Barracks Athens

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 17

The garrison is confined to barracks. Wildest rumors that military disaffection is current cannot be confirmed. The Royalist newspaper his published an…

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Merry "Hop-over" Soldiers at Town Hall

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 5

About 600 returned soldiers merrily "hopped over" at the Town Hall last night. It was the occasion of the social…

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Death of an Anzac Oberon

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 5

Thomas [?] one of the [?] soldiers in [?] from Oberon died at the age of 21. He never recovered from [?] contracted at Gallipoli. His…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Events at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 8

Members of 22 clubs were present at Aazac Rifle Range on Saturday, and the scoring was very good on the whole. Details:- At 300 Yardsd.—Bankstown fired 14 round[?] in a club…

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Father Wounded Son Is Charged Cairnr

Evening News · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 13

JAMES O'DONNELL, 23. farmer. appeared at Innistall Dourt. charged with having [?] his father, Michael O'[?] who was…

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Attack in Street. Man Wounded. Police Refused Information

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 12

The police experienced difficulty in obtaining information regarding an attack upon a man at Waterloo late on Saturday night. Ernest Smith, 66, a vegetable dealer, was the…

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Fight for Gun; Man Killed Wounded in Stomach When Cartridge Exploded

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 5

ROCKHAMPTON, Sunday.--Julius Joseph Reinhardt, 48, a married man, living apart from his wife, died this morning, from a gunshot wound in…

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Those War Debts Washington

Evening News · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 1

The Secretary of State. Mr. Kellogg. expresses surprise at the statement of the French Foreign Minister, M. Briand. that the questions of Reparations and…

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Vote—war Women Meet Review Battles Suffragettes All London

Evening News · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 1

SUFFRAGETTES, who fought for votes for women fifteen years ago, revived memories of those stirring days at a reunion…

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Undercut Aust. Meat Prices Argentina Gets Contract From War Office LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 4

The Dominions will not participate in the latest War Office meat contract. It is understood that the Argentine…

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Tetanus Germ in Head for Ten Years Doctors Put Up Great Fight to Save Life of Digger War Wound Legacy

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 3

A returned soldier who carried a tetanus germ in his head for ten years without knowing it is being successfully treated at the Royal…

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More Talk of Anglo-american War U.S. Admirals Plans Friction Developing All Over the World Trade Rivalries Washington

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 1

TALK of war between Britain--allied perhaps with Japan--and the United States is becoming frequent in influential circles on both sides of the Atlantic. "There must be a measure of moral disarmament before an agreement…

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Soldiers' Clubs. Conference at Bondi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 6

A conference of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Clubs' Association was held on Saturday afternoon, in the Anzac Memorial Hall, Bondi Boach Brigadier-General Dodds, who…

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On One Lung How Ex-soldier Lived London

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 1

Ex-soldiers' sufferings after they were captured at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, were recalled by the inquest upon Herbert Burns, who joined up at…

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Buried Together Soldier's Wife's Death Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 9

A pathetic circumstance has attended the death of Lieut.-Colonel C. Morley, which occurred at his residence at St. Kilda yesterday…

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