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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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The New Poland. Post-war Progress

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 11

The tenth anniversary of the declaration of the independence of Poland was recently solemnly celebrated throughout the country. Thanksgiving services were hold in all the…

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Wounded Man. Placed Under Arrest. Alleged Attempt to Break and Enter. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 8

The West Maitland police continued their inquiries throughout yesterday into the shooting of Leslie Oliver Read, 45, farmer, of Woodville. This morning they arrested Read…

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Stadium Tug-o'-war Commencing, January 16

Referee · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 10

Great preparations are being made in connection with the tug-o'-war tourney, to be decided at Sydney Stadium next Wednesday week. They will be continued…

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Foe's Tribute to Digger Spirit War Museum Etching

Evening News · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 3

IN a clever piece of etching, that is one of the new exhibits in the War Museum, a German soldier artist has caught a fine impression of the…

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War Penalty Ge[?] Any's Bill Exp[?] to Decide London

Evening News · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 1

MR [?] CHURCHILL an[?] at Sir Josiah Stamp [?] have been [?] British…

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Boy Wounded. Pea-rifle Discharged. Youth Arrested. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 11

Within sight of his home. Hilary Williams, aged nine years, of High Gate-street, Ashburton, was seriously wounded in the abdomen by a pea-rifle bullet to-day. The…

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Six-year War Against Unionism

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 2

After six years' ban against Trade Unionism at the Arrol-Johnston motor' works at Dumfries, in Scotland, the management. has at last come to its senses…

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Getting Ready for the Next War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 16

According to the following article, taken from the "Sunday Worker" (London), the next war will be a poison gas war. Already a thousand varieties of poison gas have been prepared in readiness for the next world conflict…

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War Films. Why Are They Shown?

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 8

Reproduction of one-millionth part of the horror and misery which every day of the war brought would be enough to ensure the utter failure of any of these…

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The Lust for War. a Hideous Nightmare

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 20

The bells will peal, long-haired men will dress in gold sacks to pray for successful slaughter. And the old story will begin again, the awful customary acts…

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Through Difficult Times. British Labor's Progress Since the War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 16

Labor in Great Britain has gone through difficult times since the end of the war. The British employing class had charged all of the difficulties which…

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Blind in the Wrong Eye! Repatriation Dept. Takes Soldier's Pension Received It for 10 Years Woman Whose Husband Lived Too Long

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 6

THE NEED FOR A DRASTIC review of the repatriation pension system is strongly emphasised by two remarkable cases which have come under the notice of Mr. J.T. Tully, M.H.R. for Barton. ONE CONCERNS a returned soldier who has been suddenly deprived…

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Anzac Memorial. Battle of Sites. Meeting Ends in Confusion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 13

A meeting held under the auspices of the Town Planning Association at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon to consider the proposal to erect the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park…

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Immense Calvary in Belgium a War Memorial

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 41

On an artificial hillock, outside of the City of Dixmude, close to one of the most deadly trenches of the war, Belgian piety for its fallen dead raised a…

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Hyde Park? Site for War Memorial Diggers' View

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 15

After having attended the meeting in the Town Hall yesterday, convened by the Town Planning Association, to discuss…

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Returned Soldiers Schofields Sub-Branch

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 6

To mark its inception the above branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. held a very successful picnic on Boxing Day at Mr. H. A. Veron's beautiful property on Eastern…

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Soldiers of the Pope: Zouaves in 1870 Piedmontese Broken Pledges

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 25

AN old friend, whose brother fought in defence of Pius IX. and the Holy See in 1870, as a soldier in the Pontifical Zouaves, regrets that I…

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War in Pacific. After Next Congress. Communist Plans. Mobilising the Workers. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 11

Reference to the proposed Russian Red conference at Vladivostock in August is contained in the December number of the "PauPacific Worker," the official organ of the…

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Hunt for Aboriginal Soldier-Settler Murdered at Hatcher's Creek

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 3

A powerful and well-armed aboriginal, named Willaberia Jack, who is alleged to have murdered Harry Henty, a soldier-settler, at Hatcher's…

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Soldiers' Crop Liens

The Land · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 3

The Minister for Lands, Mr. Ball, proposes to deal with R.I.B. crop liens according to the circumstances of each soldier settler desiring relief from his…

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