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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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My Book of the Week. a Fatalist Sums Up War

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 17

Gorman Colonel's Diary Sheds Interesting Sidelights on Years of Conflict— "No One Was Big Enough to Control War on World Scale"— Concise Judgement on Leaders' Faults and Virtues. general one must imagine…

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Flying Squadron Declares War Irresponsibles to be Excluded From Official Ferry

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 31

Sydney Flying Squadron is on the warpath! Members issued their ultimatum at Monday night's weekly meeting, deciding to ban…

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Progress in Palestine Since the Great War The Holy City as it is To-day

The Catholic Press · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 22

"Bet you never wear these in the streets of New York." The pleasant young Jewish Customs official at the entrance to Palestine held up a pair of Egyptian red slippers…

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Fierce War Declared on Danube Ice Bombs, Shells But It Was All in Vain London

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 1

Aeroplanes bombed the ice on the German Danube between Nassau and Regensburg; artillery shelled it with…

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Silent Throng Cenotaph Figures Unveiled Fervor of War Years V.c. Heroes Raise Flags to Mast Tops

The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 13

Paved with pink faces, athrob with reverence and emotion, echoing to the blare of bugles, the roll of drums, the singing of hymns, and the clatter of marching men, Martin- place, this afternoon,…

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Golf for Women L.g.u's Rise to Bigger Status The New Constitution Big Development : Enlisting Youth

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 17

A COMMITTEE meeting of the Ladies [?] Union was held on Tuesday The principal object of the meeting [?] new rule of the…

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Returned Men's March

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 12

Alleging that circulais had been sent out to branches of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial Lengue, Inviting returned men to march to the Cenotaph and take patt in the…

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Mysterious Shooting Man Is Wounded Draws Veil of Silence

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 6

A MAN was wounded when a shot rang out in Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo, at 9 o'clock last night…

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Wounded, He Disappears Shot From Dark: Italian Is Held

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 2

Shot by a gunman who. stepped out of the shadows and fired point- blank as he was walking past Dalgety's wharf, Woolloomooloo. last…

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War Memorial Canberra

The Sun · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 12

Important developments in connection with the plans for the War Memorial at Canberra were disclosed in the House of Representatives to-day…

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Wounded Seaman with Knife Three Months in Gaol Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 1

During a wild affray between seamen on the steamer Golden Coast on February 16. John McInnes was knocked down and wounded in the cheek with…

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War and the Working Class Essential Facts to Remember To Defeat Imperialist Plans Abolish War Only by Abolishing Capitalism

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 4

A new World War between the imperialist powers is looming on the horizon. The imperialist powers are preparing for it. This preparation is not merely of a technical nature,as…

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No Help, No Crops Soldier bottlers Refused Credit at Narromine

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 3

The principal storekeepers having refused to give them further credit without security soldier settlers in the Narromine (N.S.W.) district met…

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Soldier Settlers' Loss Young

Evening News · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 5

Because the new [?] buildings were not completed in time soldier settlers on Kingsvale. Mtanmon, and wirrimuh will lose a big p[?] of thier…

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Returned Soldiers' League. Kempsey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 14

At a meeting of returned soldiers, held at the Masonic Hall, Kempsey, at which Mr. Hutchinson, State secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League, was present, it was…

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Missing for a Month Fears for a Vaucluse Returned Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 10

Detective-Sergeant Comans and Detective Buckley, of the C.I.D., are trying to find Mr. Roy '("Bob".) Munro (34), a builder, who disappeared from…

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The Mule Was Wounded

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 February 1929 · page 19

THE night before the big stunt at Villers Bret. all transport and artillery horses were brought within an estate agent's stone-throw of the front line. A tank…

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Civil War --?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 February 1929 · page 19

TWO Diggers worked this off within hearing of their pet aversion. "Say, Bill, what's a civil war?" "One where there's no flamin'…

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Tip for the Next War

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 February 1929 · page 19

I JOINED up with the A.I.F. in August, 1914, and, having had many years' experience of volunteer camps, was wise to many of the fine points of military…

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Stop Press. Civil War in China. Shanghai, Feb. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1929 · page 16

With the ending of winter the regular period of internecine warfare in China is commencing. The reappearance of Marshal Chang Chung-chang, a former…

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