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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Two Points of View U.s.a. Greatness Coolidge and the Bishop the Meaning of the War

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

AN American bishop, preaching from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral, made striking comments on passages in President Coolidge's…

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Leaves Soldiers' Board Mr. Lipscomb's Promotion Won M.c. in France

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 15

Having been the representative since 1925 of the Returned Soldiers' League on the Soldiers' Settlement Reappraisement Board, Mr, Frederick N…

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Met Fiance on Cathedral Steps Channel Swimmer Miss Gleitze to Wed Soldier London

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 1

Mercedes Gleitze, the swimmer, bus met her fiance at List. The couple had pitted hide and seek for days, This cause to an and on…

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Limbless Soldiers' Appeal Office Reopens

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 20

NOW that the holidays are over, the committee announces that the rooms of the Limbless Soldiers' Appeal are again open…

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The Date of the Next War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 5

WE can pretty well fix the period of the next war. It will be when the Boy Scouts of to-day are bid enough to be shot to pieces. These boys are being…

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War Weapon. for Communists. a Moscow Thesis

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 21

The text of the "thesis" on "The Imperialist War Menace and the Tasks of the Communist Paities." passed by the Congress of the Communist International last summer and…

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War Graves. Australian Pilgrimage. Proposed Party of 250

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 16

Preliminary arrangements have been made for a pilgrimage of Australians to the battlefields and war graves of Gallipoli and France, concluding with a three weeks' tour of…

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Peace Planning Hardly Begun Ten Years After War

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 10

"The deliberate planning of universal pence has oven yet--10 yearn after the war to end war--hardly begun." Bald Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P…

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False Teaching Churches and the War (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 3

Sir,--Once again please grant me space in your columns to reply to Mr. Morgan's advocator why pick on Churches."…

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Legalised War Kellogg Treaty U.S. Senator's Fear Washington

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 1

[?] to-day [?] Frea[?]…

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How to End War. Danish General's Scheme to Bring Lasting Peace

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 15

How can war among nations be prevented? To-day the question is occupying the public mind as never before. Representatives of the more advanced…

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Limbless Soldiers Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 11

Many supporters of the Limbless Soldiers' Aquatic Club appeal have visited the clubhouse and baths at Vaucluse. The appeal rooms in Wingello House, Angel-place, have…

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Welcome Home Party

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 4

Rolat[?]ves and friends of Mrs. E. R. Tunks and her twin sister, Mrs. E. Law, met in the private dining-room at David Jones' yesterday afternoon, when an enjoyable welcome…

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Welcome Home Mother and Daughters

Evening News · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 18

AT David Jones' yesterday a party was held to welcome Mrs. E. R. Tunks, another of the hostesses, and her twin sister, Mrs. E. Law, who have been…

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War Trophy Will be Repaired Question of Removal

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 2

To go or not to go. The war trophy adjacent to the Granville, Town Hall has for long been in a bad state of disrepair. It is a German…

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Ireland in the War Marshal Foch's "Tribute "France Will Not Forget."

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 36

A SPECIAL correspondent of the "Irish Times" in Paris asked Marshal Foch for a special Armistice Day message to the people of Ireland…

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"It Means War!" That Peace Treaty How Senators Argue Washington

Evening News · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 14

OPPOSITION to Mr. Kellogg's Treaty to Outlaw War, is holding up all other business in the Senate, and the deadlock to-day…

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Colleges Getting Irreligious Big U.S.A. Campaign Churches Make War New York

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 7

A NATION-WIDE movement to purge colleges and universities of Irreligious tendencies, the result, according to lenders of "the alarming spread…

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Soldiers of the Pope. The Zouaves of 1870

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 10

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, writes "Nestor" in the "Catholic…

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War and the Will to War

The Sun · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 10

HAD the Hohenzollern tradition not been a mediaeval tradition of the mailed flat; had not the German people been educated for 40 years to the idea of the triumphant might of German culture, there would have been no world war…

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