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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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"International Kiss" Kellogg Anti-war Pact London

The Sun · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 12

"The Kellogg Anti-war Pact is only ah international kiss," declared Professor J. H. Morgan, the well-known authority on international law. "It…

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Inquiry Is Demanded War Service Those Dismissals Members Active

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

NEW SOUTH WALES Federal Members are greatly concerned at the wholesale dismissals which have been made in the War Service Homes…

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Amanullah Rallies Forces to Fight for Lost Throne Civil War Royal Flag Raised Rebels Hold Kabul Calcutta

The Sun · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

Events are moving swiftly in Arghanistan. Amanullah, far from giving up all hope of regaining the throne, has made his escape from Kabul to Kandahar, where he has asserted that he will…

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Child Endowment Special Concession to Soldier Pensioners

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 10

Tambar Springs desires to know whether the wife of a returned soldier in receipt of a war pension is entitled to the family endowment…

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General Booth Will Wage Defensive War What I Have I Hold! High Council Must Invoke Law Property Worth £1,800,000 Held London

Evening News · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

GENERAL Bramwell Booth, deposed by resolution of the High Council from the leadership of the Salvation Army, will leave it to that body to take legal action to divest him of the Trust which he holds…

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A Political History of Australia Prime Minister Hughes promises 50,000 Soldiers -- The Enlistments -- The Clamor for tion -- Conscript "The Other Fellow" -- The War Precautions Act -- Western Australia Isolates Itself -- Hughes Forms a New Party -- Senator Gardiner at the Special Conference How Did the Soldiers Vote -- "War is Hell" Chapter Ccxxviii. the Enlistments

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 8

The defeat of conscription in 1916 at the taking of the referendum was a surprise to its friends, and to some extent to its enemies…

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To Study Our Defences War Office Expert Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

The Minister for Defence, Sir Thomas Glasgow, announced to-day that Major H. G. Eady, M.C., Royal Engineers, an officer of the Imperial General Staff…

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Anti-war Pact and Big Navy of U.S. LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

"The Kellogg Pact is only an international kiss," declared Professor J. H. Morgan. (Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, London)…

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Be Tidy, or Pay Up! Keep City Clean Drastic Penalties for Offenders Civic Commissioners Declare War

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 5

DO not drop any paper, tram tickets, on other matter in the city streets! Do not distribute or scatter…

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On the Home Front. Seven Diggers Fight for Justice War Service Victimisation "Death or Fair Play" Startling Allegations Against Officials

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 5

REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS from the War Service Homes Department, Diggers have concentrated in the R.S.S.I.L. office in Wingello House, and under the generalship of C. O. Stagg are preparing heavy offensive, which is expected to recapture all positions taken from them…

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Struck by Train Returned Soldier's Death

The Sun · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 3

A man named Thomas Clark, aged 40, a returned soldier, who escaped early this morning from the Liverpool State Hospital, was later found dead…

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Rash Act Playing with Air Gun Girl Wounded Orange

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 5

"Pull the trigger and see if there is any air in the gun," said Miss Olivia Larsen this morning to Robert Rutledge, a…

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War Hero Is Charged with Firing His Shop "I Was Blown into the Street, and the Shop Was in Flames"

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 20

"I HAD been in financial difficulties for some time, and I sought a miserable way of solving the financial problem. To this end, I obtained two tins of petrol for the purpose of firing the premises."…

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Toeball War-up in the North Is the League in Bananaland Drifting to a Great Disaster? Rumor of Secession to Union

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1929 · page 5

IF the Brisbane Rugby League, tiring of its role, real or imagined, of being the smacked child of the Queensland Rugby League, runs into the arms of the Rugby Union this coming season, the first-class sporting sensation that has been promised will have arrived…

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Assaulted and Wounded in Face

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sunday. -- William Toomey (61), wharf-laborer, of Wilkinson Street, Mayfield, was assaulted near the Mayfield tram terminus last…

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Experts to Fix German War Bill London

Evening News · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

THE committee of financial expert [?] will finally fix the amount of [?] which Germany must pay to [?] complete with the addition…

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Austria and the World War Publishing Her Version London

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 5

REPORTS from Prague stale that in order to set the world clear on Austria-[?] part in tho World War. the Austrian War Department…

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Great War on Filth Starts Be Clean Under £10 Penalty !

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 5

Mr. Horatius Garlick. Mr. Spurious Lartius Morton. Brig.-General Herminius Bennett…

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Water Board Sleuths on the War Path Mind Your Hoses Bellevue Hill Man's Little Error

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 6

OWING to a misleading holding in sin evening paper, which referred to water restrictions in the "Southern suburbs." a number of people are not…

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Outlook Is Grave Afghan War Rebels' Successes Where Britain and Russia Conflict Soviet Watching London

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

THE British Government is gravely concerned over the situation in Afghanistan, where the deponed King Amanullah is reported to he rallying…

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