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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 166

Ret. Soldiers' League at Paddington

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 6

A Paddington-Woollahra branch of the Returned Soldiers' and Sailors' League was formed last night, when over 100 members were enrolled…

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T.b. in the Ranks of Ex-soldiers. Board Reports Increase

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 6

In the first annual report of the War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Board, which embraces a period of only some three weeks, from June 5…

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Reviews an Unusual War Book. a Catholic Colonel's Experiences

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 6

WAR LETTERS TO A WIFE. By Lieut.-Col. Rowland Feilding. (The Medici Society. 15/-.) One of the most interesting war books…

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Golf War. Struggle for Control. Storms Over Technical Points

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 15

After perhaps the stormiest meeting in lt[?] history, the adjourned meeting of the Country and Suburban Golf Association at the Chamber of Manufactures, O'Connell-street, wa[?]…

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Great Britain Leads The World In Disarmament Grim Alternative Competitive Building Means War Prime Minister's Warning London

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 1

"What constitutes the tremendous gravity of our deliberations is that the alternative to limitation is competitive building, and the end of competitive building is war." With this striking phrase, the Prime Minister (Mr. Macdonald) tonight concluded a broadcast message to the United States regarding the work of the Five Power Naval…

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Returned Soldiers Blacktown Sub-Branch

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 12

The first annual general meeting of the Blacktown sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League was held in the local School of Arts…

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Soldiers' Friend Stephenson --Cox Wedding

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 29

MISS MILDRED COX, whose wedding to Mr. W. R. Stephenson took place at St. John's Church, Darlinghurst, last night, has worked for…

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Anzac Memorial 33 Designs Entered

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 13

ARCHITECTURAL designs in the Anzac Memorial Competition close this afternoon. At the State executive meeting of the Returned Soldiers' League…

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Possible 200 M.p.h. "Anzac's" Motor

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 9

Though it was designed for a peak speed of 2200 revolutions per minute the Rolls-Royce aeroplane motor used in Mr. N. Smith's record-breaking "Anzac" [?]…

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NOVELS of the Day Remarkable War Book

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 8

"The Fiery Way," written by a GermanFranz Schauwecker—contains remarkably distinctive war writing. There is no story told in it so far as chronological events are…

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Who Killed --- ? Disputed War Honor "Positive" Claimants

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 11

Who killed Richthofen? "We" said the gunners, "We all gave him oners. We killed Richthofen."…

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Scullin Declines to Risk Civil War for the A.L.P. His Absolute Refusal to Disarm the Coalfields Police Labor Government Determined to Hold Strictly to the Constitution Federal Soldiers Not to Be Used in Crisis

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.--In uncompromising terms, the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) to-night announced the Government's flat refusal to obey the decision of the A.L.P. conference…

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Turks Are Now Free to Enter Australia War Restriction Lifted

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.--For the first time since the war, Turks are now at liberty to enter the Commonwealth…

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War of Tongues at Tamworth Lang Leaves to Fight Theodore

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 11

Led by the leader of the State Opposition, Mr. Lang, several prominent Trades Hall officials, including Messrs. J. J. Graves…

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Germans Know All About Us Development Since War LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 4

Returned from The Hague, where he attended the Reparations Conference, Mr. J. R. Collins, financial adviser to the Commonwealth, said…

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Red Army in Sydney To Protect Workers Against Strike-Breakers and War-Makers

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 2

A preliminary meeting in the Trades Hall on Saturday laid the basis for Sydney’s Workers’ Defence Army. The Labor Council had endorsed the…

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Three Men Wounded in Desperate Under world Fight Razor and Bottles at Surry Hills Drink-crazed Crowd Struggle in House in Early Morning Stubborn Silence of Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 2

In a desperate underworld fight between gangs in a house in Belmore Lane, Surry Hills, early this morning, three men were wounded. One was murderously attacked with a razor, his right…

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Limiting Armaments. War the Only Alternative. Mr. Macdonalds Message to America. Striking British Reductions. Conference Delegates Confer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 11

In a striking message broadcast to the United States, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said that the alternative to naval limitation was competitive building, which would lead to war. To demonstrate the British people's will to peace he quoted figures…

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Mr. Scullin Rejects Demands Made by A.L.P. Conference. "It Would Mean Civil War." Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 11

"In so far as the proposals made at the conference called in Sydney to discuss the coal dispute involved an entire disregard of the…

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Soldiers' Pension Money Order not Legal Tender

The Land · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 2

A number of cases have have bee[?] reported to the Tamworth poll[?] recently of a returned soldier havi[?] given orders on his military pensi[?]…

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