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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 166

Limbless Soldiers' Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 15

The green of the Limbless Soldiers' Club at Vaucluse will be officially opened by the president of the New South Wales Bowling Association on Saturday. Invitations have been sent to all the…

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Welcome Home to Kangaroos

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 27

SIS JOYNTON SMITH (patron of the New South Wales Rugby League and chairman of the Australian Board of control) will entertain the…

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Bullet Embedded Near Heart Youth Critically Wounded at Leichhardt

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 6

With a revolver bullet emberred half an inch from his heart, John Stanley, of Stiles Street, Leichhardt, is lying at death's door in Lewisham…

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Sampan Wounded. Resisted Arrest. Critical Condition. (From Our Correspondent.) Apia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 17

Members of the Mau are still in the bush Constables and naval parties continue to operate west of Apia. Sixteen arrests were made in the last two days…

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War Threat in S. AMERICA General's Order Is Intercepted LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 4

The Government of Paraguay has informed the League of Nations that it intercepted a wireless code message from General…

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"Be Ready!" Order to Bolivian Troops War Against Paraguay ? LONDON

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 1

The Paraguayan Government, says the "Daily Mail" Geneva correspondent, has notified the League that it has intercepted a…

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SCREENERY Gilded Idols of Jazz -- Another War Play -- "S.M.H" and Lower Classes Shuffling the Title

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 7

MUCH has been written on the fact that Paramount breaks away from screen conventions with the filming of Sir James Barrie's "An Old Lady Shows…

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In Full Swing Voluntary Enlistments Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 5

Militia recruiting under the voluntary system has now begun in earnest. said General' Broad Second Chief of the General Staff, to-day…

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Afternoon Run to Cronulla Shell Club Outing For Disabled Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 22

Shell Automobile Club has made arrangements to entertain the disabled soldiers from Randwick Hospital on Saturday,…

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The Salvation Army Takes a Fatherless Boy's Pension Tiny War Orphan Robbed of 10- a Week Late Discovery by His Guardian and No Explanation

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 6

BURIED among the records of the Repatriation Department is the file of "Thomas A. G. Beale -- child." When the attention of the Deputy Commissioner, Mr. J. C. McPhee, was called to it by "Smith's…

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Emblems of War

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 3

A TENDENCY is growing in Wales to remove all the paraphernalia of war exhibited in public places as memorials on the theory that at a time when…

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"Journey's End" Inspired by Its Author's War Diary

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 3

HOW "Journey's End" was inspired by, a war diary, kept by author, R. C. Sherriff, has been revealed by the publication of the diary. Nobody outside…

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Mapped Before Being Trapped Latest Mouse War London

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 4

MICE maps of Britain are Oxford's latest contribution to scientific farming and they may be followed by rat and rabbit maps of the…

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Pre-war Friendship Viennese and Australians Meet After Many Years

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 35

A FRIENDSHIP which began a year before the war in a pension in Paris, broken then by years of war, and renewed soon after by…

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Looking Through the New Books. Leacock Again -- Australian Discovery -- War Records. Leacock Laughs

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 26

NOT everyone with a sense of humor enjoys Leacock. But those who do declare him a public benefactor…

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of Making Many Books a Great Soldier Marshal Foch a Fine Biography

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 23

Against the mathematical soldiers oi Germany during the Great War, France opposed a genius. Better organised the Germans may have been…

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Shot Ends Family Altercation Father Wounded, Son Under Arrest

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 2

PORT MACQUARIE, Sunday.-- Following the shooting of Robert Hale, proprietor of the Hotel Laurieton, near Kendall, last night, the…

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War Relic Tax on Amusement Paris

The Sun · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 6

Declaring that the 17 per cent, amusement tax is an unwarranted relic of the war, which eats up profits and drives away patrons…

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New Bowling Green for Limbless Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 12

The president of the N.S.W. Bowling Association (Mr. J. Scott), officially opening the green, which is attached to the Vaucluse home of the Limbless Soldiers' Association of N.S.W…

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Constable Wounded. Three Half-castes Arrested. Clash on Thursday Island. Thursday Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1930 · page 11

Strongly antagonistic feeling which has existed for some time between half-castes and the police led to [?]ighting on Saturday night. Constable Stephens is now in hospital…

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