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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 166

Germany's Beer Exports Grow Nearer Pre-war Total Berlin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 1

GERMANY'S beer exports are steadily growing and have new reached 60 per cent. of the pre-war standard During 1928. beer exports were…

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Light Harness Sport War on Racecourse Undesirables : Country Performer Medium of Plunge at Harold Park : Doping Prevalent Championship Abandoned

Referee · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 9

Features in connection with the meeting of the New South Wales Trotting Club at Harold Park on Monday were to be found in the successful and sensational plunge on tho country performer, Don Lawn, and the continuation of the war on racecourse undesirables. Doping of trotting horses is a serious…

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For Women Reception to Lady Street Limbless Soldiers' Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 7

The first public appearance of Lady Street since her return from abroad was made yesterday afternoon, when the members of the committee of the Limbless Soldiers' Aquatic…

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Presentations at Five Dock. Welcome Home to Father J. Peoples. Enthusiastic Demonstration

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 18

STRIKING evidence of the bond of affection that exists between the Catholic people and their priests, was manifested by the parishioners of All…

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Pre-war England "Like Slumbering Giant"

The Sun · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 31

"Like a great giant numbering, and waking from sleep," was how Mr. Neil McNeil, headmaster of Knox Grammar School, at the Legacy Club to-day,…

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Free Supply Water for War Trophy

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 4

A free supply of water to the Liverpool war trophy site will be granted by the Water Board. Liverpool Council was notified to this…

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Making War Impossible. a New Facet of Chemistry

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 42

The "dread posibilities" of modern chemistry in combination with aeronautics have made war impossible, according to a paper written by Francis P. Garvan, noted…

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Now Valiant on a Rothbury Front Mouthing Patriots Bavin & Co.'s War Time Record (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 3

Sir,--I think you are [?] to Messrs. Bavin, Weaver, Boyce. etc. Look at their positions in a breadminded light. They are doing their best for the…

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Film Star Has Varied Vocations McLAGLEN Admits Having Been Pugilist Soldier Miner and Actor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 4

Victor McLagien, who once fought Jack Johnson when the latter was heavy weight champion of the world takes on four real pugilists—"Sugar" Willie Keeler, Joe Herrick, Charley Sullivan and Loo Houk—in a scene of "The Cock…

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My Book at the Week War's Pupil 'Good-bye To All That' - Farewell To Writer's Vanished Self - Auto-biography That is Deep and Brilliant

Evening News · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 14

"Good-Bye To All That." by Robert R. Graves. London: Jonathan Cape. Our copy from Dymocks…

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Melb. Shooting Woman Wounded Man Aged 80 Charged Melbourne

Evening News · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 13

WITH Wars in his eyes and apparently very weak, James M'Clure. 80. appeared at the City Court to-day charged with having…

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Mexican President. Attempted Assassination. Several People Wounded. Vancouver, Feb. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 11

Pascual Ortiz Rubio was wounded in the jaw at Mexico City by a would-be assassin, who fired on him a few hours after he had been sworn in as President. The bullet was…

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Fired Gun at Woman Gravely Wounded Old Man Arrested Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 5

SUFFERING from extensive gunshot wounds on the left hip and shoulder, Mrs. Kathleen Senstead, 47, of Collins Street,…

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For Class War Prisoners’ Aid

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 3

MOSCOW, Nov. 21.—The recent Leningrad district conference of the Class War Prisoners’ Aid sent a challenge to the Hamburg organisation of…

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'Busmen and Taxi-drivers at War

Daily Pictorial · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 4

There is war between 'busmen and taxi-drivers of Manly. At the local court yesterday John Franklin, a taxi-driver, was charged with having…

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Australian Workers and the War Danger Communists’ Tasks: Expose War Aims of Capitalism and Organise to Turn War into Revolution Reformists Cloak And-aid Imperialism’s War Plans Fight Against Imperialist War is Development of Fight Against Capitalism

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 3

Just as, in the period prior to 1914, signs were not wanting that a world clash between the European Powers was imminent, so to-day we can see…

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Turning Over New Leaves. War on the Screen

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 15

Unanimously declared the greatest of war books, "All Quiet on the Western Front" is shortly to be filmed. At last we may get a…

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WAR-GUILT. German Attack on Young Plan. LONDON, Feb. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 11

The German Reichsrat, by 48 votes to 6, with 12 abstentions, approved the Young Plan, which will next go to the Reichstag. Herr Held, on behalf of Bavarian members,…

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Organise Against Unemployment! For Protection against Capitalism’s Wage-Cutting and War-Preparing Plans the Urgent Concern of Every Worker

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 1

The workers of Australia are by no means alive to the importance of the growing menace of unemployment and its effect on the working class as a…

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Block Not Worked. Soldier Settler Charged

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 2

A case of particular interest to soldier settlers was dealt with at Armidale Land Board, when an inquiry was held as to whether Durward Langdon…

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