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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 166

Soldiers Rally to Save Communist Daily

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

Paris, Dec. 9.—From nineteen regiments subscriptions have come to the fund to save “L’Humanite,” the great Communist daily whose existence is…

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Leeton Soldier Settlers' Debts Leeton

The Labor Daily · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 9

Soldier settlers on the Murrumbigee Irrigation Areas are preparing a petition to the State Parliament asking for a general [?]vision of settlers' problems. One…

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Guildford Returned Soldiers' Club

The Biz · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 7

Increasing distress amongst unemployed returned soldiers in Guildford district has stirred the Soldiers' Club to action…

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Breadcarters' War

The Sun · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 7

The opposing factions in the Bread Carters Union who, for several days, have been placing their views before the Deputy Industrial Commissioner…

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War Books

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 16

It seems that no sooner is a literary vogue well established than a violent reaction against it becomes inevitable. The stronger hold the craze of the…

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Woman Wounded Elderly Man Charged Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 1

When he appeared at the City Court to-day on a charge of having shot Mrs. Kathleen Benstead 47 of Collins Street Essendon, with intent…

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Enfield Shooting. Wounded Woman in Hospital. Comments by Coroner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 18

"This is a very peculiar tragedy, and there was evidently a liaison between Jarvis and Mrs Evenden. I am surprised that Mr. Evenden permitted it to go on so long," said…

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Current Literature Some War Books

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 12

Not only is "The Weary Road," by Mr. Charles Douie,. a fine, sincere, and eloquent piece of work, but it is a wholesome corrective. As "Ian Hay" has Just complained, we…

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Those War Books. The Real Trench Spirit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 13

Ian Hay and the author of the article on war books in Wednesday's "Herald" are quite right. The gloom and the horrors of many of those recent war books are overdone; the…

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Back to the War "A.i.f., 1931"

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 21

THE R.S.S.I.L.A. is organising a Digger pilgrimage to the battlefields on which the A.I.F. fought. It is to be called "The Return of the A.I.F.," and…

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Terrors of War "Gas More Humane than High Explosives"

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 2

"Dreadful as it is, gas is far more humane than high explosives, and caused less temporary and permanent suffering in proportion to its military result…

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Police in Search of Wounded Poultry Thief 12.30 a.m. Shots Raid on Watchman's Fowls Pay Rolls Saved Robbers at Policeman's Home

Evening News · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 5

THE police are searching for a poultry thief who is believed to have been shot at Concord Weil early to-day. HEARING his dog barking at 12.20 a.m…

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Soldier Settlers Applicants for Land will be Considered on Merits

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 3

Replying to a request from the Returned Soldiers League that at least 50 per cent, of all new land in New South Wales set apart for settlement be…

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Branding Eggs Proposal Revived by Returned Soldiers' League

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 11

The Returned Soldiers' League made representations to the Commonwealth Government recently with the object of having the branding of eggs made…

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Bridge for Limbless Soldiers

Evening News · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 8

Miss Rita Fox, organiser of a bridge party to be held at David Jones' on Tuesday night, in aid of the Limbless Soldiers' Appeal. —Rene Patron photo…

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Unemployed Soldiers

The Sun · Saturday 8 February 1930 · page 2

Men who have registered at the Returned Soldiers' League Unemployment Bureau include:--Carpenters and Joiners, all first-class tradesmen; cleaner lift-drivers, certificates,…

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War Service Homes

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 February 1930 · page 12

Tenders accepted by the War Service Homes Commission are: A. T. Smith. Hunter's Hill, for B. S. Hobbs, 2 Farnell-street, Hunter's Hill,…

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Five Killed Brazilian Politics Vice-pres. Wounded Rio De Janeiro

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1930 · page 4

The Vice-President of Brazil (Dr. Mella Vianna) went to Monte Carlos, in the State of Minas Geraes, to heal the party warfare in connection with the…

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"War on Croakers!" Sir Arthur Rickard's Slogan

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 February 1930 · page 2

VERY timely comes the proposal of Sir Arthur Rickard to form an Optimists' Society with the definite object of combating the pressimism now…

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A Lead Sex, Money, War Church's Chance

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1930 · page 5

"The future of modern civilisation depends largely upon our getting the right attitude towards the three…

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