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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 166

Yachting to the War

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 17

AUGUST, 1915, and just out of hospital, I went for a stroll along the beach on…

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Will Fight Chinese War Lords Feng and Chiang Peiping

The Sun · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 1

Chinese papers published here today state that the generals of Feng-yu-Hsiang (the "Christian" general) have issued a telegram supporting…

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Will Pray for Soviet Russian Churches "Godless" War London

Evening News · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 1

A NEW TURN to stories of religious persecution in Russia has been given by a report from Moscow…

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Returned Soldiers. Conference at Melbourne. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 18

Mr. R. E. Tyler has been selected as the Western Australian delegate to the quarterly meeting of the Federal executive of the Returned Soldiers' League, to be held in…

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Positions Wanted for Returned Soldiers

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 February 1930 · page 4

Apprenticeships: Sons and daughters of soldiers killed in war. Any approved trades. Special attention is paid to the selection of these boys and girls. Carpenters and…

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Anzac Day. Ex-soldiers Prepare for Celebration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 10

Anzac Day will be observed in Sydney in the same way as in previous years, according to the decision of the State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League. The executive…

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Two Shots City Dentist Wounded Vaucluse Incident Told Police It Was Accident

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 9

Two shots rang out in a room at the rear of a house in Village Lower-road, Vaucluse, this afternoon, and Sydney Castles Ratcliffe, of Wentworth-road, Vaucluse, whose surgery is in Daking House, Pitt-street, collapsed,…

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Not Stolen Wandering War Bond Charge Dropped

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 11

The mysterious wanderings of a war bond were explained away in the Central Court to-day. Walter Allen Spearing, 37 clerk, was…

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Man Knifed at Newcastle Wharf War Sequel Newcastle

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 9

FOLLOWING the wharf laborers battle in the city on Saturday Benjamin Paul, a free laborer was stabbed in the chest while he was…

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Death Spider in Trousers! Bat-bashers' War on Trap-door

Daily Pictorial · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 7

Trap-door spiders and cricket do not mix, especially when the temperature is 106deg, in the…

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Britain's Burden Million a Day Debt War Pensions London

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 6

An abstract account of the consolidated fund published by the British Treasury shows that Britain's £1,000,000 a day debt burden last year…

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Britain's Burdens. War Debt and Pensions. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Feb. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 11

The abstract account of the consolidated und, published by the Treasury, shows that [?]ast year Great Britain's debt burden of £1,000,000 per day included an interest…

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"Killed Better Men at War" Labor M.L.A. Speaks on "All Quiet"

Daily Pictorial · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 5

"All Quiet on the Western Front" was held up in the Domain yesterday by Major Hugh Connell, D.S.O., M.C., and Labor…

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Wharfies at War Fierce Set-to "True-blues" and Blacklegs Eight Arrests Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 5

"Blacklegs" and members of the Waterside Workers' Federation engaged on the Newcastle wharves clashed on Saturday…

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Limbless Soldiers. Picnic at Vaucluse

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 7

About 90 limbless soldiers, accompanied by their families, had a picnic at Vaucluse Park on Saturday afternoon. The party numbered about 300, and they spent a most enjoyable…

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Author Rails Against Our Soldiers LONDON

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 1

Reviewers are praising the latest anonymous war book, "War is War," by "Ex- Private X." Mr. R. C. Sherriff, author of "Journey's End," describes…

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Same Procedure on Next Anzac Day

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

The State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League decided last night that Anzac Day would be observed in Sydney in the same way as last year…

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Anzac Day Takings Percentage for Diggers

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 13

The first to act on the appeal by the Returned Soldiers' League to amusement firms and sporting bod[?] for a percentage of their Anzac Day…

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Dentist Wounded. Affray at Vaucluse. Daughter Arrested

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 11

As the result of shooting in Village Lower-road, Vauoluse, yesterday afternoon, Sidney Castle Ratcliff 56, dentist, of 57 Wentworth-road, Vaucluse, lies in St. Vincent's Hospital…

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Anzac Day and Theatre Rake-in Aiding Diggers

Evening News · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 11

THE State Secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League, Mr. W. J. Stagg, laid to-day that Bit Benjamin Puller bad intimated that his firm…

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