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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 166

Soldiers' Ambushed Slanderer Will Be Answered! Diggers! Fling Back the Lies of the Author of "War Is War"! "Pictorial" Invites You to Counter Anonymous Foe Virulent Maliciousness

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 3

With virulent maliciousness "Ex-Private X" in his book, "War is War," flings every epithet of contempt that he can find at Australian diggers--careless heroes of countless epics in the Great War…

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O.K. When Mum Smiled Wounded Boy and His Bag of Money

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 3

"Mum's dead game," said 12-year-old Roy Hyland yesterday afternoon in Ward 9, at St. Vincent's Hospital…

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Lost War Bond. Found in Cafeteria

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 8

Walter Allen Spearing, 37, clerk, was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with having on or about February 8 stolen a Commonwealth War Bond, of the…

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Mari's Meander Mirralwood's Miss War Vim's Vim

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 7

THE glorious uncertainty of the turf was never better exemplified than in the running of the Harold Park Handicap, 2 miles, on…

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War Pals "I Forgive Him" Razor Slash Bathurst

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 15

With 17 stil[?]es in a face wound that may disfigure him for life, John Clare McDonald forgave hit alleged attacker in Bathurst Police Court…

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Murder by Proxy? War Book Made Man Screw Ducks' Necks!

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 4

"All I can say is that my wife was right when she said I had 'been reading that war book until it got on my mind,' and I must…

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To Outlaw War Dramatic Pact French and Germans Paris

Evening News · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 1

ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for one of the most dramatic moves ever made towards Prenco-German unity…

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War on Against New Petrol Tax Wide Effect Aviation Would Suffer

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 14

War has been declared against the proposed new petrol tax. Practically every organisation that uses petrol in any way, to say nothing…

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Red Army. "War Inevitable." Soviet Doctrine. Moscow Celebrations. LONDON, Feb. 24

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

An imposing display of Russia's mitltary forces marked the twelfth anniversary of the formation of the Red Army, which was celebrated with…

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New War Book. Australians Attacked. Allegations of Torture. London, Feb. 24

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

"War is War," by ex-Private X., published by Victor Gollancz, is as controversial as the majority of recent war books. The anonymous author expresses the opinion: "I cannot…

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Fear the Books That Tell the Truth About the War (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 6

Sir,--In spite of the world-wide movement to abolish war, the Nationalist Pre[?] is still ji[?]golstic under its skin: it does not like the naked truth about war…

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"Onward Anti-christian Soldiers," Is Soviet's Hymn Priests Join Mass Offensive Against GOd! Burning of Ikons No Angel in Archangel Now London

Evening News · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

ACCORDING to the Moscow correspondent of the British United Press, the antireligious war in Russia it growing more intense. "Almate," the newspaper of the Anti-God Society, to-day publishers a…

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Soldier Settlers. Extent of Preference. Disposal Op Crown Lands

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 9

The Returned Soldiers' League has received a reply from the Minister for Lands to representations, urging that favourable consideration be given to its request that 50 per cent…

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The Anzac Memorial Confidential

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 16

One of the most .amazing things about competitions is the keep-it-dark attitude adopted by assessors when they come to their decisions and make their awards…

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Overdue Post-war Adjustments

The Sun · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 13

In their report for 1929, the directors of the City Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd., state that the society always felt that the best interests of…

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Boer War Veterans Commemoration Year

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 9

TO mark the coming-of-age of the South African Soldiers' Association of New South Wales—formed in 1909—the executive has decided on a…

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War on Gangs Police Combine Against Traffickers

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 1

IN [?] cope with international [?] of above slavers and drug smu[?] is an alliance has been forced between Scotland Yard…

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War Worker Mr. T. O. Correy Dead

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 10

MR. THOMAS OVED CORREY, founder of Correy's Gardens, a popular pleasure resort at Cabarits, on the Paramatta River died early to-day,…

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Killers War to Death "Feminist's'" Fury at Museum

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 3

A feminist won the day in Sydney yesterday, and won it by killing her male opponent. THE introductions had scarcely been…

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War on Church People Placed Accustomed to It London

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 1

IN further despatch from Moscow the special correspondent. British United Press, who is investigating the religious question in…

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