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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 166

Rugby League Dispute Will It Be War? N.s.w. and Queensland Argue League Delegation How Will Mr. Sunderland Act?

Evening News · Thursday 6 March 1930 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the Queensland Rugby League does not desire any "interference" on the part of the State, the N.S.W. Rugby League Committee last night agreed to carry out its previous decision and send a delegation to…

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Lady De Chair Soldiers' Relatives' Party

The Sun · Thursday 6 March 1930 · page 25

ALL friends of soldiers, as well as members will be welcome when the Sailors and Soldiers' Mothers, Wives, and Widows' Association, and the…

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CLOSE-UPS of Screen—and stars Britain Turns Talkie Corner—"Splinters" Revives Behind-The-Lines Revue—War Humor in English Film—Harry Richman, Gentleman

Evening News · Thursday 6 March 1930 · page 3

CASUAL visits to private projection-rooms around the film houses never have been without their surprises but the next few months promise to be quite…

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Filming the War Story

The Land · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 4

The projected filming of the epic story of the Light Horse in the Great War is one that should have the approval of the people and the substantial backing of the Government. As the years pass fewer and fewer of the officers and men of that force…

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Liverpool War-trophy Site

The Biz · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 7

Correspondence between the Returned Soldiers' League and Liverpool Council, re improvement to the ware trophy site near the local…

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Trooper to Colonel War Graves Official

The Sun · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 12

Fourteen years ago, Trooper C. E. Hughes left Australia with the 1st Australian Light Horse. He returned on a visit to Sydney to-day as…

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War Camps and a Cleric Indignant Diggers

Evening News · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 5

ALLEGED utterances by Rev. It Brain, of Picton, from the pulpit at Nepean Dam recently, have resulted in a protest from the local…

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Beer War Murders Gunmen Shoot Two Dead CHICAGO

Daily Pictorial · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 4

The guns of gangland last night again blamed forth in the beer war, and the widow of "Big Tim" Murphy, the notorious…

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Delegation for Queensland R.l. Dispute Attempt to End Football War What of Sunderland

The Labor Daily · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 3

A DELEGATION of New South Wales Rugby League officiate, comprising E. McFaydan, Bob Savage S. George Bell. Johnny…

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League Football War Grows In Intensity Not Wanted, But Will Go N.S.W. Missioners Leave To-day

Daily Pictorial · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 23

The New South Wales deputation at the invitation of the Brisbane League leaves Sydney today…

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Fight for Pension. Ex-Soldier Receives £1050

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

Little did two stretcher-bearers jelonglng to a battalion of the A.I.F., who carried a comrade badly gassed from the front [?]ne trenches during the German offcnstve in…

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ENLISTMENTS. Will be Discouraged by Methodists. If Canteens Are Wet. Adelaide

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

The Methodist conference to-day discussed the suggestion thal v.et cnntems would be established in military camps The following resolution was carried:— "That if the wet…

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"Fit for Heroes" Rations to Soldiers Refused

The Labor Daily · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 4

The Government's cut at the rations of the workless affects those soldiers who were told that if they went away and fought they would be afterwards…

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Movie Profits on Anzac Day Union Theatres' Offer

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 5

The Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia announces that by arrangement with Mr. Stuart F. Doyle, on behalf of the…

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War Memorial Hospital Fete

The Sun · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 3

The annual fete at the War Memorial Hospital, Birrell-street, Waverley, will be held this afternoon and evening. Numerous games have been…

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Anzac Day. Move in Brisbane. to Close Amusement Places. Brisbane

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

A deputation representing the Returned, Soldiers' League, the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee, Brisbane women's clubs, Chamber of Commerce, National Societies, and…

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War History. Place in the Schools

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

Mr. Ernest Clarke, president of the Returned Soldier Teachers' Association, told the State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League, at its last meeting, that recently a…

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Class-war Prisoners (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 9

Sir,--The International Class War Prisoners' Aid was established in August of last year at a conference representative of all sections of the Labor…

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"Journey's End." And German War Books. a Different View

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

With the utmost respect for General Anderson's Judgment, one is moved to break a lance with him over "Journey's End"—and this, while agreeing with much that has been said…

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REPATRIATION Returned Soldier Settlers Can Still Claim the £625 Loan

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 8

"Digger" says that he is a returned soldier and having lately purchased a block of land on which he proposes to conduct farming operations, asks whether he is entitled to a…

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