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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

3,305 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 166

Limbless Soldiers Women's Committee To Assist Pension Fund

Evening News · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 8

LADY STREET presided at a meeting of the central committee of the Limbless Soldiers and Sailors, Aquatic Hotel Australis. It was decided at the…

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Topic for Women Soldiers' Day Helpers

The Sun · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 7

Anyone with a sweet tooth and a Weakness for marshmallows should make a point of being in the vicinity of Martin-place on Soldiers' Day, March 14. Here, a special stall stocked with these sweetmeats will be in charge of the MISSES PHYLLIS (c0, SYLVIA and GLADYS ALEXANDER, the three sisters photographed above. They are the daughters of Mr, and Mrs. Alexander, of lmperial-avenue, Bondi…

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Necessitous Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 21

By arrangement with Mr. Stuart F. Doyle, on behalf of the directors of Union Theatres, Ltd., a percentage of the gross receipts of each of the Capitol, State, Crystal Palace,…

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Clergyman's Remarks. Returned Soldiers' Protest

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

A reported statement by the Rev. R. Brain, of Picton, from the pulpit at Nepean Dam recently, resulted in a protest from the local sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League…

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French Flood Death Toll Officially Placed At 500 Minimum "War Outdone" Devastation in Southern Areas Tales of Horror President and Premier Inspect Paris

Evening News · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 2

EYEWITNESSES report that the flooded area of southern France is even more horrible to contemplate than were the shell-shattered departments of 1914-1918. THE breakdown of communications is…

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More News From the Seat of War Latest Rothbury Despatch No Man Free From Suspicion: Unhappy "Picnic" Party Everything Topsy Turvy Rothbury Compound

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 5

HOLY SMOKE! What have you done to Reggie Weaver? I laughed, and laughed, and laughed--but oh, boy, what a hell of a job you've made for your special correspondent on the dirt track. I offer that last phrase as a sort of "Note for being late." I don't…

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Clear Talking an After=war Problem

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1930 · page 6

Good talking is a feature of the State's new talkie, "Woman to Woman," starring Betty Compson. The story is that of the struggle…

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"Civil War" Threat to Germany Class Conflict London

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1930 · page 4

The fact that the Minister for National Defence, (General Wilhelm Groner), discusses the Army's duty in the event of civil war between the extremist movements--Communists and Fascists--indicates that the…

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"Armies of the Lord" Big War Planned By Clergyman LONDON

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 March 1930 · page 2

WORLD-war against Russia, with millions of Christians, Jews, and Moslems milking up an "Army of the Lord," is the ambition of the Rev. E. Grevatt…

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Like War Flood Shambles France Mourns Bodies Beneath Ruins Paris

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1930 · page 4

THE main floods are subsiding, to reveal havoc like that of the wartime. In the Tarn-et-Garonne department…

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Gangster's Suicide Machine Guns and Car in Street War New York

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 March 1930 · page 1

WHEN a carload of gangsters swept round a corner near the City Hall, Hoboken, New Jersey, firing with machine guns' and sawn-off shotguns,…

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Child Wounded. by Stray Bullet. Granville Mystery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 12

Ernest James Peel, 5, of Hampstead-road, Auburn, was shot in the back by a pea-rifle bullet while sitting on a man's knee in a thickly populated part of Granville…

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Girl Wounded. Shot by Youth. Who Commits Suicide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 12

Maisie Thompson, 14, of Waratah-street, Bexley, was shot through the breast last night by a youth, aged 16 years. She was admitted to the St. George District Hospital in a critical…

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Stray Bullet Child Wounded Sitting on Father Knee

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 4

Ernest James Peel, 5, of Hampst road, Auburn, was shot in the back a pen-rifle bullet while sitting on man's knee in a thickly populated…

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War Memorial Fete

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 4

A guard of honour of Girl Guides, members of the local Junior Red Cross Circle, and nurses of the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, was formed for Miss de Chair when…

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Waverley War Hospital's Fete

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 14

On arrival Miss Elaine de Chair (second from left) inspects the guard of honour at the War Memorial Hospital…

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League War in Brisbane

Daily Pictorial · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 23

BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Sydney Rugby League officials were closeted with Brisbane officials for three hours last night, and again for the most…

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Lecture on War Graves

Daily Pictorial · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 5

A lantern lecture on the work of the War Graves Commission will be given by Col. C. E. Hughes, Controller of the Imperial War Graves…

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Exciting Chase. Fugitive Wounded. Shots Fired by Constable, Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 11

One man is believed to have been wounded in an exciting chase after a motor car containing stolen goods at St. Kilda early this morning…

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War Graves Commission. Visit of Deputy Comptroller

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 12

Lleut.-Colonel C. E. Hughes, deputy comptroller of the Imperial War Graves Commission in the Near East, who has been on leave in Australia since December, will lecture…

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