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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

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

Soldiers' Journey to Hospital State Cabinet's Act Takes Away Privilege (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 8

Sir,--It seems that the question of the prevailing concessions to disabled Diggers attending the Prince of Wales Hospital for treatment of war disabilities, has…

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Former Enemies Among Rothbury Volunteers? Returned Men Annoyed Newcastle

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 12

It is reported in Newcastle that returned soldiers on the South Maitland field are indignant over an allegation that 14 Germans, four of…

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Pathetic Suicide. of War-maimed Soldier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 12

A pathetic story of a returned soldier, who was unable to work because his health had been ruined at the war, was told before the City Coroner (Mr. May) yesterday. The…

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War on War British Govt's Scheme for League Council Important Mandates Report London

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 1

Subjects of special interest and moment to Great Britain will be discussed by the Council of the League of Nations, which meets at Geneva next Monday. These include a plan to harmonise the League…

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Mustard Gas Poison Ex-soldier Collapses

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 5

SAMUEL JONES, who gave his address as Strawberry Hills, was found unconscious in Green Park, Darlinghurst, last night. At St. Vincent's Hospital…

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Returned Soldiers. Support for Miners. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 15

About 400 returned soldiers attended a meeting at Kurri Kurri this afternoon to discuss the coal position. Guards were placed at each door of the School of Arts…

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Soldier Settler Advances Minister's Promise

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 11

Banks should be able to deal with advances to soldier-settlers under the new Act within a week, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) told a…

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Communist Riot. Police Wounded. LONDON, Jan. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 12

It is reported from Berlin that a long procession of Communists at the funeral of a comrade murdered by Fascists carried a banner incsribed, "Vengeance for our murdered…

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US.A.'s New War

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 6

AN intensive war on bootleggers is the new order in America. The move has the full force of the Hoover…

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"Will to Win" How A.i.f. Impressed "Tiger" His War-time Diary Visit to Front Line Trenches

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 11

POSTHUMOUS papers of M. Georges Clemenceau, include some notes of his visits to the British Front and encounters with Australians. Interesting extracts from these include: "DAY spent at the junction of the British line with our own Australian troops were the first I met, and they gave me new…

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Advances to Settlers. Returned Soldiers' Requests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 9

Representatives of the Returned Soldiers' League (New South Wales branch) waited upon the Minister for Agriculture yesterday, and urged that the Advances to Settlers…

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Soldiers' League Neutral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 12

A request by the general president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. D. Rees), that the State council of the Returned Soldiers' League should allow one of the miners'…

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Ex-soldiers' Army of Defence Premier Is Hostile Says Police Are Quite Capable Govr. Bligh's Case Recalled

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 1

UNLAWFUL and unnecessary" was how the Premier stigmatised the formation of the Defence Army of ex-soldiers, when asked to comment on it last night. "The Police force." Mr. Bavin added,…

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The Land and the producer Financing Needy Soldier Settlers Government Guarantee Under New Act Operates This Month

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 17

The drafting of the regulations under the new Consolidation Act has delayed the bringing of the measure into operation for the assistance of necessitous settlers, but the Minister for Agriculture undertakes that all will be in order…

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Anzac Memorial. Alternative Sites

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 12

Dissatisfaction with the site proposed to be set aside in Hyde Park for the Anzac War Memorial was expressed yesterday at a meeting at Parliament House of several…

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War Songs Soldiers in Lead Police Hooted Assembly in Early Dawn Cessnock

The Sun · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

Throughout last night Cessnock seethed with excitement and expectancy. Never before in the…

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The man in the Street War Pensions

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

Sir.--The Federal Government is out to recover from returned soldiers who have war pensions the [?]7000 given to the miners…

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Half as Big Again as Pre-War

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

MOSCOW, Nov. 11.—According to the report of the Supreme Economic Council, the total output of the large-scale industries of the Soviet Union…

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Union War Rival Executives One Locked in

Evening News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 12

ALL is not well in the ranks of the N.S.W. Bread Carters' Union. At last night's meeting there was a clash between the two different…

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Wool and Cotton Values Cotton Relatively Dearer Since the War

The Land · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 9

The most heartening aspect of the wool position (write Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd,) is that the value of the world's other great natural textile fibre, cotton, is relatively on a…

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