Soldiers --Or Unionists? Wharf Preference Fed. Govt. Takes a Stand Canberra
Any move that, might be contemplated by the shipowners to employ only returned soldiers on the wharves will be frustrated by an…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1931
2,667 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 134
Was Ready to Die for His Country Went to the War Back Again, "So Die," Says Red Tape Digger Bott's Case
DAILY, on the point of collapse a very sick Digger walks the streets Sydney because the Repatriation Department, bound…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lang's War of Finance Is On We Have No Security
It might appear a sensational statement, but it is, nevertheless, a fact. New South Whales has no security to offer any…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Won War Foch Will Tell How Own Story to Be "Sun" Feature
To "Sun" readers comes a story of the war which is of first importance, in that it is the personal story of the war by a man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joffre, Marshal Of France, Dead Stern Fight Before He Surrendered Was Soldier to the End Orangiser of Armies Paris
Field-Marshal Joffre, Commander-in-Chief of the French armies in the first half of the war, is dead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Was Killer Crazed by Cowardice Taunt? White Feather in War Raved of Killing Germans Frenzy for Poetry Slayer Dies in Hospital
Sent two white feathers during the war and thwarted from seeing service through varicose veins, did John Thomas Kennedy, 42, a printer, fall victim to such a crazy military complex as to believe that in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killer Dies after Tempest of Blood - lust Broodings of 16 Years Burst in Frenzy of Murder Maniac's Delusions That His Destiny Was to Kill Germans Mind Unhinged by War-time Jibes
Under the delusion that in cold-bloodedly killing Constables Allen and Andrews he had ended the lives of two Germans, and that he had to fulfil his horrible destiny by shooting more, John Thomas Kennedy, Lawson Street, Waverley, last night gasped out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac
Rifle shooting at the Anzac Range, Liverpool, on Saturday was confined to club matches. Details:- AT 600 YARDS…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Politics Even Worse Than War LONDON
"WAR is a frightful evil, as we all know, but how often one is left wondering, after reading first-rate war books, such as this, whether…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police To Wage War On S.P. Shops
When the attention of the Chief Secretary, Mr. Gosling, was drawn to-day to the reported increase in SP betting as, a result of the betting tax,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ogre of War Debts the Usurers' Grindstone Appalling Interest Figures Great Men Are Needed
HOW can the world be saved from the ogre of war debts? That is the only political question worth while, not in any State or Kingdom Empire or Republic, but all over the civilised world. The workers of the world are having their noses ground sharp…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Marshal Joffre Dies Great War Leader "Won Place in Every British Heart" London, Sunday. (British Official Wireless.)
MARSHAL JOFFRE. Generalissimo of the French armies during 1915-17, who has been lying on the point of death for several days died…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car on Cliff Edge Soldiers' Dash Through Town
A struggle in a motor car on the edge of a cliff was described at Dover Police Court recently, when Private Ernest Fowler, aged 20, and Private Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Debt Revision. Its Prospects and Effects
This question of a revision of war debts, including, of course, Germany's reparation liability, is now very much in the air behind the scenes, and occasionally comes into the open…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Welcome Home to Mr. Scullin Melbourne
ON behalf of himself and other members of the Federal Ministry, the Acting Prime Minister Mr. Fenton has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Real Foch "Impersonal Force" View of War
"We seemed to be listening to some impersonal force expressing itself, rather than to a man. . . ."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Is Another War Impending in Europe? "Hitlerism" and Reparation Repudiation
In September last, Germany had a general election in which the results were regarded as "profoundly disquieting." Previously, the dominant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Joffre: A Great Soldier
WITH the death of Marshal Joffre there passes another heroic figure of the Great War. It was the tremendous task of Joffre to bar the way to Paris with his armies and save Western…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Soldier's Campbed. Last Tribute to Joffre. LONDON, Jan. 5
A queue a mile long was waiting this morning to file past Marshal Joffre's body lying on a soldier's campbed in the flag-draped chapel of the Ecole Militaire. He is dressed in a 1914…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →£100,000 Vic. Firm May Take N.S.W. Bets to Outwit Tax! Astonishing Plan May Be Operated Lang Says He Will Ban Publication of All Betting Odds! Dramatic War on New Act
Rumors of a £100,000 company to be floated in Melbourne for the purpose of taking bets from New South Wales, and thereby avoiding the 10 per cent. tax have reached the State Treasury…
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