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The wars & local soldiers, 1931

2,667 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 134

How Buster Keaton Won the War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 17

"Forward March," comedy of military life, with Buster Keaton playing a millionaire's son who enlists in the army, is the attraction which is showing…

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GUILDFORD A.L.P. Reply to Parsons "Ruthless War"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 17

"Personally, I want to see the working also capture every avenue of government," slay the secretary of Guildford A.L.P. (Mr. P. Bateman), in…

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War Declared Against Federal Ministry by State A.L.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 9

Following the exclusion of the Assistant Minister for Industry (Mr. Beasley) from the Ministry, war has been declared against the Federal Government by the State A.L.P…

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Is Our War Debt £82,000,000 or £744,162,409?

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 4

THERE is a deliberate attempt on the Part of certain politicians and their Press supporters to mislead the public by statements to the effect that…

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War Farce at Empire Wheeler and Woolsey. In "Half Shot at Sunrise''

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 8

EMPIRE "Half shot at Sunrise," with Robt Woolsey Bort Wheeler,. Dorothy Lee; "Firebrand Jordan," with Buffalo Bill, Jur Commencing Saturday…

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Strong Cast In Regent Film "War Nurse" Is Stark Drama Reg. Denny Comedy

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 8

REGENT; "war Nurse," with Robt, Montgomery, Robert Ames, Anita Page Juno Walker; "Romantic Vagabond," with Reginald…

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Parramatta Returned Soldiers Ladies Auxiliary Branch

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 17

The ladies of the Auxiliary Branch of the Parramatta Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League held a very enjoyable social, euchre and dance in the Soldiers'…

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Unknown Soldier

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 26

In London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Rome, you will find monuments to the unknown Hero. A pretty conceit. You may have your Birdwoods, and your…

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Boy Camper Wounded

The Biz · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 3

Allan Lloyd (15), of Harold-st., Parramatta, was accidentally shot in the thigh on Sunday by a bullet from a friend's pea-rifle…

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Oiler Wounded Charge Against Ship's Engineer

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 3

Ernest Sinclair Oldfield, 24, engineer, was charged, at Central Court to-day, with having maliciously wounded Michael Malone…

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Merry-lands Diggers Tin Hat and Anzac Day

The Biz · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 2

The monthly meeting of Merrylands sub-branch of R.S.S.I.L. was held on Monday evening, 30 members being present…

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Women and the War Danger

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 5

The danger of another imperialist war is one that is facing the working class, and is a danger that is becoming more serious with every…

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New Films Comedy and Romance "War Nurse"

The Sun · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 11

A new angle on war is given by "War Nurse," opening at the Regent to-morrow. For the first time is depicted the work of the…

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Lenin Speaks to the Women Workers On War

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 4

“But what will working women do against war? Will they condemn war and demand only disarmament? Women of an oppressed class will not…

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War Victims Bodies. Unearthed at Verdun. LONDON, March 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 10

A message from Paris states that it was revealed to the Chamber of Deputies by the Mayor of Verdun that recent work thereabouts had resulted in the discovery of bodies at the…

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If I Were a Dictator As We Were Before the War

The Land · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 2

The first thing I should do would be to appoint a committee of experts to ascertain what were the prices of primary products—wool, wheat,butter, coal, etc.—before the war, and what the prices are now; also what wages and salaries were pai din the different occupations and what are paid now. Then I should have wages and salaries adjusted in the sme ratio…

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Move to Scotch War Profiteering All in No Labor Army WASHINGTON

The Sun · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 1

A commission composed of members of Cabinet, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, met to-day to work out a…

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No Profiteering in Next War to Equalise Burdens Is America's Aim But Conscription of Labor Is Barred Washington

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 1

A COMMISSION, composed of members of the Cabinet, of the senate and of the House of Representatives, met to-day to work out a plan for equalising the burdens of the next war…

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We Enlist in the Gold Prospecting Army

The Land · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 1

SOME day, perhaps, some pen more able than mine will inscribe an epic story of the revival in gold prospecting and mining—a tale of the old…

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"Birdie's" Farewell. Indian and Anzac Memories

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 11

Many thousands of Australians will reed with emotion Field-Marshal Blrdwood's farewell message to his old Indian regiment. Bom In 18665. he passed through Clifton…

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