The Luck of War
COULD anyone have worse luck than to receive fatal injuries during an official cessation of hostiities? Those on Gallipoli on May 24, 1915,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1931
2,667 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 134
Current Literature a War Prisoner
When Lord Phlllimare, author of "Recollections of a Prisoner of War," was wounded and captured at the Somme in 1916, the parting words of the German officer who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Britain's War Debt. Question in Legislative Assembly
In the Legislative Assembly on Thursday Mr. Olde asked the Premier (Mr. Lang) if he had seen a cable appearing In the Press stating that the British Government, was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Gallant Australians." War Deeds Recalled. LONDON, March 19
Four hundred gallant Australians were among those commemorated when Colonel Lionel James, the regiment's last colonel, laid the foundation-stone for King Edward's…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Nameless Graves War Victims' Bodies Unearthed at Verdun
The ghastly daughter on the Verdun and other battle-fields of the Western front received another Mustration last week when the Mayor of Verdun told the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bloodshed in Tokio Now Police Guard for Diet Many Wounded in Pitched Battle Big City Riots Tokio
Serious noting and bloodshed, amounting almost to minor revolution, have occurred here, and the police are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →French War Loans. Compensation for British Holders. LONDON, March 19
I The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Pethlck-Lawrence) stated that in view of the proposed French legislation to compensate French original subscribers' to war…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bulgaria and the War. Alleged Payments by Germany. LONDON, March 10
A sensation was caused in the Reichstag when a Communist, quoting from allegedly official documents, showed that tho German Government in 1915 paid ex-King Ferdinand…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Land and the Producer Heading for Disaster Farmers and the Milk War
In the conflict in the city milk trade and the price-cutting clash between those handling the 40,000 gallons or so received daily from the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Scullin To Fight Lang On Premier's Ground in Sydney Delegate to Conference War Intensified Beasley Group Is Very Bitter
The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) will definitely enter the Labor faction war in New South Wales by attending the Federal Conference in Sydney next Friday, as a Victorian delegate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Harvey.) Funds for Soldiers
Applicaiton was made for directions concerning the disposal of certain money collected during the war, and now in the hands of the petitioners—Mr. John William…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Frontier Fighting. British Soldier Killed. CALCUTTA, March 21
One British and three Indian soldiers were killed and one British officer and six British and Indian soldiers were wounded in a series of encounters. with Afridis in the vicinity of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Returned Soldiers. Conference at Canberra. CANBERRA
The annual meeting of the Federal executive of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League of Australia, which is being held in Canberra for the first time this year,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Auditor-general and Soldiers' Pensions
THE Auditor-General (Mr. Cerutty) has stated it was imperative in the national interest that there should be a comprehensive survey of the conditions under which the old-age, invalid, and war pensions are paid. The cost of pensions, he said, was mounting to figure that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GIRLS and WAR Monday, March 16
AR debts Marjorie Wiltonville, aged 36, unmarried, and unlikely to be married, blunt-spoken to the point of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Cancer War Developing Offensive Canberra
Called by the Federal Department of Health, the second annual conference of organisations engaged in the fight against cancer will be held in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cupid's Dart Failed Archer So He Used Divorce Scissors War-bride's Flight
DESERTED by hit wife—and the once Wrote to him, to he tali, thai the had tried to put another man out of her mind, but couldn't…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →War Pensions. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Civil servants and others have not suffered much yet, so why start on poor pensioners before tackling them? The fact of their being so, shows war pensioners to have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Debts and R.s.l. Lang Scheme Is Rejected
CANBERRA, Sunday -- Prompt rejection was the fate which the Federal Executive of the Returned Soldiers' League meted out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Soldiers. Federal Executive Meeting. CANBERRA
The Federal executive of the Returned Soldiers' League concluded its annual meeting at Canberra yesterday. The meeting was held in camera…
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