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The wars & local soldiers, 1931

2,667 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 134

Lively "Welcome Home" For Tilly Devine Govt. Fired No Salute, But Hubby Did, She Said "Queen of the Underworld" Says She is Scared of Jim Joyous Farewell Scene Recalled

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 18

WAVED away with streamers and confetti: home to hear the whistle of a rifle bullet!…

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Australia Gets Boot Banks Are Scrapping for Business Exchange War

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 10

SINCE March last, year, when credits in London have been to scarce as to be almost unobtainable, those having moneys overseas had a rare…

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Yee War Is Very Sad Chinese Found With Throat Cut Missing Friend

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 18

YEE WAR and Ah Pung are parted. Yet. 'tis not the first time. Ah Pung was an employee of…

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Al Capone. Millionaire [?] C[?] Criminal Startling Close-up of Gangster Chief, Murderer, Controller of Police and Judges. the "Big Shot" of Chicago's Bootleg War

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 17

AFTER two years of forgetfulness of his own dignity, the United States Federal Court has invited Al Capone to face the contempt proceedings…

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Rifle Shooting. Club Matches at Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 14

Club shooting was carried out at the Anzac Range. Liverpool on Saturday. E. Linfoot, of South Sydney-Waverley scored 13 consecutive bulls at 800 yards; W. Le Page and…

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Murder Attempt Charge Wounded Enmore Man Critical

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 1

NORMAN MULHEARS'E 28 of Phillip-st Enmore who was shot in the abdormen during a disturbance in Station-st, Newtown on Saturday night…

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German Tribute No World War If League Had Existed

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 5

ADDRESSING members of the League of Nations Union at their luncheon to-day, Mr. Coleman. M.P. who represented Australia at the…

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Chinese Civil War. Mohammedan Outrages. 30,000 Massacred. Shanghai, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 9

Terrible conditions exist as a result of the two years' civil war in Kansu province. An official report from the commander, General Lu, from Lanchow, states that, during nine…

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Spy Thriller at the Lyceum Talkie War Themes Are Bit Threadbare

Daily Pictorial · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 8

"Give us British voices. We are tired of American slang!" is the constant cry of Australian talkie-goers. Yet the patronage accorded…

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"Murder Mystery" Was Myth Soldier Hoaxed Scotland Yard With Tale of Girl Second Case Sets Puzzle London

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 1

UNUSUAL turns wire given to two "murder" mysteries at the week-end, and, while one has been cleared up satisfactorily, the second remains apparently inexplicable…

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Outraged Victims of Brutal Soldiery Women's Sufferings London

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 1

During the building of barracks in the Barrobo district by forced male and female labor, the soldiers used the women…

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Wedding Day Promise Gruesome Task for Soldier's Wife LONDON

Daily Pictorial · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 4

On their wedding day in 1921 Percy George Arnold obtained a promise from his wife that when he died she would scatter his ashes…

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Hats Off to the A.A.M.C. Their Part in the Great War :: History of the Medical Service :: Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, Sinai, Palestine, New Guinea

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 4

It used to be said in the Army that every private soldier , carried a field-marshal's. baton in his knapsack. That…

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Man Critically Wounded. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 10

Roland R. Vallis, about 30, an employee on the Clarence River bridge construction works, was found with a bullet wound in the chest in his bedroom at the Morelands…

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"Anzac Bridge." to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 6

Sir,—Much has been written about the great structure of the Harbour Bridge, and deservedly so, but I would like to point out the lack of uniformity in referring to it. I…

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Re-taken at Last Escapee Wounded By Bullet Police Rush Adelaide

Evening News · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 7

WOUNDED by a police bullet which matting a second deth for freedom, John Horace Hoyes, 45, who escaped from Yantala cool on April…

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The Australian Experiment. Australia's Post-war Sins

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 8

"We lived in a fools' paradise": this admission of the Australian of to-day characterises the past decade. Up to a few months ago he did not yet conceive how one could…

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Cane-cutters' War Britons Get Bigger Look-In INNISFAIL

Evening News · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 9

THERE will be vacancies for some hundreds of British cane-cutters in the northern sugar areas during the coming 1831 season…

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Wheat Farmers. Militant Speeches in W.A. War with Merchants. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 10

The Western Australian Wheat Growers' Union conference, attended by about 70 delegates, representing over 4000 farmers, decided unanimously to-day that pressure should be…

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Returned Soldiers' League. Canowindra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 10

At the annual general meeting of the Canowindra sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League on Friday the following officers were elected:—Mr. F. B. Hinton, president…

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