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The wars & local soldiers, 1932

3,205 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 161

Harkness at War With "Wizard" Smith "Truth" Takes Off the Silencer Speed-Car's Maker Reveals Inside Story of Row Who Said 300 M.P.H.?

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1932 · page 12

DON HARKNESS, the man who built the car in which his FORMER friend "Wizard" Smith hopes to break bits off the world's speed record, is about to lift the bonnet off many things. MUCH speculation has spluttered in the exhaust lubes of public imagination since Harkness gave…

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Toll of the War. Tuberculosis Victims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 3

Of 2876 returned soldiers suffering from tuberculosis, 1219 are resident in New South Wales. Of the patients who died in repatriation…

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Lewis Gun on War Debts "Only One Way"

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 6

MR. S. P. LEWIS, Bream Street, Coogee, criticising a recent article in this paper, entitled "The Dogs of War," subjects same to analysis…

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Repertory Society. War Play at St. James's Hall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 4

Its theme being what it is,"Waterloo Bridge,"presented by the New Sydney Repertory Society on Saturday evening, could scarcely be a pleasant play. The scene is in…

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Is It War? Japs. Land At Shanghai Ominous Shanghai

The Sun · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 1

THE sudden landing of five hundred Japanese marines in the International Settlement at Shanghai, is…

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War On Coalfields Drastic Threat Expulsion Of Two Lodges Split Fears

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 6

CESSNOCK, Sunday.--A crowded meeting of Elrington Miners' Lodge to-day decided, overwhelmingly, to…

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Returned Soldier's Loss. Kyogle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 10

Late last night [?]. four-roomed cottage and outbuildings on a dairy farm West Kyogle, owned by Charles West, returned soldier, were destroyed by fire. Mr. West, with his wife and…

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No Sole Rights Returned Men and Sale of Bridge Souvenirs

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 5

The finance committee of the City Council yesterday refused an application from the Returned Soldiers' League, that returned soldiers be…

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Razor Slashing. Man Wounded at Griffith. GRIFFITH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 8

A serious case of razor slashing, following a brawl between a group of Italians and Australians, in a hotel bar, occurred at Griffith late on Saturday afternoon. Police believe…

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Magnificent -- But Not War!

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 1

Dear Hogworth: "Is it war?" asked "The Suntroke" yesterday recording the landing of a large force of Japanese marines at Shanghai. The question reminds…

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Bull's Eyes Riflemen at Anzac

Referee · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 6

A REGIMENT of markers did a lot of hard work in the rifle-pits at Anzac Range (Liverpool, N.S.W.) on Saturday…

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Reparations and War Debts

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 3

ALL through, history there have been periods when a great change has taken place in the psychology of the world in connection with some subject of surpassing…

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Must Meet Payments. Purchasers of War Service Homes

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 14

The Federal Nationalist Government's policy in relation to war service homes payments was announced last week by the Minister administering war service…

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War Service Homes Government’s Policy with Arrears

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 4

The Federal Government has announced its policy in regard to arrears of instalments due by purchasers of War Service Homes. The Minister administrating the War Service…

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Safety in Tears Pen-Pistol to find Bandit War

The World's News · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 28

OFFICIALS at the Home Office and Scotland Yard are considering a simple device which, it is hoped, may defeat the peril of the gunman…

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Labor War Help for Cunningham (Continued from Page 7)

The Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 25

Recreant to the Labor movement, breakaway members had already launched a campaign in the East Sydney by-election to belittle and…

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Is It Furphy? War Debts Menace the Bankers' Outlook (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 8

Sir, -- Would you allow me apace to correct what I believe to be a very mistaken conception about war debts that might be gathered from the front…

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Dartmoor. Prisoners Quiet. Soldiers Guard Roads. Immediate Inquiry. London, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 11

The Home Secretary (Sir Herbert Samuel) has appointed Mr. Herbert Dupar[?]q, K.C., Recorder of Bristol, to hold an immediate inquiry into the…

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Wounded Youth Crawls Three Miles to Road. KEMPSEY

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 10

A story of how a wounded youth crawled three miles through bush country comes from Frederickton. Reginald McGilvray, aged 18 years, went…

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Hay War Memorial. Hay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 10

Senator Cox yesterday laid the foundation-stone of the Hay War Memorial Hall in the presence of a large number of returned soldiers, nursing sisters, and the public. In his…

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