£770,000,000. What the War Has Cost Australia
The complete war bill of the Commonwealth reached a total of no less than £770,000,000 on June 30 last, of which £467,000,000 has been spent since the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1933
3,351 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 168
Post-war Struggle. League Fights Diggers' Battle. the Campaign of 1932
Unemployment, sickness, and poverty were the enemies on which the civilian counterpart of the A.I.F., the Returned Soldiers' League, waged war during the year. A fine record of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Are We Proud of This? Innocent Victims of the World War
The village of Eisenschmitt, in Germany, has not a single child to be confirmed this year because all the children who would now have been of age died in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Countess's 14-Year-old Quest of MERCY Cheering Soldier's Friends
THERE is in London one of the most romantic and lovable figures in the world, the Countess de Caen, who has just finished a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lodge Benefits Ex-Soldier Pensioners Complain
Auburn sub-branch of the R.S.S. I.L.A., has decided to ask the headquarters of the League to investigate alienations that certain friendly…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Welcome Home to Davies Final Arrangements Well In Hand WOLLONGONG
Final arrangements have been made for the welcome-home social to be given Mr. and Mrs. W. Davies to-morrow night at the Agricultural Hall. Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Memorial. Progress of the Work
Much progress has been made with the erection of the Anzac Memorial Building in Hyde Park. This granite work is almost half completed. The timber supports which will permit of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Country News Wounded by Stray Bullet
HARDEN, Thursday.--Mrs. Oscar Smith was lifting her 21-year -old son from a motor car, when this child's back was pierced by a pearifle bullet…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Anzac Ideals Play Competition To Be Held
To preserve the traditions of Anzac, a competition for an original one act play has been organised by the Anzac Festival Committee, in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Spears Out in Samoa Native Dead; Others Wounded Auckland
SAMOA, which has been a source of continual trouble ever since New Zealand was, given a mandate. over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dispute in Samoa. Native Fatally Wounded. Wellington (N.z.)
The Samoan correspondent of the New Zealand Press Association states that on the night of December 13 a dispute about a native title arose between a number of natives at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Evolution of a War Lie
"Kolnische Zeitung" (Cologne), November, 1914: "When the fall of Antwerp got known, the German 'church bells were rung."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War on Between Councils Incinerator Question
Strong protest was made, by members of Manly Council pt the last meeting, when it was stated that Mosman Council intended to erect a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fusillade Of Bullets Into Motor Car Man with Rifle at Gate Two in Car and Passerby Wounded
WHEN a man, believed to be temporarily demented, poured a fusillade of bullets into a motor car in Fewing-street, Clovelly, at 8.10 a.m. today, the occupants of the car--the man's brother and sister…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →May Mean War Italian Designs On Yugoslavia LONDON
THAT Italy contemplates making war on Yugoslavia is the allegation made by Austrian newspapers, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →France's Belief Reparations Lead To War Debts WASHINGTON
Senator Borah told the Senate today that he had no doubt that Prance had reason to believe that, if it settled the reparations question, the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Is Cricket War? Ex-Kaiser Thought It Was Talks Tests
"IS it cricket or war?" an English newspaper asks in surprise at the feelings aroused both here and in England by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →America's Unknown Soldier Marble Tomb Complete
The marble tomb beneath which rests America's unknown soldier is now complete at Arlington National Cemetery at Washington. After six years, a design…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Progress of the Anzac Memorial
A view of the Liverpool-street frontage of the memorial in Hyde Park…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Australian Imperialism's War Preparations
Imperialist war threatens an immediate extension to world-wide proportions. Overtime is being worked in the textile mills making khaki for,…
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