Letter in Bottle. Relic of Boer War. PERTH
Believed to have been thrown overboard 35 years ago from a troopship near Albany by an Australian Light Horseman from Melbourne, on his way to the Boer War, an…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1936
3,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 181
Preparedness for War Urged by Viscount Swinton. LONDON, Jan. 8
The Minister for War (Viscount Swinton) said at Cambridge that, in order to prevent war, it was necessary that industry should be organised, so that it could be mobilised for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BOOKS and BOOKMEN London in War-Time. a Graphic Diary
"In London During the Great War." By Michael MacDonagh. London: Eyre and Spottiswode. 12s 6d net. Mr. MacDonagh, who belongs to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →House of Morgan. War Loans to Allies. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8
J. Pierpont Morgan yesterday informed the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee that his great banking house "turned loose" with loans to the Allies in 1915 as soon as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →1p.c. WORTH £6,000,000 War Deals Morgan's "Com." Timely Tips Washington
THE Senate Munitions Committee was, told to-day that J. P. Morgan and Co. purchased £600,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peace Plan. New'basis Sought. M. Laval's Reported Move. Rain in War Zone. London, Jan. 8
Diplomatically, there is considerable activity in Rome and in Paris, according to newspaper reports, in order to find some new formula for a peace plan likely to be acceptable to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Preference to Soldiers
Great condition exists as to the application of the Preference to Returned Soldiers' Act. To make the position clear, the duly of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Soldier Bird
ALMA REMMIS (Uoggabill).—A friend to the man on the land is the soldierbird, who wears a dark stey sull. He also has a bluepatch on his head, and is yellow between…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Old Soldiers Information Wanted
Mrs. Sally Burdett, of Market-street, Watford, Herts, England, has written to the Returned Soldiers' League to obtain the address of Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Many Jobs Found Soldiers' Preference Act Working Well
From April, when the Soldiers' Preference Act came into operation, until the end of last year, employment was found for 3000 soldiers in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dockers Strike Against Italian War
PORT OF SPAIN, Nov. 25 (by mail). —The Italian steamer, “Virgilio,” has been delayed by the refusal of the dockers, mostly Negroes, to unload the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Happy War. Reminiscence of Aden
During the Great War, Turkish forces occupied Sheikh Othman, an Arab village lying ten miles inland from Aden. The Turks had no intention of attempting the hopeless…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Appeal of Italian Committee Against Abyssinian War
BRUSSELS, Nov. 27 (by mail).—The Italians’ Congress against the Abyssinian war, which met recently in Brussels, appointed a committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industry's Part. Mobilisation for War. London, Jan. 9
Following the statement by the Minister for War (Viscount Swinton) that, to prevent war, industry should be organised so that it could be mobilised for war on a large scale, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Victories Reported. War Zone Operations. (Published in "The Times.")
The Addis Ababa correspondent of "The Times' says: "The Emperor announces that Ras Seyoum's forces occupied the whole of the Tembien province, and that the Italians…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Cash U.S. INQUIRY Loans To Allies WASHINGTON, Thurs
FIGURES submitted to the Senate Munitions Committee to-day showed that J. P. Morgan and Co. handled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Anti-war Congress, Sydney, January 25 To Unite All Forces (From the National Council of the Movement Against War and Fascism)
THREE years have passed since Henri Barbusse, the late leader of the World Movement Against War and Fascism, together with Romain Holland, its present leader, organised the great International Anti-War Congress at Amsterdam—three years in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Halted "Little Rains" Bitter Fights War See-saw Addis Ababa
THE "little rains" have arrived unusually early, and torrential downpours have brought military…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Unions to Meet A.C.T.U. Authority Stressed Ship War
FOLLOWING the emphatic decision of the aggregate meetings of miners not to participate in an extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ARMAMEINTS. British Inquiry. Aerial Defence. Gun Rejected by War Office. LONDON, Jan. 9
General Sir Herbert Lawrence, chairman of Vickers, Ltd., revealed before the Royal Commission on the private manufacture of arms that the…
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