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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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The War In France Progress at Three Points. Paris

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 3

A communique states:— We progressed 200 metres at Lombaertzyde and advanced in the Beausejour district despite a storm. We…

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Prizes of War Invalid Transfer From From German to English

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 4

A curious story of an English company, in which all the shareholders are Germans, and of the German manager's effort to bring off a highly profitable…

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War News Germans at Soissons. No Attempt on Aisne. London

Leader · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

Paris messages state that the Germans as Soissons. have not attempted to cross the River Aisne. A wounded officer states that it is…

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WAR In France the Month's French Losses. a Berlin Estimate. Amsterdam

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

A communique from Berlin states:- It is four weeks since General Joffre published a general order to attack, and the French have since lost 26,000…

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War and Trade the Man on the Land. Cattle-man Doing Well

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 4

"There can he no question that the war has had a decided effect upon trade," said Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, president of the Chamber of Commerce…

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Little War Pictures Football Slang in the Trenches. I.—"play to the Whistle." North of France, Nov. 28

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 4

There is not much doubt that the German willingness to be killed is lessening. They are becoming more careful. There is little now of that…

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Finance and War State Government's Difficulty. How It Was Faced. the Opposition's Alternative Remarks by Mr. E. DURACK

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

At last night's meeting of the Bathurst South P.L.L., Mr. E. D[?], M.L.A., expressed his thanks to the League for us fair and reasonable…

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Conditions of Enlistment. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 1

The conditions cabled to the Premier (Mr. Holman), in regard to enlistment in the Second King Edward's Horse, are proving a bar to good bushmen…

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War Items

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

According to refugees at Cairo, the Turkish army that is to invade Egypt is likely to display bravery, but incapacity. Many of the troops are said to be starving, owing to bad…

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War Football. London

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

A war international football match, under British Association rules, was played at Paris, when an entire team of Belgian soldiers, met a team of…

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Russia and the War

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 4

A writer who happened to be in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the war describes in the November "Contemporary Review" some, of his impressions to the way in…

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Miscellaneous War News. London

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

Dr. Mackinnon, head of the Anglo-American mission at the front, who has been taken prisoner by the German's, says that he was brutally treated and was put with 17 other…

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Antwerp's War Tax £1,600,000. LONDON

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

Berlin officially announces that Antwerp has made a war tax of £1,600,000…

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War News Soissons. an Incomplete Victory. London

Leader · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

The "Times" correspondent with The Allies forces, says that the fighting east and west of Soissons, Indicates that the advantage gained at…

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Sydney War Chest Fund Comforts Sent to the Front London

National Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

Sir Timothy Coghlan (Agent-General for N.S.W.) has seat a further consignment of the Sydney citizens' war chest fund comforts for the troops at…

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WAR In France German Attack Fail Situation Largely Unaltered. Paris

National Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

A communique states:— We repulsed two attacks near Autreches and captured the German works at Boislepretre. The situation at…

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Antwerp Pays. Berlin Reports to Have Got War Levy. London

Leader · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

Berlin officially announced that Antwerp has paid the war tax or £1,600,000…

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The Rest of Europe. Southern Nations Will Join War. London

Leader · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

Tile Paris "Figaro" states that Italy, Roumanla, Bulgaria, and Greece are about to enter the war. Italy and Rounania, that paper declares, will…

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Against the War Socialist Resolution. an I.W.W. Protest. West Maitland, Tuesday. !

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 3

The Cessnock I.W.W. members have already denounced the Australian Government joining with the rest of the Empire in the war They have carried…

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The Great War. Causes and Issues. Delgium's Clorious Part. Address by Bishop Long

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 4

Dr. Long, Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, delivered in address in the Odd-fellows' Hall, Lithgow, "such as few have ever been privileged to hear in…

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