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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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Burns and the War Address to Bathurst Burns Club

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

Life is full of contrasts: tho treatment of Burns; and the respect accorded to him now; the mortal combat in which the "civilised" peoples of Europe…

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Germany Day by Day Why Germany Really Went to War. "A Duel with England." the Alleged Industrial Situation. London, December [?]

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 1

Official Germany has at last abandoned the fiction that the "sword was forced into the Kaiser's hand" by "Pan-Slavisim's aggressive designs on…

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Burns And German "Culture" a Contrast. Rev. C. C. Pringle Eloquent. "The Immortal Poet and the War. an Interesting Address

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

In proposing the toast to "The immortal memory of Robert Burns, poet, patriot and man," at the Burns' celebration in the Masonic Hall, Bathurst,…

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Four Australian Soldiers Die Melbourne

Leader · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

Four deaths are reported among the Australian troops at sea, but none of the deceased was from New South Wales…

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War Items

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

The 11th Turkish Army Corps has been defeated in the Khorasan region of Armenia. Their mountain artillery was captured. The Russians sank near Sinope (on the…

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Turkey and the War

Leader · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

There is nothing surprising in the nows that a strong peace movement, headed by the Heir-Apparent, is gaining ground in Turkey. The Turkish…

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Red Indians and the War

Leader · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 3

Canadian newspapers contain the texts of messages sent by Red Indian chiefs to the Canadian Government in forwarding contributions to various…

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Japan's Premier and the War

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 4

Count Okuma, the Premier of Japan, makes a dignified statement of Japan's attitude to the great war. "It will be our one ambition at this…

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Late General War News. London

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

The Italian Government has decided to commandeer merchant ships for the transportation of materials. The German authorities have distributed…

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WAR In France Slight Progress. Paris

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

A communique states:— We made slight progress east of St. Georges and repulsed a countera[?]ack at Berry-au-Bac…

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Burns and the War Poet's World-wide Popularity

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 4

II. But why it may be asked should Burns have won such pre-eminent popularity when compared with such other poets (some of them Scottish, too) as…

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London in War Time. Letter From One Who Is There

Leader · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 4

The Rev. Frank Thornton, B.A., a Viccorian native, who went to England a couple of years ago to purse his. students aat Oxford University, sends an…

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War News North Sea Battle. Berlin Claims Superiority' for Gunners. London

Leader · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 3

Berlin papers maintain that German gunners secured the superiority in the North Sea engagement, though their. sh.p3 were taken by surprise…

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First Aid Fight Rival Ambulances at War. Bad Blood Between Samaritans. Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

A regrettable incident took place at the Sports Ground this afternoon, at the Druids Carnival. A member of one of the cadet sections collapsed, and…

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The Suffragettes Deputation to the War Office. Protest Against. Moral Discriminations. London

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

A deputation of suffragettes, headed by Mrs. Jaspard, a sister of Sir John French, visited the War Office to protest against the order whereby soldiers'…

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African Rebels. Many Killed and Wounded

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1915 · page 22

Rebels numbering 1200, with four guns, under Kemp and Maritz, attacked Upington (British Bechuanaland, near the right bank of the…

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British Wounded. Arriving at Boulogne. Boulogne

National Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1915 · page 2

Many British wounded are arriving. Forty motor ambu[?]ances plied all night between the railway station and the central hospitals…

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French War Minister

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1915 · page 22

M.Millerand, French Minister for War, has inspected the troops at Aldershot. He conferred with Lord Kitchener, and was received in…

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War in the Air. the Dunkirk Raid

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1915 · page 22

Nine deaths are reported as the result of the German aeroplane raid, including three members of the hospital staff…

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Burns and the War Poet's World-wide Popularity. Iii

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 28 January 1915 · page 4

Burns school education was neither so poor or so scanty as has sometimes been assumed. Indeed, taking his day and his evening school curriculum into…

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