Colossal Task. Britain Conserving Strength. Conscription Only in Crisis. Lords Explain War Office Reticence. London
Leader · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 3
When the House of Lorus met Lord Middleton greetea the representative of the Miniser of War with a number of questions regarding tie war and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tired of it Austria and the War. Complaints Against Germany Reported Eagerness for Peace. Paris, Friday evening
National Advocate · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 6
According to the well-informed Rome correspondent of the "Petit Parisien," Aus[?] is complaining more and more that she is being sacrificed by Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War In France Struggle in the Argonne. Some Progress Elsewhere. Effective French Artillery. London, Friday evening
National Advocate · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 6
The following communique has been issued at Paris:— French infantry captured a hillock at Lombaertzyde, and made progress…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Enthusiasm in Victoria. Rushing to Enlist. Melbourne
The Bathurst Times · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 1
Nearly nine hundred men were enrolled in Victoria during the week for the Expeditionary Force. Yesterday about seventy passed the examinations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kit Bags for the Soldiers. Melbourne
The Bathurst Times · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 1
The Defence Department requires 41,000 sea-bit bags for the Expeditionary Force, and has asked each metropolitan city to contribute a certain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ridges of Dead. German Soldiers Sacrificed
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 2
[?] Chronicle's" Poland correspondent, speaking of the fighting from Cracow to Rawki, says that for 36 hours the battle shifted like…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When Compulsory Enlistment Would Be Necessary. Lord Rosebery Emphatic. London
National Advocate · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 6
Lord Rosebery, in a speech, at Dalkieth, said Britain and Germany were [?]ng with their backs to the wall. Unless sufficient recruits were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Truth from the Germans Letters Found on Wounded German Soldiers. London, November 24
National Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 3
The following extracts from letters found on wounded Germans and brought home by a British officer back from the front are a glaring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German Women and the War
The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4
An article written by a correspondent of "The Daily Mail," who managed to spend a month travelling through Germany, gives some idea of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miscellaneous War News. London
National Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 5
Industrial Life Offices have already paid ,£225,000 on eleven thousand claims from the relatives of soldiers and sailors killed in the war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Two War Causes Britain's Contrasted with Germany's. a Striking Article by Mrs. Besant
The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 1
Mrs. Annie Besant, who has a world-wide reputation as a vivid writer, thus refers to the war in the November issue of the "Theosophist."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WAR In France Heavy German Losses. Entire Brigade Wiped Out Heavy Fighting in Alsace. Paris
National Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2
The French entered Burrhaupt in order to inflict the maximum loss on the Germans, who thereaf[?]er retired from their original position. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War In France Futile Assaults Enemy Fail at Soissons. Allied Artillery Effectively Utilised. Paris
National Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4
Notwithstanding numerous attacks the enemy are unable to recapture the trenches in the Soissons region. The enemy again bombarded S[?]issons. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Footballers' Battalion. 600 Players Enlist. London
National Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4
Six hundred have joined the Footballers' Battalion, including many wellknown amateurs and professionals…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible German Losses 70,000 Wounded
The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 4
Great secrecy is being maintained as to what is happening in Belgium (wrote the London "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent from Rotterdam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Miscellany
Leader · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 2
The Russians state definitely that women are fighting in the German ranks. The German aeroplanes dropped 50…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Items
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 1
A Zeppelin and three aeroplanes flew over Calais on Saturday night in the direction of Dover. Sixteen aeroplanes were seen over the Channel on Sunday, travelling towards…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Items
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 2
No more publicity is to be given to the actual number of recruits that are enrolled in Australia. A conference of military commandants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War and the Church Is War a Purge?
The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 4
Canon Scott, in a sermon preached in Oxford, said: "We talk freely of war purging ing and purifying people; and so it may, and so, pray God, if is doing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Feeding the War Machine
Leader · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 2
Germany is organising a system of saving petrol. All kitchen refuse is being collected, and being used as swine fodder. Thousands of motors…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →