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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
982 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 37 of 50
It is impossible for people safe out here in Australia to fully realise what is going on in anguished Belgium. The following extracts from a description of Ghent on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The new German trench mortars, instead of decimating the Allied forces, bury their shells in deep holes, giving the soldiers mudbaths, but wounding none…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two German steamers and two German trawlers were recently sunk by German mines in Kiel Bay. A message from Berlin states that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Emden's disappearance has eased war rates, which are now slightly below the Government rates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first line of forts and dangerous defence works at Tsing-tao were captured at the point of the bayonet. The Germans made desperate efforts to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is a hurricane blowing. The rain descends in torrents--rain that lashes the roadways, eating into them and digging deep ruts. Over the sombre…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith stated that he doubted whether the war would last as long as people had originally predicted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The German cruiser Emden destroyed the cable station at Cocos Island. In the meantime) the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There were exciting scenes in London when the loss of the Emden was announced. Special editions of the newspapers speedily sold out and the most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—Many German woundcil are being bronglit to French hospitals linked, their comrades having stripped them and sent their clothes to Germany for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—When the House of Commons met, Mr. Bonar Law, on the motion for the adoption of the Address-in-Reply to the King's speech, said they had reason to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr Swift, Nationalist M.P. South Donegal, intends to ask the Government whether they will remove the names of the Duke of Albany and the Duke of Cumberland from the British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Washington correspondent of the "Times" reports that in an article in the "New York Times" Mr. Theodore Roosevelt emphatically joins those United States…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to the correspondent of the " Morning Post" in Rome, the Germans are alarmed at the successes of the Russian troops, and have made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Asquith stated in the House of Commons that he doubted whether the war would last as long as people originally predicted. The righting in Belgium…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Foolish people who have never seen German soliliers picture them unwilling to fight and driven forwurd by their officers as sheep to the slaughter. We hear also of "frontal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fijian Legislature has voted £10,000 to the Prince of Wales' Fund. The Minister for Defence is making an effort to obtain the guns and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pictures of the great war convey a vivid impression of the terrible happenings in Europe during the struggle now in progress. It seems almost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Auguste Rodin, the well-known French sculptor, has presented the British people with twenty of his statues as a token of admiration for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the fight for Dixmude it was found impossible to use the heavy guns owing to a morass, and much of the battle was fought in water. The…
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