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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1914

982 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 50

Reported Kaiser Wounded. Sydney, Friday 10 a.m

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

A wireless message has been received in New York to the effect that the Kaiser has been shot through the right thigh at Aikla Chapelle; but the…

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General War News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday.—Servian and Montenegrin armies have begun the invasion of Bosnia. It is officially stated that Bulgaria's…

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Help! Wanted for Our Wounded. These Are Really Necessary

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

The following list has been supplied by Nurse Gould, head of Army Medical Nurses Corps, as the most useful articles in field nursing. As they are within the…

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War News. Germans Strip Bead Soldiers. Sydney, Friday 10 a.m

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

On the occasion of their third attack on Liege the German troops stripped the uniforms from the bodies of the wounded and dead Belgians and then…

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More Dreadful Than War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 8

In the course of a sermon at a special intercession service at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Archbishop Wright described war as one of the most dreadful causes of havoc that the…

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Sydney General War News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 10

SYDNEY, Friday.—Austrians in the Commonwealth are now required to register their names and addresses. Kensington Racing Club has given £500…

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Women and War Time

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 3

It is as if an iron hand has suddenly clutched at the crumpled, silly scroll of women's lives and is beginning to straighten it out. Just how crumpled,…

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Probable Results of the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

Mr. Editor,—Now that the greater portion of the civilised world is involved in a fearful war, it is advisable that we should consider seriously the probable issues, and the…

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War News. The Siege of Liege

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

THE correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" that heavy cannonading began at 11.30 on Wednesday night, when these was a full moon shining. The German…

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War Notes. a Blow in the Back

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 3

The most disturbing news that has yet reached Australia is that some of our own people who had placed large orders in Britain saw fit to cancel them or to…

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Enthusiasm in Noumea. "A War to the Death."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 3

A prominent Frenchman, resident in Sydney, received by Tuesday morning's mail from Noumea, a letter in which the writer expresses the enthusiastic patriotic feeling,…

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Australia and the War Patriotic Fund Meeting at Grafton

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

A meeting of citizens convened by the Mayors of Grafton and South Gration, was held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening to take steps to establish a branch of the…

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(War Notes continued from page 4.) Turkey Purchases Cruisers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 9

It is reported that Turkey has purchased the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, which are now in the Dardanelles, and a Constantinople message states that…

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Japan May Declare War. Sydney, Friday 2 p.m

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

The London "Times" correspondent in St. Petersburg says as a result of the conference between the Japanese Ambassador and Russian Foreign…

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Germans Don't Want War. Sydney, Thursday, 2 p.m

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

The London "Times" says the famishing Germans show a distaste for the war. They are allowing themselves to be killed like sheep, and also are…

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Australia and the War. Red Cross Society. an Urgent Appeal

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 10

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Lady Mayoress has issued the following appeal on behalf of the Red Cross Society:—"Money is urgently needed now and at once to help the Red…

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War and the Political Situation. Suggestion by Sir Joseph Carruthers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 12

Sir Joseph Carruthers writes: "I quite agree with those who say that the Constitution provides no way to avoid a general election. At the same time, I agree with those who…

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War News. Dread an Aerial Invasion. Sydney, Friday 2 p.m

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

The population of Cologne dreads an aerial invasion…

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The European War. Big Battle Proceeding. French Win Mountain Passes. Sydney

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 2

It is officially announced that a big battle between the French and German armies commenced on Saturday evening on the ridges of the Voges Mountains. By desperate fighting…

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The Clarence & Richmond Examiner. Established 1859. Grafton: Saturday, August 15, 1914. the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1914 · page 4

Intense interest is centred round the massing of German troops on the Belgian and French border, where it is anticipated the battle that is to decide future operations,…

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