Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← The wars & local soldiers, all years

Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1915

2,623 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 132

Ship Riddled with Bullets. Captain and Others Wounded. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 2

The Vosges (which was shelled and sunk off the Cornish coast) evaded the submarine for two hours, preventing the discharge of a torpedo. Then the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The War. Earlier Wires

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 2

General Joffre, in an interview, said the long war in the tredches has enabled the Allies to increase then resources. We undoubtedly now…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Correspondence. Australia and the War. To the Editor

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 2

Sir,—Kindly allow me space to protest against the views of the writer of the leading artieie in your issue of Saturday re…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Off to the War. Farewell Banquet to Constable D. M. Harper. A Representative Gathering

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 2

The majority of the people of Coffs Harbor and district felt that they were about to sustain a personal loss when it became known…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The War the North Sea Blockade. Sinking of the Medea. Dutch Aggravated. the Hague

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 2

The sinking of the Medea has greatly aggravated the Dutch. The visitation of Germany, the newspapers declare, is an act that exceeds all previous…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

War Munitions Hampered

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 6

The committee of the General Federation of Trades Unions is petitioning the Government to stop Sunday labour wherever possible, owing to numerous cases of…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

"This Awful War."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Kaiser, through Herr Ballin, has sent the following message to the "New York World":—I did not want this awful war. My greatest desire…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Progress of the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 3

The fact that Sir John French gave the Agence Havas an interview on the progress of the war was in itself significant, because British Commanders-in-chief rarely allow…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

War Pensions. Approved by Cabinet

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 6

Regulations under the provisions of the War Pensions Act of last session were approved by the Federal Cabinet on Thursday. In framing the regulations, the…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

General War News. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 5

Capetown reports that in the House of Assembly the Indemnity Bill has been passed. An Amsterdam message says German…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

French Lady on the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 7

A French lady, writing from France to a lady relative in Sydney, under date January 2, says:—"You ask me for an indication of French opinion on the war, and…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

The European War. Early Messages

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 4

It is definitely stated that the steamer Falaba was torpedoed at Milford Haven, the captain, two stewardness, and five others being…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Late War Hews. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 2

Lieutenant Hanson, Commander of U16, interviewed at Kiel stated that each German submarine bad a definite area. His was recently in the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Early War News. SYDNEY

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

A German officer, captured in South West Africa, declares that General Marita, the Boer rebel, escaped towards Central Africa. The Germans,…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

War Notes. New Type of Shell

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

The Germans are using, for the first time in Poland, shells with a bursting charge of melinite, and some other unknown ingredient. One effect of…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Will Italy Intervene? Italian Press Truculent. War Inevitable, Though Not Imminent. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

The correspondent of the "Times" in Rome says the tone of the Italian press leads one to the conclusion that war with Austria is inevitable, though…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The War in France and Flanders. Eless Outlook. Allies Great Superiority. Paris, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

The French official war review thus sums up the position to January 10th: Germany has failed to crush France and sustained, seven defeats of high…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

After the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 8

On the morrow of the war, when victory shall have set up again, and set up higher still, all that which our enemy has trampled under foot—rights of the individual…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

An Aristocratic War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 8

The present war is a dynastic-anstocraticmilitarist war. True, it has jeopardised all Germany. It is one of the last outbursts of a dying tradition, and it could never…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Progress of the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 3

The German submarine service appears to impose upon its officers and men many [?]estraints and much discomfort, which, if not entirely absent in the British coats, have…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →