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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1915

2,623 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 132

War Notes

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 3

Our Maclean correspondent writes that Stan Plater and Geo. Durrington, of Taloumbi, will proceed to camp on Thursday as volunteers for the front…

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The War. Earlier Wires

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 2

Anti-war demonstrators at Vienna attempted to stone the War Office windows, and had to be dispersed by the police…

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The War Earlier Messages

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 4

The French Chamber of Deputies has unanlomously passed a Bill calling out the 1917 recruits. M. Millerand stated that France's present output of…

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End of War in October. a Turkish Opinion. London, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 3

A despatch from Geneva to the Paris "Matin" says the Turkish Minister for Finance is reported to have stated that, in his opinion, the war cannot last…

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The War in France and Flanders. on the Dutch Frontier. Concentration of German Troops. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 3

Fresh German troops have been concentrated nearer the Dutch frontier. The German staff have been transferred to Ecloo. These movements…

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Northern Territory Settlers. Mr. Mahon Hopes for Returned Soldiers. Melbourne, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 3

The Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Hugh Mahon, believes that when the war is over many of the soldiers will be so inured to the…

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The Wounded in Past Battles

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 8

The number of wounded in some of the leading battles of the past was approximately:— Buttle of [?]: Russians, [?]; French and English, [?]. Battle of Gettysbur:…

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Prisoners of War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 4

Dr. Kelly, Roman Catholic Archbishop, in the course of an address, said the Germans were a people who loved their country and their Government. Though they had taken…

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General War News. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 5

The King has directed the immediate banishment of wine, spirits and beer from the Royal household. A number of leading scientists, in…

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Dr. Thring's Opinion. War Will End August or September

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Dr. Thring, one of the Australian doctors who organised mid helped to carry on the Australian Voluntary Hospital in France, arrived at…

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German Army. Question of Numbers, The Wastage of War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 7

"The Times" military correspondent wrote on january 20:— The writer's, recent estimates of German numbers have produced such large crops of…

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Fighting with Poisons. Could Chemists Shorten the War? What "Annihilite" is

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 6

"The Burest of all ways to prevent war would be to reduce the art of killing to such a certainty that it would become an absurdity to even take the field."…

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The War Earlier Messages

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 6

The Petrograd correspondent of Paris "Le Temps" states that the Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph is resolute in declining to make concessions…

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The European War. Early Messages

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 4

A strong band of Bulgarian irregulars attacked the railway at Strumnitza in Servia. Sixty Servians were killed and many wounded. The…

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Sporting. Cricket. Suicide of A. E. Stoddart. Depression Through War

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 5

One of England's greatest cricketers, A. E. Stoddart, was found dead on Sunday in London, under sensational circumstances…

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The War Dealing with Turkey. Smyrna Forts Bombarded. British Warships' Attack. Athens, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 5

British warships bombarded the forts at the entrance to the Gulf of Smyrna on Sunday. Hydroplanes dropped a number of bombs…

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Enlisted As a Private. Scotland's Premier Earl. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 5

Lord Crawford, premier Earl of Scotland, has enlisted as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps…

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War Notes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 April 1915 · page 9

Writing from Heliopolis, Egypt, under date February 7, Captain Granville gives some interesting particulars of the soldier's life in that country. In a letter to a local…

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Progress of the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 April 1915 · page 2

It is evident that the Allies have now embarked upon their spring campaign in deadly [?]. A French communique announces successes in the district of St…

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The War. Earlier Wires

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 10 April 1915 · page 2

A Paris communique states We captured three successive lines of trenches sooth-east of St. Mihiel, and gained a footing in the enemy's works…

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