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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 34 of 132

The War Will Italy Intervene? Revictualling the Enemy. Wholesale Seizure of Stores. Rome, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 3

A vast contraband organisation, revictualling Austro-Hungary and Germany, has been discovered at Naples. The authorities have seized three…

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Satisfactory Enlisting. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 3

During the last three days over 500 men have enlisted…

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The War. Progress in Belgium. Greece Ready to Help. Austrian Women's Cry—"Don't Take Our Husbands!" (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 2

The situation in Belgium is assuming an encouraging aspect as the spring offensive progresses. The Allies have gained ground all along…

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Fraudulent War Charities

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1915 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Astounding revelations have resulted from the investigation of war charities. Of 147 societies in the Department of Seine, 76 are fraudulent,…

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Labour and the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1915 · page 3

A sereis of manifestoes regarding the attitude of the British Labour movement, towards the war, addressed to the workers of the world, were received by Mr. T. W. Purse,…

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Progress of the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1915 · page 6

At the moment of writing, what threatens to be the most sanguinary battle of the western campaign is in progress. The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at…

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General War News. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1915 · page 5

The Prince of Wales Fund has reached a total of £5,000,000. Union Forces continue to advance in German South-West Africa. They occupied…

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From Wealth to Poverty. a Steward's Rise and Fall. Fortune in Belgium Wrecked by War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 29 April 1915 · page 3

Few seafaring men have had more remarkable experiences than Mr. James Patterson, steward of the British barque Invernessshire, which has arrived from Garston. Ten…

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'Phones in the War

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 3

The telephone has not done away with the old methods of military signalling by flags and the hellograph, but it is certainly supplementing them most effectively. Nor…

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Why War News Is Dull

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 3

The comfortable critic says that the war is becoming monotonous (says the San Francisco Argonaut). One report is very much like another, and the process of reaching…

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The European War. Early Messages

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 2

Basing the estimate on tho latest German 'casualty lists, Copenhagen makes the total German losses to be 2,750,000…

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Romance of the Trenches. the Catacombs of War

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 6

"Other times, other manners," applies as accurately to the battlefield as it does elsewhere. The cavalry charge is nearly extinct, mass formation is going, hand-to-hand…

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The War Great Battle in Flanders. Heroic Canadians. Germans' Barbarous Methods. Poisonous Gases and Dumdums. Dunkirk, Monday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 5

Eye-witness" says: Some of the Frenchmen at Boesinghe regained their trenches, but the bursting shells were kept up. The same fumes…

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Allowances to Soldiers'.wives. Melbourne, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1915 · page 5

In the House of Representatives Mr. Jensen (Assistant Minister for Defence) in reply to a question; stated that after May 1 the wife of every…

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War and General Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1915 · page 2

British army authorities placed an order for 500,000 razore a mii[?]st the French craftsmen of Thiere. Whitburn miners have decided…

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The War. Earlier Wires

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1915 · page 2

Mr. Asquith, speaking in the House of Commons, said the Germans from the beginning had treated British prisoners with…

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Italy and the War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 May 1915 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday.—Opinion is growing that Italy will not attack Austria, but will send a squadron to reinforce the Allied Fleets engaged in bombarding the…

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Early War News. SYDNEY

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1915 · page 2

General French reports that the German attacks on Hill 60 have all failed. The Germans fired 17in. shells into Ypres; but their resultant attack was…

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Federal Parliament. War Precautions Amendment Bill. Passes Third Reading Stages

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 May 1915 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—In the House of Representatives the establishment of Government horse-breeding stations for maintaining a full supply of suitable horses…

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The Drink Question. Serious Menace to Success of War. Drastic Action to Be Taken

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 May 1915 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Lloyd George, in explaining the proposals of the Government in regard to the drink question, said the Government proposed to deal with…

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