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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers
2,871 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 31 of 144
Two hundred Canadian soldiers secured seats and then ridiculed and finally stopped a silly melodrama, entitled "The Lover Thief" at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cr. Boorman, president of the Copmanhurst Shire, presided at the meeting of the Grafton Committee last night. There were also present: Mrs. Taylor, Messrs. 1 onnelly, C. C…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Admiralty announces that the auxiliary cruiser Fauvette has been mined. Fourteen lives were lost. An official message from Petrograd. says…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Allied Ambassadors attended the sittings of both Portuguese Houses of Parliament. When war was declared by Germany the announcement was greeted with frantic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Russian European armies are like the play of distant lightning on the fringe of slowly gathering clouds. Both sales are making strenuous preparations. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As I ventured to suggest last week, the rejoicings over the defeat of the German attempt to take Verdun were premature. For as while it seemed, as if the French had really…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Paris message says that a German officer of artillery who had been taken prisoner, states the Germans brought into battle in the Verdun region hundreds of heavy guns, and advanced in a solid block. It was intended to blast their way through the French lines. The Germans had mountains of shells, and the order was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opinion in Queensland is in favor of no further delay in the disfranchisement of enemy aliens. The Victorian Government is making…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Andrew Chirnside, of Melbourne has purchased for £500 the first of 200,000 buttons to be sold by the Lady Mayoress to provide comforts for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lance-Corporal A. J. Hankinson, of Ramornie, returned to Grafton yesterday. He enlisted on October 26, 1914, and joined the Light Horse, leaving Sydney on December…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The war strength of the Portuguese armies is about 150.000. The navy consists of one coast defence ship, four protected cruisers, some old-pattern gunboats, four destroyers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the above was held at the Town Hall on Monday night, presided over by Cr. W. Boorman, 10 other members being also present…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Russian torpedo boat was mined and sunk south-west of Varna. Bulgarians rescued 15 of the crew. A fire and explosion sank the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An officer who fought at Verdun says that for over 17 days the Germans buried [?] against an unshakeable wall. Their aircraft…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An answer to those few selfappointed critics who condemned the authorities action in evacuating the Gallipoli peninsula, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Milan newspaper "II Secolo" says that the Germans in September last [?]eld a War Council in the small town of Ardennes in France to consider the means of shortening the war. They concluded that no solution is possible before summer, and therefore immediately began the organisation of masses of men, destined to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Roumanian advices state that there are great preparations in Bessarabia for a Russian offensive against Bukovina. A large number of troops and immense quantities of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The bombardment continues violently east of Douaumont Fort and in the region of Vaux Fort, where the enemy has not made any fresh attempts to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Milan paper says the German failure at Verdun has caused great disturbances in Benin. Dresden and Frankfort, where machine guns were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Private G. H. Gregor, writing to his sister, Mrs. J. H. Marsh, of Reserve-street, Grafton, says he landed at Suez on 14th Jan. and was admitted to the…
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