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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1914

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Glorious War. a Ghastly Tale. Paris

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1914 · page 2

Mr. William Willard Howard, of New. York, prominent for his relief work among the Armenians, after a a, 400-mile trip in Albania, reports that Servian troops during the past…

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Turkey and Greece. War Looming. Paris, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1914 · page 2

The Temps, in commenting on the purchase of the battleship Rio de Janeiro by Turkey, appeals to Mr. Lloyd George, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and M. Caillaux, the French…

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Soldiers and Civilians. Close of the Evidence. Berlin, Jan. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 January 1914 · page 2

At the court-martial at Strasburg Colonel von Reuter made a dramatic appeal to the Court, in which he declared that, as a soldier and a man, he had done only what was…

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Ulster. Will There Be Civil War? London, Jan. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 2

Mr. Bonnar Law, M.P., Leader of the Unionist Party, speaking in Bristol, stated that the position in Ulster was far more serious than the Government or the country realised…

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French Twin Soldiers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 7

Twin brothers who have been called up for service in a Paris regiment are so alike that it is impossible to distinguish between them. The other day…

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Turco-italian War. Rome, Feb. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 6

A report which was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies yesterday showed that the expenditure in connection with the occupation of Libya and the Aegean Islands totalled…

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Shooting Affray. Two Men Wounded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1914 · page 2

As the result of an affray in the Domain last night one man received a bullet in the head, and another is lying in Sydney Hospital with a bullet in his abdomen. The affray was…

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War and the Red Cross. London, Feb. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1914 · page 4

Miss Mary Durham, the well-known war correspondent, in a lecture in Essex Hall last night, said that she was convinced that Red Cross aid should not be sent to battlefields…

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Veteran Soldiers. Union Foreshadowed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 February 1914 · page 2

For some time past the idea of forming a union for veteran soldiers living in the district has been. spoken of, but up to the present nothing definite has been decided upon. There…

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The Meat War. To the Editor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 4

Sir,—Organised labour is not only a great industrial movement, but a great social influence. The same may be said of organised capital. Both, however, have one great defect…

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Our Soldiers. General Hamilton's Opinion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 4

"If I had not met Australians and stood shoulder to shoulder with them in war time, I should have found it more difficult to come hero and make speeches it you about your own…

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Preparing for War. Berlin, March 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1914 · page 2

Official circles disavow any connection with an alarmist article which has appeared in the Cologne Gazette from its St. Petersburg correspondent declaring that Russia is preparing to…

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Soldiers' Social

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1914 · page 2

The City and District Band will hold a soldiers' farewell social in the Mechanics' Hall to-morrow (Friday) evening. With good music and a good floor for dancing the evening should…

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Soldiering and Rifle Shooting. Practical and Theoretical. To the Editor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 5

Sir,—On Friday the camp for military training in our vicinity will have ceased to exist, and it is hoped that the amount of knowledge and experience gained has been commensurate…

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War Canoe As Wool Carrier

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 4

'Times change and we with time" might be writ as a motto on what is surely one of the remarkable vessels of the world, and once the doughty…

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Our Citizen Soldiers. Senior and Junior Cadets Medically examined and complimented. Cadets who disregard notice liable to £10 penalty

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 2

We are indebted to Staff Sergeant Major Ryan for the following information which is of vital importance to military trainees aud the parents…

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Shooting in Sydney. Man and Woman Wounded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 1

A shooting affray—probably the most sensational that has occurred in Sydney for some time past—took place in King-street, near Pitt-street, at noon on Saturday…

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Heroic Story. Black Soldiers' Devotion. London, March 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 4

Advices from Nairobi, British East Africa, convey a stirring narrative of heroism and pluck in connection with an incident that happened to the south-eastward of Lake Rudolf…

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War Scare. Berlin, March 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 2

The Russian war scare threatened a panic on the Stock Exchange yesterday, but the fill in values was arrested by an official denial of the report that the Government was preparing…

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War Scare. Britain Crouching. Berlin, March 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 March 1914 · page 2

Lieutenant-Colonel Hermann Frobenius, a well-known writer on military and international subjects, has just published a pamphlet, in which he alleges that Great Britain is crouching for an…

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