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

The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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Seeing the War Through a Telescope

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 3
Also in The Young Chronicle

THE Editor of 'Life' is pursuing his brilliant and successful policy of devoting a large section of his magazine to a review of the War as a whole…

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Sir Oliver Lodge on the War

Young Witness · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 2

Sir Oliver Lodge is an ardent champion of the Allies in their war against Germany. In the course of an article contributed to the January "North…

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War Powers in Perth. Early Closing Requested

Young Witness · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 5

Perth, March 21.—A public meeting which was addressed by members of Parliament, clergymen, doctors, and women, in favour of the early…

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War Map 221-3 GeorgeStreet SYDNEY. Copyright

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 1

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Late War News. Suez Attacked Again. Cairo, March 23

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 2

It is officially reported that at dawn on Monday aeroplanes discovered that 1000 Turks, under General Von Traumer,…

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The War Day By Day. the Fall of Przemysl. London March 23

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 2

Accounts received of the fall of Przemysl say that the end came quickly after the capture by the Russians on Friday, of…

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Guard Our Soldiers. the Dangers From Disease

The Young Chronicle · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 1

The Australasian White Cross League appeals for funds to enable booklets warning men against the dangers of sexual immorality to be distributed…

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War Food Fund

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 2

Mr. C. W. Furner, president of the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce, has been advised by the secretary of the Sydney Chamber that the War Food Fund and the Belgian Fund are to be…

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The War. Russian Victory

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 2

Petrograd, March 26.—A communique states: We carried by assault an important and strongly fortified armoured position in the Lupkow Pass. The Austrians furiously…

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The War. the Russians. in Poland

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 4

Petrograd, March 25.—A communique states:— Fights for isolated vantage points on the right bank of the Narew (north-eastern Poland) are becoming more general and more desperate…

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War and Labour. Unions More Reasonable. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 4

The committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions are petitioning the Government to stop Sunday labour wherever possible owing to breakdowns over the strain of work,…

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Telegrams the War. Przemysl's Last Days. Desperate Straits. Vienna

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 4

Five airmen who escaped from Przemysl state that the hospitals were crowded during the last weeks of the siege. Nearly half of the garrison was sick through the privations suffered. Two…

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French Review of the War. Promotion of Young Commanders. Paris

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 4

The fifth instalment of the French review of the operations states: The French army has been rejuvenated on a large scale. There has been a promotion of young commanders, and the…

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The Latest. the War. The Blockade. Another Steamer Torpedoed. Dropping Darts on Neutral Ship. Germany's Reply to Holland. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 2

A German submarine sank the English steamer Delmira, bound for Boulogne in the English Channel. The crew were saved. LONDON, Friday…

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Von Kluck. Slightly Wounded

Young Witness · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 2

London, March 29.—It is officially announced in Berlin that General Von Kluck was slightly wounded while inspecting some trenches at Taureggcn…

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The War

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 2

A communique states that the Germans in a disorderly flight from Pilitza abandoned a quality of soldiers' correspondence, showing the…

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The War. in Alsace

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 2

Paris, March 29.—Hartmann's Weilerkopf commands the districts of Thann, Cornay, and Steinbach. The Alpine Chasseurs, nicknamed "the Blue Devils," after tremendous shelling…

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Peace or War. London, March 26

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 2

Mr Martin Donohoe, writing from Constanza, says a bitter struggle is going on in Constantinople between the war and…

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The War. Germany's Great Losses. Joffre's Optimism

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 4

Paris, March 26.—General Joffre, in the course of an interview, said: "The long war in the trenches has enabled the Allies to increase their resources. We undoubtedly now have the…

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