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

The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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German War Levy. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1915 · page 2

The German war levy on Lille, Roubaix, and Turcoing for March and April was £200,000…

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Liquor in War Time. Kitchener Pledge Campaign

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 13 April 1915 · page 2

Under the auspices of the Independent Order of Good Templars, an Anti-liquor meeting was held on Newtown Bridge Friday night, at which Mr. James Marion…

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Late War News. Still Cheerful. Paris April 11

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 13 April 1915 · page 2

An official communique states that mine sweeping bas been continued nightly at the entrance to Chanak Kalessa The dragging vessels…

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The War Day By Day. German Murderers. London, April 9

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 13 April 1915 · page 2

The Press Bureau makes a crushing reply to the denials of the Garmans that they murdoured the passengers on board the British steamer…

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Pro-War Demonstrations. Italians Want to Fight. Crowds Kept in Check By. Police

Young Witness · Tuesday 13 April 1915 · page 2

ROME, Monday.—Pro-war demonstrations throughout Italy continue, The police in Rome find it difficult to prevent the crowd marching to the…

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The Latest. the War. Germans in the North Sea. Confirmatory Reports. Copenhagen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1915 · page 2

Further Scandinavian vessels which have arrived confirm the statements of the presence of German warships in the North Sea. A Norwegian steamer reports that a British…

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Telegrams the War. Naval Fight. German Ships Believed to Have Foundered. Various Reports. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1915 · page 4

Danish newspapers report a naval fight off Sartoro Islands on Wednesday night. [A previous message stated that the newspapers were of opinion that a British squadron…

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The War. Country Press Special to the Witness. A French Reverse. Position in Alsace Lost. Germans Lose Heavily

Young Witness · Tuesday 13 April 1915 · page 2

PARIS, Monday.—The Germans captured Lartmann's Wellerkoff, in Alsace a position for some time held by the French. The latter's guns practically…

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War Pictures

The Yass Courier · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 5

The people of Yass and District will be interested to learn that the well-known photographic merchants, The Australian Kodak Ltd., have sent…

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The War. Heavy German Losses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 1

Paris, April 12.—The Germans made a second attack on Beau Sejour, and despite very heavy losses gained a footing in the outermost trench, which they held throughout the night against…

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The War. the Carpathians. Russia's Task

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 2

London, April 1.—Telegrams from Petrograd attribute the Russian, success to brilliant artillery work. Single guns were warped along hard mountain paths again and again, and did…

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Hypocritical Kaiser. Blames England for the War. New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 2

The World had an interview with Herr Ballin, whom the Kaiser authorised to communicate the latter's views on the war. The Kaiser reiterated that his 26 years' rule proved that he did…

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Telegrams. the War. Germany Indignant. Treatment of Submarine Prisoners. Amsterdam

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 1

The German Government in a Note to the American Ambassador expressed astonishment at Great Britain's differential treatment of submarine officers and protested that…

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Killed in Action. Member of House of Commons William Glynne Gladstone

Young Witness · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday Afatrnoon.—Mr William Glynno Gladstone, M.P. was Wiled in action in France. He was a grandson of the famous William…

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War !

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 2

The French have in[?]cted heavy losses on the Germans in the Woe[?] region since Sunday, and are holding captured positions despite strong…

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The War

The Young Chronicle · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 3

Details of the attack on England by air ship show that a Zeppelin traversed a large area of the Mid-Tyne district. All lights were extinguished which apparently confused…

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Australia at War

The Young Chronicle · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 3

In the House of Representatives on Wednesday Mr. Fisher said the grand total of Australian troops despatched to the front and those in camp…

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Eaten Alive By Land Crabs! Awful Fate of Emden's Wounded

The Young Chronicle · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 3

It would need the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe to describe the end of the German cruiser Emden as it was described to the Weekly Dispatch by…

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War Map 221-3 George Street SYDNEY

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 1

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The War Day By Day. LONDON, April 12

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 2

Heavy Firing off Yorkshire Coast; --Details of the supposed naval fight in the vicinity of Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, are still…

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