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The wars & local soldiers, 1914

2,022 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 102

War Items

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 2

The State Cabinet has made an offer to the Commonwealth Government to place unreservedly the whole resources of the State at the disposal of the…

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The War

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 2
Also in The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder, The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder, Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser, The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder, The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder

All else dwindles into insignificance compared with the Titanic life-and-death struggle upon which the great nations of the earth have…

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War News

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 2

We were making preparations to issue the "Eagle" daily during the war period, but the meagre nature of the available news has caused us to…

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War News

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 2

We were making preparations to issue the "Eagle" daily during the War period, but the meagre nature of the available news has caused us to…

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War Declared

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 7

It is officially announced that war has broken out between England and Germany…

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War Regulations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 2

Mr. J. C. Humphries who for sometime past has had wireless telegraph appliances and apparatus fully equipped at his residence "Braemae" received…

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War ana Finance

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 5

One of the factors m[?] conspicuous in this terrible business is the paralysis of finance which has occurred in the countries immediately…

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The War, the British Cabinet. Earl Kitchener, Secretary of War London August 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 6

Earl Kitchener has accepted the post of Secretary of State for War. The Egyptian post which will be vacates will be kept open…

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The War. Belgium Invaded Britain Fights

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 2

At midnight on Monday Germany officially declared its intention of using Belgian territory. Troops moved onwards…

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Our Sydney Letter. The War "Flurry."

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 5

Needless to say, the Imminent prospect of war with Germany has crowded out our Interests. Preparations for defence are being made all round…

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Latest War News Germany Reverses. LONDON

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 2

The French fleet at Algiers captured the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau. The Pranther was sunk…

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The War Towns on Fire. Population Decimated

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 4

Aryenten, and both towns are in names civillians report that the Germans have decimated the population of vise One hundred thousand Germans are…

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Italy and Germany. Fighting in Belgium. Airships in War. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 2

An unconfirmed report from Paris says that Germany has Informed Italy that unless she supports her allies, war will be declared against h[?]…

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The War. Germany's Undertaking to England. SYDNEY, Wednesday, 9 a.m

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 7

GERMANY is prepared to refrain from attacking the north-east coast of France, or using the Belgian and Dutch coasts, if Britain will remain neutral. Sir…

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To face the War. Appeal by Mr. Hughes. Australia's Serious Position

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 1

Sir,—War, the scourge of the world, is upon us, and in a shape so appalling as to make the most resolute tremble…

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