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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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Terrible German Losses. 70,000 Wounded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 3

Great secrecy is being maintained as to what is happening in Belgium (wrote the London "Daily Telegraoph's" special correspondent from Rotterdam on November 8)…

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Austrian Wounded. Without Food or Comforts. Gosfor Venice, Dec 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 5

[?] Austrians have arrived following weight an indescribable condition [?] ford races [?] reduced to skeletons, have [?] HANDIC five days in goods tracks…

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Austria-hungary. Anti-war Riots. Berne, Dec 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 5

Anti-war demonstrations and riots have occurred in six Austro-Hungarian provinces. The police in Vienna, in dispering a mob, wounded 30 people, while several were…

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Prisoner of War. Sentenced to Death. Amsterdam, Dec.31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 5

Lonsdale, a prisoner of war at the Doeberitz camp, who was recently sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for assuming a threatening attitude and refusing to obey…

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Items from the Seat of War. a Tornado of Terror

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 4

Those who have been in the battle tell the grimmest stories of the slaughter of the past weeks. The seaside towns are littered with dead…

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The Motor-bike in War. No Speed-limit, and Thrills All Round

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 3

There are one or two things I should like to show the Germans, this people we once thought so logical but now find willing to swallow the most egregious falsehoods of…

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Oh! to Be Wounded

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 3

"What should we be without our overseas Dominions?" proudly asks an Eastbourne (Sussex) girl, writing to a relative in Sydney. "We go on with work just the same,…

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Austrian Wounded. Without Food or Comforts

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

Venice, Thursday.—A. thousand wounded Austrians have arrived at Moran from Galicia in an indescribable condition. They are almoat reduced to…

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Fighting the Turks. One Killed; Another Fatally . Wounded. Police Sergeant Wounded. (By Telegraph). Sydney, Friday Evening

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 7

The fight between the police and the Turks west of Broken Hill resulted in one Turk being shot dead and another fatally wounded. Sergeant Diamond, of the Broken Hill police, was wounded…

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Among the Wounded. 130 Operations in 36 Hours

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 12

Dr. Doyen, the famous Paris surgeon (wrote the special correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" on November 3) has been doing a wonderful work among the wounded in the…

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War Truths. German Bluffing

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

I am cheerful because I sincerely believe that the Germans are bluffing the whole world and are going to, be found out very soon. I should like to explain why I cherish…

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The War's Vital Aspects

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 8

This great contest has three aspects, writes Mr. L.G. Chiozza Money, M.P. There is a naval war; there is a military war; there is an economic war…

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United States and the War

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 4

It is significant and not very gratifying to recognise that the United States people do not appear generally to recognise how vitally the interests of the American…

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War and the Woman. v

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 3

The "Savannah" weighed at dawn, and all that day they steamed by the glorious isles of the matchless Adriatic. Their destination was Venice, whence Faber…

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Austria-hungary. Anti-war Riots

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

Berne, Thursday.—Anti-war demonstrations and riots have occurred in six Austro-Hungarian provinces. The police in Vienna, in dispersing a…

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War in Poland. Russian Advances

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 6

Petrograd, Thursday Night.—The Russinus in Poland have compelled the Germans to abandon their concerted onslaughts on the roads converging on…

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War in Australia. Turks Attack a Picnic Train Near Broken Hill Three Passengers Killed, Five Wounded Motor Cyclist Killed Police and Military Attacking Turks (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 7

A statement received from the Umberumberka pipe-line, near Silverton, produced a profound sensation in Broken Hill this afternoon. The message states that the Manchester Unity Oddfellows' pienic train was attacked by entrenched Turks, flying the Turkish flag, at about…

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The War. German Aeroplanes Attempt on London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day German aeroplanes visited England, but no damage resulted. A bomb was dropped into a garden at Dover on…

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Prisoners of War. in Germany. Amsterdam

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 5

A telegram from Berlin states that the prisoners of war in Germany number 8138 officers and 577,875 men, including 492 British officers and 18,824 men…

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Aeroplanes in War. Attacks on German Lines

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 11

A lieutenant from Bremen, at present on the Western battlefield, gives in a letter which has been published in the "Berliner Tageblatt of October 31, the following…

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