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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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The War. Pegoud the Daring

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 3

Additional particulars have been made available respecting the daring and highly successful flight made by M. Pegoud over the German lines last week…

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Very Latest War News SYDNEY

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 2

Yesterday, although some long range fighting in the vicinity of Ismalia took place, the Canal was open for traffic all day. Ships…

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Canadian Parliament. War Expenditure. Ottawa

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 5

The Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Canada, has opened the Canadian Parliament. The Vicoregal speech pointed out that the war was progressing…

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Australia and the War. Senator Pearce's Views

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 5

The Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce), replying to the toast of the Federal and State Parliaments at the A.N.A. luncheon, in Melbourne,…

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Horses and the War. How Britain Stands

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 4

A military authority states that 1[?]6,000 horses are required for the mobilisation of our forces. He estimates that in six months' time the wastage…

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Duration of the War. Estimate of Three Years

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 5

We are able to state (says the "Daily Mail") that a high French military authority has given private expression to the following views as to the…

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Causes of the War. Fresh Evidence. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 5

A Red Book, published in Vienna, gives fresh evidence of Russia's early warnings to Austria and Germany, that their methods of pressing Servia meant a big war…

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The Occasion of the War Accomplices Executed. Amsterdam, Feb. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 5

Cabrinovie, Janovie, and Illie, the accomplices of the youth Prinzip, who in June last year assassinated the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, have been executed at…

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Relic of the Franco-Prussian War. Letter by Balloon Post

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 2

We are indebted to Mr. H. L. White of Belltrees, for the perusal of a vivid reminder of the terrible Franco-Prussian of 1870 (44…

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Was Germany Responsible ? American Analysis. of the Causes of the War

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 1

The "New York Times" submitted to Mr. James M. Beck, formerly Assistant Attorney-General of the United States and a leader of…

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Six Months' of War. a Review. Germany Unconquered, But Beaten. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 2

Lord Sydenham, who was secretary to the Imperial Defence Committee, in a review of the six months of the war, recalls the…

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To an Unknown Soldier. a Frenchwoman's Letter with a Pair of Mittens

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 4

Soldier, Soldier, dear Unknown, I wonder as I knit, Will you be a corporal Who will wear this mit?…

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A Soldier

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 5

"Kneeling by a wounded soldier in a little tent lighted by a candle-flickering in the wind, the chaplain was addressed thus: 'Am I dying, sir!"…

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Letters from Egypt. From Local Soldiers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 2

In a private letter to a young local resident, Trooper Sid Lee, son Mr. Percy Lee, of Scone, writing from Maadi, Egypt, remarks:—We…

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War Wastage

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 3

"Ob! If we only had men now. They will have to send Territorials at once, I think. I doubt whether people at home, really realise the wastage. We…

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War Food Fund

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 2

The President of the Chamber of Commerce War Food Fund, has sent us a progress report with a request for publication of same. But as it is too long for our space…

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The War Food Fund

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 8
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The secretary of the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, London, writes to the Sydney Chamber of Commerce as follows, appreciative of a gift of meat from the War Food…

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War and the Woman

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 4

And so, finally, and merging into the one great thought was his own awakening love for a beautiful woman. He no longer doubted this. Admiration was becoming…

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University and the War

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 12

We have received from the principal of Aberdeen University a provisional list of members of the University on naval and military service (says the "British…

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