French Soldiers Copy Ours
A certain number of the English habits have become French ones. For instance…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1915
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War Wastage
On?[?] 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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late War News
Enormous slaughter has taken place at Borjimoff and Rawka (Poland.) At both places the Germans made bold attacks in massed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia and the War. a Third Contingent Accepted by War Office
The Minister of Defence has announced that the Commonwelth has communicated with the War Office, ottering a new contingent of 10,000, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Very Latest War News SYDNEY
Further details of the engagement at Borjimoff show that the dense masses of the enemy's infantry were, pulverised by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Duration of War. The American View
The Premier (Mr. Holman) lias received from London extracts, from American newspapers giving American opinions of the probable duration of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horses and the War. How Britain Stands
A military authority states that 156,000 horses are required for the mobilisation of our forces. He estimates that in six months' time the wastage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Duration of the War. Estimate of Three Years
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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insult Towards God. Germans Anxious to Stop War
Already there are people in Germany who have had more than enough of the war. A Norwegian newspaper, the Morgenbladct, of Christiania, publishes a circular that has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A War Picture. on a Hospital Train. Relief From Horrors
The ambulances drive up from the direction of the thunderstorm that never ceases, thread their way through the litter and confusion of the marshalling yard at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dusty Road. Putting Tommy to Rest. Pen Picture of War
"Funeral party here, sir," says the orderly, putting his head in at the door of the sunny orderly-room. You look out of the window and see that a company has been halted in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Can Germany Last? Lord Sydenham's Views. Not Prepared for Long War
Lord Sydenham of Combe—better known perhaps to most Australians as Sir George Sydenham Clarke, the title he bore while Governor of Victoria from 190[?]-4 enjoys a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor in War. Triumph of Touring Car. Doing a Glorious Work
The Allies and the Germans live on their motor car service. So says John Prisi[?]au in London Daily Mail. The chief point which strikes one about the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Fighting Near Warsaw. Prodigal Waste of Life. World Has Neve Seen Such Fighting. Petrograd
The German attempt to force the defence of Borjimoff by sheer weight, using infantry as calvalry was used in the o[?] days has hitherto…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →German View of the War. British Shooting Praised. A neutral just back from Germany writes to the "Daily Mail":—
Germany did. net announce her loss of the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Leipzig tlill after ten o'clock an the evening on Thursday, the 10th, while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Enlistments
The Maitland district continues to supply volunteers for the front. Since the police were appointed to accept enlistments up to and including Saturday, no less than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Soldier
"[?]ing 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[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Titanic Conflict. Soldiers Fall in Thousands. Rome
The "Messagero's" Petrograd scribe says that the conflict on the Vistula and Rawka was of a titanic character. Soldiers fell in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Frostbite in the Trenches. Hardships of the Soldiers
The Australian troops are fortunate in being spared a winter campaign in the trenches in Europe. The hardships of a winter campaign are severe in any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney's Wounded. Return to Australia
Two wounded sailors from H.M.A.S. Sydney are passengers by the P. and O. R.M.S. Medina, which has arrived at Fremantle. Their names are [?] Gascoigne, of Sydney, and…
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