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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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Cairo Cable. Mails for Our Soldiers. Cairo, Jan. 13, 6.30 p.m

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 5

Mails for the troops are now being promptly received. The R.M.S. Malwa's mails were received yesterday, and those from the R.M.S. Orontes last week The…

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Fruit for Soldiers. Australian Gifts. London, Jan. 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 5

The White Star Company has offered to convey free to the Vegetable Products Committee, a limited quantity of Australian gifts of jams and fruits for the navy. The P…

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Wounded in Action

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 4

Mr. H. J. Payne, the well-known bootmaker, at the western end of High-street, is in receipt of a letter from his brother, Private R. H. Payne. who has been twice…

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Italian War Loan

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 7

The Italian war loan has been largely over-subscribed…

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King and Queen. Visit the Wounded. London, Jan. 10

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 12

The King and Queen visited 1100 wounded Indians at Brighion. There were several scenes. Many of the wounded were able to converse freely with the…

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War and the Woman

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 4

"Oh, how cold it is—how cruelly cold! I can write no more, even by a warm fireside. Perhaps Maryska will write herselt soon—horrible thought, I have yet to…

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Who Willed the War?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 11

This war is not a conflict between different civilisations to which can destroy the other (says the "Times.") There is no need to argue which civilisation is the…

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The War and Missions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 11

In the view of the Bishop of St. Albans, one of the principal speakers at the annual meeting of the Melanesian Mission in London last month, the war ought to be rather an…

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The Duty to Make War

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 3

It in interesting at the present time to recall what Martin Luther had to say on the subject of war. He realised its horros. But saw more in it than…

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The War. Campaign in France

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 7

Sir John French, British Commander-in-Chief, in France, has had a three days' holiday in his English horns whence lie has been directing…

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Maitlanders Abroad. Sightseeing in War Time

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 13

Another batch of interesting letters has been received from Mr. and Mrs. George Gallon, of West Majtland, and the Misses Galton, who have been away on a holiday…

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War Topics. M.P.'s £400

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 11

The first thing members of Parliament should do on their reassembling is to renounce their £400 a year—a payment never discussed and never brought before the…

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The War. LONDON Tuesday. Austrians Routed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 2

It is reported thai the Austrian at B[?]vint have been driven out of their camp at Kimpoings in great disorlder…

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Churches and the War. National Penitence

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 11

In his at the intercessory service in All Saints' Cathedral, the Bishop of Bathurst (Dr. Long) remarked that never before had there been such a steam of prayer…

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Horses in War. Occupy Important Position

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 6

Despite prophoclca to the contrary, the horse still occupies an Important position in modern warfare (says Parson's Weekly), for the cavalryman la by no means out of date;…

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Cost of the War. America Estimate

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 11

Roger W. Babson is writing for the New York "Sun" a series of articles on the economic side of the war, in the first of which he asserts that the war already has caused…

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Trenches on the Yser. "The Invisible War."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 6

The London "Daily Chronicle" published recently an interesting despatch from Mr. g. H. Berris, in which her gives an account of a visit he paid to the trenches at Ypres and…

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Australia and the War. Governor-general's Praise

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 11

Speaking in reply to an address of welcome at Colac, the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) referred to the part Australia was playing in the war…

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Conscription. the War's Lesson. London, Jan, 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 2

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., speaking at Paddington, said the war provided unanswerable arguments in favour of conscription. "To-day," he said, "we are relying on…

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Reasons Behind the War. the Great Gamble

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 6

Roland G. Usher's interpretations in The Atlantic Monthly of The Reasons Behind the War suggest that Austria's difficulties rather than Germany's ambition were responsible…

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