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The wars & local soldiers, 1917

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The War Loan. Generous Response. Three Subscriptions of [?]000,000 Each

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 6

The subscription list for the new loan of £18,000,000 closed yesterday, and although the Commonwealth Treasurer (Air. Poyn-ton) was not abie to furnish full details…

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The War. Endorsed by Senate President Wilson's Breach with Germany Washington

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 2

THE Senate to day considered the announcement made to Congress by President Wilson on Saturday last, to the effect that diplomatic relations between the…

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Anxious to Enlist. Fined for Overstating His Age

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 2

At the Paddington police court yesterday a youth named Thomas Robert BadenPowell Stevenson was charged with having, at Newcastle, on December 20 last, made a false…

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D. and D. Soldiers' Relief Fund

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 2

At a meeting of Trustees of the above, Mr Searl, hon. secretary, stated that a sum of £106 10s had been received from the Salisbury…

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Very Latest War News SYDNEY, Thursday. Submarine Menace. American Steamers Will Sail Californian Liner Sunk. Austria Prepared to Negotiate for Peace

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 2

It is reported that Mr Gerard, British Ambassador at Berlin, has reached Switzerland. The American liner St. Louis will…

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Anzac

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 3

"Anzac is a word that bids fair to be reckoned among the immortals, for it is a name that will serve to bind the Dominions to the Motherland more than…

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Enemy War Debt

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 3

"If the war ends in June it will cost six thousand millions sterling. The highest income-tax and succession duties on the most productive monopolies would…

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Win the War League

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 2

On Wednesday night a preliminary meeting of ladies was held in the School of Arts, for the purpose of inaugurating a branch…

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The Cost of War

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 3

"Evidences multiply that Germany, and still more her Allies, are gradually coming face to face with a time when their exhaustion cannot be hidden. At…

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Win-the War League

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 4

A public meeting will he held in the Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, on Tuesday night next, for the purpose of forming a Win-the-War League. Citizens are…

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Win-the-war Meeting

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 4

A special meeting of the War Service Committee will be held in the Mechanics' Institute on Monday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, to meet Miss Gladys…

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War News in Brief. Germany Sixth War Loan. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 13

The "Frankfurter Zeitung" foreshadows the sixth German War Loan to be issued immediately. The journal advises that British methods should be followed in the…

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To Win the War League

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 2

The greatest war in history still continues, and is daily becoming a bigger and more complex problem for the great nations of the…

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"Australian Women in War Time."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 6

One of the most cheering instances amongst all that is so depressing in connection with the war, is the way our Australian women have risen to the…

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Canada and the War. Ottowa

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 5

The hundred million sterling war appropriation was finally passed this afternoon, and the House of Commons adjourned till the middle of April to allow the…

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War Preparations. Unprecedented Activity. Washington

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 2

It is reared from a semi-official source that the army and navy are shaping plans to meet war with Mexico as Germany's possible ally…

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The War Loan. Every Little Helps

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 6

One of the objects which commands the attention of almost all sightseers who take a run out to Burwood, near Melbourne, on the recently-opened electric tram line, is the…

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The War and Shortage of Labour

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 9

At the present time the shortage of labour in all branches or industry is very acute, and, apparently, will become still more so far the duration of the war. This…

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War Inevitable. Bernstorff and Britain. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 5

Berlin messages state that officials regard war with America as inevitable. The "Times" states that the British safe conduct only secures Count Bernstorff from…

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Strike Urged to Stop War. Philadelphia

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 2

President Manurer, of the State Federation of Labour, urges a labour strikes to cripple the Government in case of war…

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