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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1914

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Business Openings. Chances in War Time

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 4

Thomas Russell, President Incorporated Society of Advertisement Consultants, writes in the London Daily Mail:-- When this war was forced upon us every…

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General War Notes. Berlin Listen Vainly

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 1

The "Times" in a leader says: "The enemy smashed unhappy little Belgium with positive exultation, but they seem to shiver with…

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The War Monday Morning, 7-11- 14

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 12

A private message states that the Germans have withdrawn nine army corps from France, placing them as their second line of troops in Poland…

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German War Theories. Three That Were Correct

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 4

The outstanding fact that the progress of the war has revealed is the success of certain peculiarly German theories, now that they have been put to the test of practice…

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The War Wednesday Morning, 9-12-14

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 6

The situation in Palestine is causing grave concern in Berlin. The German commanders have asked for 150,000 picked Germans to…

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The War Tuesday Morning, 8-12-14

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 12

Rotterdam reports that the Germans officially admit that they have retreated 24 miles eastward from Vermelles Bethune line, before a…

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The War Fierce Fighting in Belgium. Saturday Morning

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 2

A correspondent of a London paper states that fierce fighting has taken place along a considerable portion of the battle line in Belgium…

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The Nation's Food. the Grain Supply in War Time

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 6

Such a subject is opportune in appearance, and most significant from an Empire standpoint. Great Britain's helplessness, and increasing…

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The War Pay by Day. Thursday Morning, 3-12-14

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 2

A mass meeting of Germans and Irish in Chicago demanded that the Government should prohibit all shipments of contraband of war to Europe…

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Unwilling Victims of War. the Humanitarian League. Caring for the Animals

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 9

As the white ship of mercy, the Red Cross, steams a cross the seas with its corps of nurses and physicians to alleviate the miseries of the maimed arid injured of the…

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TELEGRAPHIC. The War. Australian Troops at Egypt. Turkish Fleet Man[?]uvering. Sydney

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 2

British officers in Egypt are most faverably impressed with the Australian troops who are delighted at the prospect of fighting without going to London…

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A Little Belgian. Julie Vergison, of North Sydney. Four Uncles in the War

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 4

Good fortune in the strange disguise of ill health visited the family of Julie Vergison, a little Belgian girl, who, three years ago, left Antwerp with her…

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Soldiers' Food. Cookers Wanted for Troops

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 4

Now that women have spent the best part of the last two months preparing, outfits for the soldiers, it is time, a colonel who left with the Expeditionary Forces suggested,…

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Belgian Mother's Letter. Protest to German Empress. "Soldiers Not Assassins."

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 9

The full text of a poignant letter addressed by the mother of a wounded Belgian soldier to the German Empress is given in the London press. It runs as follows:--…

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Our War Cables

Western Champion · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 21

Says an Orange contemporary:—"I'm getting tired of these war cables," said a well-known townsman to a "Leader" man yesterday…

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A New War Book

Western Champion · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 33

The war has been raging for over three months, and it is striking how few people can give, even in outline, a connected story of those puzzling,…

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Fighting in Belgium. Ostend and Antwerp. Deserted. Kitchener on the War's Duration. Sydney, Saturday 7.30 a.m

Western Champion · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 20

A correspondent of a London paper states that fierce fighting is taking place along a considerable portion of the battle line in Belgium. Spirited…

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A Soldier's Wound

Western Champion · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 4

The following is taken from the "British Medical Journal" of October 10:—A Seaforth Highlander, aged 23, was brought to the temporary field…

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The War Partial Russian Successes. the Breslau Bobs Up. and Bobs Down Again. General Beyers Beaten. Bulgaria Neutral, But Ready. Sydney, Thursday 8 a.m

Western Champion · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 19

Fighting has developed at Przemysl and Ziechacowa, and between Wielieza and Mlawa. The battle is unfinished…

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The War German Chancellor's Wrath Desperate Position of Pbzemysl. Huge German Defeat by Russians. Reported German Retirement. Details of De Wet's Capture. Sydney, Friday 7.30 a.m

Western Champion · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 20

The German Chancellor's speech in the Reichstag blamed England and Russia for the war, the former hoping to destroy her greatest European…

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