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

The wars & local soldiers, 1915

2,211 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 19 of 111

Mikado on the War. Stronger Bonds with Allies

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 3

The session of the Japanese Diet was opened on Monday with the usual ceremony in presence of a brilliant company, and the Emperor's speech was…

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The War Italy's Position. Germany and America. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 5

It is felt in Italy that a crisis is approaching, as a result of the bombardment of the Dardanelles. The Italian Government, it is…

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The War Heroic British Stand. Against Odds of Ten to One Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 3

Further particulars are to hand of the great struggle at Gheluvelt on October 31, when 2400 Scots' Guards, South Wales Borderers, Welsh and…

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The Biggest Soldier

Forbes Times · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 2
Also in The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser

The Ulster Volunteer Force, unbeaten in its record of giving recruits and money since the war began, is also unbeaten in the record for big men…

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Wounds In War

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 2

Deaths of wounded men in the Franco-Prussian War were one to every six; in the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria the percentage of Russian…

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The War-Horse

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 2

From the eavliest times the horse has been a potent factor in war, and to-day his education is a delicate and serious matter, undertaken at great expense by…

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War—then and Now

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 3

A little more than a century ago Britain, with a population of about a third its present size, was maintaining an immense army, scattered over the…

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The War. Standing Up Dead. London

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 2

Terrific fighting is proceeding in the Oarpathians, where the [?] is so deep that the dead remain standing where they are shot or bayonetted…

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Mikado on the War. Stronger Bonds with Allies

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 3

The session of the Japanese Diet was opened on Monday with the usual ceremony in presence of a brilliant company, and the Emperor's speech was…

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WAR. Wednesday, 9.30 a.m. German Submarine Sunk

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 4

The Captain of the Norwegian steamer "Theordis" claims to have sunk a German submarine near Beachy Head…

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The Biggest Soldier

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 3

The Ulster Volunteer Force, unbeaten in its record of giving recruits and money since the war began, is also unbeaten in the record for big men…

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Welcome Home. to the Rev. J. Calder

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 3

A large gathering of members of St. Andrew's Church met together in [?]he School Hall on Friday evening, [?]or the purpose of extending a…

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Rev. J. Calder's Return a Welcome Home

Forbes Times · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 3

As mentioned in our last issue, the Rev. John Culder, M A., who soma weeks ago underwent a serious operation in a Sydney hospital,…

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The War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 2

A German contrivance for spraying petrol over the enemy's trenches is the cause of shocking injuries. Trenches are set alight by the throwing of hand…

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The War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 4

The country between the hostile lines at Ypres is described as an awful zone of death. Thousands of German…

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The War "I Know Better." Submarine Fairy Stories

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 4

The French Minister of Marine, M. Augagneur, said, in the course of an interview:—"Not another ship shall reach…

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The War Forcing the Dardanelles Turkey's Bad Position. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 2

The Allied fleets bombarding the Dardanelles have cleared their way in the strait for a third of the distance. Turkey, deprived of the assistance…

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The War Our Magnificent Army. British Troops' Great Work. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 4

A "Times" correspondent who has made his first visit to the front writes: —"Never before has there been such…

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War and the Woman

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 March 1915 · page 4

He held up the familiar dirty paper upon which the Post Office writes the most, momentous of messages, and then showed his companion that It had come from…

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