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

The wars & local soldiers, 1917

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Another War Loan

Forbes Times · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 4

The prospectus of a further issue of the Commonwoalth War Loan has now been announced, and the particulars appear in our advertising columns…

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The War. Sydney

Forbes Times · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

English newspapers applaud the Allies' reply to the German peace note. Similar satisfaction is expressed throughour France and Italy…

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The War. Yesterday's News

Forbes Times · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 4

British prisoners from German East Africa who have arrived in London, describe their norrible privations. The German policy was systematically to…

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E War [?]Eek Blocade. Aerial Activity. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 3

[?]is Salonika correspondent [?]feat enemy aeroplanes, have sing over the town, daily. It led that, besides spying, they…

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Cables About Soldiers

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

Mr Lunger Owen is in charge of the Red Cross Information Bureau, 115 Pitt Street, Sydney. This bureau is anxious to discover any…

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Soldiers' Letters

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

Steamers leaving Sydney for London, via the Suez Canal, carry letters for soldiers in Egypt and elsewhere. Letters should be posted at…

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Soldiers' Letters. Durban and Round. Incidents On a Voyage

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 4

Sergeant-Major G. w. Brownhill writes:—Our first port of call was Durban, and it would take a lot of writing to tell you how grateful were…

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War Pensions

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

The claims received by the authorities for war pensions number close on 30,000, and the annual liability of the Commonwealth under…

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Another War Loan

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 3
Also in Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

The prospectus of a further issue of the Commonwealth War Loan has now been announced and the particulars appear in our…

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The War and Shortage of Labor

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 3

At the present time, the shortage of labor in all branches of industry is very acute, and, apparently, will become still more so for the…

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The War. Tuesday, January 2, 17

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

The enemy continues to progress in Rumania, taking positions in the Moldavian frontier, where lighting continues. The Russians and…

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The War Danish Steamer Torpedoed. London

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

The Danish steamer, "Ranmark," has been torpedoed. Only twenty-four were saved…

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4,500,000 War Bibles. Holy Scripture Circulated in Enemy Countries

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 9

No fewer than 11,059,617 Bibles, New Testaments, and portions of the Holy Scripture were issued by the British and Foreign Bible Society during the year ended March last…

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Roofed Battlefield. War Realism at Home by Which Our Pilots Are Trained

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 9

How British pilots are trained in their work of "spotting" enemy positions and informing our gunners is told by a special correspondent of Reuter's Agency, who has visited…

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The War. Monday Morning. Fighting in France. Enemy Fails at Verdun. Raids and CounterRaids

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

A French communique says:— After an intense bombardment the Germans strongly attacked our front over a width of three…

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Soldiers' Fund. Wheat Donated Can be ceived

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

The Hon. Sec. of the local Returned Soldiers' Fund has received the following from the State War Council:—…

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Killed in Action

Western Champion · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 15

A message received Tuesday conveyed the news that Private Dick Klein had been killed in action during the fighting in France. Private Klein…

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Anzac Avenue.. Sydney

Western Champion · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 11

The widened Randwick road, through Moore Park, with garden plots along the centre, is to be called Anzac Avenue…

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England's War Perils

Western Champion · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 15

The attack on coastal towns of England by German baby-killers in their air craft is vividly illustrated in "The Eye of the Night," a Triangle…

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