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

The wars & local soldiers, 1917

2,382 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 16 of 120

The War Coal Famine Disorders at Leipzig. Minor French Successes. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

Grave disorder has broken out at Leipzig. The city is isolated. The coal famine throughout Denmark is severe and the strictest…

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The War. German Discontent. "Cross the Yser." the Kaiser's Mandate. Sydney

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 3

Grave discontent has broken out at leipsig, and the city is isolated. The coal famine in Denmark is severe. Some cities have stopped the…

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A Soldier's Photo. Finding an Owner

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

Not so long ago Mrs Wallace, of Calarie picked up the photo of a soldier in a frame. On the back of the photo was the name Wallie Phillips,…

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Farms for Soldiers

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

Members of the Closer Settlement Board have inspected several holdings in Forbes district, which have been offered to the Government…

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Soldiers Return. Bringing a New Viewpoint in the Matter of Health Protection

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 4

For many reasons now ordinary medicines are being displaced as the standby remedy for constipation, biliousness, indigestion, sick headaches, and other…

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A Soldier's Letter

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 4

SERGEANT FRANK JONES. in an interesting letter to his brothers at Wattle Villa, refers to the life on Salisbury Plain, and says : I have accepted and am attending a…

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Anzac

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 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

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 3

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

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The Cost of War

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 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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The War Loan. Oversubscribed

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 2

The fourth Australian War Loan of £18,000,000 has been oversubscribed by £246,580 (incomplete.) This State provided £8,655,960,…

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"Australian Women in War Time."

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 10

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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To Win the War. the Orange Conference

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 8

Delegates to the number of about 40, representatives of nearly all the main centres of Calare electorate, assembled at Orange and held a…

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War on Pirates. an M.P.'s OFFER

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 9

An offer of £2000 to the British-born master of every British-owned merchantman for every German submarine up to the total number of fifty, that can be Satisfactorily proved…

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The War. British Successes. Capture of Grandecourt. Saturday Morning

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 3

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:— We attacked important positions on the highest point of Sailly…

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Soldier's Letters

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 2

Private L. L. Brooke, writing to us, from "Some Where in France," under date 8th December, says:—…

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The War Australian Troopship Sunk. All Troops Previously Landed. Sydney, Wednesday 3.51

Western Champion · Thursday 15 February 1917 · page 17

The Australian troopship Afric has been sunk in the English Channel. Seventeen are missing, and five of the crew are believed to have been…

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Soldiers' Relief Association

Western Champion · Thursday 15 February 1917 · page 16

Owing to the limited attendance the annual meeting of the Parkes District Soldiers' Relief Association, called for Monday night last…

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The War China and Germany. Possible Note to America. More Steamers Sunk. Starving England Out. Sydney, Monday 8.56 a.m

Western Champion · Thursday 15 February 1917 · page 30

It is announced at Pekin that China will break-off relations with Germany if the submarine campaign is pursued…

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General War Cables

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 February 1917 · page 3

The Kaiser is visiting Vienna to confer with the Emperor Carl. The Germans are utilising legless soldiers as machine-gunners. The…

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The War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1917 · page 4

An American correspondent who has arrived at Copenhagen says very little hope is felt in Berlin that war with the United States can be avoided…

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