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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

207 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 11 of 11

Repair of Wounded Lungs

The Picton Post · Wednesday 8 December 1915 · page 6

"Engineering says that bullet wounds of the lung provided no large vessels are touched, are seldom fatal in man or beast A couple of remarkable…

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War Service Committee

Camden News · Thursday 9 December 1915 · page 1

The few gentlemen that agreed to form a War Service Committee in Camden at the public meeting on November [?] again met on Monday evening last. The Mayor, Ald. [?] F. Furner, who presided, in opening the meeting [?]…

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The War Cables the Week's News

Camden News · Thursday 9 December 1915 · page 1

Economy, by the sacrifice of all non-essentials, was the keynote of a speech by Mr. Asquith at a Labor conference. The Prime Minister met with a remarkable demonstration. "We are within measurable reach," he said, "of spending…

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Australia's Need Land Settlement for Returned Soldiers

The Picton Post · Wednesday 15 December 1915 · page 3

"It is well that people should realise the importance of this question said Mr. J. C. Watson referringg to the Land Settlement Scheme for Returned…

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The War Cables the Week's News

Camden News · Thursday 16 December 1915 · page 1

Austrians claim to have sunk five steamers and several sailing craft which were landing war material off the Albanian coast. A French submarine was also destroyed. Big German concentrations, preliminary to an attempted…

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Soldiers at Cobbitty

Camden News · Thursday 16 December 1915 · page 1

Cobbitty had an unusual excitement last Monday week, for a route march, of the Officers' Training School passed through on their way to camp at Cobbitty bridge. Exaggerated reports of the number of men had reached Cobbitty, and great…

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National Service. a Chance for Everybody Scope of War Service Committees

The Picton Post · Wednesday 22 December 1915 · page 3

Speaking at Manchester, in June of this year, Mr. Lloyd George expressed in a few words what every right-thinking citizen has come to feel in these later…

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Latest War News

Camden News · Thursday 23 December 1915 · page 3

Major Moraht, writing in the "Berliner [?]geblatt," states, "We have abandoned all illusions, and now know that we are engaged in a life and death struggle. We could wish…

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Second Issue of Commonwealth War Loan. £10,000,000 asked for

Camden News · Thursday 23 December 1915 · page 11

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia published the Prospectus of the Second Issue of the Commonwealth War Loan on the 1st December, and it is now generally known that a…

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