England's War
"England, for the sake of this mysterious 'balance of power,' divided the Old World into two armed eamps. She did it knowingly as 'Spiritus rector' in,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1915
207 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 3 of 11
Archery in War
We think of the bow and arrow as mediaeval weapons of war, Abandoned by the nations of Europe four or five centuries ago; the bowmen of Crecy are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Copper in War. Its Supreme Importance
Although the Chancellor of the Exchequer happily chose the simile of "silver bullets "to explain the economic process by which Germany must ultimately…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£9.000,000 a Day. What the War Is Costing
From the official statistics of the various belligerent countries the "Vorwaerts" estimates the costs of the present war. The British Government states,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldierly
"Lord Kitchener's notion that we are going to settle down to years of war as we did a century ago, is soldierly, but not sensible " Mr. Bernard Shaw…
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The French war review states that France has established an impassable barrier against tho most formidable effort ever attempted. "As the Germans' resources have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →End of War. The Opinion of Lloyd's
A well-known member of the London Stock Exchange in a letter to a Sydney friend makes some interesting fererences to the war. "Except for Stock Exchange business…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The European War the Week's Cables
Aeroplanes discovered 1000 Turks near El Kubri, opposite Suez, on Monday. The guns at El Kubri compelled the Turks to retire, and a force under General Younghusband Touted, them on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War and Democracy
Whatever may be the crimes which the military oligarchy of Germany have committed against civilisation by their barbarous misuse of a vast military…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Financing the War
The speeches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Admiralty, delivered recently, in an exceptionally crowded House of Commons gays Sir Henry Lucy in "The Sydney Morning Herald" of April 3rd,…
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Lord Haldane, in an interview published in the Chicago Daily News," asks for America's forbearance while Britain fights for her life. If Germany is beaten the nations is the future, he declared, were not likely to pin their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Women and War
Over two thousand years ago there was a war between China and Mongolia, and China was invaded by a Mongolian army under Mao-tun. The Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Christianity and War
The programme of the embattled nations no[?] Christian professing to acknowledge Jesus Chari[?] as King of Kings is opposed to jesus and his…
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One week's British casualties, covering the straggles at Neuve Capelle and Saint Eloi, were 2638 killed and 5488 wounded and missing…
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Between March 20 and April 3 the Russians, it is officially reported, captured in the Carpathians 378 officers, 23,155 men, 17 guns, and 100 machine guns. The capture of the Rostok Pass will compel the Germans…
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"My conviction is that, from a moral point of view, Europe needed the war in order to get rid of an enormity of pomp, snobbery, carelessness, and animalism,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. H. G. Wells on "Scientific War."
Mr. H. G. Wells, in the course of an article contributed to the January "Windsor Magazine," says: "No doubt much ingenuity will stand…
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A correspondent of the "Lancet," who is in charge of an ambulance on the Continent, when his time was not fully occupied by surgical emergencies,…
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At Neuve Capelle battle the British had 190 officers and 2337 men killed. The casualties totalled over 12,000. Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated in the House of Commons that the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →How Long Will the War Last?
How long will the war last? This still continues to be the universally discussed question. One finds some amazing optimists who declare that the war must end by June. Ask them the reason for this happy belief and they find it rather…
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