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A Paris message says that all newspapers declare that a formal assurance has been given that France has broken Germany's offensive at Verdun…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1916
247 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 4 of 13
The War Cables the Week's News
Lord Derby expressed the hope that by November they would get sufficient young men, without putting the married when into the field. Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz, Minister and Secretary of…
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On Thursday night last Private A. Thompson, who has recently returned from the war, was welcomed home by a number of his friends…
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A meeting of the above was held on "Wednesday last, Ald. J. Connellan being in the chair. The Secretary reported that the…
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"I have a very great admiration for the Australian soldier, but is he worth 6s. a day relatively as against the English soldier, 1s. 6d. a day, and other…
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One of the largest crowds we have seen in Picton assembled at the Town Hall on Friday night last the Town Hall on Friday night last on the ocassion of the send-off to a…
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An Amsterdam message says that there are increasing German fear that Turkey is inclined to sue for peace. The light cruiser Cleopatra rammed and…
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Advices from Berlin show that the Verdun defeat has had a disastrous effect upon public opinion. General Cadorna, Commander-in-Chief of the Italian forces who will attend the Allied Conference in Paris, received an…
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"There are not wanting in Australia signs of the approach of widespread industrial trouble. My own feeling is that the difficulties which are sure to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sports. Jarvisfield Racecourse, Picton. Easter Monday, APRIL, 24th, 1916. Proceeds to be given to the War Fund
Programme. Picton Handicap. 130 yds. [?] £2 10s. 2nd 15s. 3rd 10s, 4th 5s. Ent 1s, accpt. 1s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Soldiers' Pay. Niggardly Treatment
A German soldier's pay, which the Socialists are vainly attempting to get increased by 50 per cent., is roughly equivalent to 4 1/2d, a day. But out of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Provision for Returned Soldiers. What the States Can Do in Three Years
Mr. J. G. Watson supplies the following account of the Parliamentary Committee for settling returned soldiers:—…
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"In this State the Government will naturally desire (and with the approval of the community) to keep every possible returned soldier, and, if it be…
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Mrs. T. Cleary, Bargo Road, Picton, has received the following letter from her son Ted, who was wounded at the war and spent 14 weeks in hospital…
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L. Kelly writes from Maadi, Egypt, to the Secretary of the Picton Red Cross Society as follows;-"Just a line to thank you and your fellow…
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Mr. McKenna's Budget speech, which was the greatest in history, was delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday night; It contained gigantic figures, and showed that…
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"Le Temps" states that Field-Marshal von Haeseler has quitted Verdun and has gone into retirement, because he disagreed with the Kaiser on tactical and other questions. General Polivanoff, Russian Minister for War, at his own…
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A meeting of the above was held on the 30th March, The Mayor (Ald. J. T. Ashcrof) presiding. Mr. Ca[?] wrote asking certain…
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"Dropping bombs in Venice is just plain dirt. It is war, not on Italy, bat on art, history, religion. It is an expression of the same brutish spirit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How the Tide of War is Running
[?] confident that the fide of war has turned and is begiening to [?] strongly in favour of the…
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