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The wars & local soldiers, 1914

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Latest War Cables. Tuesday Afternoon

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 28 October 1914 · page 3

The German General Von Fraise is among the prisoners who reached Mar[?] A neutral attache says that the German officers admit that the…

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The School of Arts and the War

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 28 October 1914 · page 2

The stand taken by the gentlemen who have acted as bondsmen for the School of Arts in at the last moment after tenders had been called…

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The War. Wednesday, 7.50 A.m

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 October 1914 · page 3

The survivors of the four destroyers sunk by the Undaunted state they were informed that they were going to attack Portsmouth. The marksmanship of the Undaunted was…

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Latest War Cables. Monday 3.58 p.m

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 October 1914 · page 5

The Austrian monitor Twes, after successful operations, struck a mine in the river Save and sank, 33 lives being lost…

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The War. London

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 30 October 1914 · page 4

The "Observer's" Calais correspondent states that the Allies have forced the Germans to retire to Thielt, where they took 1200…

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The War. Sydney

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 30 October 1914 · page 6

Visitors saw 30 airmen at a Brussels hotel inspecting a map of London and making the location of the Bank of England, the War…

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War News

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1914 · page 6

It is estimated that the wounded now in France total nearly 500,000. It is reported that the Kaiser and his suite have occupied a club at Czenstochow…

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Late War News South Africa

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1914 · page 2

General De Wet and Beyers have headed a rebellion in Northern Organi[?] and Western Transvall. A train was stopped and a defence force…

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Latest War Cables. FRIDAY, 2.30 p.m

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1914 · page 2

It is estimated that the German have two hundred and fifty thousand men between Nieuport and Dixanale and there are a hundred thousand…

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The War. Trial of Strength in Belgium. No Definite Result Yet

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1914 · page 4

A communique issued at midnight on Sunday stated that a violent battle between Nieuport and Lys is still proceeding. The Germans have crossed the River…

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Our Soldiers' Needs To the Editor

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1914 · page 2

Dear Sir—On acknowledgement of a parcel of cholera belts that I forwarded to the Red Cross Society this week. I received a letter from the…

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The War. Wednesday, 8.10 a.m

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 November 1914 · page 3

The latest communique states that Nieuport has been violently bombarded, and the German effort continued on the Nieuport Dixmude front without result…

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Latest War Cables. Monday 4.5 p.m

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 November 1914 · page 4

It is reported in Berlin that the British Ambassador has left Constantinople; and stated that the Turkish fleet set fire to 50 oil reservoirs on the…

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The War. From Day to Day. Sydney

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 4 November 1914 · page 2

The situation on the Ni[?]uport-Dixaude battle front is unchanged, but further south the Allies made progress at several points…

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The School of Arts and the War. To the Editor

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 4 November 1914 · page 2

with the additions in spite of the guarantors in Saturday's and Wednesday's issues is most unfair, because the full facts are probably not known to you…

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Belgium's Soldier King Sharing the Hardships

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 4 November 1914 · page 1

The King of the Belgians has been amongst soldiers throughout the day (wrote Mr. M. H. Donohoe, the was correspondent of the London…

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Contraband of War

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 6 November 1914 · page 6

Mr. Edward de Marney, formerly associated with London "Vanity Fair" and "Judy," who arrived in Sydney by the Ventura from San Francisco a…

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[?]E War. London

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 6 November 1914 · page 6

[?]le straggle continues be[?]euport and Ostend[?]gian wounded reached the[?] hospital on Monday and Tuesday…

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The War. London

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 6 November 1914 · page 4

Near Wawsaw, peasants found huge mounds, surmounted by crosses and German helmets. They dug, and discovered piles of ammunition…

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Settlers who go to the War

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 6 November 1914 · page 6

Mr. G. S. Briner, M.L.A., writes: "Settlers who volunteer for service with the Expeditionary forces during the war still write to me anxiously…

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