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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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After the War—What?

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

It was not till after the war began that the people had learned to what an enormous extent the Germans had captured the trade of…

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Latest War News. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

Field-Marshal Haig reports that he repulsed an attempted raid eastward of Monchy. Our aeroplanes on Saturday…

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Latest War Cables. Tuesday, 9.13 a.m

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

The Times leader says it has become increasingly difficult to [?] principle of patriotism necessitating and inspiring…

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A Day of a Soldier's Life

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 3

Mr. Allan McKinnon has received the following letter from his brother Private Jim McKinnon: Graylingwell War Hospital,…

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Soldiers' Letters

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 4

Mr. and Mrs. Will Saul, of Bellim-bopinni, but now of Frederickton, have received a letter from Private George Barney, a boy they reared, but…

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Returned Soldiers' Battalion

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 4

Returned soldiers, physically fit and wishing to re-enlist, but who are disinclined to go into camp and go through training along with raw…

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The War. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 5

A Wireless German official message that violent Italian attacks against the Austro-Hungarians on mounts, Asalone and Fertica, broke…

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Latest War News. London

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

A Reuter Russian wireless appeal says immediate help is necessary for the army which is perishing. A Famine provisioning has ceased and…

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Her Faithless Soldier

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

One of the clergy whole work is in a thickly-populated division of the city, in reply to a question as to the con[?]on of the poor in his district,…

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Honoring Returned Soldiers. at Bowraville

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

Very recently a number of the Nambucca Heroes who have been playing a prominent part in the war now waging have returned home…

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The War

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 5

Mr. Bonar Law, speaking in the House of Commons, said that the War Cabinet's inquiry showed that the higher command was not surprised…

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Russia and the War

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4

An important part in the eventual restoration of order in Russia will undoubtedly be played by the Cossacks, writes the Petrograd…

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Christianity and the War

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 8

THREE hundred thousand church spires raised to the glory of Christ! 300,000,000 human creatures baptised into His services! And—war…

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Latest War News. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4

Mr. Burgess, chairman of the Sheffield Strike committee, who was arrested in respect. to the engineers' strike of last year, opposed a…

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About Women. [Lessons of the War]

The Northern Champion · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

LOYALTY, thy name is Woman! The female of the speeles is us ready as the male. War’s hell bath no terror for a woman in a…

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A Soldier's Story. Down and Out

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 5

"ONE night I was feeling down and out. I'd been upending all my evenings in a French Eatami[?]et, and had spent my last penny on bad French beer. I wanted a…

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Soldier's Letter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 5

PRIVATE JIM NEWBERRY, writing to a friend at Telegraph Point from No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield Park, England, says:—"I got a…

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The War. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 3

The Goeben and Breslan and destroyers were in action with the Bar[?]- forests at the entrances to the Dardanellns. The Breslau was sunk…

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Killed in Action

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 January 1918 · page 4

We registered report that Mrs. Wallace, of the Great Northern Hotel, has received the fire news that her nephew, Pte. J. Kerambrun, of the…

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War Wafts

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 January 1918 · page 6

Some di[?]ies and correspondence found in places which have been recently occupied by the British in Flanders are interesting, as throwing some light…

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