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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Latest War News. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 4

After two days' fighting. White Guards" captured Uleaborg, and are aiming to surround the revolutionaries at Tornea…

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X-rays: Samaritans of War

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 7

If It were not for the clear-seeing eye of the x-ray the suffering among wounded soldiers in war would be well nigh inconceivable. The X-ray…

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Soldier's Letter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 1

WRITING to his mother from Sayideh, Mesopotamia, on 17th November, Private Val. Dick says :- "Since operations commenced here I have…

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How British Soldiers Fought to the Death. King's Rifles and Northamptons Glorious Stand

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 7

This brilliant story of an imperishable deed on the Year, told by Britain's gifted war correspondent, will live be long as there are Anglo-Saxons to read it. Previously…

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MOTIONS. Soldiers' Settlements

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 4

Mr. G. Campbell moved—"That the Government be asked to secure a portion of the Austral Eden estate, on the Macleay River, to be utilised…

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War Chest Contributions

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 2

Mr. G. F. Solomon, Secretory of Wingham War Cheat Fund, has received the following:— Sir,—I am in receipt of your letter…

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The War. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 12 February 1918 · page 3

According to Washington official reports, Germany has called out her 1920 class indicating her diminishing man- power…

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The War Enemy Plans

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 3

Mr. Phillip Gibbs says that the Battlefield is hushed before the storm, and there reigns a strange unearthly silence…

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Latest War Cables Tuesday Morning

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 5

Router reports that a Breat-Litovsk telegram states that peace has been declared between Russia and the Central Powers…

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Latest War News. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 2

Reuter states that a Brest-Litovsk telegram states that peace has been declared between Russia and the Central Powers…

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General News Curious War Incident

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 4

Colonel Archibald Young, V.D., in a lecture in Edinburgh, mentioned a curious incident of the recent British advance towards Palestine. When the…

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Soldiers' Letters

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 3

Lance Corporal Thos. Richardson, writing from France to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Owen Richardson of Collombatti says I was very pleased…

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Soldiers' Children

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1918 · page 4

To the man who enlists for active service abroad, it may be of interest to know that should be he incapacitated in the course of his military…

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The War. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 5

Renter.—An official German message states that they replied with heavy losses a French attack between Flirey and Moselle. We bombed Nancy in…

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Latest War News London

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 4

A Reuter's message states that Field-Marshal Haig made a successful raid South and Eastward of Hargin-court, also patrol encounters…

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Returned Soldier

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 4

Private Frank Brown (son of Mr. and.Mrs. T. Brown, of Wingham), arrived in Wingham by the early train on Friday morning, and was…

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The War

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 5

Such of the cable news on this page so headed appeared in the "Times," and is cabled to Australia by special permission. It should be…

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Other War News

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 3

A bill has been introduced into the United States Senate providing for permanent universal military training…

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Latest War News. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 4

A Reuter official message states that enemy attacks have been repelled with heavy losses. The French attacked between…

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Agricultural Shows in War Time

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 2

The question has been mooted as to whether the holdings of agricultural shows should be abandoned during the continuance of the war. To what…

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