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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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The War King Opens Parliament. Parliament

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 3

The King, accompanied by the Queen and the Prince of Wales, opened the British parliament on Tuesday. In his speech he said that the…

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New-world Troops in an Old-world War

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 2

MANY questions arise as we regard the New World preparing for the Old World war. How will the New World Troops do on the classic battle fields of…

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Tommy Atkins, Rain-soaked and War-worn, Still Grins

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 7

FREDERICK William Wile, one of the Vigilantes, has just returned from what he describes as one of the periodical joy-rides which the British Foreign Office and…

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Soldiers' letters

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 6

WRITING to his mother, Mrs. E. Reid, West Port Macquarie, on November 29th, Trooper A. Reid says:- "I am…

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Russia's Women Soldiers

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 7

AMONG the peaceful avocations with which the idle Petrograd crowds—soldiers aud others—beguiled the hot summer afternoons was that of leaning on the canal…

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Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 6

A meeting for the purpose of forming a local branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League was held at the Taree School of…

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The War. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 19 February 1918 · page 3

The "Times" says: Aeroplanes raided England for the second time in two days. The raid was calmly taken and the streets were soon deserved…

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War Wafts

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 4

Among the many opinions in Franco upon the return of M. Clemenceau to the Premiership M. Gustave Herve in "La Victoire" seems to…

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Camels in War

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 3

Far the most interesting and curious uses to which an animal in war is subjected is the use of camels, chosen and trained because of their strange…

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The War

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 2

"There is every indication that the Allies are on the eve of a the Great German offensive." writes the Paris correspondent of the "New York…

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War Automatically Resumed

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 4

The Berlin Tageblatt says that the most important discussion at the recent conference at German Headquarters concerned the…

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War Re-commenced

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 4

War in Russia re-commenced on Monday. "Tidg" (Berlin) states that the Germans are concentrating on the Ukraine for the…

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The War Bullying Russia

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 4

It is stated in an Amsterdam despatch that it is reported in Berlin that in the final scene of the Russo Teuton peace negotiations at…

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Latest War News. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 5

The "Times" says that aeroplanes raided England for the second time in two days. The raid was calmly taken. The streets soon were…

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Latest War Cables. Tuesday Morning

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 4

Reuter, through Vancouver, says that aeroplanes raided London for a second time in two days. The raid was calmly taken ; and when warnings…

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Soldier's Letter

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 6

Private Arthur Delves writes to his father, Mr H. Delves, of Jones Island :— "Somewhere in France."…

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Soldiers' Letters

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 4

Pte. J. L. Maxwell, who sailed from Australia on 6th January, 1917, writes, under date 28 11’17. from France to his people in Kempsey, and…

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Drunken Soldiers

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 2

The frequency of drunkenness among returned soldiers is being made the most of fay the advocates of prohibition, much in the same way…

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Long War Forecast

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 7

Those who have convinced them selves that the war will end in a few months will derive no comfort from an interview published in the New…

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The War. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 5

Renter reports that Admiralty naval aircraft on Tuesday, night dropped many tons of explosives on St. Denis, Westrem and Bruges docks, and dropped…

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