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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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War News. LONDON, Thursday. Italians Fortifying

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 3

It is reported that the Italians are fortifying the Dodekamu Islands with heavy guns…

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The War. Latest Cables to "Mercury." LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 2

The French warship [?] which was such in the [?] crossed two [?] fields. When approaching the exit to…

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War News. Three Battleships Sunk. Disaster in Dardanelles

The Bombala Times · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 3

The Admiralty announces that the British battleships Irresistible (15,000 tons) and Ocean (12,950 tons), and the French battleship Bouvet (12,097…

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Latest War News LONDON, Tuesday. P[?]zemysl Has Fallen

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 4

It is officially announced that Przemysl has fallen. BOUVET'S MAGAZINE BURST…

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War News. LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 3

PRINCE JOACHIM'S CLAIM, Prince Joschim, with a strong army claims to have expelled the Russians from Memel killing…

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The War. Latest Cables to "Mercury" LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 2

The Vienna people and newspaper are despondent. One paper says, "We prevented the German Empire from being…

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The War

Delegate Argus · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 2

The British Admiralty has good reason to believe that the German submarine U29 has been sunk with all hands…

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Latest War News

The Bombala Times · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 1

The steamer Falaba, 4806 tons, belonging to the Elder-Dempster line, left Liverpool on Saturday, and was reported to be in distress in the…

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Italy Wants War

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

The correspondent at "The Times in Rome says the tone of the Press leads one to the conclusion that war is investible,…

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War News. LONDON, Tuesday, Russians Further Captures

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

The Russians have captured a new line of heights in the Bartfel region…

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The War. Latest Cables to "Mercury," LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 2

The German submarine U28 torpedoed the steamer Flaunn of Glasgow bound for Capetown, in the Scilly's. The crew was…

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The "Lost" Company. Plucky Band of French Soldiers

The Bombala Times · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 3

A hundred and ten French soldiers have lately returned to France after several months of guerilla warfare in the forests of the Belgian Ardennes…

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The War

Delegate Argus · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 2

It is stated in Rome that pourparlers with Germany have collapsed. The steamer Crown of Castillo…

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Enlisting Experiences

Delegate Argus · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 1

It was a big surprise to me to find young Bert Ingram with Dick Commons at Sydney station on Thursday morning. It was early…

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The War

The Bombala Times · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 2

An important development in the war is chronicled this morning from Nish, to the effect that a strong Bulgarian band of irregulars has attacked…

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Latest War News

The Bombala Times · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 1

An almost continual battle has been raging for three weeks in Champagne, the "Daily Chronicle's " correspondent reports, the French taking the…

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War News. London, Thursday. Bombs Dropped on Church

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 3

A German aeroplane dropped bombs on a church near Ypres. Twelve women and a preacher were killed…

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The End of the War. Military Staff Opinion

The Bombala Times · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 1

FREMANTLE, Tuesday.—Dr. Thring, of Sydney, is returning to Sydney by the Maloja. He was one of those Australian doctors who organised and…

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The War. Latest Cables to "Mercury." LONDON, Friday. Plucky Belgians Again

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1915 · page 2

It is officially announced that the Belgians have completely, expelled the Germans from the western side the Y[?]r in the…

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War News. LONDON, Saturday. Austrians' Carathian Losses

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 April 1915 · page 3

A Rome paper states that the Austrians lost 300,000 men in the Caroathians, of whom one-third were prisoners…

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