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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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Wounded Horses. Vets on the Battlefield

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 6

On the battlefields of France and Belgium hundreds of wounded horses are being tended day after day by the Army Veterinary Corps. The wounds of animals are as…

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A War Alphabet

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 5

A for the Arms we honourably bear, B for the Burden each Briton must share; C for that Courage, as brave as of yore…

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Milton and War

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 6

"These lines, written by Milton, which occur in Paradise Regained (Lib. III., 71-92), may surely be accepted as most applicable to the present time," says a correspondent of…

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The Greatest War in History. No. V.

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 6

I mentioned in a previous article that Germany was diplomatically beaten before a single shot was fired. Indeed, what led up to this present calamity has…

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Latest War Cables. SYDNEY. Thursday, 3.15 p.m

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 2

The New York morning newspapers anticipate a satisfactory understanding will be arrived at between Great Britain and the United…

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Ill-balanced Genius. Kaiser and the War. Frank Study of Emperor

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 6

In the Fortnightly Review Mr. Sydney Whitman publishes a frank and cruel study—cruel because frank—of the Kaiser's character, and the writer of the article is, on this…

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The War. British Retaliation. Cuxhaven Bombarded. German Warships in the Harbour. London

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 5

The Admiralty announce that a combined aerial and seacraft-raid was made on the German coast on Friday, in the vicinity of Heligoland and…

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The War. To-day's Latest. a Proposed American Conference. To Discuss War Problems. Austria Withdraws her Eastern Armies. A Montenegrin Success. Reported Revolt of Turkish Troops Allies Repulse Attacks in France

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 2

The Belgian Commission gives a long list of German outrages. The American Treasury has invited the various American nations to a…

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A Soldier Poet

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 6

Private Donald Lindsay, of H Company First Battalion Expeditionary Force, is acclaimed poet laureate of the troopship on which he is proceeding to the front. Here…

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Country Edition. The following appeared in our Country edition on Wednesday:— the War. with the Russians. The Official Communique. All Round Progress

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 January 1915 · page 1

The official communique reports that isolated German attacks, between the lower Vistula and the Pilica, have been abortive. The German attack…

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Comets in War Time

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 1

The curious are noting that in the past four centuries various great comets have been visible in the Russian dominions only eleven times,…

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Interesting War Notes. Nelson’s Prayer

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 1

Now, when terrible battles are being fought every day, the nation would do well to remember the prayer Nelson wrote in his diary on October 21st,…

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Misecllan[?]ous War News. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

Additional deaths of persons wounded during the bombardment of Hartlepool by the Germans, have occurred. The total number of deaths at Hartlepool has now…

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Indians Fire at Train. Three People Killed and Eight Wounded. Two Murderers Dead. Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

Two Indiana created a seastion near Broken Hill to-day by Bring shots at a plenic train which was leaving for Silverton. Three persons were killed, and eight…

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Western War Theatre. Enemy Loses Trenches. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

A Paris communique reports that the enemy on Wednesday night blew up two of our trenches north of Sille[?]y, (7 miles south-west of Rheims), but we re…

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Eastern War Theatre. Russian Superiority Admitted. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

A Berlin wireless message, which has been received in England, states that the fact [?]nust be faced that the Russian e[?]tremo left wing is proving superior to the…

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Incidents of the War. Rescue of Daring Aviator Flight Commander Hewlett Safe. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

Flight Commander Hewlett, who after the British raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas morning was reported missing, his naval seaplane having been seen…

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German Atrocities. French Soldiers Tortured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 January 1915 · page 2

The official Press Bureau has issued the latest report prepared by the Belgian Commission, which is inquiring into the German methods of warfare in Relgi[?]m…

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Wounded Indians in Hospital

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 2

Indian sick and wounded at the Brighton pavilion are cheerful, brave and patient.Many ask questions about their officers…

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Miscellaneous War News. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 4 January 1915 · page 2

A cable form Capetown says that Commandant Jack Pioneer has been captured near Lobasi, in Bechuanaland. The Bishop of Zauzibar (the Rt. Rev. F…

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