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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

4,156 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 208

Armoured Canadian Soldiers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 3

Like knights of old, the Canadian troops for the front are equipped with armour. It will be in the form of a spade, to be carried on the back when…

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Animals Who Fight with Soldiers. What Military Pets Have Do[?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 3

The news that the pet goat of the 2nd Battalion of the Welsh Re[?]ment has been killed in the Battle of Aisne reveals the fact that the soldiers are…

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A Soldier’s Hymn

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 January 1915 · page 4

Lord God, in midst of fire and steel We face the cruel foe, But ere we fight, to Thee we kneel, That Thou Thy mercy show…

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Miscellaneous War Haws. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

A message from Petrograd says that the transports Yaigatch and Taimor from Vladivostock have been eanght in the ice, and are wintering in the Aretic Ocean. They…

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Incidents of the War. Attitude of Churches

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

On many churches in Grent Britain the Union Jack has been displayed as the church's visble expression of its insistance on the duty of Christians to respond…

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Eastern War Theatre. Distress in Carpathians. Starving People Floc

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

The latest communique issued at Petra grad states:—"We look 200 poisoners in repelling as attack in the region of the Rirllbaba I'ass in the Carpathians. Els'…

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How the War Will End. German Point of View

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 3

One of the most dramatic features of the Snow case was supplied during the preliminary hearing before Mr. T. Gepp,…

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America and the War the Dacia's Clearance Granted. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

It is stated in Galveston that a Clearance has been granted to the Dacia, the Hamburg-American liner at is proposed to despatch with a earge of cotton for…

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Finance of the War. How Grain Growing Countries Will Benefit

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 3

M. Yves Guyot, the [?]micent Futeuch economist, in an article in the "Nineteenth Century," [?] exbiavstively into the question of "the waste of the war…

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War in the Air Air Raid on England. Latest Zeppelins Used

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

A Berlia message, which has been received in Cepehagent, states that the Zeprelin airships, which earried out the said [?] Nerfoll: were of thr lated type, and…

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War Definitely Planned Last Spring. By Kaiser and Late Archduke Ferdinand

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

A Rome correspondent at Venice states that the Venice newspaper for the first time frankly acknowledge that the present war was planned between the Kaiser and…

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Staggering French Attacks with Shell and Bayonet Enemy Driven Back in Disorder with Heavy Loss Russia Makes Further Progress Germans Lose Army Corps on the Bzura War Planned Last Spring by Kaiser and Late Archduke Ferdinand Western War Theatre. Foe's Batteries Silenced Bayonet Struggles in Alsace

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 January 1915 · page 2

A communique issued in Paris on Friday evening states: "The enemy has bombarded Nieuport (on the Belgian coast) with considerable [?]vielence The French…

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Western War Theatre. Violent Bombardments. Attacks Repulsed. Big Guns Active. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

An official communique issued in [?] on Sunday says "In the region of Ni[?]port and Lombartzyde, the enemy, by a violent bombardment, prepared for an…

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The War. To-day's Latest. German and Austrian Courts at Variance. German Move in Alsace

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

The Amsterdam papers say that the recent raid by the allied airmen resulted in the complete wreckage of a motor car repairing shed,…

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Incidents of the War. Recent Air Raid on Norfolk German Vindication-No Law Violated. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

The "North German Gazette" an article on Saturday, supplementing the official German justification of the air raid on Yarmouth and other places in…

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War Notes

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 3

A German destroyer seized the Swedish steamer Vega, laden with margarine, from Rotterdam for Stockholm, and con[?] her to Swinemunde (Prussia)…

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Miscellaneous War News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

The Russian Government has informed the Duma that the national savings in 1914 were 31,000,000 roubles, compared with 31,000,000 roubles in 1913, and this…

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The War. North Sea Engagement. SYDNEY

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

The London Press Bureau states, that one German warship was sunk and two damaged in an engagement in the North Sea…

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Western War Theatre, The French Progress. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

A Paris communique statis that the French forces have made slight progress cast of St. Georges (noar Nioupert). They also repulsed a counter-attack at…

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Incidents of the War. United States and the War. The Question of Contraband. General Views of Mr. Bryan. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

Scaaler Stone, representing Missouri, where there is a large Gorman population, has adversely criticised the Government's partiality to the Allies…

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