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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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Hay and District War Service Committee. Weekly Committee Meeting

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 2

The weekly meeting of the Hay and District War Service Committee took place on Tuesday evening at the Council Chambers, there being present:…

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Latest War News. Sydney, Thursday, 4.30 p.m

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 5

The American Club buildings at Toronto were destroyed by fire following upon an explosion. One person was killed and two injured. It is [?]ed…

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General War News. Roumanian Choice. Advantages of Joining the Entente

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 40

After Greece—Roumania! The scene of the great diplomatic drama being enacted at present in the Balkans has shifted from Athens to the Danube, where,…

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The War. Grim Threat to Roumania. the Fate of Belgium

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 6

The Bucharest correspondent of the Rome newspaper "H Seccolo" says that diplomatists have received information that the Kaiser, in replying to…

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War Marriages. and the Best Age for Them. By a Physician

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 3

Early marriages have been recently advocated by certain not particularly well-informed persons as one means of making up for the terrible wastage…

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Late War News. Russians Take Erzeroum. Important Capture. London, Thursday morning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 21

The Russians have taken Erzeroum. An earlier official message from Petrograd stated that the Russians bad captured another fort at Erzeroum and 20…

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The War. German Western Attack. Trenches Stormed and Prisoners Taken. Amsterdam

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 6

A German communique claims that strong reconnoitring forces penetrated She Allies' trendies, and caused effective explosions, and took 40…

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Indissoluble Empire Dominions' Deeds. Unexcelled in War Annals. "Overseas" Church Service. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 2

An "Overseas" service was held at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, at midday on Wednesday. Twelve hundred Australian and New Zealand convalescent…

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Incidents of the War. Generous India. Practical Aid Continues. 209 Plants Lent. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 3

The Punjab aeroplane fund has now readied £77,000 and the United Provinces have just held a public meeting, the Lieut-Governor presiding, to inangurate a special…

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Western War Theatre. the Enemy Offensive. Comes to Nothing. Half Effectives Lost. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 2

A French official wireless message states that the effort made by the Germans to advance in Artois and the Champagne has definitely come to nothing…

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The War. Fall of Erzerum. Slavs Take Fortress. Grand Dukes Master Stroke. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 2

Reuter's Agency announces that the Russian forces operating in Turkish Armenia have captured the fortress of Erzerum. Details received from Petrograd…

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Farmers' Fund for Returned Soldiers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 33

At a meeting of the Oaklands branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association the matter of setling our returned soldiers at the conclusion of the war on the…

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Mutiny at Liverpool Camp. Soldiers Demand Shorter Hours. Disgraceful Scenes of Violence. One Man Shot Dead. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 30

Sudden and unexpected trouble, has occurred at the Casula and Liverpool military training camps, where nearly the whole of the men in training have taken…

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Mr. Ashmead Bartlett. Views on Soldiers' Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 2

Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the famous correspondent, was entertained at luncheon in Sydney yesterday by the New South Wales Journalists' Association…

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Soldiers as Early Risers. Men Who Don't Sleep Long

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 4

It is a strange thing that almost all the men who are taking a leading part in the great European War have formed the habit of leaving their…

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Pay of South African Soldiers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 3

General Boths has declined a suggestion by the South African Labor Party to raise the pay of the South African Egyptian continent to the level of that of the East…

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The Returned Soldier. Rural Industries

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 4

The problem of the returned soldier, is a big and important one, which, in the near future, will occupy the cooperation of all sections of the…

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Sensational Riots. Soldiers in the City. Fight with Police Force. Several Hotels Raided. Evening News Office Damaged. Sydney, Tuesday, 2 a.m

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 6

Sensational rioting by soldiers took place in the city to-night, when the soldiers took charge of several hotels and promised to…

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The Centre for Soldiers' Wives and Mothers

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 4

Six months ago a few women, feeling that soldiers' families were in many cases suffering from financial difficulties and loneliness, opened an office to…

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The Soldiers' Strike. The Agitation Apparently Over. Troops Resume Drill. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 2

The trouble amongst the troops at Liverpool and Casula appears to have spent itself, and the military authorities reported that all was quiet in the…

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