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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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Fortunes From the War Profit of £50,000 on Ono Stcamer!

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 3

Many yearn will elapse ore soma trades and businesses recover, if they ever do recover, from the effects of this devastating war. In other trades…

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Latest War News Last Night s Cables. Doings in the Balkans

The Independent · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

The Germans have established an aerodrome at Uskub. An albatroes machine few over kavala. Further reinforcements have arrived at…

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Commonwealth War Loan of £10,000,000 Subscription List Closes 31st JANUARY

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 6

Until the list closes on the 31st January, all persons who care to do so and they should be many—have the right to assist the country and…

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Commonwealth War Loan £10,000,000. Subscription List Clocks on 31St January

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 1

Until the list closes on 3lst January all persons who care to do [?] and they should be many—have the right to assist the Country and the…

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Incidents of the War. Speculation in Lead. Official Action Probable. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

Lead is quoted at £29 5/, and £29 in the London market, but a decline is anticipated because of apprehension that the Government trill place lead under the…

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Wool and the War. Prosperity of Principal Primary Industry. Satisfactory Prices at Sales

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 4

Relating to the effect the war has had on primary industries, an article appeared in a recent issue of the "Referee" over the name of Mr. H. R…

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Latest War Cables Compulsion in England. Labour's Attitude. Sydney, Thursday, 3.30 p.m

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 5

The leaders of the Labour party, having consulted the Cabinet in regard to the Compulsion Bill, Messrs. Henderson, Bruce, and Roberts, three of the Labour…

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The War. The Balkans. Unhappy Serbia. Germany Proposes Illegitimate As King. Rival Dynasty Returns. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

The Rome correspondent of the London "Daily News and Leader" has made the interesting statement that the illegitimate son of the late ex-King Milan IV. of…

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The War. The Baralong Case. British Gunner's Story of Encounter. Germans Killed in Fair Fight LONDON, January 11

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 4

The story told by a gunner on the British auxiliary cruiser Baralong, which, on August 19th last, sunk a German submarine which had…

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Skilled Munition Workers Must Not Enlist

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 32

It has been decided by the Federal Munitions Committee, acting under instructions from the Minister for Defence. to draw up a scheme for te enrolment of…

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Irish Enlistments

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 22

The Chief Secretary for Ireland (Mr. A. Birrell) submitted to the House of Commons on Monday a return showing the total number of men eligible for military…

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Enlistment Forms. Secrecy Urged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 3

A few days age the Victorian State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee made public a with that details elicited by the work of local committees should be…

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Farms for Soldiers. Riverina Estate Offered

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

An offer of 30,000 acres of land in Riverina on favorable terms for the use of returned soldiers was submitted to Vic. Minister of Lands by a grazier on…

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Soldier's Family in Distress. Eight Kept on £2 2/ a Week. Aid From Patriotic Fund Arter Seven Weeks. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 3

For the last seven weeks Mrs. Evelyn Arthur of 5 1/2 Kent street, Richmond, wife of Private E. Arthur, an Australian soldier on active service, has been struggling…

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Women Soldiers in the Russian Army. Petrograd

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 6

Several well authenticated stored are told of women serving in the Russisln Army. The most extraordinary one is that…

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Admiration for British Soldiers

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 3

"The greatest admiration for the British soldier is expressed. A German officer told me that his men would rather meet any company of men than…

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Soldier Farewelled

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

On Saturday evening last a public farewell was tendered Trooper Richard Moore at a smoke social at McDonald's Royal Mail Hotel, prior…

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A Learned Soldier

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 4

"One must revise one's ideas about soldiers in these days. Not long ago I found a learned Greek among the last convoy of wounded in our hospital. He…

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Field Glasses for Soldier

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 1

A large number of field glasses will be required to [?] out the next 100,000 men about, to be raised for service at the front, and the stocks…

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A Soldier’s Latter. Life in Egypt

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 4

We have received a letter from Private Ronald Greggery, of Berrigan, from which the following is taken:—…

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