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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Signaller Tom Skeyhill New War Story. Present Military Situation

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4

In three weeks' time, Signaller Tom Skeyhill, the blind soldier poet, leaves for America, where he has a long engagement to lecture on the war. He is to be…

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Incidents of the War Two Steamers Lost London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 3

Lloyds reports that the steamer Ugendi has been missing since the beginning of November. A number of bodies, which are supposed to be those of members of the…

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Labor and the War. German or British Rule Enemy Should Pay for Sins. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. G. H. Roberts, Minister for Labor, speaking at a dinner given by the Eccentric Club to Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, First Sea Lord, said he would…

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Land for Soldiers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 3

Dr. Eden, Bishop of Wakefield, and the Rev. Bernard Vaughan, S.J., have accepted positions as Vice-Presidents of the Empire Land Settlement League…

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District Court Martial Returned Soldier Charged. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

Private Goodsell, a soldier who saw service in Egypt and France, was charged before a District Court-Martial to-day with stealing a wristlet watch, the property of…

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Australian News. Australian Soldiers Honored Sons of Politicians London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Lloyd George, Prime Minister, and Mr. Walter Long, Secretary for the Colonies, hearing that Lieut. E. M. Hughes, son of the Australian Prime…

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Mails for War Prisoners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 3

Letters and postcards may seat free of all postal charges to prisoness of war (of whatever nationality) interned [?], and to British civilians interned in…

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African Parliament Opens War Situation Reviewed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

The South African Parliament was opened on Friday. Viscount Buxton, Governor-General, in his opening speech, expressed…

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To Aid in War Work in France

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

A company of Australian girls has been incorporated in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps for war work in France…

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Paying for the War Premium Bonds Not Favored

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

A report has been issued by the committee appointed to inquire into the questions of the issue of premium bonds. The committee does not advise the…

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Incidents of the War Trade Commissioner for Australia a New Appointment. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

it is announced by The Board of Trade Journal" that Mr. W. B. McGregor, engineer, who latterly has paid attention more particularly to the commercial side…

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Letters for Soldiers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 3

In addressing mail to soldiers serving abroad, only the name of the resiment, [?] company, or corps in which the member is serving is to be…

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Motor Car Overturned Returned Soldiers' Narrow Scape. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

While endeavoring to avoid a collision h a tram at Woolahra yesterday, a motor car containing four returned soldiers, inmates of the Randwick Hospital, and…

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Land for Soldiers. Shire Council Criticism

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 3

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford) has noticed the frequency with which shire councilers criticise the actions of his department in connection with the…

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Soldier Settlers Disposal of Surplus Stock

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 3

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford), has received several inquiries as to the ability of soldier settlers to dispose of the progeny of stock for the purchase of which…

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Murder and Robbery Queensland Soldier Not to Be Flogged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

in passing a sentence 10 years penal servitude upon a man who had been convicted of murder and robbery. Mr. Justice Darling said that if the prisoner had…

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Some War Facts

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 1

From 1879 to 1909, 20,000,000 men fell in arms on the world's battlefields or died on the march, or in camp, or in military prisons--a man every…

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Latest War News

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

(Such of the cable news on this page so headed appeared in "The Times," and is cabled to Australia by special permission. It should be understood…

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Angels of Repair. Some Marvels of War Surgery

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 4

This is the Val de Grace, the old convent built by Anne of Austria, converted into a hospital at the time of the Revolution. In the first [?]…

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The War. To-day's Cables on the Western Front Ostend Reported Bombarded

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

A wireless German official says that Ostend was bombarded from the sea…

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