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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

3,382 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 170

Civil War Imminent

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

There are forecasts of a recrudescene of internecine strife in Petrograd, owing to the belief that it is the Bolsheviks' intention to declare the forthcoming congress…

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Incidents of the War British Man Power Sir Aucklaxd Geddes' Speech. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

In the course of his important statement in the House of Commons reviewing the whole question of man power, which he declared was the central problem of the…

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Motion of Want of Confidence Chinese Employed in Preference to Returned Soldiers. Diseased Rabbits for Troops Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Blakeley (Darling) continued the debate in the House of Representatives on the motion of want of confidence in the Government. He said that the rabbit…

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News of Soldiers

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

Lientenant - Colonel M. W. [?] whose parents reside at Strathmerton, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order…

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District Enlistments

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 3

Mr W. Powell, a resident of Finley, has enlisted [?] says that two or three Berrigan boys intend to [?] as soon as harvesting…

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Australian Wounded Return From Germany

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 22

A party of Australian soldiers who were wounded in the Somme fighting and made prisoner by the Germans has arrived at Rotterdam from Germany via Roosendaal…

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War Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 29

"The U-boat embarrasses Germany's enemies; but, as a means of ending the war, it is turning out another Verdun," remarks an American journal. It has…

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Australian Newspapers for Anzac Buffet Appeal to Proprietors

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

The Anzac Bufiet has issued an appeal to proprietors of town and country newspapers in Australia to forward copies of all issues of their journals to 94 Victoria…

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The War Outlook

The Independent · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

THOUGH the toll levied by the U-boats Continues heavy, and food difficulties are [?]onstantly being felt, and although the Germans are massing heavily against the…

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A War Dish

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 15

The commercial traveller entered the small Italian restaurant in Manchester and chose his seat with the discrimination, of the careful diner…

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Proclaiming "Holy War."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 20

London newspapers point out that while M. Trotsky is continuing the peace negotiations with Germany and Austria, Ensign Krylenko, the Revolutionary Commander…

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Canada's War Effort

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 23

Sir Edward Kemp, Canada's Overseas Minister, writing to the "Pali Hall Gaette" on Canada's war effort, says:—"Altogether 400,000 Canadians have enlisted…

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War Work Abroad

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 32

Addressing the members of the Bathurst branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Mr. George Kidson, a prominent member, who has just returned…

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Record War Profits

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

For record war profits one must go to America. Since the war profits in a certain group of American industries have climbed to a colossal height…

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War Effects in Servia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 38

A traveller who has been during the whole of the war at Nish, Servia, arrived at The Hague recently. He states that bad feeling exists between the Bulgarians…

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Civil War in Siberia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 23

According to the Tokio correspondent of the United Press of America, disorder is increasing at Vlndivostock, the Siberian port on the Pacific, where a battle…

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Armies Captured in War

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

A pronounced feature of the European War is that, with one exception sensational surrenders of large bodies of men have been conspicuously…

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Some Effects of the War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 40

Interviewed on behalf of the "Ovserver," Sir Robert Hadfield, founder and chairman of Hadfield's Ltd., Sheffield, made the following, amongst other, interesting…

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American Labour and the War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 40

At the-outbreak of the war in 1914 and for a year after, the attitude of the German Government was that of aggression, defiance, and rejection of any thought of…

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Peace or War? Russians Defiant the Conference Resumed

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 6

The Brest-Litovsk conference has been resumed, and the Russian representatives have waived their demand for a transfer of the…

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