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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Latest War News Last Night's Cables. London

The Independent · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

A bomb was discovered near a United States battleship in dry dock ia an American port. A Paris message states that papers seized…

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Latest War News. Sydney, Thursday, 3.30 p.m

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

A wireless German official message states that violent Italian attacks against the Austro-Hungarians at Mt. As[?]lone and Pertica broke down…

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War News. (Continued from page 20.) Destroyer Wrecked in Snowstorm

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

The Admiralty made the following announcement on Saturday:—"The destroyer Racoon (9150 tons, built in 1910, complement of 105 officers and men) was wrecked…

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The World's War-workers. My Visit to the Kiel Canal

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

Mountain of Fat, Greeting and All Haill May your Majesty live as long as you want and never want as long as you live. Cheerio and Fums Up[?]…

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Late War News. Russian Army Perishing From Famine. London, January 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 28

A Russian "Appeal to All" says:—"Immediate help is necessary. The array is perishing from famine. Provisioning has ceased. Several regiments are without…

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The War. Earlier Messages. the Problem of Manpower. Britain's Urgent Need. Bill Before the Commons. London

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

Sir Auckland Geddes, the Director of National Service, introduced the Man-power Bill into the House of Commons on Monday. In doing so he…

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The Problem of Disabled Soldiers

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

The conference convened by the Victorian Premier to discuss the repatriation of returned soldiers whose physical condition prevents them from undertaking…

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Letters for Soldiers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 19

In addressing mail to soldiers serving abroad only the name of the regiment, battalion, battery, company, or corps in which the member is serving is to be…

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French Soldiers' Pay Increased

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

In the Chamber of Deputies a Bill has been introduced increasing the daily allowance of soldiers at the front from 9½d. to 2/4½ a day. |…

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Soldiers' Letters. Pte. John Widdup

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 5

Writing to his mother at Urana from St. John's Ambulance Brigade Hospital, France, on the 14/10/17, Pte. John Wickiup says:…

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Stranded Soldiers Albury's Vain Appeals

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

The perennial question in Albury is that of providing relief for soldiers temporarily stranded. The Win the War League made various efforts to…

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Soldiers' Smiles. Happy Though Disabled

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

If anyone were to tell you that he knew of ft spot in the British Empire to-day where the flotsam and jetsam of the tides of war are "beached,"…

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A Soldier's Story. Down and Out

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

"One night I was feeling down and out. I'd been spending all my evenings in a French Estaminet, and had spent my lust penny on bad French beer…

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Returned Soldiers Battalion

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

It is believed that there are considerable numbers of retained soldiers in Australia who have become fit for service since having been…

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The War. To-day's Cables. on the Western Front Bombing German Munition Towns and Railways. the French Break Up an Attack

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

General Haig reports that aeroplanes dropped a ton of bombs at Thionville steel works, midway between Luxemburg and Metz, and a…

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The Mix-up in Russia. Is It to Be War Peace Peace ? Enemy Massing on West Front. the Allies Prepared. Great Britain Short of Food. Italians Gain Minor Successes. Russians Defiant. London, January 13

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

The Peace Conference reassembled at Brest Litovsk on Friday, when delegates from the Ukraine were present. Dr. von Kuhlmann (German Foreign Minister), who…

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Welcome Home. to Lieutenant N. TAIT

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 6

On Wednesday evening, 9th inst; at Messrs Jager and Rusts about 30 friends of Lient N. Tait assembled to welcome home the returned officer,…

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Socialist-labor War Conference War Aims to Be Discussed

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

An Inter-Allied Socialist Labor War Aims Conference will be held in London on February 20. The annual Labor Conference, to be…

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'Sell Bones to Win the War."

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

Placards in butchers' shops offer British housewives half-penny a pound for bones to help win the war. The bones are to be used to produce glycerine, glue and…

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Interesting War Notes the Modern Dreadnought

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 3

Readers who have not seen any of our dreadnoughts doubtless possess some idea of their size, shape, and cost. Newspaper articles and…

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