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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

2,766 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 139

The War. H[?]oio Turks. Led by Germans. Butch[?] by Russians. the Horrors of Sarika[?]. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 3

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The war. with Their Backs to the Wall. Britain and Germany. Empire Must Provide More Men. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 4

Lord Rosebery, in a speech at Kalkieth, said Britain and Germany were fighting with their backs to the wall. Unless sufficient recruits were…

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Heavy Germans Exactions. Beleaguered Przemsyl. Germans Cannot Go Forward. German "Culture." No Holy War for Baghdad. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 4

The Germans mulcted Valenciennes in the sum of 2,000,000 francs on the pretext that some people were in possession of copies of a song…

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Young Soldiers From Contest

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 7

K[?] ord of sating two of the youngest soldiers in the [?]…

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Married Men Enlist As Bachelors

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 6

Rome concern has been occ[?] among the paymasters of the Commonwealth military districts by the discovery that a considerable number…

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Visiting Wounded Soldiers. LONDON

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 7

The King and Queen visited 1,100 wounded Indian soldiers at Brighton. Several touching scenes were…

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War Items

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4

DR. SAMUELSON, at one time in practice in Armidale, has been accepted for active service. He also went through the Boer war. Mrs. Russell Richardson has received a…

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The War. Paris

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 8

A French eye-witness at the front states that 300 corpses were found in the ruins of St. Georges. "We held the position, though on…

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4

The "Daily Mail" correspondent at Copenhagen says indignation in growing in Sweden because three Swedish steamers have been blown up in the…

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2

The Turks at Ardehan, in TurkishArmenia, are completely surrounded by Russian cavalry, and are believed to be doomed to complete…

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Decisive Phase of the War

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4

The generals on [?] service believe that with the approach of spring the decisive phase of the war will be reached. They attach much import…

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The War. Dashing British Attack. London

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4

"Eye-witness" reverting to the British success on the right and centre, cabled on January 7th, says the attack was well planned and dashing…

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War in Daily Life. Children Play While Guns Boom

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2

ONE of the most striking phases of the campaign in Belgium has been the facility with which the population ac cept the business of war as a part of…

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The War. Warning to United States. Supplying Britain's Enemies. Washington

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 7

The British Government has notified the United States that if American merchants persisted in exporting to Germany aud Austria wool…

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A Soldier's Diary

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2

"IT is Awful shooting big, fine men who have done us no harm, but we do it or they will do it to us," wrote a British soldier in his diary, which has…

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Girl Fatally Wounded

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 3

A girl named Laura Margaret Robertson, aged 17, living with her parents at the Coldstream, died at the home on Satnrday last (says the…

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The War

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 2

The whereabouts of the German cruiser Bremen is rendered doubtful by a message which is to band from Russia. A month ago, after the…

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The War

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 8

A former Ambassador, in a speech in New York, stated that Britain wan determined never to submit nor yield and never to make peace until the…

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War and the Woman

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 6

"Oh, how cold it is—how cruelly cold I can write no more, even by a warm fireside. Perhaps Maryska will wrie herself soon—horrible thought, I have yet to…

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Mr. Edison and the War

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 3

Mr. Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, believes that the war will last till 1917. The submarine, he says, has proved the greatest naval…

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