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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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The Toll of War. What Creat Battles Cost In Human Lives

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 9

The toll-counted in human lives— of the great straggle against German militarism is going to be terribly heavy. Of that there are already…

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Royalties and the War. I Friendly Princes Who Have Become Foes

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 9

The extent to which the Royal Families of Europe are affected by the present upheaval can only be realized by a proportionate review of the…

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Poetry Song of the Soldiers. By Thomas Hardy

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 8

What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing grey,…

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Women's Work for Soldiers and Sailors

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 8

Nimble fingers are busy at work everywhere for our wounded heroes of the war, and women's local work Darties are turning out numbers of…

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The War. Sydney

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 2

A report has been received in Buenos Ayres that the German cruiser Von dor Tamm, with a crew of 900, was sunk by a British cruiser…

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The Duty to Make War

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 3

It is interesting at the present time to recall what Martin Luther had to say on the subject of war. He realised its horrors. But saw more in it than…

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Postbag of the War. "Tiddler" Fishing Before Battle

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 7

Rel[?]ted by Private Purdue, reservist, Royal Fusiliers:--We billeted for two days at a place two days [?] from Belgiam and had a pretty…

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The War. [?]Terce Struggle at Soissons. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 4

The Germans violently bombarded Soissons on Thursday, [?] have broken out in all parts of the town. The tower and portico of the…

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Ex-rays and Wounds. Progress Since the Boer War

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 4

It is stated by an expert that the value of X-ray photography has never been realised so fully in England as during the past six weeks, says the…

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The War in the Near East. Loss of Turkish Transports. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 4

Petrograd messages say that the belief is growing that Constantinople is really in danger. The military position in Turkey has become…

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The War. Austrian Debacle. Original Army Wiped Out. Russians' Onward March. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 3

The "Times" correspondent with the Servian Army describes the Austrian retreat from [?] as a de[?]cle…

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British Officers in Holland. Surprised German Submarines. Demonstrations in Frontier Towns. Italian War Fever. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 4

Two British, naval officers were transferred to a [?] in Holland because seven escaped from the camp Five were re-captured. Two reached…

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Married Men Enlist as Bachelors

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 2

Some concern has been occasioned among the paymasters of the Commonwealth military districts by the discovery that a considerable number of married…

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War Items

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 8

Messrs, Genge fend Wilcox sold a large quantity of fruit and vegetables on Friday afternoon throughout the town in aid of the Belgian Fund. The…

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

The British authorities at Cairo con[?] that on attack on Egypt From Syrie connot be long deferred. The Germans are bringing large…

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 4

The "Times" correspondent with the Servian Army deseribes the Austrian retreat from Surober as a debacle…

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Cost of the War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 6

Roger W. Babson is writing for the New York "Sun" a series of articles on the economic side of the war in the first of which he asserts that the…

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The War. Latest News. London

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 4

The Pope has written a prayer, beseeching deliverance from the horrors of war, which will be used in Europe on February 7th, and outside Europe…

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Wounds in War a Note of Hope

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 6

Deaths of wounded men in the franco-Prussian war were one to every six in the Russo- Japanese ar in Manchuria the percentage of Russian…

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The War. Russians and Tusk the Turkish Advance to Egypt London, January 17

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

Advices from Sevastopol state the Russian fled sunk 80 sailers transporting Turkish troops to Anatolia. A communique referring to the…

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