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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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LatestWarNews Reuter's Cables. London, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

A wireless Russian appeal "to all" says: Immediate help is necessary, as the army is perishing from famine. Provisioning has ceased, and several…

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End of the War Prophecies From the Bible

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 6

A Church of England clergyman's daughter, living in Sydney, deduces from the Scriptures that the war is to end in February, 1918. She quotes…

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Slap-up Banquet After the War. City Clerk's Nightmare

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

"By Jove!" that's a grand list," I exclaimed to the grey-headed man with the gold pince-nez (wrote Twells Rex in the London "Dally Mail")…

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Returned Soldiers Battalion

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

It is believed that there are considerable numbers of returned soldiers in Australia who would be glad of an opportunity to join…

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"Dinna Forget." Australian Soldiers Honor Their Promises

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

It has been said of the Australian soldier that he will always be true to his promise When Private Hancock, of Bundarra, was…

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A Soldier's Death. Private R. C. Palmer's End

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

Private W. H. Nicholson, writing to Mrs. Palmer, Prairie Park, gives some details regarding her son, Private R. C. Palmer, who was killed in action…

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A Rob Roy Soldier

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

To-morrow (Saturday) a welcome home will be given to Private Jack Baker who has just arrived home from the front. Private Baker is the…

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Australian Soldiers in Paris

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

Advice has been received that the Y.M.C.A. has secured an hotel in Paris which will become the headquarters in that city. The Y.M.C.A…

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It Doesn't Matter Mistake Girls Make. a Soldier's Impressions

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

He was home on leave and be looked disconsolate. As a matter at fact he was only waiting to find a sympathetic ear into which to pour his troubles…

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The War. London, Tuesday. Snow on West Front

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 3

Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters states that heavy snow has again fallen, postponing indefinitely the much advertised German…

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Latest War. (Reuter's Telegram). London, Friday Meeting. Strike Leader's Protest

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4

Stanley Burgess, Chairman of the Sheffield Strike Committee, who was arrested in respect to the engineers' strike last year, in a resolution by the…

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Soldiers' Mail

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4

The Minister for Defence has released an article which has been printed in seieral of the metropolitan and many of the country papers. It is…

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Returned Soldiers' Association

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4

An attempt to censure the committee of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League was defeated by an overwhelming majority, only three of…

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A Soldier's Story

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 7

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

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Methodist Minister Killed In Action

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 4

Word has been received in Sydney that Captain-Chaplain D. D. Hunter has been hilled in action. Rev. Hunter, one of 20 Methodist chaplains at the…

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War Holes

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 3

It is unlikely that the [?] will be published before the conclusion of the war. A deputation from the Returned…

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Civil War in Russia

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 3

Beater's Petrograd correspondent says that newspaper telegrams report teat a pitched battle occurred in the streets Of Odessa between the Ukranian troops…

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The War. Petrograd

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

Bloodshed signallised Friday's opening of the Constituent Assemble. The Red Guard killed five and wounded eight who attempted to…

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General War News. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 3

It is officially announced thai Japanese warships have been scut to Vladivostok A German airman deserter reports…

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The War. Buzzards in Europe. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 3

Blizzards everywhere is Europe are breaking dawn telegraph and telephone lines, and is suspending railway and street traffic…

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