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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 99

German War Loans. Appeal to Children. Amsterdam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1915 · page 5

The German Government has circularised the schools of the Empire, asking the pupils to devote all their savings to the war loan…

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The War. Germans Furious. Their Attacks Repulsed Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states: German night attacks at Notre Damo de Lorste and Vanquots, in the Argonne, have been repulsed…

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Millions of Millions. Losses Through the War. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1915 · page 5

Mr. Edgar Crammond, in an address to the Royal Statistical Society, said the cost of war was 9000 millions for a year, Belglum's loss amounted to 526 millions,…

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Seed Plot of the War. "Kultur" Dissected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 6

The seed-plot of the war was in Germany, not the Palace or the Senate, or the Council Chamber, or the mess-room; it was the university, it was the school…

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German War Contracts. Alleged Swindling Amsterdam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 5

A Leipzig newspaper accuses three German firms of swindling the War Office. The Government is not prosecuting the editor, as it fears an extension of the…

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The War. Violent Fighting on the West Front. Allies Still Gaining. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states:— Violent fighting is proceeding at Car[?]oy, near Albert, around a cavity produced by the explosion of a mine…

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War Uneconomic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 15

In no sense can war be said to be economically beneficial, since those engaged in war are consuming and not producing wealth, and they and their…

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War's Lessons

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 15

Against all the horrors and wastefulness of war we have to admit that we have learnt a lot. The whole nation has gained something in seriousness,…

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After the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 15

On the morrow of the war, when victory shall have set up again, and set up higher still, all that which our enemy has trampled under foot—right of the…

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An Aristocratic War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 15

The present war is a dynastic-aristocratic-militarist war. True, it has united all Germany, but merely because in has jeopardisod all Germany. It is one…

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Common Law Against War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 15

There is no way of stopping the scientific development of warfare without a common law against war equipment, the setting up by a confederation of States,…

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War and the People

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 15

War, which, like death, puts every man and everything in its proper place, has put the people in the foreground.—Mr. Paul Deschanel…

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French Minister of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 7

M. Millerand, the Minister of War for France, spent last Friday and Saturday in England. He visited Aldershot, and saw the now troops quartered there, and also…

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The Bright Side of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 15

What fortitude we are seeing in the world-fortitude, that most splendid of Christian virtues "The men are simply splendid," writes officer after officer…

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Science and War. the Neglect of Research

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 14

Mr. H. G. Wells recently wrote in a London contemporary:— "If 'Lord Selbourne really means to bring about a scientific planning way of…

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Cotton in War. Its Great Value. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 5

"Le Matin" states that Sir William [?]msay, the eminent scientist, has in[?] M. Millerand, the French Minister for War, that it would be greatly to…

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The War. Allies Progressing German Losses High. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states:—A Zep[?] threw bombs on Calais, and caused a little damage to the railway station, but [?] seven employees…

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London News. Popular Amusements.—the Naval Victory.—french Minister of War.—the Scrap of Paper. London, January 28th. Popular Amusements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 7

One extraordinary phase of London life during the past week has been a sudden crowding of the theatres. For some months, since the beginning of the…

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Attacks on Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 7

There was a slight lull recently in the attacks directed against the Broadmeadow military camp, but it shows a tendency to break out again. Though the…

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Bavarian Prince Wounded. Amsterdam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 March 1915 · page 5

It is reported that the Crown Prince of Ravaria was seriously wounded by a fragment of a shell…

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