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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 99

German Atrocities. Soldiers' Confessions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 6

A chronicle of four deeds, a red record of murder and ravishings and burnings and plunderings—that is the little yellow French brochure which lie before me as…

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War and Wealth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 15

The wealth of the world after this cataclysm will be put back something like 100, years. Considering the appalling expenditure for purpose of…

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Workers and the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 13

When war broke du er, shortly afterwards, our Arbitration. Court suspended operations and on effort is now being made by the workers to get the Court to…

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War's Waiting Game. Throttling Germany

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 13

The use of artillary to demoralise infantry in entrenched positions, as a preliminary to attack, is one of the features of the present war (writes the Glasgow…

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A Boon From the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 15

Comradeship will be the greatest boon bestowed by the world's greatest war…

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War and America. Ships and Neutrality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 16

The greatest war the world has ever known continues, of course, to be the leading subject of discussion in the press and elsewhere, writes the New York…

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War Waged by Telegraph. Momentous Messages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 6

"The nerves of the army." That is what the Royal Engineers have been termed, and the description fits; for they are man who enable Paris and London, and…

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War Pictures. How They Fled From Antwerp

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 2

Perhaps the most vivid writer on the war is E. Alexander Powell, the correspondent of the "New York World," He makes what he describes jump vividly…

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Bismarck's War Talk. Letters of 1870-71

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 9

Bismarch's Letters to his Wife from the Seat of War, 1870-1871, newly translated into English, show that while Bismarck was a greater…

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The End of the War. Is It in Sight?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 14

"I tell everyone what everyone tolls me—the war will last three years; but in my own mind I, can hardly believe It. I wonder how, long the Boche (German) will,…

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The War. the French Army in Splendid Condition. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 5

The French official review of the situation on the continent at the present time says that the French army has been re[?]vented on a large scale by the…

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Echoes of the War. Tales From the Front. Force of Explosives

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 2

The official "Eye Witness" attached to the headquarters of the British army records the following instances of the remarkable effect of explosives:—"Previous…

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Land for Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 4

It was stated at the annual meeting of the British Immigration League hold in Sydney this week that 2000 Imperial reservists who had come to this…

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Deaths of Soldiers. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 5

The Defence Department announces the following deaths:— Private Eric Ray, of B Company, late C Company, 8th Battalion, at Mena, Egypt…

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War Pensions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 4

The drawing up of a scale of war pensions was a necessary consequence of the part which Australia is taking in the great struggle which the Empire…

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Germans and Austrians. Returning Wounded. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 5

Reuter's Vienna correspondent states that trains full of Bavarian troops are continually traversing Hungary, bound for the Carpathians…

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The War Outlook

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 4

While it may be true that the war in Europe will not be brought to a close for many months to come, there are now many indications that the position…

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Second Edition. the War. the Submarines. Great Activity. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 6

Captain Evans of the steamship Lizzie, states that he witnessed the torpedoing of the steamer Delmira by the German submarine U37…

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Review of the War. Tribute to Allies' Artillery. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 5

The official review of the war pays a [?] to the ascendancy of the Allies [?]lery. The French 75s guns exceeded all…

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The War. French Advance After a Long Fight. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 5

The latest official communique states:—After several days' energetic engagement, we captured the summit of Hartman's W[?]erkopf, in Alsace, and…

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