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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 99

Wages Boards and the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 4

The existence of awards governing the wages and conditions in most of the important industries of the Commonwealth had a very steadying effect…

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Attitude of Italy. Eager for War. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 5

The Great National Congress is in favour of redeeming Trieste and Trente by war. The Congress included many Senators and members of the Chamber of…

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The War. French Success. Chasseurs' Fine Fight. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 5

Bar[?] Wilerkopf, in Alsace, commander the districts of Than, Cernay, and Steinbach. The Alpine Chasseurs, who have been…

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Death of Soldiers. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 5

The following deaths, of soldiers are announced:—Queensland: Private Edwin Pickles, First Field Ambulance, died at Heliopolis, 25th March, of pneumonia…

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Von Kluck Wounded. on the Polish Front. Amsterdam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 5

It is announced in Berlin that General von Kluck has been slightly injured by shrapnel while inspecting some trenches that the Germans captured at Tauroggen,…

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Daily Life in Germany. Few Evidences of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 7

In "The Times" of October 17 last was published an interesting account of life in Berlin, furnished by the subject of a neutral, country, who had just returned from…

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Duration of the War. Views of Public Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 6

Mr. Hearst's newspaper in New York recently celebrated the sixth month of the war by the publication of estimates of the situation as it is and forecasts of the…

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The War. the German Army. Marked Decadence. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 5

The French review of the war states that, beyond all dispute, the cadres of the German Army have a bad proportion of officers, and notably the number of…

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The Symbol of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 6

The sober khaki that meets us at every turn is symbolic. The young soldier is not dazzled by the pride, pomp, and circumstances of glorious war. He has to…

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Germany's War Loan. Large Subscriptions. Amsterdam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 5

The Subscriptions to Germany's second war loan amount to £153,000,000, of which £46,500,000 are in sums of 1690 marks or under…

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Sydney War Chest. Queen Mary's Thanks. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 5

Queen Mary has inspected the gifts sent to Landon from the Sydney War Chest Funds. She thanked Lady Coghlan, and…

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The War. Fierce Fighting. Enemy Forced Back. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states:—There has been tierce fighting at several points in the Argonne, but with little result. Seven hundred German dead have been…

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Deaths of Soldiers. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 5

The deaths of the following soldiers were announced to-day:—Lanco-corporal Walter Delwyn Perkins, of New South Wales, A Squadron, First Light Horse, of…

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Wounded Officer. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

Lieutenant Couran, of the West Australian Flying Corps has been wounded…

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More War News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

It is good news that we are to have more war news, The Prime Minister has announced that official communications front Sit John French will be published…

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The War Review

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 4

While there is no one who can offer any accurate opinion as to when the war will end, the description of "optimistic," in a critical sense, which has…

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Dockers' War Bonus. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

The South Wales dockers have accepted a 10 per cent. war bonus…

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False War Rumours. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

A charge of spreading false war rumours was heard at the Melbourne City Court to-day. The defendants were Henry C. Bones,…

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Federal Revenue. Effects of the War. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 4

Mr. Hughes, the Federal Attorney-General, this morning issued returns dealing with the Customs and Post-office revenue for March, and also for the first…

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The War. Germans Attacking. Make No Progress. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states: The Germans made a counter-attack at Bois [?] [?]retre. They recovered portion of the position, but were dislodged…

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