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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 99

War Cinematographs. Remarkable Films. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 5

The French War Office has organised an expedition of cinematographs operators throughout the French lines. Many remarkable films have been taken…

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Italian Excitement. War Fever Growing. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 5

At one of the pro-war demonstrations the police had to prevent the crowd from marching in force to the Austrian and German embassies…

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The War. German Attacks. Severe Defeats. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 5

The "Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent states that the Germans, desiring to counter the French triumph at Les Eparges, selected seven lines, and…

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New South Wales Trade. Effects of War and Drought. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 5

The State Premier made available to-day a statement by the Government Statistician, which is to be published in the ''Financier and Bullionist," London,…

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The War. in the Dardanelles. Attacking the Batteries Tenedos

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 5

The destroyer Renard, on a scouting mission ran up the Dardanelles at high speed, penetrating for a record distance. It was subjected to heavy fire, but was…

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Royal Colonial Institute. Its War Activities

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 6

The war has thrown good deal of important work on the Royal Colonial institute and the extent of that responsibility was outlined by Mr. Hurry E…

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The War. Zeppelin Attack. Tynemouth Raid. Little Damage Done. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 5

A Zeppelin dropped several bombs on the outckrits of Blyth, in Northumberland, and, nine miles to the south-cast of Morpeth…

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Death of Mr. Gladstone. Killed in Action. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 5

Mr. William Glynne Charles Gladstone, M.P. for Kilmarnock Burghs, has been killed in action. He was the grandson of the late Mr…

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War Dogs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 13

Few people are award, perhaps, of the extent to which dogs are used in the war. In an article on the subject in the "Windsor Magazine," Mr. Oliver Hyde…

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War Sufferers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 15

We all of us (save possibly a few rascals) suffer through the war, but let it never be forgotten that the poor suffer most, and that only too often they…

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After the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 15

If we are to buy at the cost of this war a general horror and hatred in all civilised mankind of the follies and passions which have brought the human race…

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After the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 13

At a pleasant Sunday afternoon gathering at Sandringham, Victoria, the Rev. O. W. S. M'Call referred to the probable attitude of the world after the was…

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Our War Poets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 15

No earlier war, in any country, has inspired such a whirlwind of verse. I remember being told by Robertson Smith that at one time the living poets at…

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Heroes of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 3

"I regard it as most unfortunate," says Sir John French, "that circumstances have prevented any account of many splendid instances of courage and…

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War and High Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 15

In the first place the risks and other costs of war increase the cost of production and transfer, and for that there is no remedy. But in the second place, war…

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Finance of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 2

As a preliminary to Mr. Churchill's naval statement the House on Monday listened for half an hour to an exposition from Mr. Lloyd-George of the financial…

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Volunters and the War Office

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 3

There does not seem to be any enthusiasm at the War Office with regard to the volunteer movement. The official attitude seems to be one of frigid…

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House of Representatives. the War Vote. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 4

M. M'DONALD, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, took the chair at half-past ten o'clock this morning. Mr. TUDOR, the Minister for Customs,…

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The War. French Success. Germans Driven Out Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states:—We have achieved a brilliant success. We captured the south-eastern spurs of Notre Dame de Lorette at the bayonet point,…

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A Determined Soldier

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 16

Among the latest recipients of the military modal, the highest award which the French soldier can receive, is Marcel Forget. His regiment was occupying some…

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