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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 49 of 99

The War. Western Fighting. the Germans Held. Paris

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

The latest communique states:—The enemy bombarded furncs, east of Dunkirk. We fired by way reprisal on the German cantonments at Middelkerke…

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News of the Wounded

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

Much anxiety is being caused to many people owing to the great delay and difficulty which are being experienced in getting news of the…

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Australian Wounded. Hospital Arrangements. London

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

The arrangements for treating the Australian wounded in England are at the present moment in a state of transition. Sir George, Reid is arranging the…

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Turkish Wounded. Great Suffering. London

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

From Mitylene horrible accounts are received of the condition of the Turkish wounded. Many are left for days untended, owing…

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The Silent War

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

Regret is felt as much in Australia as in Britain that more information as to the result of operations in the field is not supplied to the British public…

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The Eternal War

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

Right and wrong in every century have to fight each other to the death. God grant that right may triumph now, and the liberties and freedom for which our men…

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House of Representatives. War Census Bill. Melbourne

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

Mr. M'DONALD, the Speaker if the House of Representatives, took the chair at half-past ten o'clock this morning. Mr. HIGGS (Q.) asked if, before the…

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The War. German Rout by French Forces. Paris

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

The latest communique states:—Two German attacks at La Haute Chevauchee, and Bourevilles were repulsed. There is quiet elsewhere…

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Soldier Legislators

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 July 1915 · page 11

Our legislators appear to be reallsing that just at this crisis in the Empire's affairs they can be doing more valuable service than by contributing to the flood…

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Australian Courage. Tributes of British Soldiers. London

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

The British wounded at the Dardanelles have arrived in England. Some in giving their impressions paid tribute to the reckless courage of the Australians…

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Australia's Wounded Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 July 1915 · page 4

If there is any truth in the frequently made assertion that Australia does not realise the full seriousness of the war, which we very greatly doubt, the…

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Tasmania. Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 July 1915 · page 4

Lance-corporal R. W. Crawford (second occasion), Privates H. R. K. Stanley, M. Matherson, F. H. Evans (Sydney), D. R. Marshall (dangerously Ill), G. Ford,…

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German Atrocity. Murdering Wounded Men. Petrograd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 July 1915 · page 5

General Voldoff, the head of the Red Cross in the north-western area, reports that two Russian battalions evacuated their trenches owing to the use by the…

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The War. German Defeats. Everywhere Repulsed. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 July 1915 · page 5

The latest official communique states: There was no infantry action in Argonne yesterday. The Germans made a violent attack on…

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The Kyarra Arrives. the Soldiers Landed. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 July 1915 · page 5

The hospital ship Kyarra arrived in Hobson's Bay early yesterday morning, and berthed about 1 p.m. She carried 420 soldiers, who are…

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Treatment of Wounded. Perfect Arrangements. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1915 · page 5

Sir Frederick Treves, at a Red Cross meeting at Aylesbury, said there was no hospital on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and no means of erecting one…

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War and Peace

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1915 · page 5

The Chamber of Commerce in Sydney if nothing if not [?] The latest proof of its energy is furnished by the exhibition of German-made goods, to which its…

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In War Time

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1915 · page 6

I was invited to spend an evening at the home of a well-to-do friend. My hostess, who prides herself upon her house-keeping, apologised for there being no…

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Letters to the Editor. Why Not at the War?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1915 · page 3

“Ex-engineer” writes to complain of an unmerited insult, which he recently received from a stranger (a woman), because, presumably he was not at the seat…

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The War. Sharp Actions on the West Front. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1915 · page 5

The latest communique states:—There have been sharp actions on the height of the Meuse. We retook a trench section which the…

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