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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

1,979 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 99

Immigration in War Time

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1915 · page 4

The fire which occurred on the P. and O. Company's steamer Benaila last week while on the voyage from London to Australia attracted attention to the…

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The War and Migration to Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1915 · page 7

Sir,—I desire to make an appeal on behalf, at once, of the wives of the farmers of Australia and of the widows of those who have fallen and will yet fall…

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The War. Warsaw's Defence. Enemy in Check. Petrocrad

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1915 · page 5

On the roads from Shall and Rossieny we continue to progress in the direction of Point Vege The enemy delivered a series of…

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War Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 8

To some of us the task is specially entrusted of trying to steady and uplift the national conscience in the Name of the Divine Master Whom we serve. I am…

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War Superstitions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 6

Two Highlanders on the lookout for sights in the Latin Quarter encountered a superstition whose intensity of expression was somewhat oaverpowering," states…

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Australian Wounded. They Are Contented London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 5

The majority of the Australian wounded men in England renent the controversy regarding their food and treatment, believing that it will result in Australians…

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Our Wounded in Hospital. London, June 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 9

To Birmingham, as well as to Manchester, came the first of the Australian and New Zealand wounded from' the Dardanelles. They are brought adross the…

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Commonwealth War Loan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 5

The prospectus of the Commonwealth Government war loan is advertised to-day, and it will be seen that the price of the issue has been fixed at par with…

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But for War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 8

But for war, millions of battles extending over millions of years, we might even now be nothing but mud fish peacefully reposing in the secular slime…

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Democracy and War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 8

A democracy can never prepare a war in the sense that Germany has prepared this war. A democracy will fight, as this country and France are fighting now, but…

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A War of Nations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 8

We as a nation are now realising that this is not a war between armies, but a war between nations and that every individual, whether civiliann or not, has got…

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The War of All Classes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 8

This seems to be the first war in which every class of the population has colisted in which in particular the class that stands between the wealthy clans and the…

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Russia's War Office. Great Reforms. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 5

The Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that General Sukhomline's supersession from the War Ministry coincided with a clean sweep…

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War Pensions Bill. Objection in the Lords. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 5

In the House of Lords last night, the Naval and Military War Pensions Bill was discussed. Strong objection was taken to the Government rushing so…

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The War. Russia's Defence. Attacks Repulsed. Fighting Intense. Petrograd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 5

The latest official communique says:— The enemy continued to unsuccessfully attack our positions on the Pissa, near Sinvatki…

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Second Edition. the War. in South Africa. Plans Which Failed. Capetown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 6

Colonel De Waal, of General Botha's staff, speaking of Stellen Bosch, said that the Germans laid 6000 mines in Damaraland…

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Soldiers' Letters. a Lot to Learn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 9

Private James Rose, of the Thirteenth Battalion, writing to his mother, Mrs. T. Rose, of Little Young-street, Currington, in a letter dated May 23, stated that…

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Soldiers Farewelled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 9

At the evening session of the sale of gifts promoted by the employees, of Messrs. W. Winn and Company, on Saturday, the staff presented gold wristlet…

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Our Wounded Soldiers. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1915 · page 5

The Defence Department has decided to leave the question of the welcoming of the returned Australian wounded to the District Commandant…

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In Aid of Australian Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1915 · page 6

In connection with Messrs. Dix and Baker's theatrical Pageant, it is announced that the box plan is open at Paling's for the five shilling reserved seats in the…

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