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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 130

Returned Soldiers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 February 1916 · page 5

It is intended to form a Returned Soldiers' Association in Newcastle, and a meeting will be, hold at an early date. The object of the promoters of the…

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Soldiers in Training

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 February 1916 · page 5

The soldiers composing the battalion encamped at Broadmeadow have commenced training to fit them for active service…

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War Time Reading

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 11

Judging from the records of the Melbourne Athenaeum lending library, the war, so far from inducing ordinary readers of fiction to turn to some more solid…

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War Census Cards

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 5

We have received inquiries as to where war census cards are obtainable. In Newcastle they can be had on application to the Mayor, who is the president of the…

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Schleswig in War Time

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 6

A Danish journalist, writing of Schleswig in war time, says:—While those Danes from Schleswig have to fight the battles of that Prussia which they loathe and…

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Waratah. Oddfellows and the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 3

In the town hall on Tuesday night the members of the Rose of Australia Lodge tendered is reception to Bro. L. Brownsmith, who has just returned from the…

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Arrested Before War. "Protecting Rhine Bridges."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 12

That large numbers of British men and women were arrested and imprisoned in Germany four or five days before war was declared is stated by Mr. P. George, of…

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Publications Received. Through the War Zone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 2

Arnold Bernett is "Over There" sets forth his, impressions of a visit to the western war front, and combines with them a good deal of interesting…

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Melbourne Gossip. Melbourne, February 10. the War Loan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 11

While there was never any doubt in official Federal circles here that the War Loan would be a success, I question if the most sanguine its friends thought it…

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How to Meet War Cost. the Personal Problem

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 16

For generations well-to-do people have built up for themselves a complicated scheme of life, favouring a house which needs so many servants to run it, a class…

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War and the Church. Decline in Membership. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 5

The Baptist Handbook shows a decline In membership for the past year of 3175, partly owing to the war. Many Anglican training colleges have…

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Who Caused the War. German Socialist Pamphlet London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 5

It is reported from Berlin that Herr Meyer, the editor of "Vorwaerts," has been prosecuted for inciting class hatred: He printed a pamphlet, entitled: "Who…

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The War. Fighting in Artois. Allies Make Progress. Some Keen Attacks. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 5

The latest communique states:—We have made continued progress in Artois, by bombing the communication trenches west of La Folio. Two German attacks…

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Soldiers and Drink. Statement by Senator Watson. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 5

Speaking at Granville last night in connection with the formation of a war service committee, Senator Watson referred to drink and the war and said tire people…

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Soldiers' Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 5

A moonlight ocean excursion, in lad of the funds of the Newcastle Soldiers' Club, is to take place on Saturday evening, the 19th instant. The s.s. Hunter…

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Soldiers' Letters Held Back. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1916 · page 5

Senator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, referring to the recent holding up of soldiers' letters from the front, said there was a military reason for this, but…

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Australian Wounded. Hospital Arrangements. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1916 · page 5

Mr. Andrew Fisher, the High Commissioner for Australia, continues his investigation into the Australian medical arrangements in England…

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The War Gossip

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1916 · page 4

The world is being deluged to-day by hints of renewed German frightfulness and singularly persistent reports of the enemy's willingness to make peace…

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Russia's Views. War Cannot Be Protracted. Moscow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1916 · page 5

M. Sazonoff, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, in an interview, stated that the Allies were in perfect agreement. "The Austro-German nations," he said,…

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America's Attitude. Germany's Bluff. Threatened War on United States. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1916 · page 5

The Washington correspondent of the London "Evening News" states that the Austro-German Note has caused the gravest misapprehension in…

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