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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

2,596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 130

Anzac Day. Commemoration in London. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

A movement has been inaugurated in London to celebrate the anniversary of Anzac Day simultaneously with Australia…

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War Service Committee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

A meeting of the Newcastle War Service Committee was held at the chamber of commerce on Wednesday afternoon. The Mayor, Alderman M. J…

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Lord Fisher on War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 6

Lord Fisher is seventy-five years of age, and, as he said not long ago in the House of Lords, he had spent sixty-one years in the service of his country. He…

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"Realism" of War. the Novice's Troubles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 6

At home we talk gilbly of it world war, wrote Richard Harding Davis as he was on the way from Paris to Salonica, to the "Examiner." But beyond speculating in…

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London in War Time. London, February 10th

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 4

Sunshine and frost, grassy slopes, emerald and silver near, and melting into exquisite greys and purples further away, leafless trees making delicate tracery…

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British Industries. After the War London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

The Board of Trade has appointed a committee to consider the position after the war of British industries. Committees of the iron and steel…

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The Allies' Policy. After the War London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

Mr. Ronald M'Neill, on behalf of the Unionists, tabled a resolution, that the British representatives at the Paris Conference should be instructed to declare…

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War Inventions. Work of the Board. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

Lord Crewe, the Lord Privy Seal, replying in the House of Lords to questions as to what had been done to foster inventive talent for war purposes, said that close…

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The War. Russia's Success. Desperate Fighting Along the Whole Front. Petrograd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

The latest communique reports: There have been lively infantry actions along the whole front. The Russians have taken a couple of…

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The Court-martial. Soldier Pleads Guilty. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

The District Court-martial, to hear charges alleged to have been committed between February 13th and February 21st, continued its sittings at Victoria Barracks…

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Soldiers' Railway Fares

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 7

Sir,—Regarding the letter of Mr. J. W. Blundell, I may state that, to save any trouble and any Inconvenience to the public, it would be far better to give all…

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Mishap to a Soldier. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

An Australian soldier, named Mines, while travelling from Weymouth, fell from a train at Dorchester. His left leg was crushed, and it had to…

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State Enlistments. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

Senator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, stated to-day that he was having a statement prepared showing the number of troops enlisted in each State…

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Soldiers' Railway Fares. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

The military authorities announce that the Railway Department has approved of soldiers in uniform travelling to and from military camps, except where otherwise…

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This Is War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 16

The experience of eighteen months has taught us that war was never so mechanical, brutalised, unromantic, as in our own day. Science and invention has been…

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The Most Hateful War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 16

All war is horrible and hateful, but there is no war so hateful as the war of class and class in the same country. It poisons all the relations of life…

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Voting on War Credits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 9

It is by iron discipline that the German Socialist Party has been built up, and as the party decided to support the war they disowned. Dr. Karl Liebknecht's…

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Weaves Woe and War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 16

To live for our own pleasure, wealth, or fame, to live idly, to make the will for self-indulgence the mistress of the house of life, weaves woe and war and…

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Development of the War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 4

That the war is continuing to develop satisfactorily from a military point of view there cannot be much doubt. Germany, while she is…

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Snap Shots. Some War Stories

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 2

The Duke of Rutland, speaking at a Church Army meeting, told the story of a wounded Scotsman to emphasise what he had been saying about the invariable…

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