Germany Enlists Convicts. Copenhagen
Convicts in Prussian prisons are permitted to apply for enlistment…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1917
3,607 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 181
District Casualties. Wounded
PRIVATE BUSH.—Mr. J. Bush, of 6 Church-street West, Newcastle, has been informed that it is now reported that his son, Private Manuel (Monty) Bush has…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem have arranged a joint scheme to administer skilled…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At half-past one o'clock this morning, Mr. MacLeod, builder at Summer Hill, was awakened by the sound of shots in…
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ROME. Tuesday.—Establishments employing 468,949 persons are engaged in supplying war material in Italy. Italy's total war expenditure now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Bread in Britain. London
War broad has been formally inaugurated in Britain. The public are accepting it without the slightest complaint. Further drastic reforms' are expected…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sixteen Millions. Total Casualties in the War
The "Tribune de Geneve," quoted by the Geneva correspondent of the "Dally Express," has received from Berlin the text of a remarkable speech…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pen-notes and Pencillings. Engines of War
Eliminating the machine that is firing, the sketches give a fair idea, different scales, of some of the travelling instruments of war on the western front. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American Business. The War's Influence. the Economic Problems
Mr. E. A. Fline contributes to the Now York "Times" a very interesting and informative article on the economic problems to the faced by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miscellaneous. British War Lean Stock. Wild Scramble to Buy
LONDON, Tuesday.—The feature of the re-opening of the London Stock Exchange after the holidays was a wild scramble for 4[?] per cent. War…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War (Continued from page 1.) This Afternoon's Cables Allies' Reply. In a Few Days' Time
LONDON, Tuesday.—Reuter's Agency learns that although the Allied reply to President Wilson has been drafted. It is improbable that it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Peace Proposals. the Allies' Rejection Depresses the Enemy. Frightfulness Talked Of. (Australian Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM
Owing to the New Year's holidays the German newspapers have deferred comments on the Allies' reply to the peace proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldiers Farewelled. Cessnock Men Depart
Private George Weir was accorded a demonstrative farewell at the Cessnock Railway station yesterday, when he left by the mid-day train to rejoin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Soldiers' Graves. a Bond of Friendship
In a graveyard went of Vimy there are buried 1320 French soldiers and more than 600 English. The earth is bare on most of the English graves; the French ones…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Christmas and Cannon. Our Soldiers in France
No such moving scenes as were witnessed at Christmas, 1914, softened the Christmas of 1915, where the armies of Europe were face to face. But the press…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Returned Soldiers' Welfare
Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, struck the right note when he sold that the responsibility for the comfort and welfare of the soldiers who have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters to Soldiers. Melbourne
Some confusion exists with regard to the manner in which correspondence for officers and men in the artillery should be addressed under the new regulations…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland District. Killed in Action
PRIVATE PENDLETON—Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton, of Lindsay-street, East Maitland, have been advised, through Archdeacon Tollis, of the death in action in…
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Mrs. T. Charlton has received word [?] her son. Private is Chariton, has been wounded [?] It is over five years since [?] Chariton, with…
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CORPORAL PRICE.—Mr. and Mrs. J. Price have received a cable message from their son, Corporal David J. Price, saying he was under treatment in one of the…
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