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The wars & local soldiers, 1917

2,642 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 2 of 133

The War. Sydney, Wednesday, 10 a.m

The North Western Courier · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

The Entente Governments are examining a draft reply to President Willson. Twelve hundred Turkish prisoners…

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General War Items: (Published in "The Times.") LONDON

Daily Observer · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

The Red Cross Order of St. John has arranged a joint scheme to administer skilled treatment near the homes of numerous cases for paralysis as the…

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The War. Russo-roumanian Retreat. Enemy Push Continues. Russians Compel Retirement Near Braila. Germans Claim Further Success. LONDON

Daily Observer · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

A wireless Russian official says: We repulsed the German offensive southward of P[?]sr. The enemy strongly attacked the Roumanians on both banks of the…

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Office for Returned Soldier. Sydney

Daily Observer · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

It is likely that some important office in the Defence Department will be found for Brigadier General Forsyth, who recently returned from the front…

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Soldiers and Settlement on the Land. The Progress of Settlement. (Published by British Empire Land Settlement Committee

Daily Observer · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 6

When this war is ended, and our great Armies are disbanded, countless thousands of men will ask themselves what they are to do with their lives, what…

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War Chest Fund

Daily Observer · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 1

Mrs. Euston King of Goonoo Goonoo has forwarded the sum of £4/12 to the War Chest Fund, being her collection for December…

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Sick and Wounded Return. Heroes from Pozieres Among Them. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

Five hundred wounded or invalided soldiers disembarked to-day. One batch had 9 officers, 3 nurses, and 162 others, who had been in the desert, adjacent…

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Young Woman Shot. Wounded Chaffeur in Her Room. Early Morning Sensation. "Had a Nark on Him." SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

There was a sensational affair at Summer Hill this morning. As the result Robina McLeod 23, is in a critical condition with a bullet wound in her left…

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General War Cables. Discord in Germany. Peace Proposals Cause Split. Noisy Press Fight. Hindenburg May Surpass Napoleon. (LONDON

Daily Observer · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

The "Times" says that the peace proposals have intensified the split between the Pan-Germans ans the Moderates. The bitterest feeling prevails among…

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Returned Soldiers Not Starving. 80 Per Cent. Receiving Amelioration. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

The Secretary of the State War Council reports that there is no truth in the allegations that many returned soldiers and families are reduced to starvation…

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War Items

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 6

The London newspapers, reviewing the operations during 1916, predict that there will be a great western offensive in 1917. The Allies will employ the…

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The War Wednesday. Portuguese Army

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The first units of the Portuguese army, which are proceeding tothe western front to join the Allies, have arrived in. France…

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War Service Committee. Meeting To-night

Daily Observer · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

Attention is drawn to an advertisement in our advertising columns, calling a meeting of the War Service Committee in the Mechanics' Institute at 8…

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The War. Sydney. Friday 11 a.m

The North Western Courier · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The Pope has written the Kaiser requesting the German high command to allow under restriction an immediate restoration of the Rheims…

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Fresh Bread Illegal. Britain's War Economies. London

Daily Observer · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The food controller is considering making it illegal to sell bread baked less than twelve hours, thus saving, the waste of new bread and providing…

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Greek Royalists Demanding War. Hatrel of Britain. LONDON

Daily Observer · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The Greek League of Reservists is attempting to excite feeling against the Entente by services of thanksgiving in provincial towns of Old Greece for the…

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Latest Gable News. Congested Graves. Australian Natives' Association Protests. Proper Burial for Anzac Dead. Military Difficulties. LONDON

Daily Observer · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The A.N.A. in a deputation to Mr. Fisher, High Commissioner, protested against the practice of burying as many as nine Australians in one grave…

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Street Collections. Only Those Recognised Before the War SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The Cabinet's decision to prohibit in future all street collections, excepting those carried put and recognised before the war will apply to the whole State…

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Hoodwinked Poles. Germany Qualifies Freedom. No Exemption from War Burdens. AMSTERDAM

Daily Observer · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

A Konigsberg telegram says Von Bessler, Governor-General of Poland, has warned the Poles that the German promise of independence does not mean…

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Commonwealth of Australia War Loan. Fourth Issue Commonwealth Treasury Melbourne, 22nd December, 1915 Dear Sam Madam.—

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

I Your attention is invited to the fact that the Commonwealth is not asking for subcriptions to a Fourth War Loan…

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