Boxer Carpentier's War Cross
A cablegram published recently announced that Georges Carpentier, the famous French heavyweight boxer, had been awarded his country's war cross…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Rivers · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1916
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New War Loan SYDNEY
Mr. Higgs is issuing a copy of the new war loan prospectus to every person in receipt of an annual income of three hundred pounds and over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Send-off at Goonengerry
A pleasant evening was spent at "Trelawney,".the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bate, on Monday, ore I January, when about 30 couples asembled to bid forewell to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Election Probable. Unionist War Committee. London
The [?]alk in the lobbies is that the situation is most serious, and that a general election is probable. Fifteen Unionist members have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New War Loan. Further Ten Million Pounds Wanted
Mr. Donison Miller, Governor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, writes:—In the great war in which " we are engaged, the Prima Minister, on behalf of. the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General War News the Compulsion Bill First Reading Carried. London
The first reading of the Compulsion Bill has been carried by four hundred and three votes to one hundred and five…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Killed Fell Out of a Train Sydney
David Whann, a soldier, was killed by falling out of a train at Clyde this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers and Liquor. Action by Federal Government. Melbourne
The Parliamentary War Committee considered the question of the control of liquor supplies to soldiers, and in the vicinity of camps, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Land for Returned Soldiers. Interstate Conference Proposed. Melbourne
The Minister for Defence said yesterday that a scheme for settling returned soldiers on the land had been recorded. The war committee has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enlistment Cards
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Reports from various meetings which decided to ignore the enlistment cards were brought under the notice of Mr. Hughes (Prime Minister), who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australasia. Recruiting. Enlistments' at Lismore
Compared with the past few months the enlistments at Lismore depot last week constituted a record, the number of men accepted being 97 out of 113 who presented…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Star Published Daily. at Lismore, Richmond River, N.s.w. Monday, January 10, 1916. the Trained Soldier
Many surprises have come to us as results of the war, and there have been many lessons to learn, as well as old-established convictions to abandon; but one of the matters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Soldier Killed
SYDNEY, Saturday.—David Whanns, a soldier, formerly of Dumaresq, near Armidale, was watching some shunting operations from a passenger train near Clyde, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Funds for Returned Men Suggested Appeal to Patriotic Funds. Scarcity of Field Glasses. Melbourne
A meeting of the Federal Parliamentary War Committee was held this week. The Queensland War Council wrote calling attention to its need for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Notes
Two of the sons of Mrs. M. A. Smith, of Dumaresque Island, Manning River, have been on active service, and both are wounded. Now her only other son…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Rate
Increasing the insurance war rate another 2 per cent on traffic via Suez brings the total to 5 per cent. on Australian cargoes. This is directly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commonwealth War Loan
SYDNEY,Monday.—The Federal Treasurer is adopting novel means to ensure success with the second Commonwealth War Loan. He is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sport and the War
There is no disguising the fact that during the past 12 months or so a great slump has occurred in the various branches of sport, atributable chiefly,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →European War. London
During the course of a lengthy despatch, Sir Ian Hamilton said the failure at Suvla was due to the divisional commanders not pressing the attack…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Financial Aspect Alter the War
In an article in "Scribner's Magazine," now reprinted in pamphlet form, Mr. Alexander D. Noyes, perhaps the noblest of American…
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