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The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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War Chest Market Stall

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

Mesdames S. Clark, Kennedy, A. J. Clarke, and Miss Cordery took charge of the Market Stall at Lismore on Saturday 12th. [?]wing to the continued wet weather many…

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War News. LONDON

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 6

Mr. D. Ransome, the "Daily Mail" correspondent at Petrograd, says: -- Before going to Finland McLenin stated he feared he would be compelled to…

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Preparing for War. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A calbe from Petrograd to the "Daily Mail" says:—Amid the jeers of once patriotic partis the Bolsheviks are preparing for war in their own…

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The War and the Weather

The Kyogle Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

Albert Dawson, of North Dorrigo, discourses learnedly: "During the last two years the range in weather records has been broken in many…

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Latest War News. LONDON

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

Bluff is Covering M. Trotsky's and the Central Powers' negotiations, and prevents a clear conception of events. The looker-on is frankly bewildered…

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[?] in Vienna. What the War Has Done

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 6

[?] most telling effects of the war a Vienna may be seen in the diminished street traffic (wrote 'a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," lately in Austria)…

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War Aims. President Wilson's Declaration Enemy Comment. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Two Munich papers, commenting on President Wilson's peace [?] claration, declare that he [?]leverly seized on the [?] differences prevailing in Germany…

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General War Cables. Hindenberg's Plans. (United Service, Limited.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Field-Marshal [?] Hindenberg's Eastern offensive plans are now leading the issue in the political battle raging behind the scenes, in Germany. The…

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Money for the War. Tank's Good Work. LONDON

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 3

A Tank began a War Loan campaign at Glasgow to-day and nearly two millions had been taken up before noon…

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War-time Hygiene. Accomplishments of Science. Epidemics Almost Stamped Out

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 7

Dr. Woods Hutchinson, in a lecture on hygiene in the war at the Robert Barnes Hall, London, in November, dealt with his experience of the fight against disease on…

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"The Hapsburgs Must Go." Trotsky's Second War Article. New York

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 3

Trotsky, writing in the New York "World," says the misguided Hungarians thought the Austrian Emperor was warring against Czarism; Germany 's…

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Man Power. Question Reviewed by Minister. Central Problem of the War. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—In the House of Commons Sir Auckland Geddes (Minister for National Service), made an important statement in reviewing the whole question of man…

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General War News Brazil Will Fight. Four Hundred Thousand Volunteers Already. London

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 3

Senator Macliendo a Brizilian Senator, in an interview published in the Paris "Journal,'' said that Brazil would take aa active part in the fighting in Europe…

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Iron Trades Federation Meeting. The Government Criticised. No Anxiety to Push War Work. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 3

At the annual meeting of the Iron Trades Federation reference was made in the report to the Federal shipbuilding scheme. The Federation decided to use…

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Soldier's Letter

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

Mrs: T. Bradley, Tweed Heads, has received the following letter from her son, Private C. K. Flanigan, well known locally, and late of the Casino Post Office,…

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Commonwealth Enlistments. a Poor Week. MELBOURNE

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 3

Enlistments for the Commonwealth last week totalled 548. Queensland 's quota was 84, Now South Wales 192, Victoria 162, South Australia 33, West…

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Returned Soldiers' Battalion

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 6

It is believed that there are a considerable number of returned soldiers in Australia who have become tit for service since having been discharged,…

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Departing Soldiers

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 6

Three departing soldiers, Ptes. S. Hildebrand, Walter Stavert, and W. H. Withers were farewelled by the Empire League in the Town Hall on Friday…

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Returning Soldiers

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

A welcome will shortly be given to returned soldiers by the Empire League, and it is desired that all returned men and their friends attend. Speaking in…

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A Gallant Soldier

The Kyogle Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Starr, Kyogle, is in receipt of the folowing letter from Lieut.-Col. L. J. Morshead, touching the death of his son, L.-Cor S. P. Starr:…

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