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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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Motor in War. Triumph of Touring Car. Doing a Glorious Work

Western Age · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 3

The Allies and the Germans live on their motor car service. So says John [?]in London Daily Mail. The chief point which strikes one about the…

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The Dusty Road. Putting Tommy to Rest. Pen Picture of War

Western Age · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 3

"Funeral party here, sir," says the orderly, putting his head in at the door of the sunny orderly-room. You look out of the window and see that a company has been halted in…

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Can Germany Last? Lord Sydenham's Views. Not Prepared for Long War

Western Age · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 3

Lord Sydenham of Combo—better known perhaps to most Australians as Sir George Sydenham Clarke, the title he bore while Governor of Victoria from 1901-4 enjoys a…

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The War To-day's Wires

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 2

The Kaiser, after his visit to the western front, ordered the commanders to abstain from sacrificing too many men. He added that the operations were of…

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A Long War. Germany Beaten, But Unconquered

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 6

Baron Sydenham, in a review of the six months of the war, recalls that it was three years before the decisive operations of the American civil war; also…

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The War News Day by Day

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 3

The British met the enemy in the vicinity of Ismalia (about 100 miles north-west of Suez) on Tuesday. The enemy's ardor was checked by a sandstorm and…

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The War Food Fund. Australian Mutton in England

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 6

The Secretary of the Seaman's Hospital, Greenwich, London, writes to the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, as follows, appreciative, of a gift of meat from…

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WAR. (Later particulars appear an another page.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 3

The Commandant at Hamburg has ordered all Australians to be interned at Ruhleben. A German aeroplane was brought…

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The War. An American Threat Turks Disheartened German Submarine Sunk Germans Mowed Down the Toll of War. London, Monday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 2

Mr. Asquith announced in the House of Commons that the British losses in. France and Beigium since the commencement of the war up to February…

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The War (Earlier particulars may be found on another page.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 1

Two supreme attacks, were made by the Germans on the Rawka (Poland) after the Russian artillery day of unceasing slaughter…

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The War. SYDNEY, Monday. 11a.m

Western Age · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 2

A British aeroplane, defying a concentrated fire, suddenly dived and dropped a bomb on a German submarine, which after a terrific…

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British Soldiers. German Officer's Admissions

Western Age · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 4

All editor of the Berliner Tageblatt, who is taking part in the battle in [?]Flandors, as an officer of the Reserve, has sent a letter to his paper, in which he…

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The War News Day by Day

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1915 · page 8

The "New York Herald," referring to the German threat to sink merchantmen, declares, if a single American life is sacrificed by these German pirates,…

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The War To-day's Wires. (From our own Correspondents.)

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1915 · page 6

The steamer Wilhelmina, loaded with toodstuffs from U.S.A. for Germany, entered Falmonth under stress of weather. It is not yet known whether her…

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War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 4

A Petrograd correspondent States that the conflict along the Vistrila and the Rawka was titanic. Soldiers fell in thousands and bodies were…

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War and Marriage

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 3

One result of the war will be that the marriage rate will full amazingly (says a London paper). Millions of quite eligible young men are…

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America and the War. a Defence of Her Attitude

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 7

A Dubbo gentleman who is keenly interested in the economic aspects of the war, and particularly in the American attitude in that respect, recently…

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The War. (Earlier particulars may be found on another page.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 1

There are indications that Bulgaria has entered into a financial arrange, meat with Germany. This is intended to exercise a restraining intended to exercise a restraining influence on…

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The War. Important French Successes. Russia Superiority. London, Thursday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 4

The severest fighting is proceeding in Poland. It is reported that the Russians repelled the tenth German attack on the Bzura Rawka front. Fifty…

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Soldier Chatter

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 7

In my last article I had something to say about Army [?] with special reference to that which is dubbed the wet. I now come to the more serious…

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