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The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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War! the Huns Fail to Take Verdun. Their Last Supreme Effort to Reach Paris. Hun's Unparalleled Losses. the Moewes Victims. London, February 26

The Western Herald · Wednesday 1 March 1916 · page 2

The German General Staff directs that there must the no question of sparing life. The efforts to take Verdon are…

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War Wires. the Latest News

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 March 1916 · page 6

President Wilson has requested the chairman of the Rules Committee of the House of Representative to obtain a vote respecting armed merchantmen…

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War Diary for 1916. Moore's Prediction

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 March 1916 · page 9

The war will still be in full swing at the end of the year, 1916. So says Mr. Francis More, who predicted the loss of the Lusitania, the sinking of…

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The War. News Day by Day

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 March 1916 · page 8

Allied airmen have destroyed Elyberg station, on the Bulgo-German frontier, and have damaged a tunnel. A Vienna official message announces…

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Goeben and Breslau. Early Story of the War

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 March 1916 · page 11

A semi-official history of the warships Goeben and Breslan has been published in Germany, based on information obtained from the log-books. The…

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Letters for Soldiers

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 March 1916 · page 9

Steamers leaving Sydney for London, via the Suez Canal, carry letters for soldiers in Egypt and the Dardan[?] Letters should be posted at Wellington…

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Anzac Day

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 1

Brisbane citizens will commemorate Anzac Day on April 25. No effort is to be made to raise funds for any purpose, and no provision is to be…

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Fruit and Vegetables for Returned Wounded Soldiers

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 5
Also in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate

Batches of our brave soldiers are returning almost daily, and the majority for a very long time, will not be able to do anything to earn a…

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War Census Cards

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 1

Wednesday was the hist day, according to the recently-issued proclamation, for the return or war census cards in connection with the Prime…

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General War News

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 5

[?] meetings are being held in the streets of Bulgarian towns, the police are powerless to interfere, and the troops refuse to assist. Some…

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Victorian "War Babies."

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 6

The question of how to deal with war babies' has occupied much of the time of the Victorian Cabinet, which has decided that legislation…

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WAR. (Earlier war news on another page.) Yesterday's News

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 1

In the battle of Verdun tho French machine-gun sections were more numerous than in any previous conflict, and they took up positions in…

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Pictures and the War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 6

The immense business which the biograph film has developed has on more than one occasion been commented on during very recent years, but the…

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Sayings of the War. Certain

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 3

"Nothing is more certain than that the Government need the help of a reconstructed Military Council, acting as a General Staff, with as able and eminent a soldier as we can…

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The 600th Day of the War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 2

The days have down, and they still are flying. One by one through the clouds of war, Each, in a blood-red sunset dying,…

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To-Day's War News SYDNEY

Western Age · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 2

The Crown Prince has been summoned by the German General Staff In the meantime the Duke of Wartomburg has taken over the Crown…

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French Captain. Fought in War of '70

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 20

Captain Arthur Constant Aucher is a Frenchman. He has been an Australian resident since 1880. Ten years prior to that date he was a young lieutenant of the 84th Infantry…

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Strikes and War. Coke-workers' Mistake. Judge Haydon's Remarks

Western Age · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 6

[?] pertinent remarks concerning strikes in war time were made by Mr. Justice Haydon in the Industrial [?] Tuesday His Honor, who…

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The War. (Later news will be found on another page.) the Battle of Verdun

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 5

[?] and non-official reports indicate that the fury of the enemy is spending itself after nine days of titanic struggle at Verdun. The…

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