War Food Fund
From Mr. F. E. Winchcombe (President), we are in receipt of a copy of booklet issued by the committee of the Chamber of Commerce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1915
488 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 25
Doctoring War Horses
At the Front horses are treated with just the same care and skill as is shown to the soldiers, and are given choloroform and other anaesthetics…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Interesting War Notes "A Scrap of Paper."
" I cannot understand Great Britain going to war with Germany just for a scrap of paper." The "scrap of paper," thus contemptuously referred to by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eastern Theatre of War. Russians Holding Firm
A desperate battle is in progress on the banks of the San. The Russians are holding firm near Przemysl, and though the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. To-days News. Battleship Majestic Torpedoed. London
It is officially stated that the British battleship Majestic, 14,900 tons has been torpedoed and sunk of Gallipoli Peninsular…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Little Soldier
In a dim old dusty attic, where spiders creep and crawl, There's a pile of children's playthings, all heaped against the wall;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poetry. Soldiers, Every One!
Out of the night, from for away, Bugles and beat of a drum ; Through the mist that is wet and grey Over the bridge they come…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. To-days News. London
A Washington message states that profound disappointment is felt at Germany's reply to America's protest. The situation is considered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Queanbeyan Age, Tuesday, June 1, 1915. Current Topics. the Press and the War
Under the . well-known initials "F.W.W.", Dr. Ward, formerly editor of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph", gives, in that paper, an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. To-days News. London
It is officially announced that a British submarine torpedoed a large German transport in the Sea of Marmora. The transport sunk in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. To-days News. Matters in Turkey. SYDNEY
Captain Bean, in a cable dated 29th May, says, The enemy, although reinforced since the attack on May 18, have not made a further general attack, but have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Laws of War
Even in war there is a method of "playing the game," and there are certain things formulated by military law, written or unwritten, among…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Queanbeyan Age, Friday, June 11, 1915. the War. To-days News. Trawler Torpedoed. London
A Grimsby trawler was torpedoed by a German submarine, being sunk after five shots were fired at her. The crew escaped and were picked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. To-days News. Sydney
A Petrogran correspondent says that the Austro-German attempt to take Lemberg was abandoned after a desperate battle in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. To-days News
Enormous Austro-German reinforcements have gathered on the San. One enemy group is menacing the Russian rear on the Dneister;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. To-days News. Sydney
The forty-second casualty list contains 314 names, 75 killed in action, including 24 from N.S.W.; 2 died from illness, 53 are missing, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WAR Summary of the Situation
A report from Paris states:—"The French offensive in the sector north of Arras has assumed the proportions of a great battle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War and National Character
Undoubtedly war is the greatest test us to a nature's character, and throws into high relief its distinctive tendencies and qualities and its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For Wounded Australian Soldiers
Next Monday night, in the Protestant Hall, a concert, in which several well-known local artists will assist, will be given in conjunction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. To-days News. London
The bombardment of the Turkish positions in the Dardanelles was begun at 11 a.m. on Thursday. The enemy occasionally replied but an…
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