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General Haig reports: The ground we won yesterday north of the Ancre was secured during the night. More of the enemy…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1916
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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON
A Milan correspondent says: the remarkable renewal of enemy activity on the Trentino foreshadows another formidable…
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Referring to soldiers' settlement, the Minister for Lands said that 140 blocks scattered in different centres of New South…
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The Germans, after an intense artillery preparation, launched great attacks upon the French, both north and south of the…
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A Petrograd message reports that a super Zeppelin captured by the Russians contained a crew of 16, in addition to three guns, two…
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The French have retaken those parts of Sailltsel and Pressoire, on the Somme front, which the Germans recently recaptured in…
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An Athens correspondent says that Admiral Fournet informed the Government that he has given the German, Austrian, Bulgarian, and…
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Private Herbert Thomas Brown (29), a member of the A.I.F., encamped at the Showground, was set upon by two men in Surry Hills early on Sunday morning…
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The Servians, French, and Russians, attacking northwards and westwards on the western wing of the Macedonian front, have…
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The Local Government Department has framed a comprehensive ordinance to act as a big gun against the little "bird" which sings all night and feeds on human…
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The War Chest Fund, inaugurated by the Misses Powell, is progressing very satisfactory. The following are list of donations received up to present:—J. H…
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The white Star liner Brittanic, 48,158 tons, lately taken over by the Admiralty for hospital purposes, carrying a number of…
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General Sir Douglas Haig reports: The enemy shelled our new front on both sides of Ancre and in the neighborhood of Hebuterne…
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Captain Jim Chapman, writing from the front trenches in France to his father, says:—"In the dry weather the dug-outs are…
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Here is how a woman writer in a London paper describes the Australian soldier:— "Lean men, brown men, men from…
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A district court-martial was held at Victoria Barracks on Tuesday morning, when Corporal C. P. Wood, of the German Concentration Camp, was charged with…
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The position in Roumania appears to be worse. It is beyond doubt that the enemy has captured Craiova, and is making…
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General Haig, in his despatch oil Sunday, says: We drove off an attempted party advance east of Beaumont Hamel. We…
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A German communique states: We captured Orsova and Turnu Severin. In the Dobrudja the Bulgarians attacked and drove…
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A German correspondent admits the Roumanians left no war material in Craiova, and that they removed all guns and the harvest…
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