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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1916

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 2

An Athens message says the Allies are going aboard vessels at Piraeus. Many outrages on Venizelists are reported, including an attack on…

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Greetings to the Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 3

A movement has been on foot for some time past, to induce the cable companies to reduce the rates on international cablegrams, so as to enable the friends of…

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Telegraphic News. Sydney. Wounded Return

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 7

A number of sick and wounded were welcomed by about 3000 people at the Railway Station yesterday. Some of the men had…

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War Finance

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 1

The amended financial statement delivered in the House of Representatives last week by the new Treasurer, Mr. Poynton,…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 4

A French communique states: The Servians completely repulsed three violent Germano Bulgar counter-attacks in the region…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 3

An Austrian report says that the important junction of Ploesci, north of Bucharest, on the edge of the oilfields, has also…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 7

A London correspondent in Athens states that he has it on good authority that the Entente will present an ultimatum to…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 2

The Bulgars claim to have captured the town of Dalarash and Bridgehead on the left bank of the Danube, opposite Keanisvoda…

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THE Queanbeyan Age. Tuesday, December 12, 1916. the War Crisis

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 2

At the moment the events of the war seem to favour the Germans. At sea their submarines are working so much havoc as to constitute an…

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Bungendore. Our Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 2

Letters have been received this mail by their friends from Ptes. Jas. Heath, Wm. Smith, B. Overend, B. Chinnery, and Bombardier F. Sparrow. The letters…

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Honour Roll

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 4

The many friends of Mr. W. E. Richards, managing director of Hill Clark & Co., Ltd. will be sorry to learn of the death in…

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"Mac" Southwell Killed in Action

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 3

News has come to hand to the purport that Malcolm McIntosh Southwell, son of Mrs. G. E. Southwell, of Fern Hill, Ainslie, was killed in France on the 15th…

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War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 5

The "Daily Chronicle'" Petrograd correspondent says:—The Germans continue to pursue the Roumanians strongly in order to…

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War Service Committee

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 2

A special meeting of the above was held on Wednesday night in the Shire Council Chambers. There was a good attendance, the…

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Red Cross Society. War Chest

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 2

Acknowledged, £17 4s 9d. Sale of Flowers, per Miss Doris Gourlay, 7s 6d; Betty Storer, 7s 3d; Jean Maiden, 2s; total, £18 1s 6d…

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The War and Shortage of Labors

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 1

At the present time the shortage of labor in all branches of industry is very acute, and, apparently, will become still more…

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To Win the War. Senator Pearce's Views

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 4

Senator Pearce Minster for Defence, speaking at the opening of a fete in Melbourne on Saturday, declared emphatically that the Allies…

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State War Council. Registration of Patriotic Committees

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 4

No Patriotic Committee can now legally continue in the receipt of contributions, or embark upon any scheme or augmenting its funds…

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THE Queanbeyan Age. Friday, December 15, 1916. the War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 2

The Austrian Cabinet have all resigned. Germany, in replying to the United States' protest against the…

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Soldiers' Letters

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 2

In a letter addressed from the Leicester Hospital, England, under date 27th October, to Mr. Bert Irwin, of this town, Private Leo…

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