Interesting War Notes the Cost of Food
The rise in prices is costing the inhabitants off Greater London something like £100,000,000 a year. That is the conclusion arrived at by a statistician…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1917
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The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON
The Germans are concentrating their fire on Lombardzyde, Ypres, Zillebeke 'Lake, Armentieres, Neuve Chappelle, and the suburbs of Lens…
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The following men have enlisted in the A.I.F. and have been accepted for active service abroad; Dr.'D. Christie, A.A.M.C., C. T. Campbell and Gordon Hirst. We…
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The disaster in Galicia is an appalling blow. No Russian army was even so lavishly supplied with munitions. Details of the…
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Some little time ago this paper ventured the prediction that if a war profits tax were imposed at all by the National Government it…
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General Haig reports :— We carried out successful raids north-eastward of Epehy. south-east of Havrincourt, westward of…
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The Mayor, Ald. A. H. Collett, has received a circular letter from the Premier's office stating that the heads of churches have been…
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A Petrograd message states that traitorous wireless operators informed the troops on the south-western frontier of the disturbances in…
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The following men have enlisted in the A.I.F. for "Active Service Abroad" and been accepted:— Queanbeyan: Dr. D. Chrisie,…
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The Secretary for Defence advises the Hon. Austin Chapman:—With reference to your communication of 25th May last I have to inform you…
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While the communiques relating to the position in Galicia recite the evacuation of further positions by the Russians and an…
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Professor Archenhold, of the Royal Astronomical Society, Berlin, has organized an interesting exhibition, which is being patronised by all classes of…
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Sir General Haig reports :-The new offensive has been successfully launched. All the first objectives were taken early in the day,…
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Our troops have recently made acquaintance with man-traps in the German trenches. The are constructed on the principle of the old-fashioned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Queanbeyan Age. Friday, August 3, 1917. the War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON
General Korniloff succeeds General Brusiloff as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian armies. The American Senate has…
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It is with the greatest pleasure that I have to inform my readers of the good fortune of one of our boys at the front. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Taylor, of Turalla,…
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On Friday night last Albert Seidel was entertained at a welcome home by the residents of Mongarlowe. Private Seidel has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Anniversary
Saturday last was the third anniversary of the great war which has devastated empires and convulsed the civilised and uncivilised ,world in the…
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The Allied advance on a 15-mile front in Flanders on Tuesday was followed by torrential tain. The downpour, lasting all…
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General Haig reports: The enemy's artillery is active in the neighbourhood of Hollebeke and the Ypres-Comines Canal…
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