War News
The Australians since the great attack was launched on Thursday have established the following record: Prisoners taken, 8000; guns…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1918
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Late War News
The correspondent of the "Petit Journal" (Paris) on the British front, says that Chaulnes, Villers-Carbonnel, Suzanne, Peronne…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON
It is officially announced that Lenin, the Bolshevik Prime Minister, has declared that Russia is at war with the Allies. The American…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Soldier Boys
Mrs. Robertson, of Moore-street, Railway Heights, has been notified that, her son. Ptc. Herbert William Robertson, have been gassed, classed as wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News
The general military situation remains highly interesting. The village of Lassigny is still in the hands of the enemy, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War News
The total prisoners taken by the British Fourth Army since the morning of August 8 is now 21, 844, and by the French First…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War Loan
The nominal rate of interest on the seventh war loan, the prospectus of which has been issued, is 5 per cent. It is subject to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Braidwood's War Loan Quota
Last Thursday's meeting in Braidwood to make the necessary preliminary arrangements in connection with the forthcoming war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arm Bands for War Cripples
The army medical authorities in Australia are considering the question of issuing a small but distinctive badge to returned soldiers fitted with artificial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seventh War Loan. Meeting in Braidwood
As briefly announced in our last issue, a public meeting was held in Braidwood on Thursday afternoon last to form a local…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON
General Mangin has captured the ridge south of Agincourt giving him an opportunity to menace the German lines on the Aisne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Pay
It appears that the Australian soldier—with his 6s daily apart from separation allowances— receives one shilling daily more than…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldiers and Teetotallers
(The following lines, written by a comrade, were sent from the front by Private Howard N. Blundell to his sister at Brook. vale, Uriarra, expressing a wish to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News
During the past 24 hours the Allies netted nearly 300 prisoners in various operations. The French gathened in 1700 by a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late War News
General Mangin attacked between the Oise and the Aisne on a 10 mile front at 7 a.ni. on Tuesday. He reached a depth of two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool After the War
Winchcombe, Carson, Limited, write:—Before the war the world's production of wool was set down, as follows:—Australasia, 645…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters to Prisoners of War [?]
Friends of prisoners of war are recommended by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to send them postcards rather than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Archbishop Kelly on the War
On Sunday afternoon Archbishop Kelly visited Granville for the purpose of blessing the foundation-stone of the new presbytery of Holy Trinity Church…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War. To-Day's Cables. LONDON
Haig, co-operating with Byng's Third Army, advanced two miles along a ten mile front north of Ancre, capturing a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Pay
Amendments of the war financial regulations provide that interest at the rate of 4 1/2 per cent, per annum, or such other rate as…
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