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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1918

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Local and General News Welcome Home at Major's Creek

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 7

On Saturday night last a large crowd assembled at the local hall to welcome home Sapper J. Green, who has just returned invalided…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 4

The Germans are hurriedly leaving Ghent. Further progress has been made in the battle east of Cambrai,…

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The War Loan

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 2

The war loan closed yesterday. Braidwood and district have succeeded in making up their quota of £25,000. At the original date…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 7

The Canadian Pacific Company's steamer Princess Sophia, of 2370 tons struck a reef at Lynn Canal, Alaska, and 568 passengers and…

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The War. To-Day's Cables

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 2

Germany has replied to President Wilson's last note asking for an armistice in the name of the German people…

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War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 4

The Central News Agency has received a cable from Vienna, stating that the Austrian reply informs President Wilson that…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 9

Unconfirmed Copenhagen reports state that the leaders of the German Federal States have held a prolonged meeting in Berlin…

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Seventh War Loan. TOTAL £41,219,000

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 4

The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Watt, announced on Monday night that according to latest advices, which were not…

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The War. To-Day's Cables. SYDNEY, Thursday. Another German Note

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 2

Another German note recites the change in the German Government showing that the Kaiser's power has been…

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Soldiers' Cablegrams

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 3

The postal authorities notify that, owing to heavy congestion of all classes of cable traffic to the United Kingdom and Europe, the acceptance of soldiers' rate messages…

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Federal Parliament. Land for Soldiers. the Arsenal. Mr. Chapman at Work in Parliament

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 November 1918 · page 4

Mr. Austin Chapman.—Will the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Glynn) inform the House what is to be done regarding vacant land that is now lying idle,…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1918 · page 1

Turkey has surrendered unconditionally. The Allied fleet passed through the Dardanelles at 6 o'clock on Thursday morning. The…

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Late War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1918 · page 4

The Austrians are withdrawing their divisions from the west front. Three divisions have already gone…

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Latest War News. Kaiser's Resignation

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1918 · page 7

The Foreign Office states that rumors of the abdication, of the Kaiser should be received with the greatest suspicion…

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The War. To-Day's Cables

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 November 1918 · page 2

Sir Douglas Haig reports we attacked at dawn on Monday morning on a wide front south-west of the Scheldt River. The…

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Latest War News, SYDNEY, Monday. Hostilities Cease on Italian Front

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 November 1918 · page 4

An armistice has been signed on the Italian front and hostilities have ceased. KAISER SIGNS ABDICATION…

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War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 November 1918 · page 3

Ghent has been captured. There were demonstrative scenes in the House of Commons on Tuesday, when the Prime…

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The War. To-Day's Cables

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 November 1918 · page 2

The Americans continue to progress on the Verdun front. The Germans are rapidly retiring fighting rearguard…

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War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1918 · page 5

An American communique says: The First American Army has captured a portion of Sedan, on the west bank of the Meuse…

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Latest War News

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1918 · page 7

Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech at the Guild Hall, said :" We must not forget what we owe to the sturdy Australian children. Their…

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