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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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The Biggest Thing in the War

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 2

There are, it is said, 20,-000,000 German -Americans in tic United States, and that accounts for a good deal. But there are 80,000,000 others; and the…

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War Lord's Suicide. an American View

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

By nature and training William is a soldier, and be has over bean a warlord first, and a business man second, and then only at intervals. No…

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The War. Foe's Barbarities. London, Tuesday Night

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

The Official Press Bureau reports that the commission that is investigating the strocities perpetrated by the enemy in Belgium has announced…

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War Tax in South Africa. Capetown

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

South Africa is raising an additional £1,000,000 for war revenue by taxing mines and railways…

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The War. Great Carnage. Fight For Warsaw. Sydney

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 3

A Petrograd communique states that the Germans have begun operations with a large force in Eastern Prussia, but…

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What is the War About ? (To the Editor "Daily Advertiser.")

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 3

Sir,—All who want to know what the was is about, should read "Germany and the Next War." by General F. Von Bernhardi, a German book,…

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Meat Seizure. Special War Legislation. No Immediate Action. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 5

The Bill authorising the Government to secure the whole of the meat supplies of New South Wales was passed by both Houses last night…

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The End Longed for War Undesired by People. Amsterdam

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

Herr Hirsch, speaking in the Prussian Diet, said the war was not desired by the people in any of the belligerents' lands, and its and was…

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The Kaiser Stupefied. Bankers Confer Over New War Loan. Copenhagen

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

It is declared that the German situation in Poland has stupefied the Kaiser. Bankers have been summond to a secret conference in Berlin respecting…

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False German Standards Mr. Deakin and the War. Suva, February 3

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

Mr. Alfred Deakin, president of the Australian Commission to the Panama Exposition, in an address at Suva on Friday, by a few luminous phrases,…

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A Lone Aviator. German's Escape From Tsing-tao. Thrilling Tale of Nerve and Resource. War in the Air

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 7

The following thrilling story of a German aviator's hairbreadth escape from Taiugtao is told in the "San Francisco Chronicle" of January 23 by…

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Terrible Carnage in Poland Hand to Hand Fighting Russia's Superiority Definitel Asserted He Western Campaign Causes of Enemy's Failure Women Fight for Food in Berlin German Atrocities in Belgium Appalling Story of Brutal Depravity Huns in Belgium. a Revolting Story. Priests and Girls Stripped Naked. Women Thrown to the Soldiers. What England May Expect. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

Dr. Tacquin, a physician to King Albert, definers that the number of cases of outrage by the enemy in Belgium became so common that not a…

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Kaisers Portrait Stabbed. Sentence on French Soldiers. Amsterdam

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

A French soldier has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for having stabbed out the eyes in a portrait of the Kaiser in a German hospital…

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Economic War. Will Follow Military War Paris

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

Paris financiers say that an economic war will inevitably follow the military war…

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The War. London

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 3

A Petrograd communique states that the Germans have begun operations with a large force in Eastern Prussia, but have experienced serious losses in the fighting that…

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Editorial Notes. How is the War Going?

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

THE opinion of Lord Sydenham (better known to Australians as Sir…

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The War. News Day by Day. Saturday Afternoon

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

It is officially announced in Rome that one thousand Tripolitan rebels attacked three hundred Italians at Bunjiem. The Italians were…

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The War The Latest Monday Afternoon. Another Bid for Warsaw

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

The Kaiser has ordered another effort to be made to take Warsaw this week. The Russians are steadily, retaring an good order towards their lines between…

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War May Finish by Autumn. Growing English Opinion. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

The opinion is growing that the war may finish by autumn, but the "Daily Mail" warns the public against such optimism…

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The War. the Great British Raid. by Sea and Air. Cootamundra, Saturday, 3.35

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

It is officially announced that a big combined aeroplane and seaplane raid was carried out by the British in Bruges. Zeebrugge…

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