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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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The Soldier's Test. His Most Terrifying Position in Battle

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 3 March 1915 · page 5

Every one of us must have wondered how he would feel, in battle for the first time. We may get some idea of how the average man feels in…

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A Soldier Prince!

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1915 · page 4

Mrs Lewis of McMahon's Point, writing to her sister from London, says-Just before the Price of Wales left for the front I was…

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A German Soldier's Letter to His Parents

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1915 · page 4

Mein dear Fader and Modder,—Ven yon sit down to supper next of saugages and mashed, Shoost[?]ink of your prave solder boy…

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Britain's Manifesto to Neutrals. No Foodstuffs to Enter Germany Great Speech by Mr. Asquith the Talk of Peace Likened to Twittering of a Sparrow the Campaign in Poland Russians Take 10,000 Prisoners. Premier on the War. No Blockade of Britain. Economic Pressure in Germany. No Commodities to Leave or Enter. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1915 · page 2

Mr. Asquith stated in the Commons that the average daily expenditure on the army was £1,500,000, and on the navy £400,000. The…

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Tragedy of War. Wife's Fatal Affection

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 March 1915 · page 3

A case of extraordinary piognancy (says the Paris correspondent of an English paper) will shortly come up for judgment before the second…

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The War. Sydney, This Day. Russia Irresistable. Sydney, This Day

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1915 · page 2

The Russian offensive continues. It has advanced south-west of Grodno. The enemy is retreating stubbornly…

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The Rules of War. America's Firm But Friendly Insistence. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 March 1915 · page 2

It is reported President Wilson, in replying to the latest British Note, asserts that no nation has the right to change the rules of war and the United…

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Millionaire Soldier. Sixteen Germans in 18 SHOTS

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1915 · page 4

"When I left for the front," writes M. le Lieutenant X. - in a London paper, "I had in my section a queer 'type' whom, frankly, I could not…

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Australian Wounded. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 2

Sir Rupert Carrington's son, who is a second lieutenant in the 5th Dragoons, had been wounded. (Sir Rupert Carrington visited…

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The War. Patrograd

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 2

An official report states:— "The fighting, supported by heavy artillery, is intensity in intensity on the left of Niemen. The Russians…

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War—then and Now

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 6

A little more than a century ago Britain, with a population of about a third its present size, was maintaining an immense army, scattered over the…

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Editorial Notes. War and Supplies

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 4

No phase of an army's operations is more important than that by which…

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European War. Tuesday, March 2nd

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 4

The Germans are in full retreat west of Narew, having lost quantities of prisoners, guns, and transport. The Germans re-entered Prasnysz…

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War and the Woman By Max Pemberton

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 2

He held up the familiar dirty paper upon which the Post Office writes the most momentous of messages, and then showed, his companion that it had come from…

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The War. Britain's Resolve. Cootamundra. Tuesday. 5.10

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 2

Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, discussing the German submarine campaign, said: "We are driven to frame rotaliatory measures, and we…

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Mikado on the War. Stronger Bonds with Allies

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 6

The session of the Japanese Diet was opened on Monday with the usual ceremony in presence of a brilliant company, and the Emperor's speech was…

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The War The Latest Thursday Afternoon. Dardanelles Again Bombarded

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 2

The bombardment of the Daroancnes has been resumed. THE SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION. The South African Parliament has…

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War and the Woman. CHAPTER V. the Man of the Moment

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 4

It was quilt true that Faber had been summence to Downing Street; equally true to declare that now even the wit of that engaging Paul Pry, Master Bertie…

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The War. The Latest. the Seydlitz Interned. Cootamundra. Friday. 9.36

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 2

The steamer Seydlitz, which left Sydney a couple of days before the war, is interned at Bahia Blanca, in the Argentine Republic…

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The War. To-Day’s Cables. South African Rebellion. Australians in England

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 4

Mr. Smuts, in moving the second reading of the Indemnity Bill in the South Africa Parliament, emphasised the fact that [?]ellion was already in…

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