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The wars & local soldiers, 1915

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With the Indian Wounded Impressions of the Foe

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 4

An Anglo-Indian writes to "The Times":—One would not have recognised the tired, war-worn crew who came in…

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Newspaper's Alleged Indiscretion. Publishing War News. Fremantle

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 2

The Daily News" proprietary at Fremantle have been served with a summons in connection with the action of the local censor in seizing the…

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War Time in London. the Burial of Lord Roberts. London, November 19

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 4

With sad and solemn pageantry they buried Lord Roberts to-day in St. Paul's Cathedral. Well and honorably he lies there among his peers…

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The Fiscal Fallacy. Lesson of the War. Another Convert to Protection. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 2

Sir Albert Spicer, the well-known incetnader, seconded the resolution adopted by the London Commercers urging the establishment of aniline…

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Austrian Position Crows Worse. Anti-war Demonstrations. Food at Famine Prices. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 2

The news telegraphed from the Austrian frontier shows that the situation is daily becoming more dangerous. Food is at famine Prices and…

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Treasonable Canadian Speech. Blame for Present War. British Press and Dread-nought Trust. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 2

Mr. Bourasso, the leader of the Nationalist party in the Canadian parliament, blamed the the Dreadnought Trust and the British yellow press for the…

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Commonwealth Soldiers' Return Warm Reception at the Quay. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 2

Returned troopers from New Guinea landed this morning at Circular Quay, and met with a great reception. From an early hour vast crowds assembled…

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The War. Naval Officers Escape

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

Four naval officer escaped from their internment in Holland. They were not on parole, and will not disclose their method of escape…

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The Austrian Debacle. Pillaging and Pilfering. Wounded in Appalling State. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

The "Times" correspondent with the Servian forces writes that when the Austrians were driven away from Valiero, they pillaged every…

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War Makes Caps Children to Teach

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 4

The circular which M. Albert Sarraut the French Minister of Public Instruction, has addressed to the teachers is France is likely to be…

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The War. Brilliant Victory. Cootamundra, Saturday, 9.48

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

The British captured an important strategio point at La[?] the Germans losing heavily, many prisoners being taken. The British casualties…

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The War The latest Monday Evening. Activities on Western Front

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

The Germans have evacuated La Basso owing-to their position having become: untenable under the heavy crossfire of the Allies' artillery…

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The War. German Agents Busy. SYDNEY, Friday, 5 p.m

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 1

German agents are intriguing with the Egyptians to take up arms against Britain…

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The War. Discontent in Austria. Food at Famine Prices, SYDNEY, Monday 10.30 a.m

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

Pood is being sold at famine prices on the Austrian frontier. Discontent is general and anti-war demonstrations are being held in…

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To-day's Telegrams Trades Unions and the War Cessnock A.W.U. Speaks Out. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

The Cessnock A.W.U. which has already denounced the Australian Government, for joining with the Empire in the war, has now adopted the…

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The Earthquakes. Forty Additional Shocks. Soldiers on Rescue Work. Fifty Thousand Dead. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

Forty additional earthquake shocks have occurred in Italy. Twenty thousand soldiers have arrived in the affected district to…

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Brilliant Charge by the Gordons. Canadian Troops' First Fight. Enemy Driven Out with the Turkish Soldiers Austrians' Sorry Plight Dash by the Gordons. Previous Charges Nothing by Comparison Entangled Trenches Captured. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 2

During a recent engagement at the front, the Gordon Highlanders were ordered to storm, some German trenches, which were loop-holed and fitted…

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War Notes

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 4

The difference! When 12,000 people are killed by an earthquake they call it "an awful disaster." But when a couple of…

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Antwerp Pays War Tax. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

A Berlin message officially announces that Antwerp has paid a war tax of £1,600,000…

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Storms on the War Front. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 2

An official message says that from the sea to the Oise the war front has been swept by violent storms, which were especially severe in Belgium…

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